'I Play Rocky' Review: Pseudo-Biopic About the Making of 'Rocky' Is a Hollow Crowdpleaser

Midway through "I Play Rocky," Peter Farrelly's misfire of a movie about Sylvester Stallone and the making of "Rocky," production is underway on the film that would make its lead a star. But, despite them shooting a key emotional scene, things aren't working. Sly (Anthony Ippolito) is pulled aside by the film's director John Avildsen (Jay Duplass) and told he needs to dig deeper in the next take. There has to be something more, Avildsen says, that this is the moment where he'll find the "thing," the emotional why of the entire picture. Without it, the experience - even . . .