WWE Royal Rumble 2000 (2000)

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The First PPV of the McMahon-Helmsley Era is actually the best for quite some time. It features a classic title match, a decent Royal Rumble, and a weird throwback match.The night starts off with the still undefeated Kurt Angle taking on a mystery opponent. Hmmm, seen this set up before But it's not the Honky Tonk Man who comes out, it's actually Tazz, who'd just come over from ECW. He and Angle go back and forth a lot more than I expected before Tazz chokes Angle out. It was early in Angle's run, but he was a quick learner and was doing a serviceable job of getting himself some good heat, but few could have predicted exactly how far he would end up going by the end of the year. After Angle comes to he points out that if he was choked out, it wasn't a legitimate win and he's still undefeated. Tazz then brags about how he's going to run through the whole WWE roster. Not quite Tazz. While, he wouldn't go far as a competitor, but hung around for a long time as an announcer.On my DVD listing it says the second match on the card is Undertaker vs IRS, but I'd say that's a misprint because there is no Undertaker or IRS on this show. Sorry for all the Mike Rotunda fans out there.Brings us to a pretty sweet match, the first ever Tables Match between the Hardyz and the Dudleyz. The object here is to put both your opponents through a table. Dudleyz were weird trailer trash table fetishists and this was one of those matches that was supposed to favour them. However the Hardyz win after some nice action. There's a nice moment when both Hardyz end up going through tables after the Dudleyz are able to get out of the way. It's then announced that the Dudleyz have to physically put their opponents through the table, rather than their opponents doing it to themselves. I like that kind of detail. The match culminates in Jeff Hardy's iconic senton bomb off the balcony and through a table that had the MSG crowd in raptures.I'm skipping the bikini contest as I don't particularly care what happens or who wins. Might have caught it had Sable still been around.Next we have Chyna and Chris Jericho, currently sharing the Intercontinental Championship due to shenanigans, and just for fun Hardcore Holly's thrown in. This is the only time in Holly's career I connected with him at all, but I still didn't want to see him in anything other than hardcore matches. Jericho really ups his game here, and they were right to have him go over and take sole possession of the belt.Next we see The New Age Outlaws successfully defend their tag team belts against the APA after interference from X-Pac. The APA had won their title shot at the previous month's Armageddon PPV. The Outlaws had more important things to attend to in the next match, in which their DX stable leader Triple H (and virtual CEO of the company after Vince walked out 4 weeks earlier) put his WWE Championship on the line against Cactus Jack. Foley had reverted back to the Cactus gimmick after Mankind was fired by Triple H for standing up to him and then losing a "pink slip on a pole" match to the Rock on RAW. The Rock and the whole roster threatened strike action if Foley wasn't reinstated. Trips let him back in and Foley challenged him to a street fight for the WWE Championship, before revealing he was back to being cactus Jack. This is one of the great title matches, despite featuring interference from both The Rock and DX. Triple H eventually wins a brutal match after dropping Cactus on thumbtacks. On the DVD release there is footage of Trips requiring a segment of wood to be pulled out of his lower leg after the match.Brings us to the main event. I can tell stats fans that D Lo Brown was #1, X-Pac was #30, Test (#10) spent the longest amount of time in the ring (27 minutes-hardly impressive), Rikishi (#5) had the most eliminations (7) and the final four were The Rock, Big Show and feuding former tag partners X-Pac and Kane. The Rock throws out X-Pac, but the refs are distracted so he comes back in and throws out Kane. Kane does a really poor looking bronco buster on Show, who throws him out of the ring. Show gets Rock down and lifts him on his shoulders, but Rock is able to grab the top rope as Show attempts to throw him out and uses the momentum to lift Show out of the ring. The Rock is able hold the top rope and so wins the Rumble. Even at the time I was looking at the ending and it occurred to me that either the Rock had stuffed up, or the ending was supposed to be screwy, because it looked a whole lot to me like the Rock's feet hit the ground before Show landed. There's probably an interview somewhere where someone talks about whether this was a screw up or just how its was intended to go down, but I couldn't be bothered looking to find out.Anyway, this was a nice PPV. Most of the big matches delivered and there was nothing really bad. Moving forward, we get the inevitable Rock vs Triple H match for WrestleMania. Wonder what they'll do with that filler February PPV> Surely there's no loose ends here with WrestleMania implications...

1. Kurt Angle Vs. Taz - Taz applied there nice suplexes, pleasure to watch. 8/10 2. Table Match. Dudley Boys Vs. Hardy Boyz - Imposant, one of the first table matches. And definitely my Favourite. Jeff Hardy mark after this match. 10/10 3. Miss Rumble 2000: Ivory Vs. Jacqueline Vs. Terri Vs. B.B. Vs. The Kat Vs. Luna Vs. Mae Young - My personal favorite was Jacqueline and this thing with Mae Young that want to compete and acted nasty was awful and disgusting. 2/10 4. WWF Intercontinental Title Match: Chris Jericho Vs. Chyna Vs. Hardcore Holly - Jericho won to become the undisputed IC champ in a perfect match!! Nice work 9/10 5. WWF World Tag Team Title Match: Acolytes Vs. Champs-New Age Outlaws - Another great match, short but great. Champs retained. Ftw. Killer Clothesline from Hell by Bradshaw 8.5/10 6. Hardcore WWF World Heavyweight Title Match: Cactus Jack Vs. Champ-Triple H - Respect for Triple H and everything what he ate here. Foley and his falls on the steel stairs didn't look less painful. That pop, that Foley got after he kicked out pedigree I didn't heard for a long time. Legendary. 10/10 7. Royal Rumble - This year the Rock was the winner. 7.5/10 3 Matches were absolutely great... Thank you.

One of the best Royal Rumble's ever. However there were a few flaws.Match one saw the debut of Tazz. His entrance was chilling. He beat Kurt Angle, ending 'The Olympic Hero's' winning streak.Next up Chyna, Hardcore Holly and Chris Jericho do battle in a fine triple threat match for the vacant Intercontinental Championship.Then The APA do battle with The New Age Outlaws in a passable match. APA win by DQ I think when X-Pac runs in.Then Triple H faces off against Cactus Jack in a brutul match up. HHH wins by pedigreeing Jack through thumb tacks.Then we didn't need this, a bikini contest featuring some lovely women like Terri, Jackie and Tori. 85 year old Mae Young comes down and takes her bra off in front of Jerry Lawler. She wins........The the rumble takes place. D'Lo Brown is number one and Grandmaster Sexay is number 2. The Rock wins this by eliminating The Big Show.Overall a solid PPV!

WWF is the greatest wrestling federation out there, by far. The year 2000 Royal Rumble was not the best of the year, but it was very good. This PPV was important in many ways. It showed the premiere of Tazz, who ended Kurt Angle's long time winning streak. It had a very memorable first-ever Tag Team Table Match, in which the Hardy Boyz defeated the Dudley Boyz, who are the true masters of tables. Chris Jericho became the undisputed Intercontinental Champion after defeating Chyna and Hardcore Holly. Triple H defended his WWF Title in an excellent "street fight" match against "Cactus Jack" Mick Foley. The Royal Rumble itself, in which 30 wrestlers would compete to be the last one thrown out of the ring, was the best of the night. The Rock won and became the Number One Contendor for the WWF Title and would recieve a title shot at Wrestlemania. The whole PPV was very entertaining and cool. The only bad thing was when Mae Young won the "Miss Rumble" Contest. No one wants to see a near-80 year old woman's breast! *YUCK!* But aside from that, very good.