{"id":1310,"date":"2004-09-03T22:40:38","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T22:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1310.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:16","slug":"dodgeball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/09\/03\/dodgeball\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Dodgeball<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simple plot, great script, and solid performances from comic actors who know how to deliver a funny line.  Ben Stiller is fabulous as White Goodman (&#8220;Here at Globo Gym we&#8217;re <em>better<\/em> than you&#8211;and we <em>know<\/em> it!&#8221;), Gary Cole brings just the right amount of absurd professionalism as the sportscaster, and Rip Torn is hilarious as the crusty former dodgeball champ Patches O&#8217;Houlihan.  Vince Vaughn keeps a cheeky but straight face throughout, and provides forward momentum to keep the to keep the whole thing from sliding into farce.  <i>Dodgeball<\/i> doesn&#8217;t try to be fancy, or deep, only funny, and at that it succeeds admirably.  Go see it now.  (And stick around for the credits.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple plot, great script, and solid performances from comic actors who know how to deliver a funny line. Ben Stiller is fabulous as White Goodman (&#8220;Here at Globo Gym we&#8217;re better than you&#8211;and we know it!&#8221;), Gary Cole brings just the right amount of absurd professionalism as the sportscaster, and Rip Torn is hilarious as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_45_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}