The Rock Crocks Himself In The Name Of Disney

The Rock, as anyone with a massive collection of giant foam pointy hands will tell you, was a brilliant wrestler. Yup, The Rock really stood out from all the other shouting fat men with girly hair running around in their pants.

As an actor, though, The Rock is rubbish. You think The Rock is hardcore? You think The Rock is a massive invincible slab of all-American powerful fighting action? You're wrong - The Rock has just been put out of action for a few months because of an injury he picked up when he was practicing to be in a film. A Disney film. A Disney film about a man learning to find love in his heart for his abandoned daughter. The big jessie.

The Rock -who sometimes goes by the preposterous pseudonym Dwayne Johnson - was a big hitter in the WWF. Thanks to The Rock, big men with tiny heads and independently-moving eyebrows who only ever wore pants were able to hold their heads up high and say "Thank you, The Rock, for you have validated my freakish appearance."

As a moviestar, though, The Rock has had mixed fortunes. So far, his greatest achievement was to be the best thing in Be Cool, although we could have dressed up an incontinent goose in a top hat and a monocle and sent it running around the set spraying aristocratic goose poo all over Christina Milian's face and that would have been the best thing in Be Cool. Actually, it really would. But, apart from that and a spell exploding aliens in the Doom movie, The Rock's film career is a decidedly patchy affair.

All that could change, though, with The Game Plan - a Disney family movie about an American Football player who realises that he has a seven-year-old daughter. Oh, who are we kidding, The Game Plan sounds like one of the rubbishest ideas for a film in the history of ideas, but regardless of quality, The Rock is a professional and wanted to thoroughly get into the part as much as possible.

Now, this doesn't mean The Rock knocked up and abandoned a woman eight years ago and is now going through the emotional journey that only fatherhood can bring - it means The Rock played American Football for a bit. And crocked himself in the process. On Monday, The Rock ruptured his Achilles tendon while practicing his American Football skills and now needs surgery on it. This whole malarkey has set The Game Plan back months, but The Rock doesn't care, you candy-ass jabroni (we looked that last bit up). In a statement, The Rock said:

"I anticipate that with some TLC, pizza and a lot of donuts, I will be making a speedy recovery and will be able to get myself, and everyone who has been working so hard on this production, back to the business of doing what we love most, making movies."

Yeah! Making movies! Rubbish movies! Woo!

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The Rock's Injury Forces Changes In "The Game Plan" - Reuters

[story by Stuart Heritage]