Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
23
(26 sources)
23
(26 sources)
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63
San Francisco Examiner
It's a truly strange coupling of mooning romanticism and rank stupidity that fairly screams, "Teenage America, we love your money!" Read Full Review » -
63
Boston Globe
Likable performances from its young cast and a better-than-average script add spark to this formulaic fairy tale and make the wrestling mania watchable. Read Full Review » -
60
TNT RoughCut
The B-movie is back, folks, but who knows how long the fun will last. Read Full Review » -
54
Mr. Showbiz
If you're expecting an experience approximately as dumb, badly acted, and childish as a pro wrestling match, you'll be pleasantly surprised. Read Full Review » -
50
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50
Chicago Sun-Times
The plot is easily summarized: "Dumb and Dumber Meet Dumbbell." Read Full Review » -
50
New York Post
Has its moments of interest, including two excruciating vocals by Arquette and Caan -- and a George Clinton score that contains a theme eerily similar to that of "American Beauty." Read Full Review » -
40
Austin Chronicle
I'm sorry. I laughed...There's something pleasurable about a comedy that has no pretensions about where it's coming from. Read Full Review » -
38
Charlotte Observer
Heavy on cheap, dirty humor (Gordie and Sean clean septic tanks for a living, a fact that is milked frequently for laughs), but it's never substantial enough to truly offend or delight. Read Full Review » -
33
Entertainment Weekly
It just makes you want to flip on the tube to see the real (fake) thing. Read Full Review » -
30
TV Guide
An extremely loud and simpleminded cross between TV's "WWF Smackdown!" and "Dumb and Dumber." Read Full Review » -
25
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25
Chicago Tribune
Will come off as insipid, unfunny and too serious at times for its own good. Read Full Review » -
25
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25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Stephen Brill's flat-footed script begins as an idiot comedy with the gross-out gags of a Farrelly brothers film. Read Full Review » -
25
New York Daily News
See it only if potty-training is still the most vivid life experience in your book of memories. Read Full Review » -
25
USA Today
Here's ringside entertainment for those who think TV wrestling is too intellectual and restrained. Read Full Review » -
20
LA Weekly
Even though Ready To Rumble isn't funny or good in any way, there's plenty of softcore gay porn (wrestling), loud music and women with large breasts. Read Full Review » -
20
Variety
Rates a notch below the KISS-centric "Detroit Rock City" and a couple above Jerry Springer's "Ringmaster" -- in other words, closer to stupid-fun than stupid-toxic. Read Full Review » -
20
Chicago Reader
This gross-out action comedy gets good mileage from its high-energy music and World Championship Wrestling characters, and leads David Arquette and Scott Caan are expertly pathetic. Read Full Review » -
10
The New York Times
Not a satire of the idiocy of professional wrestling, but a long, self-satisfied wallow in it. Read Full Review » -
10
Salon.com
Let's be real clear about this: You've got to be suffering from some major trash-culture brain damage to enjoy a movie like Ready to Rumble. Read Full Review » -
10
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10
Film.com
I would rather have been scraping gum off my shoe than sitting there another minute. Read Full Review » -
10
Los Angeles Times
A movie made for wrestling fans that makes fun of wrestling fans? That cuts a little too close to the vicarious masochism at the heart of pro wrestling's core constituency. Also, it's not funny. Read Full Review » -
0
Film.com
I just wanted to rail against the casual homophobia, the senseless violence and the sociopathic cruelty that Ready to Rumble treats as good clean fun. Read Full Review »
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