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.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

This was a superb show with some great matches, a real WrestleMania atmosphere, and plenty of surprises as well.Belfast Brawl: JBL vs. Finlay - This was an okay match. It was pretty much everything you'd expect from these guys. JBL wins with a Clothesline from Hell. RATING: **2/3Money In The Bank Ladder Match: CM Punk vs. Chris Jericho vs. Shelton Benjamin vs. MVP vs. Carlito vs. John Morrison vs. Mr. Kennedy - This is probably the second best MITB match after the original, in my opinion. The spots are as fun and exciting as ever, with the highlight being John Morrison's Moonsault. CM Punk wins the briefcase. RATING: ****Battle for Brand Supremacy Match: Batista (Smackdown) vs. Umaga (Raw) - Another boring big man match. Yawn. Batista wins. RATING: *3/4ECW Championship Match: Chavo Guerrero (c) vs. Kane - An 8 minute squash match with Kane winning the Championship. RATING: N/ACareer Threatening Match: Ric Flair vs. Shawn Michaels - This is an excellent match, but I do find it overrated. This was a great technical match with plenty of emotion, but I don't think it was the match of the year or even match of the night. It's mostly about the occasion. Shawn Michaels puts Flair away with a Superkick, ending one of the greatest wrestling careers of all time. RATING: ****Triple Threat Match for the WWE Championship: Randy Orton (c) vs. John Cena vs. Triple H - It didn't go quite as long as some would have liked, but this was still a very good match. They pretty much kept the action going the entire time and the double cross-body was memorable. The ending was also a surprise at the time. Randy Orton retains his Championship. RATING: ***3/4No Disqualification Match: The Big Show vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. - The entertainment spectacle of the night, fun to watch while it lasted. Floyd Mayweather wins. RATING: ***World Heavyweight Championship Match: Edge (c) vs. The Undertaker - In my opinion, this was the match of the night and the best WM main event since the WM 20 triple threat. Edge really proved to be a true main eventer in a clinic against the Undertaker where he pushed the dead man to his limits. One of both men's best for sure. The Undertaker wins the Championship and keeps his streak intact with the Hell's Gate. RATING: ****1/2This is on par with WM 21. One of the better Wrestlemanias for sure and a great show overall that wrestling fans must see.RATING: A-

Wrestlemania 24 was entitled the Biggest Wrestlemania Under the Sun, mainly because of the location. The event was held in sunny Orlando, Florida in the Citrus Bowl. A very great event for WWE, it isn't as bad as they all say.WWE.com Match: 24 Man Interpromotional Battle Royal for an ECW Championship Match against Chavo Guerrero later in the night - This was a great chance to give the unrecognized WWE talent a chance to shine at the biggest event of the year. The match was dominated by the larger wrestlers and the more experienced wrestlers. In the end Kane eliminates Mark Henry to earn an ECW Title shot against Chavo Guerrero later on during Wrestlemania.Match 1: Finlay vs JBL in a Belfast Brawl - A great opening match. JBL plays the ultimate heel in this feud. He taunts Hornswoggle throughout the match and even throws weapons at him. Finlay is out for blood and revenge and takes the fight to JBL with chairs, trash cans, trash can lids, etc. They go all out and this was honestly a fantastic opener. JBL is able to grab the unexpected win in the end after catching Finlay with a clothesline from hell.Match 2: John Morrison vs CM Punk vs Mr. Kennedy vs Shelton Benjamin vs MVP vs Carlito vs Chris Jericho in the Money in the Bank Ladder match - This was a huge transition for ECW. Last year only one competitor (CM Punk) represented ECW in this featured Wrestlemania match, but this year ECW had a grand total of three men involved. This was an absolute crowd pleaser kind of match. John Morrison really shined in his first Money in the Bank performance. He really did some great stuff to make this match watchable. In the end CM Punk is able to fight off Jericho to grab the case. Punk is definitely deserving of this.Match 3: Batista vs Umaga in a Battle for Brand Supremacy - This is a point in Batista's career in which he shouldn't be losing. Umaga can afford a loss at this point in his career for example. Batista comes out all hyped for it being Wrestlemania, but as soon as the match begins he gets destroyed by Umaga. Umaga dominates this whole match and doesn't even give Batista a chance. After all the abuse Batista gets all riled up and nails Umaga with a Batista Bomb for the win. Lousy match that made Batista look bad.Match 4: Chavo Guerrero (c) vs Kane for the ECW Championship - This was the first time the ECW Title was ever defended at Wrestlemania. Chavo Guerrero makes a very long entrance and as soon as Kane's music hits were all waiting for him to make his entrance, but he isn't there. Then all of a sudden he comes up from behind Chavo, hits a chokeslam and scores the win. Kane is the new ECW Champion after only an 8 second match.Match 5: Shawn Michaels vs Ric Flair in a Career Threatening Match - Match of the night for sure. Michaels put on another stellar Wrestlemania performance, as well as Flair. This was Ric Flair's last match and he delivered a great performance. This was better than his Career Threatening matches with MVP and Mr. Kennedy in the past. Michaels really brought the best out of Flair and even though fans were upset to see Flair go they were glad to see them both deliver a 10/10 match. Worth the price of the whole pay per view. Match of the night.Match 6: Beth Phoenix & Melina vs Ashley & Maria in the Playbody Bunny Mania match - This was just a time filler to let people calm down after Flair vs Michaels and to lure them into the great main events to follow. Not much fantastic wrestling from these women, but they were hot to look at. Phoenix & Melina are able to get the win. Snoop Dogg in the end nails Santino for getting in his face.Match 7: Randy Orton (c) vs John Cena vs Triple H in a Triple Threat match for the WWE Championship - Not as great as it could have been. This was the flagship show's match for the flagship title. Orton really shined in this one, hitting double manuevers on Cena and Triple H. We all really think Triple H is destined to regain the title, but he ends up getting robbed when Orton punts him in the head and covers the prone Cena to retain his title. Shocker of the night.Match 8: Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Big Show - This match had the most publicity behind it for this particular Wrestlemania. We see Mayweather tote around as some huge deal, but Big Show really manhandles him throughout this whole match. Mayweather needs every single one of his handlers and his manager to help him in this one. It really made him look weak. In the end he takes out some brass knuckles and knocks Big Show out for the win. The crowd really wanted Big Show to win and I really did as well.Match 9: Edge (c) vs Undertaker for the World Heavyweight Championship - Nobody saw this coming as the main event, because Undertaker didn't win the 2008 Royal Rumble. This was a great main event that truly culminated the whole night just into one match. Edge trys to have everyone help him keep his title, but Undertaker in an unreal state takes them all on. Edge looks like he is about to end the streak on several occasions, but we all know that Undertaker's streak will never die. In the end Undertaker snatches on his Gogoplata submission to make the Rated R Superstar submit. Undertaker is World Heavyweight Champion again.

Overall, this is a pretty standard and quite respectable Wrestlemania DVD package. However, I have a warning to any WWE fans who are contemplating springing for the rather expensive deluxe 3-disc collector's edition of Wrestlemania 24. One of the reasons I purchased the 3-disc edition was to own the unforgettable 2008 WWE Hall of Fame Ceremony. Be forewarned though that the ceremony is truncated. In the original broadcast of the Hall of Fame Ceremony, before presenting any awards, the Rock made all kinds of clever and light-hearted comments. These included self-deprecating remarks about his own involvement in the "Doom" box office debacle, sarcastic words about Santino Marella and a jab at John Cena and his work in the WWE film "The Marine". Sadly, this lively and entertaining banter has all been removed from the DVD version of the Hall of Fame ceremony. The most disturbing part is that this was obviously a conscious decision by the WWE to save money. I felt robbed, since it was one of the main reasons I bought the collection. I am sure that other WWE fans will clearly feel the same. If they don't, they should. This is unfortunately, a reminder of all that is wrong about the WWE today.

A Fantastic Wrestlemania!!!!! JBL vs Finlay(Belfast Brawl) A great way to kick the show off!! Some nice damage was dished out on both sides. JBL fought more like he did in his APA days(and thats a good thing). Finlay took most of the punishment but he looked good doing it. THANKFULLY, Hornswaggle did not screw up the match. Both of these men are worthy of World Title gold IMO. 8/10 Money in the Bank Match(Morrison vs Benjamin vs CM Punk vs Carlito vs MVP vs Jericho vs Kennedy) This M.I.B was a lot better than last years. Though Jeff Hardy was not present, these men really tore the house down. All 7 wrestlers really put out, but Morrison and Benjamin were the true stars of this match. Morrison does a moonsault to the outside while holding a ladder and Benjamin was his usual superbly athletic self(he also took one of the ugliest falls ever seen at Wrestlemania). If WWE knows whats good for them they should focus a lot of attention on these 7 men who are undoubtedly the future of this business. 10/10 Batista vs Umaga(Inter-promotional match) This match was pretty solid. Not excellent, but it also was nowhere near terrible. It could have been a little longer, and a few weapons might have benefited the match more. Batista evidently strains his back power bombing the 300 pound Umaga. 7/10 Kane vs Chavo Guerrero(ECW Title) I can't say this match was bad because there was no match!!!!!!!!! Kane chokeslammed Guerrero and won!!It was probably cut short due to time. Guerrero and Kane deserve better though. --/10 Shawn Michaels vs Ric Flair(Retirement match) HBK was supposed to give Ric Flair the greatest match of his career, and in my opinion this was. Both men worked well together(which HBK can do with anybody) and they both received and dished out a lot of punishment. The first and last "Sweet Chin Music"'s were pretty ugly on the 59 year old Flair. HBK darn near tore himself in half when he missed the moonsault on the table and hits mainly floor when Flair was late to receive HBK from a diving moonsault from the turnbuckle to the outside. Great match!! 9.5/10 Beth Phoenix & Melina vs Ashley & Maria (BunnyMania Lumberjill Match) This was the only terrible match in this years Wrestlemania. A huge waste of time. This is the match that should have been cut short. Nothing great or superb happened. Just the exploitation of the Divas which I'm really getting sick of. Oh, and I forgot, Snoop Dogg was pointlessly in this match. 5/10 John Cena vs HHH vs Randy Orton(WWE Title match) Now I honestly must say, I had my doubts about this one at first. But these 3 men worked pretty well together!!! Cena and Orton actually out shined the veteran HHH who still performed pretty well. The match could have been a tad bit longer but it definitely gets you on your feet. Great entrance by Cena(who I must say is actually getting a little better). 9/10 Floyd Mayweather vs Big Show/ I thought this was going to be yet another pointless celebrity showing. But this was a very good match and Mayweather gets my respect for taking a lot of punishment. The crowd was really into this match!! Great work by both men. 8/10 Undertaker vs Edge(World Title) Both of these men deserved this long overdue slot in the main event. It started out a bit slow with brawling going back and forth, but then it started to pick up towards the middle. The whole title vs streak idea, added with the main event suspense really had me on the edge of my seat!!! Taker gains the title once more and is now 16-0!!! 9/10