IN the wake of the gross Farrelly Brothers and the goofing Adam Sandler comes the dimmest dumb American comedy of 2000, Ready To Rumble: celluloid waste dumped on Britain at the bin-end of the movie year.

It cannot be easy trying to satirise wrestling, that pantomime contact sport, when the World Wrestling Federation has already done a mighty fine job of it, but that doesn't stop Brian Robbins having a bash in a loud and lewd festival of dim-witted, tasteless humour.

Meet Gordie and Sean (David Arquette and Scott Caan, two adult actors pretending to be adolescents in dumb movie tradition). Gordie and Sean are two hick-town cleaning contractors with sewage for brains, junk food for sustenance and WCW wrestling champion Jimmy King (Oliver Platt) for idol worship.

When WCW puppet master Titus Sinclair (Joe Pantoliano) orders the termination of The King's reign, the boys vow to over-see his re-crowning in a re-match, seemingly not perturbed by the sorry sight of him in women's clothing, in a trailer, boozed out of his head.

Dumb movies need to be stupid-clever; Ready to Rumble is merely stupid-stupid, tiresome in its testosterone-fuelled attitude to women, wasteful in its use of comic loose cannon Platt; outstaying its welcome as much as the American presidential election.

For the verdict on Ready To Rumble, consider the contents of Gordie and Sean's truck.