Must See Movie...

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

A Major Disappointment

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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.

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!

For any wrestling fan, this is the wrestlemania to forget. No logic to the matches, some garbage gimmicks (doink the clown, and the Giant Gonzalez) this was a forgettable PPV something rare for the WWE(F). The logic of Hogan winning the world title at the end made no sense, and many people feel that alone help put the nail in the PPV. From the meaningless gimmicks of the roman soldiers, to simply some real bad wrestling (doink vs Crush being the worst match) to simply bad match making (Scott "Razor Ramon vs Bob Backlund, how can you have one of the greatest mat wrestlers, making a comeback, and working his first wrestlemania, face a power wrestler who was undefeated at the time), this is a PPV that even the WWE has since admitted, was way below what the expected. just all around a stinker

The worst Wrestlemania ever.This had no must see bouts and many crap ones at that. This took place in Las Vegas and WWE made it's employees dress up like Egyptian gods! They even changed Howard Finkels name to Finkus Maximus, which probably doesn't mean anything. The sight of seeing Jim Ross in that terrible gown still gives me nightmares to this day and I'm 21 years old, so you could imagine it when I was 7 years old! Bobby Heenan was funny though.Matches included The Undertaker vs Giant Gonzales in a p*ss poor match, The Headshrinkers vs The Steiner Brothers in a useless match, Doink vs Crush in a comedy match and a boring match featuring Razor Ramon vs Bob Backlund. Hulk Hogan teamed up with Brutus Beefcake to battle Money Inc. You could clearly see Hogan had a black eye. In storyline purposes Ted DiBiase and IRS beat up Hogan while he was playing poker or something like that in the casinos, which is a poor storyline, but in reality, Macho Man Randy Savage hit Hogan because Savage thinks he's like The Hulk (no pun intended) no not the wrestler but the film character.The main event consisted of Bret 'Hitman' Hart facing off against Yokozuna in a very boring main event match. Mr Fuji threw salt in the face of Hart and Yoko won, but not until Hogan came down and squashed Yoko in 21 seconds.Overall Grade - E