8 Movies That Stupidly Scrapped Perfect Endings

There's things you come to expect from sports movies that are sacred to the genre. There's got to be some struggle, there's got to be some wholesome team bonding, and there's got to be a hell of a lot of balls. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story has all of these things in abundance, parodying the usual antics we've come to expect for comedic value but sticking true to the 'Underdog' part of their branding. Whilst the ending sees the Average Joes win against Globo Gym by the skin of their teeth, earning $5 million and romantic threeway in the process, the original was supposed to be far more aggressively realistic in its portrayal of what underdog means: with the Average Joes losing in a landslide.

And then it just cuts to credits. No heroism, no posi-vibes only finales, no swooping rise to glory for a team that would never actually have the capability to succeed on a professional level - just the cold hard truth of failure. It's an absolute banter off of an ending that was so heavily disliked by test audiences director Rawson Marshall Thurber had to change it to the 'happy' version we got instead, but couldn't leave it without the post credits scene of Ben Stiller digging out those that had requested the change.

It would have been a big move to have this as the official cut for Dodgeball, but instead, we're left with a horrible, endearing, straight up nice time instead. Sickening.