Bring on the 80's!

Rating: 7/10 (15 August 2006)

In this third installment of the franchise started by the winner of the 1976 Academy Award for Best Picture, the Eighties rushes in like a tidal wave. Lucky for us, the Balboa gang is already hip to the decade - just don't take it seriously, that's the key. Honestly, if you want a good reminiscent chuckle of the Rubik's cube era but still want to be entertained, it's hard to beat Rocky III. The film has everything Eighties: the montage, the brightly colored clothes, Hulk Hogan playing a character named Thunderlips... The two main sources of Eighties power? The introduction of Survivor's musical Van Gogh "Eye of the Tiger" and Rocky's opponent Clubber Lang, played by none other than Mr. T. My favorite scene is without a doubt the montage of the two fighters getting fit for the match (Balboa and new manager Apollo Creed running on the beach, Clubber doing chin-ups in a dungeon, etc.). Enough jibba-jabba; see Rocky III.