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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

Historic and fun:

This short documentary explores the world of competitive female bodybuilding during the early 1980's. This film is true to the era with heavy makeup, spandex, bad hair and a moonwalk included during a posing routine. The film ponders the the level of acceptable muscularity that a woman should posess and examines the judging of a competitor who at the time was bigger than any other woman who ever stood on the competitive stage -- Australian power lifter Bev Francis. By current standards, Bev would fit right... more info

Rachel McLish or Bev Francis? You at home decide:

This documentary is much more than a flip side sequel to the 1976 film "Pumping Iron" which featured Arnold Schwarzenegger. In fact, you do not even need to have seen the first one to be absolutely absorbed in watching this one. "Pumping Iron II: The Women" centers on a major question that cuts to the heart of female bodybuilding: What should a female bodybuilder look like? This is not a frivolous question, because even though you would have thought the star of this show was going to be sexpot Rachel... more info

Truely inspirational!:

I was so enraged at the sexism displayed by the judges and some of the other girls in this film I immediatley afterward went to the gym and hit the weights extra heavy with extra reps. Watch how Bev Francis was shafted and changed the face of womens bodybuilding forever. The feminine debate goes on...

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