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Ready to Rumble
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 26 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 14 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Steven Brill
Directed by: Brian Robbins
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 7, 2000
DVD: September 19, 2000
Running Time: 107 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for language, crude humor, sexual content including brief nudity and wrestling violence
Starring David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, Rose McGowan, Joe Pantoliano, Martin Landau, and Caroline Rhea
An unscrupulous promoter removes a wrestler from his line-up, and two of the biggest wrestling fans are devasted by the ousting of their favorite character.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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!"
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >TNT RoughCut Chad Damiani
The B-movie is back, folks, but who knows how long the fun will last.
Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
If you're expecting an experience approximately as dumb, badly acted, and childish as a pro wrestling match, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The plot is easily summarized: "Dumb and Dumber Meet Dumbbell."
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
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."
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
I'm sorry. I laughed...There's something pleasurable about a comedy that has no pretensions about where it's coming from.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It just makes you want to flip on the tube to see the real (fake) thing.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Steve Simels
An extremely loud and simpleminded cross between TV's "WWF Smackdown!" and "Dumb and Dumber."
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Allan Johnson
Will come off as insipid, unfunny and too serious at times for its own good.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Stephen Brill's flat-footed script begins as an idiot comedy with the gross-out gags of a Farrelly brothers film.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
See it only if potty-training is still the most vivid life experience in your book of memories.
Read Full Review >USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
Here's ringside entertainment for those who think TV wrestling is too intellectual and restrained.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A. O. Scott
Not a satire of the idiocy of professional wrestling, but a long, self-satisfied wallow in it.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
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.
Read Full Review >Film.com Tom Keogh
I would rather have been scraping gum off my shoe than sitting there another minute.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Film.com Sean Means
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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.6 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Rhaine M. gave it a1:
One of the worst films of recent times Arquette does not entertain. He is almost as bad an actor as Alec "No Talent" Baldwin.
Some Guy gave it a0:
Rather than doing a proper satire of wrestling, this film acts like it's real and churns out a lame Rocky knock-off. This film is a disgrace to both professional wrestling and cinema. The ironic thing is that the 'professional' actors, such as David Arquette, are stupendeously out-acted by their wrestling counterparts. Give DDP the Oscar!
Rodney D. gave it a0:
Being a wrestling fan, I watched this once when it came on tv. what a complete waste of time! It's stupid, unfunny, and embarrassing to even watch.
Will B gave it a0:
Complete garbage.
Bobby L. gave it a0:
This movie is an embarrassment to wrestling fans. What's worse is that, in an attempt to promote this piece of crap, WCW actually made David Arquette world champion, which was one of the final nails in the coffin for the already dying company. I wish i could give this movie a negative score because this peice of trash should have never been made. both the world of wrestling and the world of cinema would be better off without it's existance.
Ian gave it a 10:
I love this movie!!! i am a huge wrestiling fan and i was glad to see all the WCW superstars there was in it, but besides the fact that they say that Wrestling is not fake, every one knows that it IS fake, even the Rock himself admitted it!
Ryan M. gave it a 7:
Not as bad as I thought it would be. It didn't really make me laugh, but it was kind of funny.
