A TV-network boss pits a wrestler called Zeus against a wrestler called Rip in a wrestling match.A TV-network boss pits a wrestler called Zeus against a wrestler called Rip in a wrestling match.A TV-network boss pits a wrestler called Zeus against a wrestler called Rip in a wrestling match.
Tom Lister Jr.
- Zeus
- (as Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr.)
Patrick O'Bryan
- Craig
- (as Pat O'Bryan)
Richard Klinger
- Mr. Greene
- (as Dick Klinger)
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- Writer
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- TriviaThe movie was produced by star Hulk Hogan and his boss, World Wrestling Federation head honcho Vince McMahon, only to be distributed by New Line Cinema after completion. When the first draft of the script was turned in, Hogan and McMahon disapproved of it, so they checked into a hotel in Redington Beach, Florida, and stayed up for 72 hours rewriting the script together.
- GoofsIn the ring scenes, Hogan wears the WWF "Winged Eagle" belt, the one used by the WWF from 1988-1998. In the dressing room scenes before his match with Zeus, he has the "XL" championship belt, the one never used by the WWF but designed to be worn by Andre The Giant.
- Quotes
Rip Thomas: What's that SMELL?
Limo Driver: Dooo... dooo... doookie!
Rip Thomas: [disgusted] "Dookie"?
- Alternate versionsIn the theatrical version, the film ends with a shot of Rip alone in the ring giving the "Rip 'Em!" sign before fading out to the end credits. In the original home video release, the film ends with a shot of Rip and Randy hugging each other in the ring, though the sound Rip makes as he does the "Rip 'Em!" sign is still audible before fading to the end credits. The 2012 DVD from WWE Studios restores the original theatrical closing shot.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WrestleMania V (1989)
Featured review
When reality checks out
Somehow, somewhere, someone thought this was a good idea. Maybe to put a hot figure like Hogan in a movie was a good idea, but this was pure dreck. It's worth watching to see Hogan speak French, though. That scene was worth a very unintentional laugh. But the rest is so contrived it makes Full House seem like Upstairs/Downstairs. The dialogue is so bad, so outside of the realm of what people actually say to each other, it appears to have been written by a group of bored 11-year olds who had yet to make contact with anyone over the age of 21, and just assumed that's how people talk. And the attempt at a tear-jerking scene between Hogan and his injured (what do you expect when you try to attack someone bigger than you are?) brother falls apart because whatever the two are saying to each other through their tears is incoherent. Wrestling fans will like the appearance of old timer Jos Leduc, but Stan Hanson, a legend based on what he could do in the ring, was way over the top, forgive the Stallone reference.
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Box office
- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $16,093,651
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,957,052
- Jun 4, 1989
- Gross worldwide
- $16,093,651
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Sound mix
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