Here Comes the Boom
(2012)Country | |
Runtime | 1 hr 45 min |
Budget | $42 000 000 |
Premiere: World | $73 100 172 October 10, 2012 |
USA | $45 290 318 |
Other countries | $27 809 854 |
Box Office – Budget | $31 100 172 |
Premiere: USA | $45 290 318 October 12, 2012 |
first day | $3 596 217 |
theaters | 3014 |
rollout | 446 days |
Digital: World | February 1, 2013 |
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A high-school biology teacher looks to become a successful mixed martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to prevent extracurricular activities from being axed at his cash-strapped school.Сast and Crew
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Critique: 19
"Here Comes the Boom" is all banality, though it delivers some goodwill even as it pulls a muscle trying to get its premise going.
The film would have the same audience that came to see James get elbowed in the face also get weepy over disadvantaged schoolchildren.
The film works hard at its inoffensiveness. Throughout, jokes are left on the table, setups never pay off in any significant way.
Cage fighting is not inherently funny. In fact, it’s the opposite of funny, something like cock fighting only with people, and this presents...
'Here Comes the Boom' is enjoyable – or, at the very least, not torture like 'Grown Ups' …
Here Comes the Boom telegraphs every punch in its arsenal, but when the comedy connects, it can deliver with funny force.
Couldn’t Kevin have raised the money by selling hard drugs or trafficking underage women? The closing scenes would, under those circumstances...
For a film dedicated to time-tested formula and clumsily cross-pollinating Rocky and Mr. Holland’s Opus, Here Comes The Boom is hilariou...
Here Comes the Boom will probably connect like a haymaker with most of its intended audience. The leads are likeable, and the plot, though bey...
James creates a witty, confident everyman in the first act, only to sacrifice him to the pic’s demands for formula and sentimentality th...
As a comedy, Frank Coraci’s film aims low and manages to miss the mark entirely.
It delivers exactly what’s expected from a flabby mishmash of high school inspirational tale and Mixed Martial Arts fighting exhibitioni...
It’s nice that the hero goes to the mat for what he believes in. But he’s not the only thing that comes down with a thud.
It’s not offensive so much as it is dumb, although the emphasis on bone-cracking violence to solve your social-welfare problems sends, at bes...
"Here Comes the Boom'' is low on raunch but even lower on laughs. It also looks like half the lighting crew failed to show up.
Every now and again a film comes along that could play as a parody of itself with minimal alteration, and 90 per cent of them seem t...
The Wedding Singer’s Frank Coraci retains an endearing fondness for funny-faced bit-parts, but it’s fundamentally formulaic in construc...
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