![]() Starring Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Mason Adams, Cliff De Young, Martha Gehman, Joe Grifasi, Diane Venora, Jerry Orbach, Josie de Guzman, Trey Wilson, Roscoe Orman. Stuntman Van Horn’s directorial debut Fats Domino cameos (don’t ask).ĭirected by Robert Mandel. Like the first movie, an inexplicable box office hit, so count your blessings that these flicks never became a trilogy of turkeys. Caveat: anyone who enjoys ASMR of paddles beating the heck out of slabs of meat will find their nirvana in the film’s rowdy bare-knuckle brawl climax. ![]() Still, unless a running gag involving an orangutan defecating in police cars sounds promising, avoid it like…well, like a police car that’s been recently soiled by a rude orangutan. Inspiration is hallucinatory, but the “orangutantics” are on the upswing (even though said ape, Clyde, is clearly not the same animal as the one from the predecessor) in fact, its broader approach to crack-ups and beat-downs makes this a slightly less intolerable bit of brainless roughneck entertainment. Sequel to Every Which Way but Loose is every which way but good, and if that line leaves you gasping for air, maybe you’ll be receptive? Eastwood continues to punch his way through his problems (and, for no good reason at all, shacks up again with Locke’s newly-mellowed psycho) while biker gangs, cops, and the Mafia interfere in his business. Starring Clint Eastwood, William Smith, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Barry Corbin, Ruth Gordon, Harry Guardino, John Quade, Michael Cavanaugh, Al Ruscio. Spawned a sequel: Any Which Way You Can.ĭirected by Buddy Van Horn. An even greater ordeal for anyone not enamored with country and western music. On paper, Clint Eastwood sharing the screen with an orangutan named Clyde seems like a very bad idea, but box office receipts disagreed when this thing wound up being one of the year’s biggest hits (and one of the biggest hits in the star’s entire career) probably the same audience that turned Smokey and the Bandit into a blockbuster the year before? Two-fisted idiocy for the better part of two contemptible hours imagines the star as a truck-driving bare-knuckle brawler with an ape buddy, a human buddy (Lewis), a zoned-out mama (Gordon), and a heap of lady troubles-maybe he shouldn’t have followed an aspiring singer (Locke) across a few state lines if she’s going to turn out to be such a two-faced nightmare? Not a single joke lands, the fighting repeats the same uninspired technique ad nauseum (POV shots of fists cracking unseen faces), and Clyde gets sidelined so often that it’s easy to wonder why the filmmakers bothered to add the gimmick in the first place. Starring Clint Eastwood, Geoffrey Lewis, Sondra Locke, Beverly D’Angelo, Ruth Gordon, John Quade, Gregory Walcott, Dan Vadis, James McEashin. Peruse the previous batches at your leisure- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6-or, if you’re already caught up, scroll down for the latest group.ĭirected by James Fargo. The “back ends” also tend to suck pretty hard sure, more than half of the sequels below are at least okay, but the only one that’s actually better than the original happens to be really crappy, just not quite as crappy as its crappier predecessor. The reasons why each of them never went any further than that are varied, but it’s most likely due to box office success…or lack thereof. That’s because they’re movies that get one and only one sequel. Now, Police Academy is a film franchise, but a “two-fer” never reached franchise status. ![]() We’ve now hit seven batches of “two-fer” capsule reviews, which is also how many Police Academy movies there are.
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