Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story was filmed in various places in California and in Las Vegas, Nevada. The entire second half of the film takes places in Las Vegas as the teams compete in the tournament.
The film follows a group of unlikely misfits who enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in the hopes of winning $50,000 to save their cherished local gym from being taken over by corporate health fitness chain Globo Gym.
The movie takes place in 1993, but DVDs weren't invented until 1995. Kate asks White how he found her house but she doesn't ask Peter the same question. After the casino employees present the treasure chest containing $5,000,000 to Peter LeFleur, they walk away.
Peter LaFleur (Vince Vaughn) is the owner of Average Joe's, a small and financially unsuccessful gym with a handful of loyal members. When he defaults on the gym's mortgage, it is purchased by his rival White Goodman (Ben Stiller), a fitness guru and owner of the successful Globo-Gym across the street.
All the wrenches thrown were made of rubber, but the first was harder than all of the others. Many studios, including DreamWorks Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, passed on this movie.
Dodgeball was originally played in Africa over two hundred years ago, but instead of the fun, jocular game that it is today, it was in fact a deadly game.
The movie has some very mature material, including explicit sexual humor with jokes about adultery, group sex, pornography, genital size, and bondage, along with some very strong language, including many double entendres featuring the word "balls." Characters drink frequently, including drinking to dull pain.
School districts in Florida, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Texas have all banned dodgeball, suggesting that it is violent and encourages bullying. A California school banned the game of tag because it is too rough.
A New York school district should have known that dodge ball was potentially dangerous for students, according to a state-appellate-court decision that refused to dismiss a case involving a 7-year-old girl who was injured playing the game in a physical education class.
Human target games can encourage students to participate in hostile targeting and can mask bullying under the guise of team sports. Games such as dodgeball can inadvertently promote violence, and it can be hard for authority figures to distinguish what's a hostile attack from what's innocent play.
Headshots: Headshots occur when a defenseless player is hit directly in the head by a high thrown ball while not in the act of trying to dodge, deflect or catch a ball. Any thrower committing a headshot will be deemed “out.”
In the first scripted ending there was no sudden death sequence, just White Goodman (Ben Stiller) securing Globo-Gym's victory by hitting Peter LaFleur (Vince Vaughn) while unawares - video here.
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Six (6) balls will be used for every match. Jail will be located along one side of the court on benches. The “inside” line of the court is not used, the court extends to separating wall. All players must maintain one point of contact in boundary lines unless going to retrieve a ball.
