Ready to Rumble

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Ready to Rumble

David A. in a starring role was bad enough but to try and destroy the career of Oliver Platt with him is downright sick. Nothing is funny about this film, in fact it's as sad as sad can be. Talk about a movie that is an insult to B-movies!! The film sucks, it has no laughs and really had no biz on the big screen. In fact, this film has no biz in the USA at all 1/10 GO AWAY YOU UNFUNNY MAN!!!!

There was a film made a while back called Beyond the Mat which was one of the most insightful films ever that was about wrestling. This film has some roots from that formula and while I am not expecting the most serious film here, it didn't have to be as dumb as it turned out to be. The plot has two dimwit wrestling fans (David Arquette and Scott Caan) who want to help and save a washed out wrestler (Oliver Platt who is somewhat miscast here) but don't realize that the guy quit for more reasons than a disgruntled boss (Joe Pantoliano). Just really dumb comedy and while there are a couple of funny moments, the badness and the fact that they use the incredibly fake WCW (most wrestling is fake but WCW is fake to the max) is beyond me. However the triple cage match isn't the worst. Directed by Brian Robbins of Varsity Blues and Good Burger fame. C

19 Years! I'm watching this now and it still holds down like it did when I watched it 19 years ago. I no longer watch wrestling just simply because of the sham the business has turned into today. The youth of today unfortunately would never understand the nostalgia this movie holds for wrestling fans of the then era. This movie brings back all of the perfect memories for me of my youth and still rocks today! Will I still watch this and have the same review in another 20 years.....WWKD!?!?! Hell yeah! 10/10

Don't be a big deep thinker on this one. This movie is Fun and entertaining. They are not trying to cure cancer or save the world here they are trying to entertain and I will tell you I was so entertained I bought this movie and watch it at least once a year with friends. This movie is silly, fun and will let you escape life's issues for an hour and 47 minutes. Oliver Platt is great and Scott Caan has some great comedic chops, however it is Martin Landau that steals the movie as the old school wrestler turned trainer. Give this movie a chance and I bet it will pin you to the couch for a 3 count! Popcorn for everyone!

Sad this movie did kill WCW forever, this wrestling federation went down even further if it would have stick to its wrestling only (the "King" storyline with DDP and the evil manager Sinclair), but instead, went into too much vulgarity such as raw sewage and toilet bowl humour, which was not necessary at all. I would have went another direction rather than putting too much of feces jokes. Martin Landau is great as a former wrestler turned teacher. And the wrestling storyline is just like what we see on TV. Bottom line: should have stick to wrestling only, as it is the only entertaining portion here...

This has been one of my favorite movies since it came out. I was in middle school and watched it over and over, multiple times a day sometimes. Rewatching it now it still holds up and is funny in all new ways. I would bet people would laugh and it could be a cult classic some day, if people would five it a shot.

When I went to the theater I thought this was going to be bad. Well, I was happily wrong, this movie is so stupid its funny; thats hard to do for a movie. Stuped uually gets across as anoying, but not in this case. Hey if you want stuped laughfsrents this one. I guess we all need a little insanity in our lives

Sure, the acting isn't always steady, and the direction sometimes vague. The editing acceptable. But so what? This movie embraces whole-heartedly the world of professional wrestling, including its public face, that of the over-done, over-wrought actor, bleeding for his public. Following the two main characters, people with nothing much in their life besides being wrestling fans, on a quest to help their hero regain his status as numero uno, is really great fun. Why? Because they are true believers, fanatics, and willing to do anything. I haven't laughed so hard with a movie in a long time. Don't miss the out-takes during the closing credits, either. They're worth the price of admission.