A Feel Good Movie

Rating: 7/10 (17 February 2013)

School teacher Scott Voss (Kevin James) has a plan to raise money to keep certain school activities from disappearing due to budget cuts. He will do this by competing in a MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) contest. Even if he loses he gets a big check and that is what he counts on. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
This is not a comedy, but there are funny things going on. Remember when you laughed when you saw someone slip on a banana peel? This is almost the same thing. The fight bouts in here will give you those kind of laughs as the choreography for these bouts is pretty good.
The dialogues throughout are not conducive to comedy and you need to wait for the fights to get your yuks in. And, there are enough of them to satisfy that hunger.
But, everything comes down to the big fight at the end in Las Vegas, Nevada. Yes, how Voss gets that far is hard to believe, but there it is, there he is and there you are hoping he wins, and not lose for that pay check.
The scenes near the end will have you standing up and cheering (yes, you read that correctly) even before the big fight? How? Just watch and see. How is that possible with a Kevin James movie, you ask, because you remember past lame, and not funny Kevin James' movies? How? Just watch and see. (7/10)
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No.