It takes a very special person to enjoy The Benchwarmers. I am such a person.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

A very bad movie and that unfortunately will raise enough money at the box office to continue financing this kind of nonsense. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 12, 2020

In the last line of the film, as the final credits thankfully disappear, Richie casually says "that was a waste of time wasn't it?" Yes. Definitely.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 10, 2009

It doesn't take a genius to work out what's on offer: toilet humour, physical comedy, more toilet humour and an Americans-do-it-best schmaltzy climax.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 29, 2008

...ultimately nothing more than a silly, egregiously sentimental comedy...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 1, 2006

You won't know whether to roll your eyes or smile like a fool, but you will know you've been entertained.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Oct 14, 2006

...there was actually a small smattering of applause when the movie ended. Whether they were clapping for the film or just the fact that it was finally over will have to remain a mystery.

| Jul 13, 2006

The Benchwarmers is better than it should have been. Only, that's not saying much.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 6, 2006

Even Jon Lovitz with a Batmobile, a dwarf attack in a playroom, and David Spade's best wig ever can't save this mawkish misfire.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 2, 2006

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.

| Jun 1, 2006

Unfunny, badly thought out and occasionally downright offensive, this is an extremely poor effort, even by the standards of other Rob Schneider movies.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 1, 2006

Highbrow humour is not the film's strong point but there's no faulting the sincerity of this against-all-odds comedy.

| May 20, 2006

The Benchwarmers strikes out. Again and again and again.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | May 13, 2006

This abysmally static comedy, the brainfart of 'the people who brought you Big Daddy' is a mess on every level %u2026 depressingly woeful.

| May 13, 2006

This comedy made me laugh exactly 3 times during its entire 80-minute run.

| Original Score: 3/10 | May 12, 2006

Starring Schneider and Spade, whose careers have been circling the drain for years, and Heder, who won't be far behind them if he doesn't improve his career moves.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 12, 2006

Only the reliably funny Jon Lovitz delivers his lines with any aplomb, providing just a few laughs in this otherwise horrid movie.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | May 6, 2006

Believe it or not, The Benchwarmers is so lame that it can't even lay claim to being the best Adam Sandler-produced movie not screened for critics in 2006

Full Review | Apr 29, 2006

An Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler, THE BENCHWARNERS offers the worst of all worlds.

| Apr 23, 2006

What is Craig Kilborn doing in this movie?

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Apr 22, 2006