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DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

2004 · directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber · 92 min · PG-13
23,230 feet · Prominence
1,270th of 24,106 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Dodgeball’ With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly

How this film scores

Draw65

Lifetime worldwide gross $168m, re-releases included; about $294m in 2026 money.

Rank1,170 of 11,051In 200432 of 256

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise64

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics64 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy50

Judged directly: 'If you can dodge a wrench' permanent.

Verdict50 of 100IMDb6.7 from 281kWikipedia38k views a monthAge22 years

Scored beside it · 1,084 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 65 praise 64 legacy 50averages 60, placing it at23,230 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Rip Torn

In these careers — elevation for this film

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