Here Comes the Boom Reviews
Movie Metropolis
A lightweight action-comedy that only tries to entertain, but at least it meets that modest goal. And it knocks out lighter weight comedies like The School of Rock.
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| Original Score: 7/10
3AW
The highly likeable Kevin James headlines a highly likeable school/sports comedy lark in which he again plays a lovable oaf.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
The 'Mr. Holland's Opus' meets 'Rocky II' story will satisfy some who long for innocuous content, even those who know James deserves better material.
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| Original Score: C
KWQC-TV (Iowa)
An average made-for-TV-type movie that makes its way onto the big screen, 'Here Comes the Boom' doesn't pack much of a punch.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Birmingham Mail
Now, then. When is Stallone going to start playing a head teacher? Maybe the switch would work the other way...
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| Original Score: 1/5
Total Film
105 painful minutes of a fat guy getting punched in the face and falling down.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Birmingham Post
Merely the kind of film that once it's on DVD will end up as necessarily mindless fodder for bench-pressing numbskulls to watch in a gym.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Observer [UK]
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.
Irish Times
Couldn't Kevin have raised the money by selling hard drugs or trafficking underage women? The closing scenes would, under those circumstances, have seemed only marginally less peculiar.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Sun Online
There's nothing here that you haven't seen a dozen times before and done much better.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Mail [UK]
I went in with rock-bottom expectations and came out pleasantly surprised. It isn't completely awful.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Guardian [UK]
The Wedding Singer's Frank Coraci retains an endearing fondness for funny-faced bit-parts, but it's fundamentally formulaic in construction and mediocre in execution.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Financial Times
A fantasia of hackneyed conceits about education ...
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Telegraph
Every now and again a film comes along that could play as a parody of itself with minimal alteration, and 90 per cent of them seem to have some kind of connection to Adam Sandler.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Express
Daft but hard to dislike ...
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| Original Score: 3/5
ViewLondon
Surprisingly enjoyable, thanks to strong comic performances, likeable characters and direction that gets the tone exactly right.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sky Movies
Unfortunately, the comedy is strictly from the undercard.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The List
As an undemanding time-passer, Here Comes The Boom just about goes the distance.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The National
There's hardly a serious message being made about the plight of America's education system here, which makes one wonder what the point of it is.
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| Original Score: 2/5
jackiekcooper.com
Kevin James stars in the feel good movie of the year.
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| Original Score: 7/10
