A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
Just when the baseball slapstick starts wearing thin, a final-reel gush of truly cynical sentiment on behalf of the physically challenged sends the ordeal-factor off the scale.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
1 Jun 2006
rotten:
It's hard to buy the movie as an underdog success story, since even the actors barely seem to exert themselves.
– Ben Kenigsberg,
L.A. Weekly,
13 Apr 2006
rotten:
Like pretty much everything else bearing Happy Madison's name, The Benchwarmers kind of sucks.
– Nathan Rabin,
AV Club,
13 Apr 2006
fresh:
The three losers play a series of Little League teams, snatching victory from the jaws of slapstick humiliation.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Apr 2006
rotten:
Schneider winds up playing straight man to Spade, who once again relies on his snarky coward shtick, and Heder, who comes across like someone doing a bad imitation of ... well, Heder himself in Napoleon Dynamite.