Mr t is the best boxer AND actor of all time or my name isn't Trevor

Boxer Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone (a solid and sincere performance by Leon Isaac Kennedy) gets paroled from prison and hooks up again with old flame Clarisse (an appealing portrayal by the pretty Eugenia Wright). After evil nemesis Half Dead (robustly played with lip-smacking wicked relish by Ernie Hudson) busts out of jail and murders Clarisse after raping her first, Too Sweet resumes his boxing career as a means of exacting revenge on Half Dead.

Writer/director Jamaa Fanaka eschews the gritty realism of the original in favor of a more blithely absurd and campy sensibility: The often ridiculous fight scenes, cartoonishly nasty villains, crude humor (one guy poops in his pants!),and excessive blood-spilling violence all give this film a certain endearingly kitschy charm. Peggy Blow lends sturdy support as Too Sweet's sympathetic sister Ellen, Glynn Turman likewise does well as shrewd brother in law Charles Johnson, Mr. T has a grand hammy time playing his own flamboyant and formidable self, and Donovan Womack cuts an imposing figure as fearsome opponent Jesse "The Bull" Amos. Popping up in funny bits are Rudy Ray Moore as an irate husband and Tony Cox as a lecherous midget. Jack Wheaton's funky-throbbing score hits the get-down groovy spot. A fun sequel.

The current DVD release available for this title is NOT the same version of the film that was shown in theaters. The DVD distributor for some reason made cuts to parts of the movie. (In particular, Ernie Hudson's ambush of the girl in the shower.) The sequence may too brutal for more sensitive viewers, but that doesn't justify making cuts to the original film.) HBO broadcast the movie in it's entirety in the 80's, and the first VHS/Beta home video releases also contain the complete film.