In a comeback that nobody, make that everybody, saw coming, Rocky Balboa is returning to the screen.

Sylvester Stallone reprises his role as lovable underdog Rocky Balboa. This time the aged Rocky is brought back to fight a brash young upstart. An ESPN computer model says that the new champion wouldn’t measure up to Rocky and of course we have to find out if this is true.

The original Rocky was loved by all but the sequels became somewhat of a joke as he fought Hulk Hogan, Mr. T, a steroid pumped Russian and Tommy Gunn (Tommy Morrison). The premise became a little bit hard to swallow and the series fell from its original Oscar-winning grace. This film goes back to its roots.

The film takes us to many places the original did. We have the training scenes, Rocky eating raw eggs and pounding sides of beef. We have him at the top of the steps in Philadelphia with his fist raised.

In the end this is a film that works. We have a film that will (hopefully) end the franchise with dignity and go out the way it came in.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 at 8:08 pm and is filed under Actors, Movies. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Be sure to subscribe to the PopTherapy.com feed because it is really, really funny. Have something funny you want to share? Please let us know.