Full of the nuts

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Movie
German title Full of the nuts
Original title Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Rawson Marshall Thurber
script Rawson Marshall Thurber
production Stuart Cornfeld ,
Ben Stiller
music Theodore Shapiro
camera Jerzy Zieliński
cut Alan Baumgarten ,
Peter Teschner
occupation

Full on the nuts (Original title: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story ) is an American comedy film from 2004 . The main characters are Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller . Stiller is also producer of the sports film about the ball game Dodgeball , a variant of the popular in Germany peoples Balls .

action

The unsympathetic and fitness fool White Goodman runs the successful and modern fitness studio chain “Globogym”. His lovable competitor Peter La Fleur, operator of the rather cozy fitness studio “Average Joe's” (corresponds to the German “average consumer ”), on the other hand, is plagued by large mortgage debts because, as will be mentioned later, he has not paid membership fees for months. The members of his studio are also largely among the unfortunate characters:

  • Justin, a teenager who wants the girl of his dreams to join his school cheerleading group
  • Steve dressing and talking like a pirate
  • Gordon, an intelligent but shy man who is despised by his wife
  • Owen, who z. T. has not yet had a relationship because of his peculiar appearance

The La Fleur studio would be sold to Goodman through a scheduled forced sale. The members of "Average Joe's" fight for their beloved studio, albeit with moderate success, for example by half-naked car washing. Eventually they come across an advertisement for a dodgeball tournament with a $ 50,000 penalty that could prevent the sale. You therefore decide to take part in the tournament in order to save the studio with the win.

Here, too, the “Average Joe's” team failed initially, in the qualifying round against a girl scout group . The fortunate turn came when one of the girls was found to have three different anabolic steroids and a “light bull sedative” during the doping test and the girl scout group was therefore disqualified so that the La Fleur team was allowed to take part in the tournament. In addition, Patches O'Houlihan, an old dodgeball master who is now in a wheelchair , will be the new coach of Average Joe's. He hardens the boys with tried and tested (if not to say archaic) methods, for example throws with wrenches (“If you can avoid a wrench, you can also avoid a ball!”).

When Goodman got wind of the whole thing, he too founds a team called "Purpur Cobras". This compiled world selection gets into the Dodgeball Championship through corruption. Former White Goodman attorney, Kate Veatch, who used to play softball successfully , then joins the La Fleur team as a key reinforcement to wipe out Goodman who's forfeited it with clumsy advances. The team from "Average Joe's" gets on the track of success after hard training and prevails in the tournament taking place in Las Vegas against other teams (such as the German team "Blitzkrieg", which is trained by David Hasselhoff ) and scores in the final on White's team.

Since the coach of La Fleur's team is struck dead by a scoreboard that reads “Irish Luck” on the eve of the final (after one of the sports commentators said that their success would probably have made the Irish lucky), La Fleur sees for himself no longer a chance and wants to give up without telling his comrades about it. Goodman waits for him in La Fleur's hotel room and offers him $ 100,000 for his studio. The scene fades out without knowing how La Fleur reacts to the offer. Shortly before his departure, however, he is convinced by Lance Armstrong to take a bite and returns after his team has already been disqualified for failing to reach the minimum number of participants. The decision about the disqualification is overruled by the committee with the casting vote of Chuck Norris , so that the team from La Fleur can still participate in the final game.

The game is varied, alternating in favor of both teams and is supported by the commentator and others. Co. commentator described accordingly.

The game seems to be lost for “Average Joe's” when the referee detects a double fault (crossing the neutral zone in the middle of the field into the opposing zone) on the part of the “Purpur Cobras” and according to the rules a showdown between La Fleur and Goodman takes place. La Fleur wins the duel for “Average Joe's” blindfolded - as a tribute to Patches who let him train in this way - and gets the kiss he was hoping for from his teammate Kate Veatch (as a special treat it turns out that she doesn't - as repeatedly suspected because of her tough cast and dominant demeanor - lesbian , but bisexual and has a very special girlfriend). It also shows that La Fleur accepted Goodman's offer the night before, but placed the bribe on their win at odds of 1:50, winning $ 5 million. With the profit he acquires the majority of the shares in Globogym and in future will manage the group in the spirit of the company philosophy of his "Average Joe's". White Goodman, who has become extremely overweight again after leaving his company and frustration with failure, grumbles at the end of the film about Chuck Norris, who did not allow him to win by disqualifying his opponent.

production

Several large studios such as MGM and Dreamworks declined to produce the film. Ultimately, it was produced by 20th Century Fox . Ben Stiller's sister Amy Stiller makes a brief appearance as a waitress in the film. Lance Armstrong and Chuck Norris , who have brief cameo appearances in the film , play themselves. David Hasselhoff can be seen as the German trainer, William Shatner as the Chancellor of the Dodgeball Association.

synchronization

The German-language dubbing was done by RC Production Rasema Cibic based on a dialogue book by Kim Hasper , dialogue director was Jan Odle .

Actress German dubbing voice role
Ben Stiller Oliver Rohrbeck White Goodman
Vince Vaughn Johannes Berenz Peter La Fleur
Julie Gonzalo Julia digit Amber
Chuck Norris Jürgen Kluckert Chuck Norris
Gary Cole Erich Rauker Cotton McKnight
Trever O'Brien Robin Kahnmeyer Derek
David Hasselhoff Andreas von der Meden German trainer
Chris Williams Jan Odle Dwight
Missi Pyle Martina Treger Fran Stalinovskovichdavidovitchsky
Stephen Root Frank-Otto Schenk Gordon
Hank Azaria Joachim Kaps young patches O'Houlihan
Justin Long Björn Schalla Justin
William Shatner Otto Mellies Chancellor
Christine Taylor Bianca Krahl Kate Veatch
Lance Armstrong Viktor Neumann Lance Armstrong
Lori Beth Denberg Maria Koschny Martha Johnstone
Jamal Duff Tilo Schmitz Me'Shell Jones
Curtis Armstrong Gerald Schaale Mr. Ralph
Joel David Moore Frank Schaff Owen
Rip Torn Jan Spitzer Patches O'Houlihan
Jason Bateman Oliver Welke Pepper Brooks
Alan Tudyk Tobias Kluckert Steve the pirate

reception

The film, by far, recouped its production cost of $ 20 million with revenues of $ 167 million, making it a great success.

Reviews

The reviews for the film were mostly positive. For example, it received around 70 percent positive feedback from Rotten Tomatoes .

The lexicon of international films judged: "A shell comedy that relies on supposedly surprising guest appearances and only gives satirical swipes at the sports industry in a few amusing moments."

Carsten Baumgardt from Filmstarts.de , on the other hand, praised the fact that the film could "score with a lot of absurd jokes". He adds that the plot was “taken one-to-one from the great handbook for sports films”, but that this was “not important” because the comedy was “simply unbeatable”. Overall, he thinks that full of nuts is an "unrestrained, silly, completely undemanding pleasure that can come up with an astonishing number of laughs".

Awards

Ben Stiller won the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain in 2005. At the same time, however, he was nominated for this and other of his film roles in 2005 for the Golden Raspberry as worst actor .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for full on the nuts . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2004 (PDF; accessed on January 7, 2018).
  2. Age rating for full on the nuts . Youth Media Commission , accessed on 7 January 2018 .
  3. Full of the nuts. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on January 7, 2018 .
  4. Business info
  5. Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
  6. Full of the nuts. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 7, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ^ Review on Filmstarts.de