The 10 Best Movies Featuring Former WWE Champions

Many wrestlers have starred in Hollywood movies. Some of the movies have been good, some have been bad, some have been great and some have been ugly.

Art (including movies) is subjective. Some people probably loved The Chaperone, while others thought it was a joke. Anyway, for this list, I tried to be as objective as possible.

How?

The movies on this list are ranked according to their critic/user ratings on RottenTomatoes.com and the number of stars that Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert gave the films.

There are a few more things you should know about this list:

1) The list only includes movies starring former WWE Champions 2) other than The Rock.

That means that neither The Godfather (which starred wrestler Lenny Montana as Luca Brasi) nor The Tooth Fairy (which starred The Rock) will be on this list.

You might be asking why I didn't put any of The Rock's movies on this list. There's a simple answer: The Rock's movies would probably fill up half of the list, which is no fun.

3) Finally, this list only includes non-wrestling movies.

With that said, let's take a look at 10 of the best movies featuring former WWE Champions.

If you think I missed a good non-wrestling movie featuring a former WWE Champion, let me know by leaving a comment.

Enjoy!

Honorable Mention: Suburban Commando (1991)

Featuring: Hulk Hogan as "Shep Ramsey" and The Undertaker as "Hutch"

Rotten Tomatoes rating:

20% (Critics)
30% (Users)

Roger Ebert rating:

1 out of 4 stars

Summary:

In Suburban Commando (1991), Hulk Hogan plays Shep Ramsey—an intergalactic warrior who finds himself in suburbia after destroying his spaceship. A nice couple (Christopher Lloyd and Shelley Duvall) take the Hulkster into their home while his ship is being repaired.

Basically, the Hulkster is being chased by two intergalactic assassins (The Undertaker and Tony Longo), and Lloyd is having problems being assertive. In the end, the Hulkster helps Lloyd with his problem, and Lloyd helps the Hulkster with his problems. 

10. Jingle All the Way (1996)

Featuring: Big Show as "Huge Santa"

Rotten Tomatoes rating:

15% (Critics)
42% (Users)

Roger Ebert rating:

2.5 out of 4 stars

Summary:

All that Jamie Langston wants for Christmas is a "TurboMan" doll. Unfortunately for Jamie, his father, Howard (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger), is a very busy businessman who has literally waited until the very last second to shop for the doll.

Unfortunately for Howard, the TurboMan doll is one of the hottest-selling toys of all time and is nearly impossible to find. Jingle All The Way (1996) is a hilarious look at the adventures that Howard has while looking for the doll.

9. The Longest Yard (2005)

Featuring: Stone Cold Steve Austin and Kevin Nash as prison guards

Rotten Tomatoes rating:

31% (Critics)
67% (Users)

Roger Ebert rating:

1 out of 4 stars

Summary:

Adam Sandler is Paul Crewe (professional football player turned convict) in The Longest Yard (2005)—a simple and funny story about prison inmates forming a football team in order to challenge the abusive prison guards to a very physical game of football.

Besides featuring former WWE Champions Stone Cold Steve Austin and Kevin Nash, The Longest Yard also features former World Heavyweight Champions Bill Goldberg and Great Khali.  

8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Featuring: Kevin Nash as "Super Shredder"

Rotten Tomatoes rating:

36% (Critics) 
68% (Users)

Roger Ebert rating:

1 out of 4 stars 

Summary:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze (1991) starts where the first film in the franchise ended—with the evil Shredder buried in a garbage dumpster.

The turtles believe that they've saved the city and would now like to lead somewhat normal lives. However, Master Splinter knows better. Splinter instinctively knows that Shredder may not be dead, so he feels that the turtles should stay prepared for whatever may come their way.

As it turns out, Shredder is alive, and he plans to use the very substance (ooze) that turned the turtles into humanoids, against them.

7. The Waterboy (1998)

Featuring: Big Show as "Captain Insano"

Rotten Tomatoes rating:

32% (Critics)
74% (Users)

Roger Ebert rating:

1 out of 4 stars

Summary:

(From Amazon.com)

"

Just an oddball mama's boy from the back bayous of Louisiana, Bobby Boucher never wanted anything more than to quench the thirst of the dehydrated athletes who treat him like dirt!

But when Coach Klein makes the call that allows Bobby to finally stand up for himself, it unleashes a torrent of bottled-up frustration...and exposes a talent for tackling that transforms him from a meek "water distribution engineer" into the hardest hitter ever to roam the gridiron! 

"

6. Blade: Trinity (2004)

Featuring: Triple H as "Jarko Grimwood"

Rotten Tomatoes rating:

26% (Critics)
70% (Users)

Roger Ebert rating:

1.5 out of 4 stars

Summary:

In Blade: Trinity (2004), a group of vampires (including Triple H) plots to finally eliminate Blade (a vampire slayer) by turning humans against him.

At the same time, the vampires have awakened their founding father, Dracula, from his slumber in hopes of dominating the world. But have no fear...Blade and his newly formed team of vampire-hunting friends are here.   

5. The Punisher (2004)

Featuring: Kevin Nash as "The Russian"

Rotten Tomatoes rating:

29% (Critics)
68% (Users)

Roger Ebert rating:

2 out of 4 stars

Summary:

After his family is murdered by underworld kingpin Howard Saint, killing machine Frank Castle takes the law into his own hands by dishing out extreme punishment to those responsible for the murders and to anyone who stands in his way (including Kevin Nash). 

4. Rocky III (1982)

Featuring: Hulk Hogan as "Thunderlips"

Rotten Tomatoes rating:

60% (critics)
74% (Users)

Roger Ebert rating:

While Roger Ebert did not write a review or give a rating for Rocky III, he reviewed the film with Gene Siskel on Sneak Previews. You can watch the full review here. Basically, Ebert believed that the film was weaker than the first two films in the Rocky series. For your information, Ebert gave 4 stars to the original Rocky.

Summary:

Rocky III (1982) starts where Rocky II left off—after fictional boxer Rocky Balboa's upset win against Heavyweight Champion Apollo Creed.

After beating Creed, Rocky is as famous and rich as one can be. He's in Maserati ads, on the cover of countless magazines, doing commercials, making late-night TV show appearances, he's got t-shirts and his own video arcade game.

Rocky has it all, except one thing: the edge ("Eye of the Tiger") that he once had. As a result of losing his edge, Rocky loses his title, self-respect and even his manager. Now Rocky must get his edge back before he loses everything he worked so hard to get.

Those who have seen the film know that Mr. T, who has some history in the WWE, stars as Rocky's younger, hungrier opponent in the film, Clubber Lang.

3. Spider-Man (2002)

Featuring: Macho Man Randy Savage as "Bonesaw McGraw"

Rotten Tomatoes rating:

89% (Critics)
65% (Users)

Roger Ebert rating:

2.5 out of 4 stars 

Summary:

Spider-Man (2002) is about Peter Parker—a nerdy orphan who has dreams of being with his lifelong crush, Mary Jane Watson.

During a field trip to a Columbia University lab, Peter is bitten by a mysterious spider and gains spider-like superpowers overnight—which he uses to fight crime, the evil Green Goblin and even Macho Man Randy Savage.  

2. Warrior (2011)

Featuring: Kurt Angle as "Koba"

Rotten Tomatoes rating:

83% (Critics)
92% (Users)

Roger Ebert rating:

3 out of 4 stars 

Summary:

In Warrior (2011), ex-Marine Tommy Riordan returns home where his father, a recovering alcoholic, trains him for an MMA tournament. As Tommy rises toward the title prize, his brother Brendan—a former MMA fighter unable to provide for his family as a public school teacher—returns to the ring. 

A turbulent past keeps the brothers estranged until Brendan's rise as an underdog sets him on a collision course with Tommy. Ultimately, the brothers are forced to confront the things that tore them apart and at the same time fight perhaps the biggest battle of their lives.

1. The Princess Bride (1987)

Featuring: André the Giant as "Fezzik"

Rotten Tomatoes rating:

96% (Critics)
92% (Users)

Roger Ebert rating:

3.5 out of 4 stars

Summary:

The Princess Bride (1987) is an enactment of a story read by a grandfather to his ill grandson about a beautiful young woman named Buttercup—who must be rescued from the evil Prince Humperdinck and reunited with her true love, Westley.

Thanks to a thief, a swordsman and a giant (André), the lovers are reunited.

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