Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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.

HawkHerald To understand how this movie's run synergized with the ultimate demise of WCW you have to understand some things about WCW. WCW was the no. 2 wrestling company for years, until they signed Hulk Hogan and booked him as a heel and leader of the NWO (New World Order). This angle went on for more than two years and allowed WCW to overtake the WWE as the no. 1 company and their Monday night wrestling program, Nitro, consistently beat WWE Raw in the ratings. By 1999, things had changed with the emergence of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Mick Foley and Triple H becoming WWE's biggest stars. During the Attitude Era, Steve Austin's feud with Vince McMahon carried the WWE back to the top brand and winning the weekly battle for Monday ratings. In 1999, pro wrestling had also enjoyed a mainstream popularity that it hadn't seen since the original Hulkamania and Rock and Wrestling days of the mid 1980's. WCW was trying to strike while the iron was hot and decided to make a film. While you can make a good story with a pro wrestling story, namely Mickey Rourke's 2006 comeback film The Wrestler, this movie was like a typical late 1990's teen road trip comedy. Two fans living in Wyoming, Gordie (Scream's David Arquette) and Sean (Entourage and Hawaii Five-O's Scott Caan) are the two biggest fans of WCW World Champion Jimmy King (Oliver Platt, who looked nothing like a pro wrestler even though he could pull off a couple spots). The night Gordie and Sean attend a live WCW Nitro in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on screen WCW President Titus Sincalir (Bad Boys and The Matrix's Joe Pantolaino in weird cowboy garb with a wig that featured pig tail braids and a Stetson) has a backstage falling out with King and plots with Diamond Dallas Paige (as himself) to create a swerve so DDP can become champ. During the match, a Sinclair gives DDP the nod and King loses the belt to Paige. As a secondary result, Sinclair forces him out of WCW. Gordie and Sean are devastated and take it upon themselves to find their hero and help become the champ again. After an extended road trip, where along they find out their hero is a broke, selfish and non-child supporting paying loser, they eventually locate King and convince to try and make a comeback. They sneak onto a Nitro broadcast, where King ambushes Paige but Sinclair interferes and books a rematch for PPV. Cue another montage of training along with Gordie and Sean helping to audition small town weirdos to help Jimmy King a form wrestling "posse" to watch his back leading to the rematch. The movie, while childishly stupid in its humor attempts and an overall inferior product, also takes a very dim view of pro wrestling fans in general, portraying Gordie and Sean as two idiots who were generally unaware of wrestling's scripted match finishes and kayfabe, basically wrestling fiction. This is besides the fact that WCW actually had David Arquette starting to participate in wrestling matches with DDP and Kris Kanyon as his partners. He even defended the title against UFC veteran David "Tank" Abbott. They used the WCW World Title as a promotional tool, having Arquette in a bizarre tag match where he pinned WCW President Eric Bischoff. In one of the worst heel turns and promos of all time, he reveals he was actually part of Hulk Hogan's group the whole time after helping Hogan win the title back. Needless to say, the movie flopped and WCW lost $62 million in 1999. Vince McMahon bought the company for song in early 2001 and the Monday Night Wars ended with a whimper.

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

angel_eyes358 As I am I die hard wrestling fan (so are my siblings), we decided to bring a couple of dvds with us on our trip, one of them were obviously Ready to Rumble. Honestly, since the first time to the most recent time I have watched this movie has been my favorite movie ever, I could watch it a million times and never get tired of it. This movies has action, romance and stupid humour which makes an all around good movie. True wrestling fans will love it especially since the two main characters mainly Dave A. are huge fans of the business and makes it even more interesting. I think the the DVD could have had more special features, deleted scenes but they did show bloopers at the end of the movie. They have a commentary version and I have watched that and enjoyed that also because they tell you information that you wouldn't have known otherwise and they all are hilarious. AMAZING, BEST MOVIE EVER....I WISH THEY MAKE A SECOND ONE WITH THE WWE, IT WOULD BE AWESOME. I wish I could request a ready to rumble 2....it would be awesome. IT IS AND WILL ALWAYS B MY FAV MOVIE!