Ready to Rumble
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: April 7, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
23
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
6
Negative:
18
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
San Francisco ExaminerEdvins 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
63
Boston GlobeLoren 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
60
TNT RoughCutChad Damiani
The B-movie is back, folks, but who knows how long the fun will last.
54
Mr. ShowbizMichael 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
50
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Bizarre yet popular. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The plot is easily summarized: "Dumb and Dumber Meet Dumbbell." Read full review
50
New York PostLou 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
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie 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
38
Charlotte ObserverPhoebe 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
33
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
It just makes you want to flip on the tube to see the real (fake) thing. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineSteve Simels
An extremely loud and simpleminded cross between TV's "WWF Smackdown!" and "Dumb and Dumber." Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Numbskull cinema scrapes new depths. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneAllan Johnson
Will come off as insipid, unfunny and too serious at times for its own good. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
The less said the better. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean 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
25
USA TodaySusan Wloszczyna
Here's ringside entertainment for those who think TV wrestling is too intellectual and restrained. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
See it only if potty-training is still the most vivid life experience in your book of memories. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderLisa 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
20
VarietyDennis 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
20
L.A. WeeklyDave 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
10
SalonAndrew 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
10
Film.comTom Keogh
I would rather have been scraping gum off my shoe than sitting there another minute. Read full review
10
Village VoiceEmily Bobrow
Rumble's aim is low and dirty. Read full review
10
The New York TimesA. O. Scott
Not a satire of the idiocy of professional wrestling, but a long, self-satisfied wallow in it. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesJohn 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
0
Film.comSean 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
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