The Champ tells the story of a little boy named T.J. who is torn between his divorced parents: a loving mother and an alcoholic ex-boxing father who is now working on his come-back in order to give his boy a better future.
The most offputting thing about such canny, tear-stained movies as The Champ is not their naïveté but their unholy sophistication. These movies don't mean to deal with the world as it really is, but as it should be.
EmanuelLevy.Com
August 21, 2010
Zeffirelli's inferior remake to King Vidor's 1932 classic, starring Jon Voight in the Oscar-winning role that Wallace Beery had originated, is a manipulative tear-jerking melodrama.
