Movie Review: Dodge Ball

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“If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball!”, Patches O'Houlihan once said this in the movie Dodge Ball. For those of you that have not seen it, I will fill you in. The movie opens up with a a commercial for a gym owned by White Goodman. He owns Globo Gym American Corp., making the gym a lifestyle. To describe Mr. Goodman, think of a cocky guy that is selfish and has to have everything his way. Next to Globo gym lies another gym, but nothing like Globo. The gym next door is called Average Joe's Gymnasium owed by Peter La Fluer. The gym however is nothing pretty actually it is run down with many financial difficulties. White Goodman decided that he needed more parking for his gym members, so he planned on bull dozing over Average Joe's

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