Do yourself a favor and don't watch this movie. Laughably bad performances and a laughably bad script.
9 Reviews
Could possibly be the worst movie ever made.
dreamweaver21212 January 2021
Horrible movie
davidnw-8286028 February 2021
An Idiot's Tale
statmanjeff31 December 2021
So bad it might be good. Straightaway reminiscent of "Melos: The Hands of Fate" in terms of production quality, storytelling, acting, et cetera. Fully expect this to appear on MST3K (if they're still around). The only legitimate wrestling appears in the opening montage, showing that the boy has wrestling talent. Elsewhere this is pure dreck, full of idiot characters along with a small smattering of Big Time wrestling.
Not enough thought has gone into the script. For example: one scene displays wordplay on "bear" versus "bare," as in "the cupboard is bare" versus "a bear in the woods." No one considers that someone might be "bare" in the woods, or that there could be a "bear" hiding in a cupboard. Nor does this extend to anyone needing some "Bayer" aspirin for a possible headache, in which there might be some "Bayer" in a medicine cabinet.
Not enough thought has gone into the script. For example: one scene displays wordplay on "bear" versus "bare," as in "the cupboard is bare" versus "a bear in the woods." No one considers that someone might be "bare" in the woods, or that there could be a "bear" hiding in a cupboard. Nor does this extend to anyone needing some "Bayer" aspirin for a possible headache, in which there might be some "Bayer" in a medicine cabinet.
Awful, even by Xtian and Del Vechio standards
krader-imdb28 December 2022
I, thankfully, did not watch this abomination. I did, however, listen to the review by the God Awful Movies team. Note that I employ a 1 to 5 scale when rating movies because I feel anything more fine grained is silly. So my two star rating really means one star. Nonetheless, I was sorely tempted to give this a single star as an indication that it has zero redeeming values. If Ken Del Vechio had been a film school student this, and every one of his other films, would have been graded as a failure. Even his previous film, "A Karate Christmas Miracle" was (marginally) better than this stillborn waste of celluloid.
Offensive to the senses
shawn-boucke2 January 2022
Anyone can see those who made the movie are trying to inflate the rating with 10/10. This is insulting in the first few minutes towards those with autism, the blind and the hard of hearing. As the movie goes on it becomes increasingly raciest, and a collection of ignorant voices/accents.
This movie makes me physically ill. It's not funny, it's not heartwarming, it's nothing but uncomfortable. If you want a movie that's so bad it's good... avoid this. It's just bad. Very very bad.
This movie makes me physically ill. It's not funny, it's not heartwarming, it's nothing but uncomfortable. If you want a movie that's so bad it's good... avoid this. It's just bad. Very very bad.
What...?
RThyrring26 December 2023
I don't even know where to begin with for this movie...?
Mainly it was just a bunch of random segments trying to tie together to one cohisive story that really made no sense at all...!
The best I could gather from the story: it's about a junior wrestler who gives up the sport to make a movie he hopes will wake up his comatose friend for Christmas, with the help from his father who is an Olympian wrestler with a strange side career himself - and that's how I can describe it to the best of my ability.
To call it a movie is a bit of a stretch - I would rather describe it as a fever dream that had somewhat of a concept behind it.
Mainly it was just a bunch of random segments trying to tie together to one cohisive story that really made no sense at all...!
The best I could gather from the story: it's about a junior wrestler who gives up the sport to make a movie he hopes will wake up his comatose friend for Christmas, with the help from his father who is an Olympian wrestler with a strange side career himself - and that's how I can describe it to the best of my ability.
To call it a movie is a bit of a stretch - I would rather describe it as a fever dream that had somewhat of a concept behind it.
I shudder to imagine how bad the previous film was!
planktonrules6 October 2023
I am a self-created expert on terrible films. After reading the funny book "The 50 Worst Films of All Time", I decided to see all 50 and review them. Then, wanting to see more dreck, I saw nearly all of the Bottom 100 on IMDB...and many hundreds more awful films. I mention this because I'd place "A Wrestling Christmas Miracle" near the bottom of all these terrible films...it's that bad.
The project was apparently the brainchild of Ken Del Vecchio, who apparently was behind quite a few other films...including a film which is almost a prequel to this film, "A Karate Christmas Miracle". It has a score of 1.8 on IMDB...even lower than the 2.2 for this film. The boy who plays the lead is Mario Del Vecchio, who is probably Ken's son...though I wasn't able to figure out their exact relationship. But since the boy is only 11 in this film, I won't criticize his acting, as it would seem cruel.
This is the insane plot: Kace (Mario) is an athlete who is amazing at wrestling and football. His father is an Olympic champion who won't be home for Christmas because he's due to wrestle an elephant and a giraffe in the Congo. But he really is going there to lead a coup. As for Kace, he's given up sports to devote all his time to making a movie which will be so funny and wonderful that it will awaken his best friend who is in a coma. But an idiot and his even dumber girlfriend (who were in the movie) have stolen the only copy of the movie and want a million dollars or they'll sell it to some sleazy filmmaker. Also, at times, the film is a film within a film, with a large list of Z-list actors in it, including Todd Bridges (Willis from "Different Strokes"), Jimmy Walker (the guy from "Good Times", not the dead ex-mayor of NY), Gilbert Gottfried (the annoying voice of that duck from insurance ads) and Michael Winslow (the man who makes goofy sounds in the "Police Academy" movies).
Does any of the story make sense or make you laugh? No. Instead, it honestly looks like a vanity project some friends made, though how they got the Z-listers in it, I have no idea (perhaps they offered them a free lunch). All I know it that it is unfunny and bad...jaw-droppingly bad. But considering how few people have seen it, I strongly doubt if it could ever make it to the IMDB Bottom 100, as they require 10000 votes first...and this one falls far short. Overall, a film bad enough to challenge the "Fred" movies for a spot on anyone's list of terrible movies.
The project was apparently the brainchild of Ken Del Vecchio, who apparently was behind quite a few other films...including a film which is almost a prequel to this film, "A Karate Christmas Miracle". It has a score of 1.8 on IMDB...even lower than the 2.2 for this film. The boy who plays the lead is Mario Del Vecchio, who is probably Ken's son...though I wasn't able to figure out their exact relationship. But since the boy is only 11 in this film, I won't criticize his acting, as it would seem cruel.
This is the insane plot: Kace (Mario) is an athlete who is amazing at wrestling and football. His father is an Olympic champion who won't be home for Christmas because he's due to wrestle an elephant and a giraffe in the Congo. But he really is going there to lead a coup. As for Kace, he's given up sports to devote all his time to making a movie which will be so funny and wonderful that it will awaken his best friend who is in a coma. But an idiot and his even dumber girlfriend (who were in the movie) have stolen the only copy of the movie and want a million dollars or they'll sell it to some sleazy filmmaker. Also, at times, the film is a film within a film, with a large list of Z-list actors in it, including Todd Bridges (Willis from "Different Strokes"), Jimmy Walker (the guy from "Good Times", not the dead ex-mayor of NY), Gilbert Gottfried (the annoying voice of that duck from insurance ads) and Michael Winslow (the man who makes goofy sounds in the "Police Academy" movies).
Does any of the story make sense or make you laugh? No. Instead, it honestly looks like a vanity project some friends made, though how they got the Z-listers in it, I have no idea (perhaps they offered them a free lunch). All I know it that it is unfunny and bad...jaw-droppingly bad. But considering how few people have seen it, I strongly doubt if it could ever make it to the IMDB Bottom 100, as they require 10000 votes first...and this one falls far short. Overall, a film bad enough to challenge the "Fred" movies for a spot on anyone's list of terrible movies.
Takedown
BandSAboutMovies26 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I was let down, as I believed that A Karate Christmas Miracle was a singular work of a hundred monkeys in a room with a hundred typewriters for a hundred years, but this is just the same story beats transposed into a different tale: Mario Del Vecchio is not a karate student this time, but instead Kace Gabriel, the son of legendary Olympic wrestler Ajax Gabriel (writer and producer, as well as father, Kenneth Del Vecchio), is such a good wrestler - a point hammered home by promo and video of the preteen dominating other kids - that he decides to retire and fulfill his life's goal. That goal? Make a movie so funny that it wakes his best friend Charlie (Vaughn Harrison Oberhuber) from his coma.
All the players from A Karate Christmas Miracle are here, with Candy Fox, the babysitter from that film, now playing the mother Cassandra. Knowing how important this movie is to her son, she trusts her drunken brother Ronald (Scott Schwartz, who was once in a majorly awarded Christmas movie and oh yeah, also did adult) and two of the actors - Chuck (Buddy Matthews) and Kitty Kat (Julie McCullough, who is not as deranged as she was in Del Vecchio's last film, which both makes me happy and sad) - steal the film and want some money and maybe have a bomb and there's a Mexican standoff ended by the kid all while dad is in the Congo battling the forces of Communism or Socialism and a five-second Google search would have told you that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a nominally centralized constitutional republic but then we'd be robbed of that endless POV shot of an old transistor radio being brought to the diner table of the villains.
The so-proclaimed movie so funny it'll take a kid out of a coma and get his mother to stop singing Christmas carols in her sad house is actually Del Veccchio's 2016 film Hospital Arrest which explains how Martin Kove, Jimmie Walker, Michael Winslow, Todd Bridges and Gilbert Gottfried can all be in this movie and Mario Del Vecchio still has top billing. I mean, if my son's home movies of him wrestling were in a film, I'd put him ahead of those guys too.
IMDB tells us that "The lead actor, Mario Del Vecchio, is a real-life outstanding youth wrestler, as well as a standout football player" so that means that the fact that we didn't get A Football Christmas Miracle this year means that either the elder Del Vecchio has run out of money, COVID-19 robbed us of last year's Kenneth Del Vecchio Hoboken International Film Festival where he gives awards to actors and then films scenes for his next movie or he's decided to go back into politics.
This movie is under 70 minutes long with most of that footage coming from that other movie and then you get eleven minutes of credits which are mostly holiday songs punctuated by Mario Del Vecchio straight-up wrecking kids on the mat, imposing his will on them and crushing their need to live. Do they know it's Christmas?
All the players from A Karate Christmas Miracle are here, with Candy Fox, the babysitter from that film, now playing the mother Cassandra. Knowing how important this movie is to her son, she trusts her drunken brother Ronald (Scott Schwartz, who was once in a majorly awarded Christmas movie and oh yeah, also did adult) and two of the actors - Chuck (Buddy Matthews) and Kitty Kat (Julie McCullough, who is not as deranged as she was in Del Vecchio's last film, which both makes me happy and sad) - steal the film and want some money and maybe have a bomb and there's a Mexican standoff ended by the kid all while dad is in the Congo battling the forces of Communism or Socialism and a five-second Google search would have told you that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a nominally centralized constitutional republic but then we'd be robbed of that endless POV shot of an old transistor radio being brought to the diner table of the villains.
The so-proclaimed movie so funny it'll take a kid out of a coma and get his mother to stop singing Christmas carols in her sad house is actually Del Veccchio's 2016 film Hospital Arrest which explains how Martin Kove, Jimmie Walker, Michael Winslow, Todd Bridges and Gilbert Gottfried can all be in this movie and Mario Del Vecchio still has top billing. I mean, if my son's home movies of him wrestling were in a film, I'd put him ahead of those guys too.
IMDB tells us that "The lead actor, Mario Del Vecchio, is a real-life outstanding youth wrestler, as well as a standout football player" so that means that the fact that we didn't get A Football Christmas Miracle this year means that either the elder Del Vecchio has run out of money, COVID-19 robbed us of last year's Kenneth Del Vecchio Hoboken International Film Festival where he gives awards to actors and then films scenes for his next movie or he's decided to go back into politics.
This movie is under 70 minutes long with most of that footage coming from that other movie and then you get eleven minutes of credits which are mostly holiday songs punctuated by Mario Del Vecchio straight-up wrecking kids on the mat, imposing his will on them and crushing their need to live. Do they know it's Christmas?
Im a Huge Fan
jesslovesra27 November 2020
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