Sometimes (actually, a lot of the time) it is difficult to defend being a fan of professional wrestling. The movie, “Ready to Rumble” did not help anyone who is standing on that soapbox at all.

Rather than go into the details about what was wrong with the film, allow us to say this: If they were going to get a legitimate actor to play a pro wrestler could they not have found one who at least looked the part? With all due respect to Oliver Platt, (who was cast as Jimmy King, the object of two dimwitted wrestling fanboy’s hero worship), he was physically out of place in the role, and it was not like Platt was a big enough name to bring serious attention to the movie. Surely, there was someone else in Hollywood that they could have found to play the role, as it was not as though the film did not have funding, and the film was not cast with no names. Incidentally, World Championship Wrestling, which was the setting and producers of the film, went out of business a year after the film came out; although if we had to point fingers it would be more at David Arquette than Oliver Platt.