The "Rocky" series is one of those film series that slowly gets lesser and lesser as you move down the line of movies. At least for the first five. Each subsequent movie feels like the previous but with just more and more dramatic storytelling gone. This might as well be called "Montage: The Movie", cause I wanna say there's at least five or six of them in the movie and they probably take up a third of the runtime. It's already a shorter movie at ninety minutes.
I don't think it's a terrible movie, it's got a lot of heart and it's definitely just as entertaining as "Rocky III", but this one really cranks up the comedy. Paulie (Burt Young) is particularly annoying in this movie. I never really loved the character; I thought he was kind of rude and awful to his sister in the first two movies. Racist in the third movie. But in this one he's just downright an awful character. He's only there as the butt of all jokes, and also whimpering and cowering around Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) like a puppy. The scene where he gets the robot as the birthday present is just awful too. Talia Shire's Adrian also takes a backseat to the plot in this one.
For a Cold War film, it honestly doesn't take a strong political stance, more so just that the war itself and the cultural differences between the US and the Soviets is all kind of stupid.
The final fight is mediocre too. Out of all of the original movies, I think "Rocky III" definitely had the best one. But they're blown out of the water anyways by all of the fights in the "Creed" movies.
The further you go down the original five movie "Rocky" pipeline, the worse it gets. If you've made it this far, you'll probably think it was a fun and innocuous sports movie. That's all it really is, it's just kind of there as entertainment. It does its job nicely but I really prefer the original film over any of the sequels.
I don't think it's a terrible movie, it's got a lot of heart and it's definitely just as entertaining as "Rocky III", but this one really cranks up the comedy. Paulie (Burt Young) is particularly annoying in this movie. I never really loved the character; I thought he was kind of rude and awful to his sister in the first two movies. Racist in the third movie. But in this one he's just downright an awful character. He's only there as the butt of all jokes, and also whimpering and cowering around Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) like a puppy. The scene where he gets the robot as the birthday present is just awful too. Talia Shire's Adrian also takes a backseat to the plot in this one.
For a Cold War film, it honestly doesn't take a strong political stance, more so just that the war itself and the cultural differences between the US and the Soviets is all kind of stupid.
The final fight is mediocre too. Out of all of the original movies, I think "Rocky III" definitely had the best one. But they're blown out of the water anyways by all of the fights in the "Creed" movies.
The further you go down the original five movie "Rocky" pipeline, the worse it gets. If you've made it this far, you'll probably think it was a fun and innocuous sports movie. That's all it really is, it's just kind of there as entertainment. It does its job nicely but I really prefer the original film over any of the sequels.