The Benchwarmers

...Rob Schneider, David Spade, and Jon Heder play buddies who form a three-man baseball team after defeating pint-sized bullies in defense of a curly-haired nerd.

In the tradition of Sandler’s starring projects, this set-up, in its threadbare simplicity, is kind of brilliant: an 80-minute hybrid of The Bad News Bears and Revenge of the Nerds.

Rob Schneider leads a trio of baseball nerds in a comedy that parades its dumbness with such zip that it almost passes for clever.