Tuesday, February 14, 2006


For my first movie review, I chose a real humdinger. Its an action packed romp around Europe, filled with twists and turns and international intrigue. Yes, Coliseum Home Video's WWF World Tour 1992 goes from the theatres of London, to the, uh, arenas of Spain and Germany.

It opens with a dandy between the Mountie and the Texas Tornado. The highlight of this match is commentator Bobby Heenans claim that the Mountie is going to give a lecture at Scotland Yard the next day to give them some crime fighting tips. He also mentions at one point that it looks like the Tornado is starting to suffer brain damage due to a sleeper hold. Madness!

This is followed by a bunch of Davey Boy Smith fights, including a decent slam of the Earthquake. In that fight the British Bulldog is accompanied to the ring by Andre the Giant, who walks to the ring with the help of a cane. Of course he later hits earthquake with said cane. A lovely bit of good guy cheating.

Other matches include Roddy Piper thunder clapping his way to victory over the Barbarian. This is followed by "highlights" of the royal rumble that year, with such luminaries in the ring as Sgt. Slaughter, The Repo Man, The Mountie, one of the nasty boys, Hawk, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, a "Baron Mustafa"?, and thankfully the British Bulldog. Guess who won? Just awful.
Then we get a taste of what made the wwf great for a while there, with an IC title match between Bret Hart and Rick Martel. I forgot how Flair like Martel could be. Great stuff.

But the main event is great. Macho Man Randy Savage versus Sensational Sherri era Sean Michaels. It ends in a win for the Macho Man, but the match ends in one of those "the loser has gone berserk" things where Michaels grabs Savage's belt and whips him with it until a bunch of suits come out and look scared for a while until the bad guy gets tired and goes to get something to eat.

And that is my movie review. Expect more the next time I find a wwf tape at a junk store for a dollar. Oh yeah, my ranking system. If a 1 is LionHeart and a10 is Rambo 2, than this is a 7.4 or Iron Eagle 2: Son of Lou Gossett Jr.

1 Comments:

Blogger Blandy Snorhal said...

My best memory of Macho Man was when he was on Much Music for some reason and someone called in with a question and ended up asking him if he had heard of Porno for Pyros and he said "I've heard of porno." Then there was an odd silence.

Also, we used to call an awesome teacher in highschool Yo Mach because he looked like Mr. Savage.

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