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The Itallian Chicken!

Advantages: Excellent story, great acting, brilliant fight scenes
Disadvantages: Black hat and bouncy ball drove me mad!

...we watched Rocky 1 and then Rocky 3 and now we are back to Rocky 2. It really is a good job I have seen these film several times before so I can follow them and not mind the order we are watching them in. At the star ...

sewbizzie 07.08.2009 · Read full review
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Rocky Is Back!

Advantages: Stallone at his best
Disadvantages: None

...The second instalment of the series of Rocky films leaves off exactly where the first one ends, i.e. directly after the fight with Apollo Creed. It’s quickly established that Rocky, seemingly under the advice of Adrian and the doctors, has decided that he ...

mattydalton 27.03.2011 · Read full review
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Rocky 2

Advantages: More great action from inside and ouside the ring
Disadvantages: none really

Director: Sylvester Stallone Producers: Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler Writer: Sylvester Stallone Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith and Tony Burton Released in 1979, 3 years after the original, th ...

blissman70 06.08.2008 · Read full review
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Sometimes walking the same road can be almost as sweet

Advantages: A great balance of drama and action that does not compromise the integrity of the original
Disadvantages: Don't expect a more glossy sheen to the franchise until the next one!

...A common historical error is to look back at events with the benefit of hindsight. It is hard today not to look at Rocky as an inevitable franchise. However, this wasn't so obvious with Rocky. For a start it was three years for the sequel's release indica ...

BlackSwan 25.02.2010 · Read full review
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Round two, and still going strong

Advantages: A solid follow-up, good performances, exciting fight scenes
Disadvantages: Doesn't quite live up to its predecessor

...It's often been said that each of the movies in the Rocky series essentially represents Stallone's career at the time, charting his rise from obscurity (Rocky), his struggles to stay at the top (Rocky III and IV), his decline from the glory days (Rocky V) ...

Dr-Jones 13.10.2009 · Read full review
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