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READY TO RUMBLE, a dim-witted-if-disgustingly-funny pro-wrestling
comedy, sets several screen precedents: the sight of Oliver Platt
in drag, drunk, and staggering around a white-trashed camper; Aca-
demy Award-winning actor Martin Landau actually uttering the line
"whose your daddy, bitch?"; a van full of nuns singing an acoustic
version of Van Halen's "Running with the Devil"; the collision of a
truck carrying toilet paper with another leaking septic suckings;
and what must be the most varied usage of the word "ass" in a hun-
dred years of moving pictures. ("Whoop Ass," "Sour Ass," "Ass
Juice," etc.) Stupid but silly but played straight, which means
that when the laughs wane, so does your attention. (Lots of watch-
watching in this one.) I left somewhere in the second hour, around
the time that Courtney Cox's husband David Arquette screamed "for-
eign objects!" when confronted by Rose McGowen's breasts. Brian
Robbins (VARSITY BLUES) directs and Steven Brill penned the screen-
play, which contains the immortal lament "all I got to remember him
by is an itchy crotch." Sniff. With Scott Caan, Joe Pantoliano,
and Page Falkinburg. (Rated "PG-13"/105 min.)
Grade: W/O
Copyright 2000 Michael J. Legeros
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MOVIE HELL: April 6, 2000