Benchwarmers 08/21 Blu-ray (Rental)

Product Description After three nerdy older guys catch some nasty kids bullying a friend's son, they strike back by forming a baseball team to take on the state's best youth teams in this slapstick comedy grandslam! Amazon.com Credit The Benchwarmers for achieving the impossible: It makes the 2005 remake of The Bad News Bears look like a masterpiece. They're essentially the same film, with the same lowbrow PG-13 humor (mostly involving bodily functions, broad slapstick, little people, nerds, geeks, and nose-picking), but this baseball comedy earns a few brownie points for its heart-warming message about including non-athletic kids (i.e. "benchwarmers") in Little League baseball, if only to boost their confidence and give them a moment of ball-field glory. It's a pleasant sentiment intended to encourage under-achievers to feel good about themselves, and that makes this loose-and-goofy veh