A high school biology teacher looks to become a successful mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to prevent extra-curricular activities from being axed at his cash-strapped school.
It’s all considerably more tasteful than Sandler’s own awful run of films lately, and as an undemanding time-passer, Here Comes The Boom just about goes the distance.
Since the movie restates the importance of inspirational teaching and a rounded education, you might argue that its heart is in the right place but its cruddy jokes definitely deserve detention.
Essentially the kind of flaccid success fantasy that makes you want to kill someone.
Daft but hard to dislike.
Never quite sinks to the radioactive lows of James’s last comedy, Zookeeper.
More of a bust, really.
Fundamentally formulaic in construction and mediocre in execution.
Actually has a few good gags and decent performances.
The film aims to be simultaneously a coarse sentimental little-guy comedy, a tale of embracing the American dream, and an increasingly serious underdog fight movie on the lines of Rocky. It fails on all three counts.
Everything we have come to expect of James – tiresome in the extreme.
Frank Coraci's film panders to just about every cliché in the book and could have served as a parody of films like Warrior and Rocky were it a little smarter.
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