Here Come the End for Kevin James.

Rating: 5/10 (15 December 2015)

Here Comes the Boom (2012): Dir: Frank Coraci / Cast: Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Bas Rutten, Gary Valentine: U.F.C inspired comedy about challenge. Kevin James plays a Biology teacher who takes up mixed martial arts fighting in order to save a friend's job in the music department as well as create needed funds for the school. This is all very well until it becomes repetitious with an ending that will either have you cheering or completely numb by the fact that it was so obvious. Director Frank Coraci will no doubt inspire some viewers with its message of never giving up but this theme seems numb within all the conventions. A target audience will be difficult, unlike another Coraci comedy, The Wedding Singer, which also pitted its hero against great odds, yet it played up great 1980's nostalgia for viewers of that period. James seems to be having fun as the teacher, tired of his job until finding a place for which he can contribute more successfully. He is involved in several fights, well staged with a lot of action. The romantic subplot is useless with Salma Hayek as a fellow teacher whom James is smitten. There is good supporting work by Henry Winkler as a passionate music teacher whose 48 year old wife is pregnant. Bas Rutten has a nifty role as a fitness trainer who attends a class that James teaches in the evenings regarding becoming an American citizen. Some may like the message while others will not likely feel the boom and cast it off as another misfire comedy out to poke fun of a sport that is more entertaining than it is. Score: 5 ½ / 10