BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

BobbyUK Here are the matches...Tatanka vs Shawn Michaels – Intercontinental title match: Decent chain-wrestling and use of side headlock to start with as Shawn gains control. Plenty of reversals and Irish-whip sequences here and Shawn scores with nice moves like a sunset-flip off the top rope and modified victory rolls. Tatanka's offence is more straight-forward with chops and axe-handles but very good with his reversals. Shawn removes the ref from the ring for no good reason and gets caught in Tatanka's fall-away slam. The ref gets back in the ring and declares the match a count-out victory for Tatanka when it probably made sense to give him a disqualification victory or just let Tatanka get the clean pin to make him look legitimate. 6/10 Steiner Brothers vs Headshrinkers: A tough match as Scott gets beaten up after getting dropped through the ropes from what appears to be a botched hotshot and Afa's interference by smacking a kendo-cane across his back. The Headshrinker's ability to withstand huge amounts of pain from their heads was consistently on display and The Steiner's power was evident throughout. Scott ends the match with a sick-looking Frankinsteiner. A typical WWF Steiner match. 5/10Crush vs Doink: Crush dominates to start with a neck-breaker and a convincing foot rake across Doink's eyes. Doink comes back with axe-handles, an old-school pile-driver and a dropkick off the top to get Crush reeling. Crush recovers with a military press and goes for his Cranium Crusher. Doink knocks out the ref trying to escape it. Double Doink comes from under the ring and attacks Crush with an arm cast. The two Doinks look at each other and complete a convincing reflection sequence. The match was not that bad but notorious for it's debate on gimmick wrestling. 3/10 Bob Backlund vs Razor Ramon: This single-handedly buried Bob Backlund, the face, who jumps around like a lame rabbit. Backlund makes a meal of his match before Razor, out of nowhere, snares Backlund in a cradle. Backlund the 'wrestler's wrestler' is defeated legitimately by a heel and wouldn't be seen on PPV again for the rest of the year. 3/10 Megamaniacs vs Money Inc – Tag title match: Everybody notices Hogan's damaged eye and the 'official' line is Money Inc beat Hogan up. Money Inc beat-down on Brutus after Megamaniacs clear the ring and decent psychology rules in the early going with reasonable old-school formula tag wrestling. Ted eventually removes the protective mask from Brutus's face (worn because of his paragliding accident). Later on the ref gets clobbered while Brutus attempts the sleeper-hold on Ted, allowing Brutus to smack Money Inc with his mask and Hogan to drop the leg on Ted. However, the ref is still down so Jimmy Hart turns his coat inside out to conveniently show black and white stripes and counts the pinfall. Megamaniacs think they have won but another official comes out('Dangerous' Danny Davis the official used to wrestle in 1987-1988) and award the disqualification to Money Inc. This loss meant little to Hogan as all will soon be revealed...4/10Mr Perfect vs 'Narcissist' Lex Luger: Both men chain-wrestle to start, Perfect works on Luger's legs and Luger works on Perfect's back (good continuity knowing Perfect already had a bad back from Summerslam 1991). Perfect comes back with a sunset-flip, backdrop, slingshot and a few near fall attempts. The end comes when the ref, who spotted feet on the ropes all through the match, counts an illegitimate landslide. Luger then smacks Perfect over the head with his 'loaded forearm' (metal inside his arm as a result of a motorcycle accident). The match lacked cohesion and chemistry and left me disappointed. 5/10 Undertaker (with Paul Bearer) vs Giant Gonzalas (with Harvey Wippleman): The late Gonzalas was formerly El Gigante in WCW sporting a flesh body suit. Both men start by choking each other. Undertaker keeps getting up from Gonzalas offence which makes Wippleman throw in a chloroform napkin in the ring and puts Undertaker to sleep causing his disqualification. Undertaker gets stretchered out and then returns to the ring. Horrendous match with some unconvincingly selling. 2/10 Bret 'Hitman' Hart vs Yokozuna – World title match: Bret goes on the attack straight away, dropping the late Yokozuna and tying his feet in the ropes. Yokozuna hits a slam and the crowd mark out for his big leg-drop which gets a 2 count. The crowd chant 'USA' for Canadian born Bret. Yokozuna applies a nerve-hold. Bret comes back with a bulldog off the top rope for a 2 count and uses basic aerial moves. Bret mounts punches on Yokozuna while on turnbuckles and Yokozuna desperately pulls him away, Bret hangs on to the turnbuckle padding and it rips exposing the turnbuckle and Bret sends Yokozuna's head into it. By the ropes at this point, Bret applies the sharpshooter but Mr.Fuji throws salt in Hart's eyes allowing Yokozuna to get the cheap pin in one of the quickest main-events in Wrestlemania history. Hogan comes out and pretends to like Bret Hart. Fuji taunts Hogan and puts the belt on the line. Hogan after a short delay obliges and accepts the challenge. One big boot and leg-drop later and Hogan becomes the new WWF champion. Yokozuna held the belt for about 2 or 3 minutes! The crowd popped for Hogan's triumphant return and simultaneously sent a shock-wave of anger throughout the wrestling world, the argument being Hogan comes across as lazy after Bret does all the dirty work. 4/10 The location and pomp and circumstance at Wrestlemania 9 was great but the wrestling severely lacked Hulk Hogan at the end really irritated me. This Wrestlemania would be important for introducing Jim Ross to the announcer's team as Gorilla Monsoon steps down but would also, sadly but probably fitting through Hogan, be the start of the destruction of that wonderful 'magic act' known as wrestling.

Dinokid2 OK, you have got to admit it, wrestlemanias don't get more better than this one. There are superstars at their best, and major ones to, such as Bret 'The Hit Man' Hart, Crush, the Hulkster ( Hulk Hogan) and Yokozuna! There is also Doink the Clown, in fact TWO Doinks! Also, you can see Randy Savage squaring of against the Ultimate Warrior! WrestleMania holds spectacular battles and also an Undertaker and Jake 'the snake' Roberts. You can watch these battles in "The History of WrestleMania," a DVD which comes free in a smackdown vs. Raw game for the PS2. There's all kinds of matches at WrestleMania, but whatever you do, please, don't try this at home!

kevinc5680 To me, this was the beginning of the end for the WWF in the 1990's. I absolutely love wrestling, but a few more years of this and I was watching something else on my spare time. And that's exactly what happened. It's not a surprise the WCW finally caught up with the WWF after years of putting out these kind of matches. Luckily for Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels, there was some life left.Wrestlemania IX had some good matches, but to me some of the characters killed the mood. For instance, Shawn Michaels vs. Tatanka. Credit Tatanka cause he's a good wrestler. But I just couldn't get passed the Indian character and to me, it ruined a good match. Same with Crush vs. Doink the Clown. Doink as a villain was more tolerable than as a baby face, but coming off Wrestlemania VIII, I was hoping for a little bit more classic wrestling matches and not a real life cartoon. Now Lex Luger vs. Mr. Perfect was good. I did enjoy that match. The Mega Maniacs (Beefcake and Hogan) vs Money Inc (DiBiase and IRS) was good, simply because the spotlight wasn't completely on Hulk Hogan. Undertaker vs. Giant Gonzales was the birth of the Undertaker's typical match. Big guy with no skill comes and beats up the Undertaker. Undertaker recovers and challenges/stalks the big guy. Big guy fights at PPV and is never seen again. Until the late 1990's and after 2004, this would be exactly the storyline you got out of the Undertaker. The Undertaker is great, but like Hogan, I got tired of seeing the same type of match. But for the sake of the time, this was one of the first. The Steiner Brothers had a pretty good match with the Headshrinkers. But the biggest disappointment comes in the main event with Bret Hart vs. Yokozuna. When this "finale" happens, even at age 13, I was upset. Those two wrestlers had a pretty good match, only to be wasted by the end. I don't want to give anything away so I won't go into detail.Wrestlemania IX was okay, but I had a hard time being convinced of much when a clown or an Indian were the point of interest. Fortunately, it gets better years later.

unbend_5440 This was without a doubt the best Wrestlemania of it's time period. That period being the first half of the 90s. This is of course just my opinion. Being one of only 2 outdoor WWF events (and the only outdoor Wrestlemania) this one had a distinctive look that sets it apart from the others. It also had the smallest crowd of any Wrestlemania, since Caesers Palace doesn't seat many people. There is one big flaw here, though. The cheesy "Ancient Roman Times" theme. All the commentators were forced to dress in togas and enter the stadium riding on camels. WWF promoted the show as "The World's Biggest Toga Party", and hoped the fans would wear Togas too. That didn't happen of course. What fan would want to humiliate themself on live Pay Per View by wearing a bed sheet? Jim Ross and Bobby Heenan were the only fools dumb enough to do that.Getting past the cheesy theme, the rest of the show was fantastic. Tatanka and Shawn Michaels kicked off the show with an entertaining IC Title match that went almost 20 minutes. Lex Luger and Mr. Perfect were brilliantly matched opponents. Their match ended with Luger nailing Perfect with his Running Forearm, which WWF promoted as being an illegal weapon due to Luger's steel plate he had surgically implanted. Who else remembers that gimmick? Undertaker and Giant Gonzalez's match was a great show. It would have been entertaining even if they just stood there. Seeing the 6'10" Undertaker in the ring with the over-7 foot tall Gonzalez was a sight to see. Of course Bret Hart delivered an amazing math as always, against the challenger Yokozuna. It seems to be a forgotten fact that Yokozuna was the fastest rising World Champion ever. It took him only 5 months in the WWF to take the belt. Bret was an averagely sized 230 pound man, and Yokozuna was 500 pounds, which makes them an unlikely pairing. But both make the match work.Ultimately there is one reason above all else to rent Wrestlemania IX. That reason is DOINK THE CLOWN! A sadistic and violent evil clown. When I think professsional wrestling, sadistic and violent evil clown is what I think. Rent Wrestlemania IX and you get 2 Doinks for the price of one. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that's the highlight of Wrestlemania....... maybe I am alone in thinking that. Who cares. DOINK RULES!