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Oct 23, 201250Although it's not as bad as it could be, the film is still middle-of-the-road fare for comedy fans who are already firmly in James' corner, delivering the sort of brainless laughs that James is famous for. [18 Oct 2012]
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20"Here Comes the Bomb" would've been a more fitting title, but props to Henry Winkler for rising to the occasion and turning in a sweet, idealistic performance in a film that otherwise feels like a tawdry commercial for the UFC and MMA.
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50Kevin James's latest comedy doesn't promise any bing or bang, only boom. Take it at its word.
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60Like James in the ring, it doesn't pack a lot of power, but it comes out swinging and sweats for applause.
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63Once it gets going and commits to its time-worn inspirational formula, it's not half-bad.
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42A cloddish, harmlessly drecky comedy from the Sandler factory of crude mush.
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Oct 11, 201240The film works hard at its inoffensiveness. Throughout, jokes are left on the table, setups never pay off in any significant way.
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Oct 10, 201240The first half hour of Here Comes the Boom is so good moviegoers might be fooled into expecting something better than an obvious wish fulfillment fantasy so patently implausible it's almost insulting.
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40Few people will be surprised by how it all unfolds or by how it all ends. This is a movie about lightweight entertainment and heavyweight fighters, not a movie about surprises.
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40All banality, though it delivers some goodwill even as it pulls a muscle trying to get its premise going.
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Oct 14, 201250So even if Here Comes the Boom doesn't quite work as a comedy (it's not particularly funny), or a drama (it's not particularly poignant), it has an earnest charm that keeps us engaged.
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38Low on raunch but even lower on laughs. It also looks like half the lighting crew failed to show up.
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50Here Comes the Boom is stale and vanilla. We know we're in trouble early when the first joke fails.
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50The pure mechanics of Here Comes the Boom land it in an enjoyable, if forgettable, space.
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Oct 11, 20120As a comedy, the film aims low and manages to miss the mark entirely.
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38Loud, incoherent and unfunny, Here Comes the Boom is the sound of American culture imploding.
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50It's all harmless, if not entirely fun.
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33Here Comes The Boom seems to have made it from the pitch stage - Kevin James does MMA to save his school or something! - to the big screen without an iota of inspiration, ambition, or personality seeping in at any juncture.
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50A farther-fetched fantasy: In addition to asking we believe our loosely packed academic can play Rocky, Here Comes the Boom imagines a world in which butterball Everyman Scott and the fabulously lush Bella (Salma Hayek) might argue and bill and coo and eventually fall in love.
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50If you can choke down the implausible notion that the doughy Kevin James would last more than five seconds in a mixed martial arts ring, Here Comes the Boom is a moderately enjoyable, nontaxing sort of comedy.
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60Knuckleheaded though this faculty-member-turned-MMA-fighter comedy is, there's no denying the plot's lefty credentials, snuck in like Raisinets among the popcorn.
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Nov 18, 201240Cue 105 painful minutes of a fat guy getting punched in the face and falling down.
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63When the comedy connects, it can deliver with funny force
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Oct 10, 201240Hands of stone meet heads of air in Here Comes the Boom, a sports story so daffy it may as well star Kevin James.
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40Boom was produced under the auspices of pal Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions, which has a tendency toward broad-comic morality tales and multiplex populism that often shades into remedial-level pandering.
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Oct 11, 201250What's missing from this color-by-numbers screenplay is the bizarre touch of eccentric humor Sandler often lets creep into his comedies.