The first half hour of Here Comes the Boom is so good moviegoers might be fooled into expecting something better than an obvious wish fulfillment fantasy so patently implausible it's almost insulting.
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New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
All banality, though it delivers some goodwill even as it pulls a muscle trying to get its premise going.
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Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
Boom was produced under the auspices of pal Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions, which has a tendency toward broad-comic morality tales and multiplex populism that often shades into remedial-level pandering.
Here Comes The Boom seems to have made it from the pitch stage - Kevin James does MMA to save his school or something! - to the big screen without an iota of inspiration, ambition, or personality seeping in at any juncture.
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine
As a comedy, the film aims low and manages to miss the mark entirely.