Rocky II
- Sylvester Stallone: Robert " Rocky" Balboa, sr.
- Talia Shire: Adrianna " Adrian " Pennino Balboa
- Burt Young: Paulie Pennino
- Seargeoh Stallone: Robert " Rocky" Balboa, Jr.
- Carl Weathers: Apollo Creed
- Burgess Meredith: Michael " Mickey" Goldmill
- Tony Burton Tony "Duke" Evers
- Joe Spinell: Tony Gazzo
- Leonard Gaines: Agent
- Sylvia Meals: Mary Anne Creed
- Frank McRae: Meat Foreman
Rocky II is a boxing film from 1979 and the sequel to Sylvester Stallone's Rocky movie that made him internationally known in 1976. Stallone wrote the script again and this time also led director.
Action
Rocky II includes thematically immediately adjacent to the first part. Although Apollo Creed initially refused a new fight against Rocky Balboa, he changes his mind and now wants to read the rematch. Reason is the many abusive letters addressed to him, in which he represented as a loser and the struggle and his victory as rigged - the Creed can not agree with his honor. Now, it is the freshly married with Adrian Balboa, who wants to deny any rematch. His coach Mickey makes clear to him with a slap in the face that he is not in a position due to the restricted field of view due to the eye injury from the first fight to deny more fights. In addition, Rocky loses his job at the slaughterhouse. Only when provoked by Creed Rocky public TV, change Balboa and coach Mickey your opinion. You take on the challenge.
But rather than play some decent football in the first fight to train, Rocky Balboa is only very half-hearted approach to his training. Reason is his pregnant wife, who absolutely do not agree with this fight because she fears for Rocky's eyesight. After his wife after the birth of his son and still falls into a coma, Rocky is hardly to be completed in able to get a halfway decent workout. That makes his coach Mickey furious, he prophesied that Creed Balboa will kill in the ring.
The situation changes drastically when Adrian awoke from the coma and Rocky insistently asks to deny the fight and to win. Rocky takes the workout with a tremendous ferocity and motivation again and on the day of the fight in top shape.
In the ring Creed predicted towards the audience cocky a victory by KO in the third round. But it is different. The fight is over the entire distance, with both boxers giving anything away. Allen is incomprehensible what the two even still keeps on his feet after many grueling matches. In the final round both boxers go to a slugfest to the ground; the referee begins to count them. When " 9 " manages Rocky, reeling and exhausted to get back on its feet, while Creed is exhausted are in the ring.
Rocky Balboa did it: He is the world champion in the heavyweight division.
Awards
The film won in 1980 the American Movie Award and a People's Choice Award.
Reviews
" [ ... ] Rehash of the first Rocky spectacle [ ... ] Again, great fight scenes with a very committed Stallone, the rest is promoted chatter, cinematic passable, ideologically undemanding. "
" The somewhat simple, transparent dramaturgy does not have much relation to reality, but conveys positive feeling values . Instead of careful drawing the figure [ ... ] Rocky' sequel mainly supplies sentimentality and strong-arm tactics. "
The Film Review Board Wiesbaden gave the production value the predicate.