I realise that Dodgeball is a comedy so overacting is sort of the whole deal here, but sometimes a performance stands out in the annals as something so profoundly ridiculous you just have to stand up ...

From Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith to Heath Ledger's Joker to the entire oeuvre of William Shatner, mannered or stylised acting is an underrated skill. If what Olivier does is acting, let's hear it for ...

as we've covered before. Yet most of the time, the term 'overacting' gets caught up with the term 'hamminess,' implying that in some way, throwing everything you have at the performance is a bad thing ...