WrestleMania 21 (2005) (TV)

Director:

Kevin Dunn

Writers:

Ed Koskey (writer)
David J. Lagana (writer)

Release Date:

3 April 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Sport

Tagline:

WrestleMania Goes Hollywood

Plot:

Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero, Money in the Bank Ladder Match - Edge vs Kane vs Christian vs Chris Benoit vs Shelton Benjamin vs Chris Jericho...

Plot Keywords:

WWE | Sumo Wrestler | Wrestling | Wrestlemania

Cast

Akebono	...	Himself
Kurt Angle	...	Himself
Matt Anoai	...	Rosey
Apl.de.Ap	...	Himself (as Black Eyed Peas)
David Arquette	...	Himself
Steve Austin	...	Himself (as Stone Cold Steve Austin)
Doug Basham	...	Himself
Dave Batista	...	Himself
Shelton Benjamin	...	Himself
Chris Benoit	...	Himself
Eric Bischoff	...	Himself
Michael Bucci	...	Simon Dean
Carlos Cabrera	...	Himself
Mark Calaway	...	The Undertaker
John Cena	...	Himself
Tony Chimel	...	Himself
Mike Chioda	...	Himself
Jonathan Coachman	...	Himself
Michael Cole	...	Himself
Carlos Colon Jr.	...	Carlito (as Carlito Caribbean Cool)
Rob Conway	...	Himself
Adam Copeland	...	Edge
Billy Corgan	...	Himself
Ice Cube	...	Himself
Shawn Daivari	...	Himself (as Khosrow Daivari)
Lou D'angeli	...	Himself
Nick Dinsmore	...	Eugene
Jack Doan	...	Himself
Amy Dumas	...	Herself (as Lita)
Rene Dupree	...	Himself
Carmen Electra	...	Herself
Lillian Ellison	...	The Fabulous Moolah (as The Fabulous Moolah)
Stacy Ferguson	...	Herself (as Fergie)
Howard Finkel	...	Himself
Ric Flair	...	Himself
Nelson Frazier Jr.	...	Viscera
Sho Funaki	...	Himself (as Funaki)
Lilián García	...	Herself
Jackie Gayda	...	Herself (as Miss Jackie)
Terry Gerin	...	Rhyno
Billy Gibbons	...	Himself
Joy Giovanni	...	Herself
Nora Greenwald	...	Molly Holly
Sylvain Grenier	...	Himself
Peter Gruner	...	Billy Kidman
Eddie Guerrero	...	Himself
Oscar Gutiérrez	...	Rey Mysterio
Charlie Haas	...	Himself
Jimmy Hart	...	Himself
Brian Hebner	...	Himself
Earl Hebner	...	Himself
Bobby Heenan	...	Himself
Jon Heidenreich	...	Himself (as Heidenreich)
Marg Helgenberger	...	Herself
Shane Helms	...	The Hurricane
Christie Hemme	...	Herself (as Christy Hemme)
Brooke Hogan	...	Herself
Hulk Hogan	...	Himself
Linda Hogan	...	Herself
Nick Hogan	...	Himself
Dan Hollie	...	Danny Basham
Bob Howard	...	Hardcore Holly
Booker Huffman	...	Booker T
Maven Huffman	...	Himself (as Maven)
Matt Hyson	...	Himself (as Spike Dudley)
Glenn Jacobs	...	Himself (as Kane)
Chris Jericho	...	Himself
Mark Jindrak	...	Himself
Orlando Jordan	...	Himself
Maria Kanellis	...	Herself
Stacy Keibler	...	Herself
Anthony Kiedis	...	Himself
Jimmy Korderas	...	Himself
Jerry Lawler	...	Himself
John Layfield	...	Himself (as John Bradshaw Layfield)
Lemmy	...	Himself (with Motorhead)
Paul Levesque	...	Triple H
Paul London	...	Himself
Mark Magnus	...	Muhammad Hassan
Darren Matthews	...	William Regal
Michelle McCool	...	Herself
Linda McMahon	...	Herself
Marissa McMahon	...	Herself (as Marissa Mazzola)
Shane McMahon	...	Himself
Stephanie McMahon	...	Herself
Shawn Michaels	...	Himself
Candice Michelle	...	Herself
Chris Mordetzky	...	'The Masterpiece' Chris Masters
Sean Morley	...	Val Venis
Gene Okerlund	...	Himself
Paul Orndorff	...	Himself
Bob Orton	...	Himself
Randy Orton	...	Himself
Nick Patrick	...	Himself
Chad Patton	...	Himself
Josip Peruzovic	...	Nikolai Volkoff
Roddy Piper	...	Himself (as 'Rowdy Roddy' Piper)
Jason Reso	...	Christian
Charles Robinson	...	Himself
Jim Ross	...	Himself
Adam Sandler	...	Himself
Will Sasso	...	Himself
Hugo Savinovich	...	Himself
Rob Schneider	...	Himself
Peter Senerchia	...	Tazz
Gene Snitsky	...	Himself
Sylvester Stallone	...	Himself
James Stone	...	Nunzio
Trish Stratus	...	Herself
Taboo	...	Himself (as Black Eyed Peas)
Yoshihiro Tajiri	...	Himself (as Tajiri)
Scott Taylor	...	Scotty 2 Hotty
Travis Tomko	...	Tyson Tomko
Ren Urano	...	Sumo Referee
Khosrow Vaziri	...	Himself (as The Iron Sheik)
Matt 'Horshu' Wiese	...	Luther Reigns
Paul Wight	...	Big Show
Will i Am	...	Himself (as Black Eyed Peas)
Torrie Wilson	...	Herself
Jimmy Yang	...	Himself (as Akio)
Mark Yeaton	...	Himself
Mae Young	...	Herself

Runtime:

USA:275 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Staples Center - 1111 S. Figueroa Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

Trivia:

This was the first WrestleMania since the brand extension in which both the WWE and World Heavyweight titles changed hands with John Cena winning the WWE and Dave Batista winning the World Heavyweight.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Taxi Driver (1976)

Soundtrack:

Bigtime

Not the best, but still good

Wrestlemania 21 Goes Hollywood.

Eddie Gurrero vs Rey Mysterio. 8/10. Good fast paced match, though it's not what I expected as I remember the two's WCW cruiserweight days. Kinda depressing that at WM 20 Eddie beat Kurt Angle to retain the WWE Title, now he's jobbing to Rey in the opener.

Money In The Bank Ladder Match: 8/10 A six man ladder match in where the winner gets a title shot with Jericho and Shelton Benjamin in it. How can the WWE screw this up? By having Edge win the match. I don't get his gimmick and I don't think he draws enough. I thought Shelton or Jericho should've won because of their superior skills, but the WWE in their infinite wisdom thought otherwise.

Undertaker vs Randy Orton: 9/10 Taker can still wrestle, but Randy shows that he doesn't need any ring vets to carry him. Both do an exceptional job in a nail-biter of a match. The best part was when Orton managed to reverse a chokeslam into the RKO. Surprised the heck outta me. The run in with Cowboy Bob Orton was also a nice piece of nostalgia, especially with the infamous cast. Taker now 13-0.

Trish Stratus (c) vs Christy Hemme WWE Women's Title Match : 2/10 WHY DID THEY HIRE CHRISTY? She is untalented, and not very attractive. You can see how angry Trish got at the end of the match as she attempted to carry Christy in this train wreck.

HBK Shawn Michaels vs Kurt Angle 10/10: Match of the night. This needed to be the main event. It was darn good and suspenseful. Both men showed why they are some of the greatest wrestlers of all time. It seemed that Angle rose like a bat outta hell in this match which made it all better.

Sumo Match Akebono vs Big Show: 6/10 Entertaining for a couple seconds, then you realise how little clothing Big Show is wearing, which is really scary.

JBL (c) vs John Cena WWE Heavyweight Championship: 6/10 More of a slow brawl than a good match. It seemed neither was quite ready for this one. Cena is becoming like Hulk Hogan as he only ends a match in a certain way every time. The crowd was pretty out of it as they knew the Cena would win the title, and when he did, they exploded.

HHH (c) vs Batista World Heavyweight Championship Match: 7/10 HHH carried Batista for most of this match. Flair interfered which got some boos, but mostly wooooos. It was pretty sick on how much HHH bled during the match. There was a good feeling that Batista took the title from HHH since he won it from Unforgiven a year before. But there should've been more. I can say that Batista is improving and his ring skills aren't as sloppy as they use to be.

Not the best, but entertaining.