The trio learn that the elephant they are transporting is pregnant, and shouldn't be jostled around.but the egotistical Bandit is determined to collect the money on delivering the animal.

Justice (Jackie Gleason) so she can help whip the Bandit into shape. The Snowman convinces Frog to walk out on another wedding to the son of Sheriff Buford T. The problem is that the Bandit has become a drunken has-been due to his breakup with Frog (Sally Field). This sequel has the Bandit (Burt Reynolds) and Snowman (Jerry Reed) attempting to deliver an elephant from Miami to the GOP convention in Dallas. SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT II starts out with a scene showing Big & Little Enos having cow manure dumped on them from vintage airplanes.and most of the other gags in the film are not much more intelligent. The original SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT had a lot of dopeyness about it-but there's a difference between dopey and just plain stupid. SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT II doesn't come off any better now-as a matter of fact, I may now have to choose it as one of the worst sequels ever. SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT II was on the list, and I thought, 'I've got nothing else going on.why not give it a shot and see how it holds up now?' (Needless to say, I don't live a very exciting life.)

The other night, I was bored, and going through the list of all the free movies available to me on my Xfinity cable. Over the years I would see parts of it on occasion shown on TV, but I never went out of my way to see the entire film again. I didn't automatically hate it.back then it didn't make much of an impression on me. SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT II, on the other hand.Įven as a kid back in the early 80s I knew that SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT II was nowhere near as good as the original. It made a huge amount of money when it was released in 1977, and despite its low-brow reputation, it is now considered an American classic. SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT is one of my favorite movies of all time.

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