here comes the boom

Review || BY Inkoo || 10 10 2012 6:30 PM

REVIEW: Bloody Here Comes the Boom Gets Lazier As Kevin James Loses Brain Cells

The first half hour of Here Comes the Boom is so good moviegoers might be fooled into expecting something better than an obvious wish fulfillment fantasy so patently implausible it’s almost insulting. Sadly, those moviegoers would be wrong. Star, producer, and co-writer Kevin James creates a witty, confident everyman in the first act, only to sacrifice him to the pic’s demands for formula and sentimentality thereafter.
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Videos || BY Jen Yamato || 06 26 2012 7:40 PM

MMA-Filled Here Comes the Boom Trailer: Like Warrior, Only With Kevin James

Here Comes the Boom trailer - Kevin James MMA

...and, um, there's just one of him. Bear with me here: A slimmed-down Kevin James, who's actually looking kind of handsome here (or am I crazy?), plays a high school teacher who enters the octagon to raise cash as a mixed martial arts fighter. He's basically Joel Edgerton in last year's MMA pic Warrior, only — lucky for us — he's still Kevin James, so it's a broad comedy and not a gut-wrenching drama and instead of Tom Hardy he's got Salma Hayek to wrestle with. Sigh.
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