To celebrate the release of 1976’s “Rocky,” producers have elected to skip on the creation of a new sequel or spin-off continuation, electing to dramatize the formation of the original picture instead. Screenwriter Peter Gamble is out to make an underdog movie about an underdog movie in “I Play Rocky,” which tracks the hardships and great successes for Sylvester Stallone as he tried to make his acting dream happen on his own terms. The rough edges of reality are completely sanded down by Gamble, and director Peter Farrelly is no stranger to soft cheese filmmaking, previously scoring a major success in 2018’s “Green Book.” “I Play Rocky” is meant to be a crowd-pleaser, not a documentary, and it’s mildly successful in primary color mode, with Gamble attempting to land easy emotion with Stallone’s battle for respectability and his rise to tremendous success when the whole world seemed to be against him. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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