The Vidiot Reviews

Rating: 5/10 (7 February 2013)

Here Comes the Boom
In our modern schools educators are expected to perform more than one job function, i.e. art teachers are also bus drivers.
But in this comedy the biology teacher has a secondary career outside of education.
When the apathetic Mr. Voss (Kevin James) learns his friend's (Henry Winkler) class will be cut due to budgetary constraints, he moonlights as an ESL instructor.
While tutoring a former MMA fighter (Bas Rutten), Mr. Voss - a former wrestler himself - is turned on to UFC.
Attracted to the sizable payday for merely losing, Mr. Voss begins training for the octagon.
After proving himself, he's invited to an event where he stands to make $50,000 for beating a seasoned vet.
Loaded with MMA cameos and James' brand of self-deprecating humour, Here Comes the Boom is a boilerplate underdog comedy.
Incidentally, there's no better training for skull-cracking cage fighting than teaching at a public school.
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