Here Comes the Boom
2012
Sports Comedy
A high school biology teacher tries to raise funds for a school by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter and in his quest, he attempts to win the heart of Bella, the school nurse he has a crush on.
An MMA promotion, starring then- latest in the long line of TV actors turned movie stars, Kevin James, unfortunately, Here Comes the Boom fails to hit the mark as this sports comedy wallows in an insipid and forgettable story and plot, which while on paper, sounds promising, the execution isn't that entertaining, with weak humour. This film would have been more interesting had it been released in the late 1990s or early 2000s with a mid-late 1990s or early 2000s style of comedy. Produced by Adam Sandler, it has his brand of juvenile humour and comedic tone, which was a thing in the 2000s into the early 2010s interweaved into Warrior and Never Back Down.
Kevin James' and Adam Sandler movies make them the male equivalents of Melissa McCarthy, and with Here comes the boom it is a by-the-numbers, formulaic Sandler project that doesn't challenge himself or the audience. And it is stale too, both in the story and dumb humour. Hardly the side-splitting farce one would predict in a comedy. I stopped after an hr.
Is It Worth Watching?
For Sandler and Kevin James fanatics only
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