¨ If you're gonna lose, then I'm gonna help you
lose. Deal? ¨
Fans
of any Kevin James (or Adam Sandler) comedy will get what they expected going
into the movie: a lot of cheap laughs. It isn’t a terrible movie, it just is
cliché, predictable, and full of the same jokes we´ve seen repeated over and
over again in his other movies. Of course I didn’t go into this film expecting
it to be an artistic groundbreaking original movie, so I can´t say I was
disappointed. I knew what I was going in for and I did get what I expected. The
truth of the matter is that I laughed through several scenes, but this was
honestly a terrible and predictable movie. I would have been better off
laughing at any other sitcom comedy on TV during that hour. Kevin James has
played this sort of ordinary guy who turns out to be a hero in pretty much all
his films, and he has his fan base so it seems to be working for him pretty
good. The reality is that these movies are so forgettable some times that you
even forget you´ve seen these same scenes play out over and over again in their
previous films. You even have the typical gross out scenes involving throwing
up and having food fights. Here Comes the Boom receives a zero in originality,
but it does get points for cheap laughs now and then. If you´re a fan of this
light genre you will get your money´s worth. Come next year you will watch the
same movie again with the characters having different names and professions,
but facing pretty much the same situations and telling the same jokes. You will
share laughs for a couple of hours and then forget everything about it, but at
least it takes your mind off things for a while.
Scott Voss (Kevin James), once a successful wrestler
during his teens, is now a high school biology teacher who has seemed to have
lost his purpose and vision in teaching over the past decade in the school. He
is more of a slacker now and is constantly late for school. His glory days of
the past when he was voted the best teacher of the school are long past him
now. When the principal (Greg Germann) of the school announces that they are
going to cut out extracurricular activities in the school to reduce the budget,
he decides to speak up for music teacher, Marty Streb (Henry Winkler), who will
be left out of a job if they can’t come up with the 48,000 dollars that the
music curriculum is costing the school. Scott and her colleague Bella (Salma
Hayek) decide to help Marty out by coming up with ways for raising the money. Scott
decides to prepare immigrants for the citizenship test in order to come up with
some extra income. Here he meets a former MMA fighter from Holland named Niko
(Bas Rutten) who introduces him to the MMA world. Scott realizes that if he can
get into a professional fight he may win 10,000 dollars just by participating
therefore he makes it his goal to become a mixed-martial arts fighter so he can
raise enough money to save Streb´s job.
Here
Comes the Boom has a very ridiculous plot and unfortunately instead of going
all the way with the satire they try to give it a Rocky like tone. It didn’t really
work for me and some of the actors were pretty bad. Henry Winkler was probably
the funniest character in this film, while Bas Rutten tried too hard to be
funny but some scenes really didn’t work with him. I am not surprised I didn’t like
this film considering it was directed by the same guy who brought us Zookeeper,
although I was a fan of his when he directed The Wedding Singer. I think he
fails here by not going all the way with the satire considering how ridiculous
the plot is. It will have success however with its intended audience, but I
just wasn’t the right target for it. It is a lazy comedy and you get exactly
what you expect from it.
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