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Pumping Iron II: futur sexe

Original title: Pumping Iron II: The Women
  • 1985
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 47m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
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Pumping Iron II: futur sexe (1985)
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Judges and bodybuilders (Rachel McLish, Bev Francis, Carla Dunlap) try to define femininity at the 1983 world championship, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.Judges and bodybuilders (Rachel McLish, Bev Francis, Carla Dunlap) try to define femininity at the 1983 world championship, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.Judges and bodybuilders (Rachel McLish, Bev Francis, Carla Dunlap) try to define femininity at the 1983 world championship, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

  • Director
    • George Butler
  • Writers
    • George Butler
    • Charles Gaines
  • Stars
    • Bev Francis
    • Rachel McLish
    • Lori Bowen Rice
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    • Director
      • George Butler
    • Writers
      • George Butler
      • Charles Gaines
    • Stars
      • Bev Francis
      • Rachel McLish
      • Lori Bowen Rice
    • 12User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Rachel McLish
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    Lori Bowen Rice
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    Carla Dunlap
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    Steve Michalik
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    Steve Weinberger
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    Randy Rice
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    Kris Alexander
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    Sherry Atton
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    Lori Birdsong
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    Shelly Gruwell
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    Lisser Frost-Larsen
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    • (as Lisa Frost Larsen)
    Tina Plackinger
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      • George Butler
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      • George Butler
      • Charles Gaines
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    10billdobb

    A Look AT Female Bodybuilding At It's Very Beginning

    Bodybuilding for women is "something new under the sun," something as Charles Gaines, the writer of Pumping Iron pointed out, has no precedent in all of history. Pumping Iron II is a documentary made about the very earliest years of women's bodybuilding as a sanctioned sport. As a documentary, it has its failings. But as a look at who the women were participating in bodybuilding in the mid 1980s, how they looked and what they had to say, it is unique. Of course, women doing bodybuilding at all is still controversial and some people have trouble accepting it. One of the other reviews of this film makes that plain, written by somebody who hates the idea of muscular women to such a degree he is hardly any judge of the quality of the film. Obviously, somebody who is that angered and disgusted by women with muscles should not bother to watch a documentary about them. But for those who like "buff" women or who are at least curious about them, Pumping Iron II is an important film and shouldn't be missed. And as women's bodybuilding becomes more and more accepted and popular, the film will become even more significant.
    jregnault

    Spinal Tap in a Gym

    I managed to catch this movie on cinemax or something one day at a weird time. It is awful (in a very addictive, bad 80's movie type of way) for the following reasons:

    1) See Rachel McLish (sp?), the most self centered, arrogant egotist in the world caught on film talking about the Bible and Jesus constantly while she uses sex to win judges' votes. This woman is just too bizarre for words.

    2) See some poor steroid addled woman talk about how she is redefining feminity with her huge (and I mean gigantic) manly shape and facial acne (no doubt caused by excessive use of steroids)!

    3) See bad 80's workout gear! :o

    3) See the touching supportive relationship between one of these women (name forgotten) whose husband works as a male dancer to support her budding bodybuilding career!

    There is so much wrong with this movie you just can't tear yourself away (sort of like watching a car accident in progress). Particularly amusing is the combination workout/shower scene with Rachel and her "posse" - it verges on soft porn.

    But in the end you realize just how sad all of these women are, and you try to stop laughing - though it doesn't work. It really is Spinal Tap in a Gym. I thought the movie was a comedy when I first started watching it.
    Lainey08

    Performance in Pumping Iron II

    Since I'm currently studying this film I'm a bit insulted at some of the shallow reviews. This semi-documentary film shows female bodybuilders in 1985, and it critiques the performance they must all put on in order to make it in their business (hence the loaded make-up: first of all it was the eighties, second of all they had to struggle to remain feminine looking or, as seen with Bev Francis, they were penalized). Watching this film should enrage you since it's clear who SHOULD win the title. Clearly the judges need a little updating, but again, it was1985.

    I strongly recommend this film to anyone who has not seen it. It critiques female bodybuilding and questions the stereotypical view of women as seen through the actions of the judges.
    9jallen7705-1

    Stay Fit

    We had a family gathering on New Years Day 2019. One of my daughters brought me a VHS copy of this documentary that she had bought for 50 cents at an estate sale. She told me that I had taken her (born in 1970) and my younger daughter who was three years younger to see this documentary when it came out. I had been dating a woman who worked for one of the competer's backers and had received passes to the theater.

    Both daughters loved the documentary and have worked hard to keep in shape.

    I have always been an advocate for fitness which I am convinced will improve the quality of your life.

    I haven't seen much of Rachel McLish lately , but I bet she is still in great shape. Woman's fitness is a bit more in the mainstream in 2019 and these women portrayed in this documentary should be congratulated for inspiring a generation of female fitness advocates.
    6baku_eater_of_Dreams

    Complexity

    helpless_dancer illustrates how incapable most of us are at actually looking into complex issues and understanding people other than ourselves. The women in Pumping Iron 2 are confusing at times, and a couple of them do seem more than a bit nutty, but reducing the issues at hand to the kind of ignorant, simple-minded derision that helpless_dancer deals in, is unfair to the women in the film and female bodybuilders in general. I don't understand them either, but calling them freaks is grade-school bigotry. The film itself is also, unfortunately, not up to the task, and spends much of its time trying to squeeze out some T&A from them. It does give the women an opportunity to speak for themselves from time to time, and their articulacy is often illuminating.

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      Featured in At the Movies: Special Show: Flex, Sex and Pecs (1985)
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    • Release date
      • July 17, 1985 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Pumping Iron II: The Women
    • Production companies
      • Bar Belle
      • Gym Tech
      • Pumping Iron
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $628,050
    • Gross worldwide
      • $628,050
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      1 hour 47 minutes
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    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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