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Ready to Rumble
Warner Bros.


5.6

based on 26 reviews
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MPAA 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.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Steven Brill
DIRECTED BY:	Brian Robbins
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: September 19, 2000 Video: September 19, 2000 Theatrical: April 7, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	107 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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!"

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.

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.

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

Bizarre yet popular.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The plot is easily summarized: "Dumb and Dumber Meet Dumbbell."

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."

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.

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.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

It just makes you want to flip on the tube to see the real (fake) thing.

TV Guide Steve Simels

An extremely loud and simpleminded cross between TV's "WWF Smackdown!" and "Dumb and Dumber."

Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday

The less said the better.

Chicago Tribune Allan Johnson

Will come off as insipid, unfunny and too serious at times for its own good.

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

Numbskull cinema scrapes new depths.

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.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

See it only if potty-training is still the most vivid life experience in your book of memories.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

Here's ringside entertainment for those who think TV wrestling is too intellectual and restrained.

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.

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.

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.

The New York Times A. O. Scott

Not a satire of the idiocy of professional wrestling, but a long, self-satisfied wallow in it.

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.

Village Voice Emily Bobrow

Rumble's aim is low and dirty.

Film.com Tom Keogh

I would rather have been scraping gum off my shoe than sitting there another minute.

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.

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.

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.

Ready to Rumble Warner Bros.

Ready to Rumble
Warner Bros.