Fist Fight
Comedy starring Charlie Day (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) as a high school teacher challenged to an after-school fight by an irate colleague (Ice Cube).
On the last day of the year, mild-mannered high school English teacher Andy Campbell (Day) is trying to keep it together amidst senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration and budget cuts that put jobs on the line. But things deteriorate when he accidentally crosses his much tougher and deeply feared colleague, Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), who subsequently challenges Campbell to an old-fashioned throw down after school. News of the fight spreads like wildfire and ends up becoming the very thing this school, and Campbell, needed.
- Director:
- Richie Keen (TV's 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia')
- Writer:
- Van RobichauxEvan Susser
- Cast:
- Ice CubeCharlie DayTracy MorganJillian BellChristina HendricksKumail NanjianiKym WhitleyDean Norris
Reviews & comments
Village Voice
pressFist Fight isn't there to make you think, but to make you laugh, and it mostly does.
Variety
pressBy far the most disheartening studio-produced movie in recent memory, setting an abysmal example for anyone who goes to school (or the movies, for that matter) still hoping to learn.
The New York Times
pressIt did give me something I needed. Not catharsis or uplift but a bracing dose of profane, sloppy, reasonably well-directed hostility. We take what we can get.
Rolling Stone
pressDay's the runt, Cube is the bully, and for a punishing 91 minutes of rank idiocy we wait in vain for something funny to happen.
Los Angeles Times
pressFor much of its fast-paced running time, the film... is just amusing enough to make up for its sheer preposterousness; it operates in such a seemingly far-fetched world that logic is out the window at pretty much hello.
Hollywood Reporter
pressRepresents a missed opportunity, given the talents of this charismatic and game cast.
Collider
pressThe laziest kind of comedy, and a waste of time for everyone involved, including the audience.
Village Voice
pressFist Fight isn't there to make you think, but to make you laugh, and it mostly does.
Variety
pressBy far the most disheartening studio-produced movie in recent memory, setting an abysmal example for anyone who goes to school (or the movies, for that matter) still hoping to learn.
The New York Times
pressIt did give me something I needed. Not catharsis or uplift but a bracing dose of profane, sloppy, reasonably well-directed hostility. We take what we can get.
Rolling Stone
pressDay's the runt, Cube is the bully, and for a punishing 91 minutes of rank idiocy we wait in vain for something funny to happen.
Los Angeles Times
pressFor much of its fast-paced running time, the film... is just amusing enough to make up for its sheer preposterousness; it operates in such a seemingly far-fetched world that logic is out the window at pretty much hello.
Hollywood Reporter
pressRepresents a missed opportunity, given the talents of this charismatic and game cast.
Collider
pressThe laziest kind of comedy, and a waste of time for everyone involved, including the audience.
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