Ready to Rumble. The movie, which was based on the now defunct World Championship Wrestling, stars David Arquette, Scott Caan and Oliver Platt. The movie which was released in 2000 proved to be a box office bomb grossing only $12,394,327 in the U.S.
Now I'll tell you, when I was no more than knee-high to a grasshopper I actually attended and enjoyed watching wrestling matches. Since my youth, I have not felt any desire or need to watch wrestling in any shape or form. When I first saw the description for Ready to Rumble I just gave the movie a pass. Don't know how many times I did this. One day however there was absolutely nothing worth watching on tv except for Ready to Rumble so I decided to give it a look-see.
The movie is about 2 sewerage workers Gordie Boggs (Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Caan) who after watching their hero WCW World Champion wrestler Jimmy King (Platt) be dethroned (albeit underhandedly) are so distraught that they devise a plan to help him regain his title whether or not he wants to. It's at this point in the movie that a lot of the fun begins.
While this movie was most definitely not Academy Award material, (more suited to a Rasberry Award) as proved by the box office receipts, it was still a funny film. So the next time you're looking to be entertained why not watch Ready to Rumble.
