Hey, everybody! My Movie Musing of the week comes from the new family-friendly comedy from WWE Films, "Knucklehead."
Appropriately titled, because you`d be a knucklehead to spend your hard-earned money on it.
Let`s get the basic premise of the movie out of the way: A fight promoter needs to come up with some cash to pay off a loan shark. He finds his solution in church orphan Walter Krunk, a seven-foot, near 500 pound giant. This giant is played by Paul Wight, AKA The Big Show of the WWE, who you`d know if you`ve watched any length of WWE programming is a terrible, terrible actor. So this fight promoter, who is played by that annoying Feuerstein guy from another one of USA Network`s obscure TV shows, tries to turn this behemoth into a fighter so he can recoup some of his money. Eventually, a woman shows up in the form of The Office`s Melora Hardin, because every movie needs a sexy love interest drop kicking a waitress in her skivvies to save some discernible semblance of a plot. Throw in that insufferable kid from the PSP commercials adding nothing to the flow and direction of the already camouflaged plot, and you have a recipe for disaster.
This movie was in SELECT theaters for maybe a week until they decided to release it to DVD, which means given WWE`s new sellout PG direction, the audiences were made up of pre-pubescent, easily entertained kids. So, it`s no secret that they loved the gripping scene where the big fella got his asscheeks stuck to a toilet after having a rousing round of diarrhea on the bus.
Well, admittedly it got a laugh out of me, because come on - what isn`t funny about a fat guy getting stuck to a toilet full of his own watery fecal matter?
Sadly, that`s the only laugh that I was able to muster for this film. Even in all of its poopy, bear wrestling and fat guy in underwear grandeur, I don`t recommend you waste your money on this DVD. WWE Films is proving itself to be a mockery of an actual production company with terrible flick after terrible flick - this "movie" is a glaring indication of that statement.
Hey McMahon, stick to what you used to be good at - promoting wrestling matches.
Grade: F
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Appropriately titled, because you`d be a knucklehead to spend your hard-earned money on it. 
