Over the Top

8.8/10 stinky bananas

Great fucking movie. Stallone at his best.

There's so much to discuss, I don't even know where to start. This movie is on CRACK. There is a 25 minute stretch of the film where the following events occur: a kidnapping, a funeral, an international arm wrestling tournament, and Stallone drives his truck through a mansion. Magnificent chaos. If you're going to make a movie about arm wrestling, you may as well get crazy with it.

The arm wrestling scenes fucking rock. Arm wrestling is such a "dudes rock" activity. The montage at the international arm wrestling tournament in Vegas is fucking electric. Perfect song choice too. And there's one part of the montage where a guy's arm explodes during a match, and that actually happened, his arm snapped for real. If this arm wrestling tournament was a real life sporting event that happened in Vegas, I would absolutely go. Incredible stuff.

Stallone is great in this. Vintage Stallone performance. He's just doing Rocky again, but an arm wrestling version. Virtually no difference. I love it.

There is only 1 problem with this movie. The kid fucking sucks. I hate him. I wish Rocky just punched him in the head over and over until he died. Such a piece of shit kid. Over the Top is a perfect movie if they just cut that kid out of the movie completely.

Anyway, Over the Top is a perfect mix of Rocky and Road House. Obvious TSBRSoA club member. Do me a favour and watch this movie as soon as possible. You won't regret it. That's a Stinky Bananas guarantee.