Caught cheating and banned for ten years, Bobby Dukes, paintball's first superstar, returns to reclaim his title and erase the memory of his tainted past.
This spoof of sports biopics is essentially an extended improvisational skit, with a troupe of comics riffing on a central joke (the elevation of paintball to a noble calling).
– Dana Stevens,
New York Times,
12 Apr 2006
fresh:
While there's some dramatic interest in seeing how the story wraps, Blackballed pretty much wears out by midpoint.
– Noel Murray,
AV Club,
13 Apr 2006
rotten:
Corddry leads a game cast, but the film is rough around the edges and lacks the sophistication of, say, Christopher Guest's Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
13 Apr 2006
rotten:
It's a mildly amusing feature that takes a few too many potshots at some very broad targets.
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr 2006
fresh:
... succeeds as a modest tribute to the kind of aging boys club that idles for hours in somebody's parents' rumpus room, its members tossing around big-man talk but trapped in emotional adolescence.