a5c7b9f00b A high school biology teacher looks to become a successful mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to prevent extra-curricular activities from being axed at his cash-strapped school. Admittedly, I fell for it. I actually had a great time during Here Comes the Boom. And all the way to the predictable sports ending.<br/><br/>This movie screams the stereotypical &quot;Based on/Inspired by/Is a&quot; true sports underdog story, but I looked it up. Yes! I did research. It&#39;s not. Sorry, spoiler.<br/><br/>But, I didn&#39;t look that up until after the movie was over. And that&#39;s too bad, because all the way through this, I was finding this very cliché, predictable and has an enormously weak premise if this happened in real life.<br/><br/>That all said, it&#39;s still a very cliché, predictable and has an enormously weak premise and even then I had a good time. The humor made me laugh out loud at moments, the heart was there and best of all, Kevin James ran around without a shirt on for a good sixth of the movie. Bonus!, but I understand irrelevant.<br/><br/>Terrible teacher, Scott (James,) with a minute, though growing, amount of a heart takes on the self-imposed task of raising $48,000 to save both his peer and music teacher&#39;s job and the entire school&#39;s music department. After a series of failed money attempts, Scott meets the right folks to align him with the cash from mixed-martial art fighting. Will Scott raise enough? Will he die trying since this is MMA and he&#39;s an overweight, out-of-shape, inexperienced, late-forties dude? Will he get the girl?<br/><br/>Seriously? I don&#39;t like spoiling major plot points, and I won&#39;t start here since you can draw your own conclusions. And yet AND YET <br/><br/>I still had a great time. I went along for the ride and in rare form for me and my reviews, I ditched the critic side. Perhaps it was because the characters had charisma, or because the comedy did make me laugh, or the energy from the cast and their respective fictional characters had me pumped. Maybe it was the Vegas shots I wasn&#39;t expecting. I dunno. I just had fun.<br/><br/>And that inevitable finale, with the funny homage to the movie this might be slightly imitating, had me sitting up and cheering. I even loved so much the following line by the Henry Winkler character I grew to love:<br/><br/>&quot;You&#39;ve already done it. To hell with my job. Look up there, look at those kids Let me tell you what you would see. You would see a bunch of our students witnessing complete resolve in the face of an unbearable obstacle. They are invested. Scott, they&#39;re inspired. That&#39;s what we&#39;re supposed to doteachers, right? Inspire. You can quit right now and everything that we&#39;ve worked will have been accomplished. You know, last night, Molie said to me on the phone that you thought I was your hero. You&#39;re mine.&quot; – Marty.<br/><br/>I know this movie, on the surface, may appear like cheese. And it&#39;s certainly one I would normally chew up and spit out But, on a rare occasion, they got to me and they won. I had fun and would recommend this movie. The King of Queens is at it again and he hit this one out of the park! Salma Hayek also put in a fun performancedid Henry Winkler. Kevin&#39;s real life brother offered up some of the funnier moments dealing with domestic realities. Every character in this film made me laugh until it hurt. This film is a sure crowd pleaserit has the Asians, Hispanics and the white crowd both old and young covered quite well. Most of the comedy is from the older actors in this film so I think the older crowd will appreciate this filmmuchteens will. At times you know you are watching a comedy. At other points you know there is good heart touching drama added in with a comedic touch. And then when the fighting kicks in you feel like you are watching a real fight. If you have a heart for music studies you will cheer these characters on! If you enjoy the UFC/MMA fighting then you&#39;ll have a blast watching Kevin James dive into this world and get/give a good whooping! A lot of the real players/announcers/refs from UFC are in this film adding to the feel of a real UFC match. It&#39;s a smart film in it&#39;s comedic moments. On the other hand,contrived and predictablemany elements in this story are, you will still find yourself cheering the players on and maybe even feel your eyes water due to feelings from either end of the emotional spectrum. I had given up on comedy films in recent yearsmost of them our just way too raunchy. But the PG rating on this film…I applaud all those behind this production. This movie works and it will make anyone laugh! Once it gets going and commits to its time-worn inspirational formula, it's not half-bad.
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