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Michael Phillips of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' writes: "Once it gets going and commits to its time-worn inspirational formula, it's not half-bad."<ref name="chicagotribune">{{cite web |date= October 11, 2012 |last = Phillips |first = Michael | title = A determined teacher enters the Octagon in 'Here Comes the Boom' ★★ 1/2 |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-11/entertainment/sc-mov-1009-here-comes-the-boom-20121011_1_scott-voss-kevin-james-longtime-music-teacher |website= chicagotribune.com |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140801070141/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-11/entertainment/sc-mov-1009-here-comes-the-boom-20121011_1_scott-voss-kevin-james-longtime-music-teacher |archive-date= 1 August 2014 }}</ref> Neil Genzlinger of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote: "If you can choke down the implausible notion that the doughy Kevin James would last more than five seconds in a mixed martial arts ring, Here Comes the Boom is a moderately enjoyable, nontaxing sort of comedy."<ref name="nytimes">{{cite web |date= 11 October 2012 |last = Genzlinger |first = Neil |author-link = Neil Genzlinger |title = Kevin James in 'Here Comes the Boom' |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/movies/kevin-james-in-here-comes-the-boom.html |website= [[The New York Times]] |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150925080409/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/movies/kevin-james-in-here-comes-the-boom.html |archive-date=2015-09-25 |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="nymag">{{cite web |date=Oct 14, 2012 |author=Bilge Ebiri |author-link= Bilge Ebiri |title=Here Comes the Boom: A 'Laugh at the Chubby Guy' Movie, Sans the Laughs |url=https://www.vulture.com/2012/10/movie-review-here-comes-the-boom.html |website=www.vulture.com |publisher=New York Magazine |quote= doesn't quite work as a comedy (it's not particularly funny), or a drama (it's not particularly poignant )}}</ref>
John Anderson of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' magazine wrote: "Hands of stone meet heads of air in Here Comes the Boom, a sports story so daffy it may as well star Kevin James." He called the film "a triumph of recycling" comparing it to ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]''. Anderson is critical of the different clashing tones of the film, but calls the characters likable, and writes the "violence adds a frisson of tension to the pic’s mix of grappling, romance and anemic social critique."<ref name="variety">{{cite web |date= 10 October 2012 |last = Anderson |first = John |title = Here Comes the Boom |url = https://variety.com/2012/film/reviews/here-comes-the-boom-1117948520/ |website = Variety }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=12 October 2012 |author=Janice Page |author-link=Janice Page |title= James punches the clock in 'Here Comes the Boom' |url= https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2012/10/12/james-punches-the-clock-in-here-comes-the-boom |website= Boston.com }}</ref>
''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'s'' Lisa Schwarzbaum called it "A cloddish, harmlessly drecky comedy from the Sandler factory of crude mush."<ref name="ew">{{cite web |date= Oct 11, 2012 |author = Lisa Schwarzbaum |title=Here Comes the Boom |url= https://ew.com/article/2012/10/19/here-comes-boom/ |website= [[Entertainment Weekly]] }}</ref><ref name="nypost">{{cite web |date= 12 October 2012 |last=Lumenick |first=Lou |title=Lower the 'Boom' |url=https://nypost.com/2012/10/12/lower-the-boom/ |website=[[New York Post]] }}</ref>
Nathan Rabin of [[The A.V. Club]] wrote: "Here Comes The Boom seems to have made it from the pitch stage - Kevin James does MMA to save his school or something! - to the big screen without an iota of inspiration, ambition, or personality seeping in at any juncture."<ref name="avclub">{{cite web |last= Rabin |first= Nathan |title= Here Comes The Boom |url= https://film.avclub.com/here-comes-the-boom-1798174562 |website= [[The A.V. Club]] }}</ref>
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