| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
Edvins Beitks
It's a truly strange coupling of mooning romanticism and rank stupidity that fairly screams, "Teenage America, we love your money!"
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Loren King
Likable performances from its young cast and a better-than-average script add spark to this formulaic fairy tale and make the wrestling mania watchable.
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| 60 |
TNT RoughCut
Chad Damiani
The B-movie is back, folks, but who knows how long the fun will last.
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| 54 |
Mr. Showbiz
If you're expecting an experience approximately as dumb, badly acted, and childish as a pro wrestling match, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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| 50 |
Washington Post
Bizarre yet popular.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The plot is easily summarized: "Dumb and Dumber Meet Dumbbell."
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| 50 |
New York Post
Has its moments of interest, including two excruciating vocals by Arquette and Caan -- and a George Clinton score that contains a theme eerily similar to that of "American Beauty."
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
I'm sorry. I laughed...There's something pleasurable about a comedy that has no pretensions about where it's coming from.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
Phoebe Flowers
Heavy on cheap, dirty humor (Gordie and Sean clean septic tanks for a living, a fact that is milked frequently for laughs), but it's never substantial enough to truly offend or delight.
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| 33 |
Entertainment Weekly
It just makes you want to flip on the tube to see the real (fake) thing.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
An extremely loud and simpleminded cross between TV's "WWF Smackdown!" and "Dumb and Dumber."
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
The less said the better.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
Allan Johnson
Will come off as insipid, unfunny and too serious at times for its own good.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Numbskull cinema scrapes new depths.
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| 25 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Stephen Brill's flat-footed script begins as an idiot comedy with the gross-out gags of a Farrelly brothers film.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
See it only if potty-training is still the most vivid life experience in your book of memories.
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| 25 |
USA Today
Here's ringside entertainment for those who think TV wrestling is too intellectual and restrained.
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
Dave Shulman
Even though Ready To Rumble isn't funny or good in any way, there's plenty of softcore gay porn (wrestling), loud music and women with large breasts.
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| 20 |
Variety
Rates a notch below the KISS-centric "Detroit Rock City" and a couple above Jerry Springer's "Ringmaster" -- in other words, closer to stupid-fun than stupid-toxic.
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| 20 |
Chicago Reader
This gross-out action comedy gets good mileage from its high-energy music and World Championship Wrestling characters, and leads David Arquette and Scott Caan are expertly pathetic.
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| 10 |
The New York Times
A. O. Scott
Not a satire of the idiocy of professional wrestling, but a long, self-satisfied wallow in it.
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| 10 |
Salon.com
Let's be real clear about this: You've got to be suffering from some major trash-culture brain damage to enjoy a movie like Ready to Rumble.
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| 10 |
Village Voice
Emily Bobrow
Rumble's aim is low and dirty.
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| 10 |
Film.com
I would rather have been scraping gum off my shoe than sitting there another minute.
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| 10 |
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
A movie made for wrestling fans that makes fun of wrestling fans? That cuts a little too close to the vicarious masochism at the heart of pro wrestling's core constituency. Also, it's not funny.
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Film.com
I just wanted to rail against the casual homophobia, the senseless violence and the sociopathic cruelty that Ready to Rumble treats as good clean fun.
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