The Worst Film Ever

Simply Perfect

Absolutely Brilliant!

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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.

-May Contain Spoilers- Firstly, this isn't a completely garbage movie, but it's not one that's good or even average either. it's just bad, but not very bad. First lets start with the main characters in the movie. they are Gordy and Shawn, they are two really big (and that's an understatement) WCW Wrestling fans (i bet they are sad that WCW isn't around anymore). Anyways, they are outside a quickie mart where Gordy daydreams about being a wrestler, which i won't hate on. After something disgusting that i won't spoil for good reasons, you meet Gordy's dad. Gordy's dad is a police officer, as is his mom and sister so it's a family business, and wants his son to also join up with them. Anyways, these two have tickets to see Monday Nitro where they are super excited to see their favorite wrestler, Oliver Platt! Oliver Platt (he so doesn't look like a wrestler) plays a wrestler called Jimmy King and he's basically a spoiled wrestler who shows up late and thinks he's God's gift to wrestling. honestly, i'm surprised they had this guy as a face, his moves don't look that good and his finisher isn't really that exciting, plus he's unbeaten for however long and his gimmick is royalty which usually is for a heel to play. his boss, Titus Sinclair, can't stand his "me first" ways, so he decides to do the Vince Montreal move and tells Goldberg to tell King that he's winning, but in the end screws him!! So basically this sends the two fans on a downward spiral emotionally and they decide to find him and help him get his title back. i won't spoil anymore of this movie, but if you enjoy watching oddballs going nuts and seeing lots of kicks to the groins, then this is your movie. i did enjoy how they made wrestling look fake, but only to shoot when told. i like the triple cage scene and i liked the wrestling scenes they did, but other than that, i fast forward a lot of the movie.

This movie was actually pretty funny I loved how it was all set around the wrestling business which was at its highest around the time this movie came out I love the scenes with David Arquette and the guy at the shop when it turns into a full out tag team match the movie all around had its best moments and not so good moments like the drive thru scene with Arquette messing with the girl Shawn likes it was a good scene but it didn't really go with the story and one scene that was just terrible and made you go WTF was when Ellen Albertini Dow was in a tight leather suit need I remind you she was 81 so that kind of made me go WTF but I as a wrestling fan I love the film and it also has received a cult following since it came out so if you have not seen it yet and you are a wrestling fan I suggest you see it but if your not a wrestling fan and think wrestling is stupid then I don't suggest it.

Folks, ya gotta stay away from these pretentious film-schoolcreeps when you read these IMDb comments. This movie is forthe kids inside all of us, especially if we're real kids under 16 orold kids over 55.It's packed with stars, old and young, and new hot bodies that aredefinitely worth casting your eyes upon. All the good guys win, asthey so certainly should, and all the bad guys lose, as they sorichly deserve. And the silliness quotient never diminishes fromthe first breathtaking battle royal in the stop-n-rob to the grandclimax.So see it if you want to and laugh it up like a real person and don'tfeel guilty about a thing. Yeah.