Here Comes the Boom Reviews

Weak humor and vanilla plotting have replaced legitimate drama, pathos, and character development.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It's nice that the hero goes to the mat for what he believes in. But he's not the only thing that comes down with a thud.

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It delivers exactly what's expected from a flabby mishmash of high school inspirational tale and Mixed Martial Arts fighting exhibitionism ladled out by Adam Sandler running mate Frank Coraci ...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Here Comes the Boom will probably connect like a haymaker with most of its intended audience. The leads are likeable, and the plot, though beyond incredible, is at the very least distracting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Why doesn't most of this movie take place in a coma ward?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

"Here Comes the Boom" is so full of clichés from other, better movies that it is almost plays like a parody of an underdog tale.

Full Review | Original Score: C

"Here Comes the Boom'' is low on raunch but even lower on laughs. It also looks like half the lighting crew failed to show up.

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For the most part, "Boom" lazily follows Adam Sandler's proven recipe for box-office success.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Cage fighting is not inherently funny. In fact, it's the opposite of funny, something like cock fighting only with people, and this presents a problem the movie never completely overcomes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

A moderately enjoyable, nontaxing sort of comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The film works hard at its inoffensiveness. Throughout, jokes are left on the table, setups never pay off in any significant way.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Here Comes the Boom telegraphs every punch in its arsenal, but when the comedy connects, it can deliver with funny force.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

[It] delivers repeated blows - to the abdomen, to the head, and to the groin, but not often enough to the funny bone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The film would have the same audience that came to see James get elbowed in the face also get weepy over disadvantaged schoolchildren.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Loud, incoherent and unfunny, "Here Comes the Boom" is the sound of American culture imploding.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Call it Waiting for Superman Punch.

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"Here Comes the Boom" is all banality, though it delivers some goodwill even as it pulls a muscle trying to get its premise going.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Once it gets going and commits to its time-worn inspirational formula, it's not half-bad.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

When [James] starts winning some bouts and becoming a contender, the movie's credibility skyrockets into "Rocky" territory and beyond.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The overall tenor is clangorously discordant.

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'Here Comes the Boom' is enjoyable -- or, at the very least, not torture like 'Grown Ups' ...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5