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October 19, 2012
“Here Comes the Boom,” with Kevin James as a tubby high school science teacher who becomes a mixed martial-arts sensation, is every bit as ridiculous as it looks.
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Director: Frank Coraci Cast: Kevin James, Henry Winkler, Salma Hayek Rating: PG Running time: 104 minutes |
That's not such a bad thing for the movie, whose makers embrace the fact that they're essentially doing a live-action cartoon or a variation of that “Three Stooges” short where Curly becomes a boxing phenom whenever he hears “Pop Goes the Weasel.”
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