Review

The dude from Napoleon Dynamite teams up with the “You can do it” guy and that annoying dweeb from all the Chris Farley movies to pound some pre-teen bully butt on the baseball diamond.

Grown-up geek Gus now has a beautiful wife, his own business and two socially challenged comrades. After witnessing an act of harassment that reminded him of his childhood, he decides to stand up for the geeks of the town. He teams up with Richie, an undersexed video clerk, and Clark, a macaroni-addicted paperboy, to battle the bully-laden Little League teams menacing their area. What follows is a series of fart jokes, immature insults, nerd-culture references and an inspirational ending that will have you thinking twice before the next time you grab a small child and fart on his head. As a grown-up geek myself, I sometimes delight in the fact that I can now pound the pulp out of most pre-teen bullies. This may be why I can’t stop smiling every time I think of this movie. Jon Lovitz fits well into the role of Mel, their benefactor and the richest dork outside of Seattle. David Spade is his usually whiny self and very good at it. Jon Heder takes the saying “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” to heart and pretty much copies his Napoleon Dynamite character. As for Rob Schneider, well, he's less annoying as usual playing the straight man. And that's high praise indeed.

 -- Gary Berenbroick