This sequel to Every Which Way but Loose typifies the kind of lightweight, disposable comic vehicles that paid Clint Eastwood's rent in the late 1970s and early 80s. Short on plot but tall on slapstick humour, and featuring real-life girlfriend Sondra Locke as his love interest and the always likeable Geoffrey Lewis as his best buddy, it has a lightweight charm that makes up for the general insignificance of the story. Eastwood plays a car mechanic pushed back into bare-knuckle boxing by the Mafia for one last fight. Destructive orangutan Clyde steals scenes like an old pro, and there's an enjoyably overblown climax as Clint and intimidating bruiser William Smith stage a bare-knuckle showdown in the rousing spirit of The Quiet Man.

Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight – as he does – to make more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he's pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.