Look, Over the Top is not a good movie. With a 32% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 2.9/5 on Letterboxd, critics and audiences agree: this is Stallone at his most earnestly ridiculous.

The premise—a truck-driving dad tries to win back his son's love by winning an arm-wrestling championship—is treated with such straight-faced sincerity that it becomes unintentionally hilarious. The father-son story has genuine emotional potential, but it's drowned in 80s excess, power ballads, and montages of sweaty men gripping hands.

For modern families, this is essentially unwatchable as sincere entertainment. Kids will be bored senseless. The pacing is slow, the dialogue is wooden, and the whole thing feels like a relic from another era. If you're looking for quality father-son movies, try The Pursuit of Happyness, Finding Nemo, or literally dozens of better options.

The only reason to watch this is ironically—as a cultural artifact of 80s action-movie excess, or as background noise while you're doing something else. It's safe enough for tweens and up, but that doesn't make it worth anyone's time.