The Theme of Dodgeball

     I think the theme of the film "Dodge Ball" is to not give up and don't let people push you around. The reason why I think this is because throughout the film a bigger and better gym was trying to get them to get rid of Average Joes so they could build more parking spaces for their members and Average Joes kept on coming back like a cockroach. Peter Lafleur the owner of Average Joes actually didn't want to try and stop Globo Gym from demolishing his gym to make a parking lot for their members because he thought that his gym didn't mean anything and he just stopped caring bout it and the people in his program. White Goodman The owner of Globo Gym thinks he's better than everybody and no one can tell him how to do things and he can and will always get what he wants.
     These 2 gym owners have a brief history between them that has caused White Goodman to hate Peter Lafluer and willing to do anything to get back at him. The turning point for Peter Lafluer was when he was sitting at the bar of the airport and Lance Armstrong shows up and recognized Peter and asked him why he wasn't at the dodge ball game. When Peter told him why Lance inspired him to go back and play the game so he could win his gym back and also his friends. But Peter had a plan in how he was going to do this. His plan was to bet on his team with the money Globo gym gave him for Average Joes and that proved to his team that he believed in them.
     Steve the pirate thought that he had to change who he was because Peter snapped on him for acting like a pirate. So he left his friends and tried to change who he was and actually did it. But as he showed his friends who he turned into Peter asked him who is he going to share this buried treasure with and he turned back into his old self. So the point of that part of the movie is trying to show that you don't have to change who you are just to be liked by other people.
     White Goodman the owner of Globo Gym thought that everyone had to like him because he was rich and (he thought) had a nice body. But as he later found out it doesn't matter what's on the outside its the inside that counts. At the end of the movie he flips out because he is a spoiled man that got everything that he wanted from his father and thought he was better than everyone. But since he lost the match he got angry and started to get really fat and turned into an jerk. So the theme of that part of the film is that you don't have to be a jerk for people to like you.