Film Review - Fighting with my Family (2019)

Fighting with my Family is written and directed by Stephen Merchant (the Swan caller in Hot Fuzz) and stars Florence Pugh as Paige, a young girl who comes from a wrestling family in England and along with her brother Zack get to try out in London with the WWE training program run by Vince Vaughn but things will get a lot harder from there.

Fighting with my Family was a very nice surprise of a movie and it was one I didn’t really expect much from mainly because I’m not really into wrestling but there are 2 main reasons I feel this movie was fun to watch.

The first is Mr Merchant’s script, it is great fun and more than once had me laughing properly out loud in my cinema seat, it also helps that his direction also inspires some great performances from his cast, Dwayne Johnson who also helped produce this movie is his usual charming and likeable self in a small role, Nick Frost continues to always be funny at least to me as Paige’s dad, Lena Headey was good as Paige’s mum while Mr Vaughn was also good as the WWE trainer.

But this is Florence’s movie and her performance is so likeable you really go on this journey with her and you want her to succeed at her goal, it’s the kind of performance that really drives the best of these sport movies whether its Sly in the Rocky series to use as an example or here that kind of performance is very important to these movies and it has one of those here.

And so that was Fighting with my Family, a fun sports wrestling movie that has a good script and performances and even non wrestling fans will have fun here, 3 out of 5.