WWE WrestleMania 24
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Actor: Floyd Mayweather Jr., John Cena, Ric Flair, The Undertaker, Triple HBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Limited Edition, NTSC
Running Time: 240 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-20
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Model: WWE94666
Studio: World Wrestling
Product features:
- The biggest Wrestlmania under the sun comes to you from the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. Join more than 74,000 fans as they witness history - three momentous championship matches, the brutal Money In The Bank Ladder Match, a vicious Belfast Brawl, BunnyMania, The Biggest Vs. The Best Boxing/Sports-Entertainment Collision, and Ric Flair's emotional final match. This two disc set includes mo
Movie Reviews of WWE WrestleMania 24
Movie Review: One Of The Best WrestleMania's In Years
Summary: 5 Stars
Belfast Brawl Match: Finlay vs. J.B.L. - This was just a glorified way of saying that this match was a street fight. With weapons like a chair, trash cans, and Finlay's usual prop (sorry, I can't spell it right if I tried) & the return of Hornswoggle, who got involved at times, this was a very enjoyable brawl & the best performance I've seen from J.B.L. since his return.
Money In The Bank Ladder Match: Chris Jericho vs. C.M. Punk vs. Shelton Benjamin vs. John Morrison vs. Carlito vs. M.V.P. vs. Mr. Kennedy....Kennedy (sorry, I'm a mark for that) - Anyways, you know that this match is set to be nothing more than a non-stop spotfest and boy was it ever. Morrison's moonsault off the top rope with ladder in hand & later taking a fall that every man watch felt, Shelton Benjamin's "tower of doom" powerbomb off the ladder & his fall out of the ring onto the ladder wedged on the outside, the Walls Of Jericho on the ladder, Carlito's "backstabber" off the ladder, and the return of Matt Hardy. One of the best Money In The Bank's matches yet.
RAW vs. SmackDown: Batista vs. Umaga - This was the first flop of the night as Umaga completely dominated & carried this match (and even had the crowd cheering for him) until Batista blocked the samoan spike & "unleashed the animal" with the spinebuster & powerbomb (which he lost his balance doing). It wasn't as bad as Cena/JBL from WrestleMania 21 but it's basically the same type of match.
ECW Champion Chavo Guerrero vs. Kane - Unfortunally, I blinked during this match & missed the whole thing. Just kidding but seriously, Chavo's entrance was longer than the match as Kane chokeslammed his way to the first World/Brand Championship in almost 10 years & possibly setting a new WrestleMania record (sorry King Kong Bundy).
Shawn Michaels vs. Ric Flair - Unfortunally, Ric Flair's matches as of late were just lackluster to average as best but Shawn gave Ric the best match he's had since the 2005 series of matches with Triple H. This match was an emotional rollercoaster as you saw Ric Flair pulling out some of his old "dirtiest player in the game" tricks on HBK throughout the match while HBK was conflicted with "putting 'Old Yeller' out of his misery" & even held back from taking Flair out with sweet chin music early in the match. During one point, HBK returned Flair's slap from RAW & drew "first blood" on Flair by making his mouth bleed while later, Flair looked like he was fighting for his life in HBK's figure four & even ripped off the bottom turnbuckle post in the process of trying to get out of it. However, Flair's career was ended with the words "I'm sorry, I love you" & the third sweet chin music. This was the type of performance that Ric Flair needed to end his career on...and he got it.
Playboy Bunnymania Lumberjack Match: Maria & Ashley vs. Beth Phoenix & Melina - Looking that all the previous "Playboy" matches in WM history, I expected the usual boring trainwreck but this match was better than I expected as Beth & Melina showed by they were some of the best female wrestlers in mainstream wrestling today (with some nice doubleteam work) while Maria did a decent job in the ring herself & Ashley was able to not drag the match down unlike last year. There was a moment when the lights went out and had to put spotlights on the ring but it was still a watchable match with cameo appearences from Santino Marella, Jerry Lawler, and even Snoop Dogg throwing a clothesline that look better than anything Ashley did.
WWE Champion Randy Orton vs. John Cena vs. Triple H - Before I get started, I liked Cena's entrance with the college band playing his entrance music. Well, this was the shocker of the night concidering the winner of the match was the person nobody expected just based off 92% of WWE's own poll & a majority the comments in the reviews of Royal Rumble & No Way Out on Amazon itself. As for the match itself, it was your typical triple threat match in which it was non-stop action with each man having their moments at various times along with the various moments of one man stopping another from winning the match before Orton got the biggest win in his championship reign...and for those trivia fans who like to keep score of this type of thing, this was Cena's first WrestleMania loss & the fourth time a heel has walked out of WrestleMania a World Champion.
Big Show vs. Floyd Mayweather - Well this was the best "worked" boxing influenced match I've seen in wrestling but concidering how crappy the other ones were, that's not much of a compliment. The match was entertaining for what it was once they got away from trying to make it a look like a real "shoot" match & started getting entertaining with Mayweather's crew getting involved at times with chairs & brass knucks coming into play. Too bad they didn't book Mayweather as the heel in this feud, as he is just a natural in that role, because I got a guilty pleasure out of Big Show chopping & just manhandling him at times. In the end, this match was like the Billionaries match last year where it was about the the hype of the celebrity appearence to draw money instead of having a high quality match so with that in concideration, this was an entertaining match for what it was...and at least he didn't have to see Big Show in a diaper unlike his celebrity match at WrestleMania 21.
WWE Champion Edge vs Undertaker - Edge finally made it into the WrestleMania main event that various people (myself included) felt should have been his years ago & I guess WWE learned their lesson from last year in putting the Undertaker title match on last since he usually deliveres...and this was no expection. Edge worked on Taker's back thoughout various parts of the match with the match getting better & better as time went on with a couple of near falls that would have had you convinced that he was actually going to lose. Justice was served after what happened close to a year earlier as Taker regained his championship from Edge thanks to "that choke hold" (PLEASE FIND A NAME TO THE HOLD ALREADY!). As a side note, let's be honest here...did anyone ever think we would see Johnathan Coachman ever calling a WrestleMania main event based off how bad he's been in the past? I thought he was going to take away from the match with his commentary but props for Coach in putting on a good performance, he wasn't Jim Ross but he was better here & throughout the show than he's usually been in the past.
The only DVD extras here was the entire Hall Of Fame ceremony (spread over two DVD's) inducting The Brisco Brothers, Gordon Solie, Mae Young, and Eddie Graham. The real highlights though was the return of The Rock to induct his grandfather Peter Maivia & his father Rocky Johnson...but not before roasting various members of the WWE roster to the point to where I had to pause the DVD because I was laughing so hard. Along with this was the induction of Ric Flair by Triple H including the story of how he met Ric Flair with a baloon & even giving a mention to Michael "Stay Puff Marshmellow Pimp" Hayes. The other was the traditional WrestleMania preshow battle royal which was won by Kane.
In the end, this was the most enjoyable WrestleMania I've seen since 20 as everything was watchable & nothing was so horrible that I would skip over it everytime I watch the event. This was a 4 star event but the Hall Of Fame & even the battle royal which had it's entertaining moments like Jamie Noble's creative way of getting back in the ring without his feet touching the floor push it up a star. I highly recommend this WrestleMania event.
Side Note: The Wal-Mart version of this WrestleMania comes with the McMahon DVD.
Summary of WWE WrestleMania 24
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