Here Comes the Boom

Hello, So I have another movie summary and review for you all today. I know I have no life, I have been to three movies in the past week. Anyway the movie that I will be talking about today is Here Comes the Boom.

I will give a short summary for those who haven’t heard of this movie. It is about a school that has to make cuts to their budget specifically the music program at their school. They have to get rid of the whole music department in order to save money. One biology teacher (Mr. Voss) who is kind of a slacker when it comes to teaching, decides that this can’t happen because of the impact that music has on students and is going to come up with the $50,000. The way that he decides to do this is by becoming a mixed martial arts fighter.

Before going to the movie I had heard a lot about it. A few days before Kevin James was on Ellen. What I learned about this movie from watching Ellen is that he actually wrote the movie and then decided that he had to play this character. In the movie the main character gets into a lot of fights and gets beat up pretty bad. Kevin had to lose a lot of weight for the movie and after knowing that, I could tell that he had dropped a few pounds.

I wasn’t planning on seeing this movie when I did; it was a sort of last minute thing. I remember seeing the commercials during the other two movies that I have recently seen in the theatre and I thought it looked good. I was a little apprehensive because I don’t like wrestling or fighting but I ended up really enjoying it. I don’t think that the commercials do this movie justice.  I was extremely surprised by this movie, in a good way. This movie has a little bit of everything, it’s funny, sad and inspiring. This is one of those movies that make you want to go out and make a difference in the world. Another thing that I liked about this movie is that it tied everything together at the end. Even with the smaller characters, at the end it shows what happens to them.  My brother said that he thought that it would be funnier but I have to disagree. It had the right amount of comedy because the topic is not a light one. School budgets are a big deal and are a current issue in America. I think that it had its funny parts but it wasn’t over bearing. Lastly there is a Journey reference and in my book any movie that references that band is a good movie.

Overall this is a great family friendly movie that inspires people. If you are looking for a good movie I would highly recommend this movie, especially if you like things like mixed martial arts. If you end up going to see this movie leave me a comment on what you thought about it. Thanks for reading J