Ready to Rumble

Plot synopsis:
Sewage workers Gordie Boggs (David Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Scott Caan) are huge wrestling fans. They seem to know a lot about it except the biggest piece of it; wrestling is scripted. Their favorite wrestler is WCW World Heavyweight Champion Jimmy King (Oliver Platt) who personifies a modern king. Unbeknownst to them, King is actually a low life wrestler who burned out his fortune and didn't show a lot of respect for his boss, his family, or his co-workers.WCW promoter Titus Sinclair (Joe Pantoliano), fed-up with King's attitude and antics, establish a plan to screw King out of his title and destroy him. To do so, he hires WCW wrestler Diamond Dallas Page (Himself) and his crew of wrestlers. He books a match between King and DDP and keeps everyone thinking that King is gonna win.So Sean and Gordie go to the WCW monday nitro show as fans, believing they're about to witness another King victory. What ensues is their favorite wrestler getting beat up for real in the ring, loosing his championship belt and getting publicly fired from WCW for life. After the match, the two wrestling fans express their rage in their septic truck, resulting in a car crash.After this event, Gordie believes that the car crash was fate and that they should make Jimmy King once again World Champion. Sean agrees to help Gordie, and the dimwitted duo go on a quest to put their King back on his throne. The next day, they meet Isaac (Chris Owen), a nerdy wrestling fan who's father seems to think everything Issac does is for pussies. They asks their new friend to use his internet knowledge to find out where the washed-up wrestler lives. Isaac succeeds to find King's address, and the boys go to an unexpected-looking neighborhood. They find King's estranged wife Eugenia (Caroline Rhea) and his uneducated son Frankie (Tait Smith) who both happens to be far from the queen and prince type. Eugenia reveals that King left them a while ago to run with another girl and never returned or sent anything for child support. They later meet his parents (Kathleen Freeman and Lewis Arquette), who reveals that their son borrowed their mobile home, and never returned it.The duo finally find King, with the help of Isaac, hidding in a trailer park, drunk and dressed like a woman. After paying King 30$ for a 5 minutes encounter, they have a conversation in which King says that he gave up on wrestling. Gordie and Sean, with their stupidity, anger King to the point where he suddenly attacks the two boys. The boys encourage King to beat them up, convincing him that he can still fight and that he should fight DDP again. King accepts the offer and knocks out the boys with his finishing move to thank them. The two boys wake up the next day to find Jimmy King ready to take a shot at wrestling again.While on a road trip to the WCW arena, Gordie sends letters to his angry father, an overzealous cop who wanted Gordie to follow in his footsteps to be a policeman and who hates wrestling because he deem it unmanly and fake. Gordie tells his father that he will not join him in a policeman test, making him frustrated to the point where he shoots the letter with his gun.They arrive at the WCW arena where they hide King in a port-a-potty and meet one of the Nitro Girls, Sasha (Rose McGowan). When DDP mocks Jimmy King on camera, King comes out of the port-a-potty and beats him up. King ask for a rematch which Sinclair agrees with a few conditions. The match will be a triple cage match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship between DDP and King. If King wins, he not only regain his title but he also gets a million dollar cash prize. However, if King loses, he will never wrestle again in WCW or anywhere else. Gordie and Sean agrees with the terms, not listening to King's protest.Later that night, during a party, Sasha flirts with Gordie, saying she was impressed with him, and invite him on a date at her appartment where she has sex with him.Meanwhile, King, out of sheer panic, tries to run away but falls into a sewer. The boys find him and convince him they found the perfect trainer for him. They find Sal Bandini (Martin Landau), an old school trainer who likes to train his students by beating them up and putting them through excruciating submission holds. Sal agrees to train King and therefore starts beating him up. The boys also think that King should have a partner to back him up. They turn to WCW wrestler Bill Goldberg (Himself) who used to be King's partner. Goldberg refuses to help King due to way King treated him in the past.That night, Sal is assaulted and injured by WCW thugs Sid Vicious(Himself) and Perry Saturn (Himself). At he hospital, Gordie overhears Sasha on the phone with Sinclaire and realises Sasha was faking their relationship to spy on them, and breaks up with her.Under Sal's advice to hide until the match, Gordie and Sean bring King to their hometown of Lusk, Wyoming. On the way, King goes to his wife to apologies and promises, after two kicks to the groin, to use the million dollar cash prize to make it up to her and their son.Upon their arrival, Gordie's father comes along to pick up his son and convinces him that his dreams of wrestling are stupid. That night, Sean and King try to bust Gordie out of his room where he's been confined to study until the next police exam, but Gordie refuses, saying it's time he gets real with his life.King and Sean holds an audition to find an entourage to help King during the match. Many candidates show up, but no one makes the cut and King realises he's gonna have to do it alone. As they are about to leave, Gordie comes to say goodbye and apologies to King for not going with them. King dismiss the apology because he understands and thanks Gordie for everything he's done for him.Meanwhile, Sean meets up with Wendy (Melanie Deanne Moore) whom he first tought of as one of the guys but realised he has developped a soft spot for her while she was always infatuated with him. He gives her a New-York Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt and confess that he's been thinking about her. She thanks him by bringing him inside the RV and have sex with him before he leaves.The night of the match, King is ready but very nervous. He's joined by Sean, dressed to impress as he's going to act as a manager to King. The match starts and turns rapidly to nightmare for King when it is revealed that DDP's goons were hiding under the ring and therefore, are inside the cage with him. One of the goons is a masked wrestler who turns out to be King's son Frankie who proceeds to beat up his dad. As King is getting beat up by the goons, out comes WCW wrestlers Goldberg, Booker T, Billy Kidman and Disco Inferno to help him.Unfortunately, they can't get in the cage since de door is padlocked. Out comes another man on a motorcycle who uses the entrance ramp as a jump to crash through the cage door and take out some of the goons. That man is Gordie, dressed in a wrestling version of his father's uniform. His father sees his son on TV and starts cheering him on with is collegues. Gordie and the others deal with DDP's possee and defeat them while King and DDP climb the cage to get to the belt. Sasha tries to get back together with Gordie as the fans love him, but is knocked out by a ladder after not listening to Sean's warning.Meanwhile, in the highest cage, DDP manages to throw King down to the lowest cage. As he attempts to reach for the belt, Page is knocked down to the lowest cage himself by WCW wrestler Sting who was threatened into helping DDP earlier by Sinclaire. The two climb back to the top again and fight it out until King manages to slam DDP all the way to mat, knocking him out in the process. King retrieves the belt and is once again champion.After this, Sean and Gordie beat up Sinclaire before tossing him in the crowd where the fans beat him up some more. Goldberg asks King to re-team with him, but the new champ announces his new partner will be Gordie and their manager will be Sean. Gordie's father is cheering and accept his son's decison while Wendy is seen at work jumping and screaming her love for Sean.Afterward, Sean is back in Lusk, at the convenient store where the story began, telling the story to some kids and saying "dreams can come true". Just as one of the kids ask Sean to prove that his story is real, the store clerk, known for being mean to kids, is projected throught the glass door by Goldberg, Gordie and King. All ends happily as the heroes ride off in a stretch Hummer (driven by Nitro Girl Chae), together with Sal, now fully recovered in a hot tub with beautiful women and ends it by saying "God bless America".The end credits feature bloopers and a montage of kicks to the groin.

Tags: revenge, cult, violence

Review:
They were at the time wrestling fans who knew wrestling was mostly fake.Last weekend we borrowed it from a friend to watch with those same nephews from a few years ago, and we laughed all the way through it again.
This was light and enjoyable film of two affable wrestling fans who want to reinstate a recently fallen hero to the top of the WCW world.
And of course the ending is all too pat, as it must be in a film that takes place in the WCW universe.For all of its faults, I was surprised to find myself enjoying Ready to Rumble.
Get a wrestler for God's sake to wrestle!), but for being a piece used mainly to showcase WCW stars, it wasn't too bad, it let you see that some of the guys actually have some of that stuff called talent.
Plus, it made for some of the lowest moments in WCW history when they strapped the gold around Mr. Arquette's waist (resume now includes: Scream bitch/1-800 idiot/WCW world champion), so anytime I can see the makings of what would turn out to be a big step in the demise of WCW is a good thing for me.All in all, not bad, good for a few laughs, while the ending kinda sucked, not an overly bad film, unlike Mr. Nanny, remember that?
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy stupid comedies as much as the next guy, but watching David Arquette acting more like a baboon than on his telephone commercials is not my idea of a fun time.
This was supposed to make wrestling look good, but in my opinion it does the complete opposite, packed with child-like humour which could be bettered by anyone with half a brain, and makes you believe that all fans think wrestling is real, which we all know it isn't it should be seen as a entertainment not as a sport.
This movie was actually pretty funny I loved how it was all set around the wrestling business which was at its highest around the time this movie came out I love the scenes with David Arquette and the guy at the shop when it turns into a full out tag team match the movie all around had its best moments and not so good moments like the drive thru scene with Arquette messing with the girl Shawn likes it was a good scene but it didn't really go with the story and one scene that was just terrible and made you go WTF was when Ellen Albertini Dow was in a tight leather suit need I remind you she was 81 so that kind of made me go WTF but I as a wrestling fan I love the film and it also has received a cult following since it came out so if you have not seen it yet and you are a wrestling fan I suggest you see it but if your not a wrestling fan and think wrestling is stupid then I don't suggest it..
Its just a shame then never sold it on DVD in the UK.All in all a great feel good movie, especially if your a wrestling fan, with lots of laughs all the way through this movie is thoroughly underrated as a comedy.
Following the two main characters, people with nothing much in their life besides being wrestling fans, on a quest to help their hero regain his status as numero uno, is really great fun.
I don't know what another reviewer of this movie was thinking when he/she wrote that it was a "parody" of wrestling fans, because it's not that at all.
It will not keep overzealous critics from bashing the profession out of spite or keep so-called "experts" from overanalyzing it because for them it is not a conventional form of entertainment."Ready To Rumble" involves two obsessed wrestling fans by the names of Gordie & Sean who thinks that EVERYTHING in pro wrestling, including the choreographed violence and storylines, are REAL!
The in-ring action is the most suspicious aspect, as it involves the use of incredibly fake & unrealistic moves such as the "four corner ringpost attack"  which the movie claims to be the most devastating move in the business, but is hardly seen in a real wrestling event, if at all, and Diamond Dallas Page surviving a 40 foot fall from the the top of a three-story steel cage onto the mat.
The crowd reactions are also fake, as even the most gullible fans will not believe that this could happen even for a split-second.The movie also includes a few terrible jokes that probably have nothing to do with the plot, except maybe to get few a cheap and meaningless laughs.
Some of the jokes include David Arquette stick A FINGER UP HIS BUTT (don't ask me why;  see it for yourself), and a few nuns who begin to share Gordie and Sean's love of rock music for some reason (What that reason is, I don't know;  I couldn't find any).All of this spoils what could have been a good movie, because it had a very promising storyline.
In the film, Jimmy King is screwed out of the WCW championship without warning by his promoter Titus Sinclair, in a match that takes an unscripted turn.
What results is an ending that is completely laughable and will make most viewers think how anyone could embrace these two "heroes".In summary, what irritates me so much about this movie is that it does nothing to represent pro wrestling in a realistic manner, even for a comedy like "Ready To Rumble".
Besides, if you were a fan of something you liked and you saw a movie about it that did not look very realistic, wouldn't you be mad too?I guess if you're looking for some enjoyment out of this film, I recommend you should watch it with a different mindset.
I do not remember laughing once.I'm actually a big fan of professional wrestling, but I still should have known better than to try to watch this.
WCW was at its lowest point (well, almost...a month or so later, David Arquette won the World Championship) and it featured Oliver Platt as a wrestler.This movie is worse than the lamest episode of Nitro.
The film itself is too stupid and insulting for real wrestling fans to like.
But I'll be angry at this film forever more until someone puts out a wrestling movie that doesn't just exist to get a cheap buck of the fans.
The obnoxious David Arquette has one of the leading roles in this annoying stink-pile, he plays a guy walks around and do dumb things and say things that are even dumber and a horribly miscast Oliver Platt walks around and mumbles lines like he's got multiple concussions.
Newer rival stars like the WWE's The Rock and Steve Austin were getting offers for movies and television so WCW management at the time decided it was time to shoot a film.
I don't know what the writers and producers of this film were thinking of when they pictured a pro wrestling fan.
It might sound like I'm just getting ready to absolutely slate this movie, but I'm not, don't get me wrong this film wasn't great but it wasn't a painful watch either.
I'll leave the plot summary there as to not give anything else away.What I found the funniest about this movie is that these two guys truly believe everything in wrestling is real and dream about jumping in the ring to help their hero, just as I did when I was about eight years old.
And have you noticed the wrestling fans who find this movie makes them look like idiots?
It's a story about two biggest fans Gordie and Sean went all the way to help their Idol Jimmy King to pull himself together after his major defeat.I have to say that David Arquette is one of the best comedian in the decade, great facial expression and really "into" his character for this craziness toward wrestling.
I can still hear him yelling, "Wrestling is not faaake!!".However, for the other crazy fans, Sean Dawkins, his character is pretty inconsistent and horribly dull, I kept asking myself,"is he really supposed to be in this movie?" he seemed either totally out of place or just a companion of Gordie.
I also like the character of Jimmy King and the fact that the movie shows us that just because someone may be a hero in wrestling, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're not a bum in real life.
He gets help from his two biggest fans, Gordie and Sean (David Arquette, Scott Caan), who are slightly higher on the Dimwit Scale than Bill and Ted and the guys from "Dumb and Dumber." King's motto is, "This is America.
Wrestling fans will appreciate the many appearances by real ring personalities like Bill Goldberg, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Diamond Dallas Page, Chris Kanyon, Sting, announcer "Mean" Gene Okerlund, sex-kittens the Nitro Girls, and that guy who always yells, "Let's get rrrrready to rrrrrumbllllllllllllll!!!!" Movie fans will spot cameos by Caroline Rhea and Ahmet Zappa.
In one hilarious scene, the filmmakers pay homage to (or rip-off) "Sister Act" with some nuns who start out singing "Kum Ba Ya" and "Michael, Row The Boat Ashore" but really get down and shake their disco habits to "Running With The Devil" by Van Halen.Joe Pantaliano gives a veteran's showcase as the long-haired cowboy Titus Sinclair, a wrestling manager who took Jimmy King to the top and then pulled the mat out from under him.
I recommend this film for anyone feeling depressed, because it will bring the laughter out of you and it will give you chills to know that someone could make such a funny movie like "Ready to Rumble".
There's plenty of laughs, a great cast that includes Martin Landau, Rose McGowan, Goldberg, Sting, and Oliver Stone, and a very entertaining title match at the end that should impress people who don't like wrestling.
The plot has two dimwit wrestling fans (David Arquette and Scott Caan) who want to help and save a washed out wrestler (Oliver Platt who is somewhat miscast here) but don't realize that the guy quit for more reasons than a disgruntled boss (Joe Pantoliano).
However, the reliance on the gangster genre reveals the distinct lack of a defined wrasslin' genre, which, I think, deserves definition.Excluding documentaries, I haven't seen good professional wrestling cinema to date, but, any film that has Martin Landau in a hot tub with girls is worth at least one look.
The story is about Jimmy King, a professional wrestler for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) whose loses a match and is fired.
Sure it's idiotic, but the longer I sat and watched and thought about how ridiculous the whole of it is, the funnier it became.Good or bad, there exists guys like this walking the streets, idolizing some staged "hero" and the goofy loud-mouthed antics that have come to fill stadium seats for "Saturday night 'Slapdowns'."  I cannot fathom how Vince Mcmahon made this happen, because honestly, I for one am not impressed nor very amused by it all.
While some critics will sit and wonder how a film like this got green-lighted, my thoughts are what were these people thinking of while making this movie?
RUMBLE has two dim-wits who are huge wrestling fans, Gordie Boggs (David Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Scott Caan).
Thier favorite wrestler is Jimmy King (Oliver Platt)the wrestling champion of the world.
I don't know why good actors like Oliver Platt, Joe Pantoliano, and Martin Landau would ever do a film like this.
It's like watching a Van Damme movie everyone knows that the kicks are fake, still we fill the theaters, same with wrestling this is sports entertainment a show the wrestlers put for us.
The movie shows two idiots that think that wrestling is real and the worst part is that the wrestlers think that is real also so you know how it will end, the good guys against the bad guys in a super wrestling match.
The cast includes David Arquette, Scott Caan, Oliver Platt, Rose McGowan, Diamond Dallas Page, Bill Goldberg, Sting (who is my all time favorite wrestler), Martin Landau and Joe Pantoliano.
Since this film only grossed high with wrestling fans, and since the WCW is no more, I don't it is physically possible to have a sequel, but dumber things have happened (like the making of this movie).
While you can make a good story with a pro wrestling story, namely Mickey Rourke's 2006 comeback film The Wrestler, this movie was like a typical late 1990's teen road trip comedy.
Two fans living in Wyoming, Gordie (Scream's David Arquette) and Sean (Entourage and Hawaii Five-O's Scott Caan) are the two biggest fans of WCW World Champion Jimmy King (Oliver Platt, who looked nothing like a pro wrestler even though he could pull off a couple spots).
Ready To Rumble features two life long wrestling fans, intent on restoring their favorite wrestler, The King (Oliver Platt), back to his former glory.
Don't watch if you aren't/weren't a wrestling (particularly WCW) fan.Ready To Rumble is a film which is unequalled in the Wrestling world today.
but to all those who watched WCW in its hey-day (1997-2001) you will love this.Its funny, even to non-wrestling fans, so rent it, if you don't want to buy it, but I bought it, and don't regret doing so!
I was a big wrestling fan when this movie came out, but I'm glad I didn't waste my money or time watching this in the theater.
True comedy right there.If the thought of Goldberg, DDP and VAN HAMMER on film gets you wrestling fans going, check it out...
Ready to Rumble is a funny and at the same time great film, that pokes fun of the wrestling world.
The story is simple two sanitation workers Gordie(David Arquette)and Sean (Scott Caan)are die hard WCW wrestling fans.
Who enjoy there hero Jimmy King(Oliver Platt), but when they attend Monday Nitro and there hero is double crossed by the evil promoter Sinclair and DDP(Diamond Dallas Page)they decide to help there fallen hero and help him regain his confidence.This film is excellent, but only if you enjoy wrestling and now with WCW gone forever and owned by WWE owner Vince Mcmahon it is great to see WCW in its top form.Other WCW wrestlers appear as there wrestling egos such as Bill Goldberg, Perry Saturn, Sid Vicious and of course the Nitro Girls.
normally i wouldn't watch this because of how stupid wrestling films like no holds barred was...
Ready To Rumble (2000): Two wrestling fans, Sean and Gordie (Scott Caan and David Arquette) try to help their favorite grappler, Jimmy King (Oliver Platt), regain his former glory.
The talents of Rose McGowan and Caroline Rhea are criminally wasted, Martin Landau mutters incomprehensibly about his genitalia in a hospital bed, and the wrestlers succeed at making asses of themselves here just as they do in the ring on a nightly basis, especially Bill Goldberg, who has a better chance of selling refrigerators in Siberia than making a halfway decent movie in his lifetime, instead of garbage like "The Jesse Ventura Story" and "Universal Soldier: The Return." The backstage politics displayed here are so close to the real thing that ultimately killed my love of wrestling (where do you think my nickname came from?), and I don't miss it one bit.
Ready To Rumble was great Wrestling movie.
I thought Ready To Rumble was a good wrestling movie.
READY TO RUMBLE (2000) * David Arquette, Scott Caan, Oliver Platt, Rose McGowan, Joe Pantoliano, Martin Landau, Jill Ritchie, Bill Goldberg, Diamond Dallas Page, Caroline Rhea.
This movie is not for people who think wrestling is real, but rather for people who know it is fake but like it anyway.
This film centers around WCW World Championship Wrestling as two die hard Wrestling fans Gordie played by David Arquette and Sean played by Scott Caan who attend WCW Nitro to watch their hero Jimmy King played by Oliver Platt as he defends the WCW World Championship against Diamond Dallas Page however Titus Sinclair Played by Joe Pantoliano has other plans.After watching their hero being defeated they begin a quest to help Jimmy King regain what he had lost.
So desperate that they decided to make a movie about it.Ready to Rumble is about two dim-witted septic workers, Gordie Boggs and Sean Dawkins (Arquette, Caan) who are hardcore wrestling fans who worship World Champion, Jimmy King (Platt).
We all know that pro-wrestling is fake, but Ready to Rumble treats it like a legitimate sport.
Oliver Platt (he so doesn't look like a wrestler) plays a wrestler called Jimmy King and he's basically a spoiled wrestler who shows up late and thinks he's God's gift to wrestling.
Ready to Rumble (2000): Dir: Brian Robbins / Cast: David Arquette, Scott Caan, Oliver Platt, Rose McGowan, Joe Pantoliano: Pathetic bag of trash done like a half wit school,boy report.
David Arquette and Scott Caan play wrestling fanatics who worship Jimmy King.
This movie made for pro-wrestling fans was pretty mediocre at best.
They act like watching wrestling was the lowest thing ever by having two of the most idiotic protagonists in sewage workers fanboys Gordie Boggs (David Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Scott Caan) whom trying to recaptured their favorite wrestler's spotlight by having Jimmy King (Oliver Platt) go after the championship belt after he been screw out of the championship by the promoter Titus Sinclair (Joe Pantoliano) and wrestler Diamond Dallas Page (playing himself).
It's actually a pretty original idea.You don't have to be a wrestling fan to like this movie (I'm not).
Not only did this movie have comedy, but it had many wrestler appearances!Storyline: Two sewage workers, Gordie and Sean, go to an episode of WCW Nitro to see their wrestling hero, Jimmy King, wrestle Diamond Dallas Page in a world title match.