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      PG 2015 1 hr. 32 min. Kids & Family Comedy Adventure TRAILER for Russell Madness: Trailer 1 List
      Reviews 35% 100+ Ratings Audience Score A terrier named Russell (Sean Giambrone) is adopted by a family that runs a pro-wrestling arena. With help from a savvy monkey, Russell becomes an amazing wrestler and rockets to the top of the sports world. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Oct 01 Buy Now

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      Audience Member Terrible like most of Robert (Crapert) Vince's later films in 2010's decade. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Disappointingly low budget; for Kate Reinders completists Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Nick J I love sports movies. I also love dog movies. If you are like me then, or just like one of those options, you will like Russell Madness. It is a funny movie about a dog who is really good at wrestling. I typically don't like wrestling. I think it's cheesy ad staged. Of course, this is staged, because it is a movie, but it wasn't cheesy. It was just fun. Russel Madness was just a fun, relaxing, sports and dog movie. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/16/19 Full Review Audience Member The Air Bud crew wanted to called this trainwreck of a wrestling film "Russel Mania" and the WWE stopped them in their trackswith the title. This movie has been inducted by Wrestlecrap.com and reviewed by Brian Zane of Wrestling WIth Wregret. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member silly but good family fun Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member It's everything I wanted from a dumb talking animal movie. So this is about a family that inherits an old arena. A dog wanders into their lives, and it turns out that he's pretty good at wrestling. With the help of a talking monkey, they are going to restore the old family wrestling business. I watched this with my wife at the height of my Oscar crunch, and with good reason: it was on Netflix, and I needed a good, dumb movie to help me counterbalance all of the prestigious works I had been taking in recently. You know, the Yin to the Yang. While my wife fell asleep about halfway through, I stuck it through till the end, and it was everything I hoped it would be. Now don't get me wrong, this is by no means a good movie, and it does overstay its welcome, even at a brief 92-minute runtime. It's the same grade as the movies that get made to be released directly to the Disney channel, but it's so absurd and bizarre that the only reaction that my brain could have was to laugh, if only as a coping mechanism. There's a recurring dog urine joke and there are puns. SO many puns. There is a mischievous talking monkey in this, and I had no rightly idea that you could make this many puns about bananas. If you take a shot every time there is banana pun in this, I promise you, you would be passed out on the floor with alcohol poisoning before the end credits role. The most hilarious thing about this is that they don't even understand the basic concepts of wrestling. Completely ignoring the fact that this is a dog participating in an event for humans, they have the matches continue king of the hill style, i.e. if you win, you immediately fight the next contender. I've no wrestling expert, but I've never seen any event like that, and I'm somebody who has actually attended a wrestling event live before. Proving the fact that he will star in anything, this also features a small role from Fred Willard as an announcer, and all it does is add to the preposterous nature of this story. It's by no means a good movie, but I would be lying if I said that I wasn't able to laugh at it, if not with it. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Pat Padua Spectrum Culture This is thoroughly wholesome humor, albeit with the cartoon violence of the wrestling world, but the director's fondness for that milieu is contagious, and keeps this thoroughly inconsequential but fairly enjoyable diversion from going down for the count. Rated: 3/5 Aug 28, 2018 Full Review Renee Schonfeld Common Sense Media Wrestling mayhem, potty humor in silly dog movie. Rated: 2/5 Feb 20, 2015 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis A terrier named Russell (Sean Giambrone) is adopted by a family that runs a pro-wrestling arena. With help from a savvy monkey, Russell becomes an amazing wrestler and rockets to the top of the sports world.
      Director
      Robert Vince
      Executive Producer
      Anna McRoberts, Robert Vince
      Screenwriter
      Aaron Brooks, Kirsten Hansen, Anna McRoberts, Robert Vince
      Production Co
      Air Bud Entertainment
      Rating
      PG (Sports Action|Some Rude Humor)
      Genre
      Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Nov 25, 2015
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