Synopsis
A high school biology teacher moonlights as a mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to save the school's music program.
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Cast
- Kevin JamesScott Voss
- Salma Hayek PinaultBella Flores
- Henry WinklerMarty Streb
- Greg GermannDuke Betcher
- Joe RoganJoe Rogan
- Gary ValentineEric Voss
- Jake ZyrusMalia De La Cruz
- Bas RuttenNiko
- Nikki Tyler-FlynnMollie Streb
- Reggie LeeMr. De La Cruz
- 63
Chicago Tribune
Once it gets going and commits to its time-worn inspirational formula, it's not half-bad. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
Like James in the ring, it doesn't pack a lot of power, but it comes out swinging and sweats for applause. - 50
Boston Globe
Kevin James's latest comedy doesn't promise any bing or bang, only boom. Take it at its word. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
A cloddish, harmlessly drecky comedy from the Sandler factory of crude mush. - 40
Variety
Hands of stone meet heads of air in Here Comes the Boom, a sports story so daffy it may as well star Kevin James. - 40
Movieline
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. - 40
New York Daily News
All banality, though it delivers some goodwill even as it pulls a muscle trying to get its premise going. - 40
Village Voice
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.