Nutshell Analysis:

20% of the peanut - Why this film popped a ball: Relatively mundane humor and unoriginality consumed this otherwise entertaining film. Ben Stiller was little more than a mega-gym version of his Zoolander persona, with the same basis for character humor. Vince Vaughn's dryly humorous role was more dry than humorous.

75% of the peanut - Why this film drove a fast ball to the open groin of suckiness: It was just plain non-stop fun! The jokes and silliness just kept coming throughout the film. Stiller was hilarious despite the unoriginal character very similar to Zoolander. And, personally, I thought Vaughn's dry, understated character provided several moments of hilarity.

5% of the peanut - The arguement for corny cameos: One word, Booger. It may not register at first, but hopefully you realize the cameo when you see it. Not to mention several other, sometimes relatively obscure, cameos throughout the film. Even a certain famous cyclist made a sarcastically hilarious appearance.

total: 80% sweet salty deliciousnous, 20% overcooked and shriveled. See it. Or in the words of another recent Stiller character, "Do it. Do it."

Review in full:

A silly, funny, Ben Stiller comedy, 'Dodgeball' was no feat of comedic genius, but was an entertaining ride nonetheless. Ben Stiller, as White Goodman, owner of GloboGym, played one of his goofy, stupid little characters that was more than a bit reminiscent of his great role in 'Zoolander' (even if the movie was mostly only a recap of all his short pieces with the Zoolander character). Vince Vaughn, as Peter La Fleur, plays a very understated but dryly humorous character as Stiller's nemesis, and owner of a gym for the normal guy. Even Rip Torn (probably most known as the old guy Zed on Men in Black) gets in with an often humorous, very off-center character as Patches O'Houlihan. The film plays with a steady stream of sports as well as fitness gym spoofing, combined with nerd and guru spoofing, to keep you consistently entertained through the very reasonable storyline.