Metacritic Movie Ratings
Here Comes the Boom Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 63

  out of 100

  USA TodayScott Bowles

  When the comedy connects, it can deliver with funny force

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• 63

  out of 100

  Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips

  Once it gets going and commits to its time-worn inspirational formula, it's not half-bad.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The New York TimesNeil Genzlinger

  If you can choke down the implausible notion that the doughy Kevin James would last more than five seconds in a mixed martial arts ring, Here Comes the Boom is a moderately enjoyable, nontaxing sort of comedy.

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• 50

  out of 100

  ReelViewsJames Berardinelli

  Here Comes the Boom is stale and vanilla. We know we're in trouble early when the first joke fails.

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• 42

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  A cloddish, harmlessly drecky comedy from the Sandler factory of crude mush.

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• 40

  out of 100

  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.

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• 40

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  The film works hard at its inoffensiveness. Throughout, jokes are left on the table, setups never pay off in any significant way.

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• 40

  out of 100

  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.

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