The Best of Chikara
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Actor: Chris Hero, Claudio Castagnoli, Jigsaw, Mike Quackenbush, Shane StormBrand: First Look Pictures
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Big Vision
Movie Reviews of The Best of Chikara
Movie Review: I'm still not sure what I just watched....
Summary: 4 Stars
Chikara is an independent wrestling organization that is sort of a hybrid between luche libre, Japanese, and American style wrestling. The company features characters (and I do mean characters) that are often wearing masks and/or are completely over the top. The annoucning is odd since there seem to be different people handling the play-by-play and color for nearly every match, but they are all very entertaining and there were some honest "laugh out loud" lines throughout. The wrestling is entertaining and about what you would expect from an independent promotion.
There are some drawbacks however. The location of some of the shows varies from a half empty high school gym, to a bar, to what appears to be a ROTARY meeting. I know it's not the WWE, but come on - when you have only 2 rows of chairs surrounding the ring with no guard rail and kids milling about, it's sort of hard to take it seriously. The production values are decent, but they manage to show two matches from the same tag team tournament to determine their champion. Problem is that they show the final first, and have the team who wins show up two matches later on the DVD in a match from an earlier round. A minor compliant I know, but little things like that can turn people off before they give it a second look. Finally, the title is somewhat misleading since this really is not a "best of" as much as it is a DVD showing a lot of what Chikara has to offer (all the matches take place between 2005 and 2006 and there were far better matches that didn't make the cut).
Overall, if you are a fan of wrestling check it out. If you like what you see, there are places on the web that you can purchase their shows from.
Summary of The Best of Chikara
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