TownRootGuy Except that Platt kind of won me over in Lake Placid. So I tried it. I loathe pro-wrestling. Pro-wrestlers can be amazing athletes but come on. That crap is cotton candy for the brain and it will cause neural-decay. Having said that, this movie is a must see for lovers of the low-brow! It has crazy-hot eye candy, great action, a surprisingly awesome cast, AND it will crown your funny-bone. If you let it, this show will RULE you! This is definitely watchable every couple of years.

willhaskew This movie came along at a strange time pro wrestling. Pro wrestling had become the hottest thing on premium TV with the years leading up to the this movie's production being dubbed "The Monday Night Wars" due to WCW's Monday Nitro running straight up against WWE's Monday Night Raw. In late 1996, Hulk Hogan's morph into Hollywood Hogan made the company number 1 and Nitro beat regularly beat Raw for almost 2 years straight. It was also an incredibly profitable time for the Time Warner company. 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. It was released by spring 2000. It starred Scott Caan, David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Joe Pantoliano, "Diamond" Dallas Paige, and Rose McGowan. Sean (Scott Caan) and Gordie (David Arquette) run a sewage business in the town of Lusk, Wyoming. They're huge fans of WCW. They drive to Cheyenne to see a live Monday Nitro broadcast. Their favorite wrestler, WCW champion Jimmy King (Oliver Platt), has one too many backstage arguments with WCW President Titus Sinclair (Joe Pantoliano in a strange cowboy outfit). Sinclair decides that Paige is going over King in their title match that night. When they wrestle, Paige shoots on King and with help from some outside interference gets the win. Sean and Gordie are devastated by this and it puts them on a journey to find King and help resurrect his career. Along the way, they find out their hero is a drunken lout who ran out on his family. I don't know what the writers and producers of this film were thinking of when they pictured a pro wrestling fan. Kayfabe, wrestling fiction, has been a well-known part of that business for decades, even before Vince McMahon's admissions about the business in 1989. The Sean and Gordie characters are too stupid to know this or else live in denial. You even see the acknowledgment of kayfabe when Titus Sincalir is discussing the main event's finish with DDP in front of the other WCW wrestlers before taking DDP aside to change it. During the match scene, you can also see Paige and King calling spots to each other. The whole smile and wink backhanded approach to acknowledging kayfabe is a little insulting to pro wrestling fans and it seems that the writers think they are all man-boys living with their parents. I think they pictured these characters as innocent and enthusiastic, which Scott Caan plays well enough, but David Arquette may have been at his most obnoxious here as Gordie. He was a horrible casting choice. Joe Pantoliano was another odd choice, his clothing and wig were too much of a distraction. He would've been better playing it up as a New Jersey-born East Coast sleazeball in an expensive suit like Paul Heyman. Eric Bischoff could've easily played himself with his comic book villain grin as the evil boss. Rose McGowan is cast as a Nitro Girl named Sasha who takes a romantic interest in Gordie but she's just eye candy. Martin Landau has a memorable cameo as Sal Bandini, an old school wrestling trainer like Lou Thesz or Verne Gagne. DDP may actually have given the best performance playing the heel version of his pro wrestling character. It seems like this of version WCW lives in a fairy tale world where they have no worthy competition because no one ever breathes a word of the WWF/E. Another irony is that many of the promotion's biggest stars-Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner and star Ric Flair-don't appear in this. Aside from DDP, the only really big WCW stars to appear were Booker T and Sting in throwaway cameos. Maybe one of the strangest things ever done to promote a movie was having one of the stars start participating in wrestling matches. WWF/E had celebrities like Mr. T and Cyndi Lauper making appearances during the old Rock and Wrestling era but neither was actually booked to win a promotion's title belt. WCW booked David Arquette as their champion in an on screen feud, where he was seen aligning himself with DDP and Chris Kanyon against Jeff Jarrett and Eric Bischoff. It got even stranger from there, believe it or not, with Arquette defending the belt and then he turned HEEL on DDP. At the very least, though, Arquette was originally against wrestling in WCW as a promotional stunt and he gave all the money he made doing it to the families of Darren Drozdov and Brian Pillman.

Python Hyena 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. The title really should be asking viewers if they are ready. David Arquette and Scott Caan play wrestling fanatics who worship Jimmy King. They hunt for him after he is kicked out of wrestling. They were witnesses to his title loss to Diamond Dallas Page. They learn that King is not living in a palace but in a trailer park and he has a wife and son. He is given opportunity to regain his title in a steel cage fight, which turns into a dog show. Horrible directing by Brian Robbins who must have a knack for making stupid movies. While he can be credited favourably for Varsity Blues, this film is more of the numb-founded idiocy he was shovelling out with Good Burger. Arquette and Caan turn in embarrassing performances that blow out into a climax that further sinks this into oblivious stupidity. Oliver Platt as King provides the only hint of dignity. Rose McGowan delivers a cardboard performance and only seems presented for the possibility for sex scenes. Joe Pantoliano plays the CEO and more or less a back stabber who pushes the bout between King and Page. Theme exploits actions and attitudes of obsessive wrestling fans who will not likely demonstrate the same enthusiasm that is being taunted here. Score: 4 ½ / 10

Alex Eldridge 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.