Documentary: Generation Iron 2.

• Author: Riggs, Mike
• Position: Movie review - Brief article

Pumping Iron, released in 1977, introduced professional bodybuilding to the world and made celebrities of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. In 2013, Generation Iron charted the sport's evolution into a global business, with six-figure cash prizes, branded supplement lines, and celebrity endorsements.

In Generation Iron2, released May 13, director Vlad Yudin shows us a more sobering side of getting shredded. We meet the legendary and heavily muscled Iris Kyle, struggling to find her place after the discontinuation of the Ms. Olympia competition; the cartoonishly large Rich Piana, an internet-famous hate magnet coming to grips with decades of...