Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Michael_Elliott Ringmaster (1998) * (out of 4)Horrid movie about a bunch of trash going onto a television show hosted by Jerry Springer in order to air their dirty laundry. The main guests are a mother (Molly Hagan) who learns that her daughter (Jaime Pressley) is sleeping with her husband (daughter's stepdad). I'm sure there are many people who hate the original Springer show so they'd actually sit through this movie just so they could tell everyone how bad it was. That's not me because I'll admit that I used to get a kick out of watching the show when I was a teenager but having not seen an episode in ages and then revisited it via this movie, I do wonder what I was thinking. However, I'm really not going to hold this movie against the show but I think it proves that the trash on it can be tolerated in 10-minute segments but whenever you try to stretch those stories into a full feature the results can be disastrous. What really killed this movie isn't that it's trash but it's the fact that nothing fun ever happens. The entire group of characters are just boring stereotypes who do just about everything you'd expect them to do. The white trash come to L.A. to get on the show and then the mom and daughter start trying to sleep with a black man from Detroit who is on the show because he cheated on his girlfriend. His other girlfriend and lover then get mad at the white girls and so goes even more fighting. I will admit that a couple of the one-liners are good but as a whole this is just a really poor movie. The performances by Pressly and Hagan are actually good and they do bring some life to the characters but there's simply nothing there. RINGMASTER is a perfect example of a major screw-up.

nojunk_3 I've seen the real TV show a few times, so i knew what it was about, before i watched it. I wasn't to interested in seeing it, because of that reason. The movie is great, because of the acting, Springer was the worst actor in the movie. For me it was hard to believe the actors weren't real. It felt like a reality program, i guess. I had to reminded myself that's it's only a movie, a few times. Jaime Pressly was really good at playing the character she had, kinda like the same character, on my name is Earl. The rest of the cast is good too. Molly Hagan plays Jamie's mother in the movie, she was a stand out also. I loved the movie, but not the TV show, weird.

lambiepie-2 The Jerry Springer show is a guilty pleasure to watch. It's one of those programs you watch to say, "thank goodness that's not me!" You're not sure whether people truly exist in the world like this (and if they do, its sad!) or whether this is all staged. Regardless, the Jerry Springer Show captured attention. This film was horrid.It's not as though the Jerry Springer Show doesn't capitalize on every stereotype there is, but in this movie it was just blatantly obvious and at times mean spirited. As if someone who had hatred for everyone got backing to do a movie and let out all of that hatred on film AND got away with it under the name and theme of the "Jerry Springer Show".Horrid.

Dr. Gore *SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*Jaime Pressly as a horny trailer park girl? Great! I saw "Ringmaster" in the theater. I was all alone. The theater was completely empty. No one else dared. I had seen commercials for the movie and was attracted to the blond girl in the movie, (Jaime Pressly). I had a movie pass at the time which let me get into movies for free. A love connection was made and the movie pass took me to see "Ringmaster".First off, let me say that I am not a big fan of Jerry Springer. In fact, I have never seen a single show. Honest! I only know of him through pop culture osmosis. I knew his show was trashy and the trailers for the flick looked trashy. Trashy I like. So I had to see it.The movie focuses on the guests of his show and why they would humiliate themselves on TV. Jerry's defense is that the poor people of America deserve a spot on TV too. He's the facilitator. He lets the poor speak out and be stupid. The working class has a hero and it's Jerry Springer. He is the Ringmaster.So to give some background to all these human freak shows that run across the TV screen, we get to see the guest's life stories. Here is where the movie gets a little interesting. Jaime Pressly is the hot babe in the trailer park who sleeps with her step dad and a lot of other people. Jaime Pressly is the living embodiment of sex. Other females look away in shame. It's no wonder her step dad wants her. Her nakedness is what propels this movie into more than just a flick about guests on a trashy talk show. OK. OK. It's not much more than that but Jaime Pressly is still volcano-level hot. If you like seeing Jaime Pressly getting it on, (and what sane man doesn't?), check out this flick.