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Original Title : Bad Guys Year : 1986 Director : Joel Silberg Writer : Joe Gillis (writer), Brady Westwater (writer) IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090688/ Genre : Comedy, Wrestling Synopsis: Two hotshot LAPD cops get in hot water after breaking up a fight at a local bar. They get suspended from the force and have to find a way to pay the rent. First they try construction work, then stripping, but newspaper reporter Janice Edwards has a really good idea...professional wrestling. A contemporary of Body Slam, Bad Guys features a much, much lower budget cast but still manages to be a superior wrestling film. It's silly and not very good, but at least the story stays on the wrestlers themselves for the most part. Adam Baldwin and Mike Jolly play Skip and Dave, our two rowdy heroes. And they loooove wrasslin! I suppose we can call them the stand out roles in the film, but honestly that is just not saying a lot. The acting here is just universally bad. Not only are the character...

I felt it only fitting that I wrap up my overlong wrestling theme with films that reflect what professional wrestling eventually would become and still is - the sports entertainment style that they are today. Nothing shows this transformation better than the wrestling movies of the late 1980s! And really the beginning of this change in professional wrestling... Original Title : Body Slam Year : 1986 Director : Hal Needham Writer : Steve Burkow (writer), Shel Lytton (screenplay) IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092684/ Genre : Comedy, Wrestling Synopsis: M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. B...

Original Title : My Breakfast With Blassie Year : 1983 Director : Linda Lautrec , Johnny Legend , Mark Shepard Writer : Linda Lautrec , Johnny Legend IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085979/ Genre : Comedy Synopsis: Comedian Andy Kaufman & professional wrestler Classy Freddie Blassie eat breakfast & discuss life. There you have it again. A parody of an apparently popular art-house film My Dinner With Andre which gives the audience a look at two men discussing their life over dinner, My Breakfast With Blassie has Andy Kaufman and wrestling legend "Classy" Freddie Blassie discussing various random subjects over their diner breakfast. In typical Kaufman fashion, this is an unusual, improvised bit that pushes against the edge of what the audience may be able to bear. Look no further than Kaufman going on stage in his standup and reading The Great Gatsby as his bit. The interactions between the two are interesting, but go on a bit too long for my tastes. I think this w...

Original Title : I'm From Hollywood Year : 1989 Director : Lynne Margulies , Joe Orr Writer : Lynne Margulies , Joe Orr IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173920/ Genre : Comedy, Wrestling Synopsis: Wrestling documentry about comedian Andy Kauffman's break into professional wrestling. Mainly focuses on his feud with Memphis wrestling legend, Jerry "The King" Lawler, and features interviews from his "Taxi" co-stars, announcer Lance Russell, and Robin Williams. This DVD is exactly what the synopsis here says it is. It was not originally intended to be anything but live appearances by Andy Kaufman at Memphis Wrestling shows. Five years after Kaufman's death, this 60-minute documentary was released with added "interviews" with Tony Danza, Robin Williams, and a few others talking about Kaufman's obsession with professional wrestling and his appearances at this time. It's hard to really review I'm From Hollywood as a film. Largely what ...

Original Title : Below the Belt Year : 1980 Director : Rob Fowler Writer : Rosalyn Drexler (novel "To Smithereens"), Rob Fowler (writer), David McKechnie (lyrics), Sherry Sonnet (writer) IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080427/ Genre : Comedy, Wrestling Synopsis: A New York City waitress decides to become a professional wrestler. The synopsis says it all. This fucking movie has almost NOTHING happen... and to add insult to injury, the shitty action is highlighted by waaaaay too many musical montages. I'm not gonna talk much about Below the Belt. I hope it doesn't seem like a copout or whatever, but this film frustrated me so much that it might just be best if i get this over with and move on. Theme killer if there ever was one. Inexplicably, the ratings on IMDb are not all that bad. Again what we get with Below the Belt is a women's wrestling film that had potential, but falls way short. It's not so much the editing this time as it is the near lack of p...

Original Title : The One and Only Year : 1978 Director : Carl Reiner Writer : Steve Gordon IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078034/ Genre : Romantic Comedy synopsis: 1951: Andy Schmidt is in his last year of college. Taking life easy and always a saucy joke on his lips, he manages to win fellow student Mary's heart, although she's already otherwise engaged. But getting a job after college turns out much harder than expected; most directors take offense at his free interpretation of his roles. Desperate, he tries in wrestling. To avoid getting beaten up he stages the fights - and incidentally invents show-wrestling. This movie tricked me. It made me think it was a wrestling movie, but really turned out to be a romantic comedy with a little "wrestling" sprinkled in there. While it did make me think of the wrestling-world-famous Gorgeous George, it was just too much a vehicle for Henry Winkler to act crazy for me to really get into it. Winkler is a far cry from the F...

Well, another week has passed with not a creature stirring on the ol' blogaroo here. Real life and some annoying internet issues kept me from watching and reviewing more wrasslin films during the week of Xmas - i'm gonna back date a couple entries though to cheat. Shhhh... it'll be our little secret. Not wanting to miss the holiday, I am veering slightly off the path to review a fantastic little film in the spirit of the holiday... It's not really a wrestling film, but I really could not pass this up: Original Title : Santa with Muscles Year : 1996 Director : John Murlowski Writer : Jonathan Bond , Fred Mata , Dorrie Krum Raymond IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117550/ Genre : Comedy synopsis: An evil millionaire (Hulk Hogan) gets amnesia and then belives that he is Santa Claus. How can you not automatically be into a movie after reading that synopsis? After losing valuable minutes of life thanks to one single Romantic Comedy shitburger, it's so good to know tha...