we're on a mission from god

wendy

so i got that going darling

i picked the wrong way to quit sniffing

blue light of my life

we enjoy your films

i thought they smelled bad

on the outside

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welcome to vintage video where we're

re-watching the 80s so you don't have to

we'll be reviewing every major film

release of the 1980s in real time over

analyzing what you've seen and spoiling

what you haven't i'm patrick o'reilly

i'm jesse bayless and i'm richard and

today marks the 40th anniversary of the

release of smokey and the bandit ii or

part 2 or whatever you want to call it

on august 15 1980. it was written by

jerry belson and brock yates based on a

story by my cocaine

making this our fifth michael caine

movie for the 1980s wait are you just

combining both michael caines into one

i've combined three michael caines

into one michael k monster

oddly enough there's only one with the

actual spelling of michael caine the

other two spell it with the citizen kane

mccain yes

based on characters by hal needham and

robert l levy directed by hal needham

and released by universal pictures

we even get a modified universal logo

again yeah we do i feel like we've been

coming across those lately very quickly

after xanadu

making of in 1977 the first smokey and

the bandit was released and was a

surprise hit for the year with a budget

of 4 million dollars it went on to bank

300 million in the worldwide box office

finishing second behind only star wars

for the year that's crazy that's the

first one yeah okay i watched it pretty

recently

it's not that great

yeah it's crazy that it made that much

money also how do you spend i didn't

watch it so i don't know but how do you

spend four million dollars on these

movies wreck a lot of cars i think

that's all it took

and bert reynolds was huge at the time

both films took until 1980 to drop their

sequels and bandits opening weekend

literally doubled empire strikes backs

opening weekend

in 1980.

really

which was actually a record opening

weekend at the time for smoking the

bandit part 2. they made 11 million

dollars in its opening weekend but it

was short-lived because the contrast in

critical response and audience approval

quickly turned things in star wars favor

so empire strikes back obviously made

way more money globally

the final budget

of smokey 2 came to about 17 million and

in total it grossed 66 million which

still landed it in eighth place for the

year

coors the beard that had played such a

large part in the first film was

replaced by sponsor budweiser for the

second installment the working title for

the sequel was smokey and the bandit

10-4 and was due at one point to co-star

julie cavner the voice of marge simpson

contemporary articles about the

production describe a scene with robert

urich on roller skates on a farm that

evidently didn't make the final cut and

uric receives no credit the original

budget for this film was 10 million but

delays on his previous film rough cut

which i think we said had four or five

directors by the time it finished forced

them to push back the schedule and

inflated the budget to prevent pushing

back the production schedule for 1981's

planned release of cannonball run the

movies were filmed simultaneously well

that explains dom deluise exactly and

the ambulance as a result of combining

the productions smokey was actually able

to rap ahead of schedule sally field's

relationship with co-star reynolds

lasted exactly the span between the

first and second smokey films during

which time she also co-starred as his

girlfriend in hooper and the end she

considers this her worst film on the

press junket reynolds seemed optimistic

about returning for a third installment

but the rest of the cast besides jackie

gleason made it very clear they were

finished with the franchise

a harsh critical reception changed burt

reynolds answer but universal had a

conundrum they had a movie in the top 10

for the year and almost no way to market

it without reynolds the solution they

thought was simple take the only cast

member willing to come back and make him

play both parts and smokey is the bandit

was born or at least conceived and

gestated months from release universal

was very happy with the cut and they put

on a test screening which could not have

gone worse disappointment over the lack

of reynolds and confusion from gleason

playing multiple parts made the story

near impossible to follow to make it

even weirder gleason was sporting the

bandit's costume and mustache for the

entire film but it's played totally

straight as though the bandit were still

played by burt reynolds and even weirder

gleeson's bandit does not speak a word

in the entire film except for a short

line at the very end reshoots were very

hastily planned and all of gleason's

bandit scenes were re-shot with jerry

reid and the film barely made its

release date i want to see that cut i

don't i really want to see

jackie gleason chasing himself for an

hour and a half apparently

there is a cut does exist and it's owned

by the gleason estate and they refuse to

release it

but maybe i can find it at universal

somehow i'll look around

here it is wander around oh here it is

but there is a trailer for it with the

title uh smokey is the bandit but before

i go i got one piece of unfinished

business

a hunk of trash known as dependent

now you all know i pursued that sucker

through 20 states 3 000 miles and two

movies

i

finally figured out a way to trap

i have put myself in his place

also his boots and his shirt

and his hat

in his coat and

his mustache

in short i have succeeded in becoming my

own worst enemy

dependent

so if you think the first two go around

with something

you just watch my smoke this time

some [ __ ]

this has been buford t justice asking

you to support your local sheriff

because nobody else will

smokey is

the bandit part three

it's basically like a patent thing when

he walks up in front of a giant american

flag and tells people

the premise of the movie that in order

to catch the bandit he had to think like

the bandit and become the bandit and

then the title comes up

i like that the only real

mention of this that i know of is from

bill and head too

yeah they're playing charades in heaven

yeah

smokey on the banda tree

is the bandit

station and einstein are playing

charades and station

was giving clues for smokey as the

bandit

and einstein gets it because that's how

smart he is

he knows about a movie that didn't come

out even after he was dead

we start with another custom universal

logo the trans am is driving in a circle

around the earth followed by what looks

like a taxi cab but it's probably

supposed to be smokey's cruiser it's

just a weird color

the quick animated sequence is

punctuated with burt reynolds chuckle

we start the film with big enos and

little anus burdette giving a speech on

the back of a train as they run for

co-governor i don't which is one of them

gonna be governor uh i would assume big

enos is going to be good are they

siblings or father and son i think

they're father and son i thought they

were siblings oh really

it'd be weird if they were

siblings with the same first name i

don't know is he is

paul williams is like 40 right but is he

supposed to be playing a younger person

i don't know

i don't know what's going on i didn't

get the impression that he was supposed

to be a kid

i don't think he's supposed to be a kid

but i think the father is supposed to be

much older it's kind of like junior and

and the sheriff and who who we have

playing big enos

pat mccormick and how old is he old

enough to be paul williams dad yeah it's

his son they're in all three films these

characters

um and here uh it looks like big enos is

running for governor

and then suddenly the big lebowski is

approaching with three planes full of

manure

and they open the bombay doors and drop

cowshit all over a crowd of prospective

voters seems like a bad call we cut

immediately to a party at david

huddleston's property for voters or

fundraising or whatever and another row

of planes are on approach and for some

reason he does not suspect retaliation

at all yeah right but uh everyone at the

party is very quickly splashed with

bright orange liquid unclear exactly

what this is if it's like ddt's or i

thought it was like the fire retardant

that you put wildfires out with but i

don't care what it is it's probably

cancerous yeah both men big enos and

david huddleston's character are invited

to the current governor's office

presumably outgoing governor yeah uh i

don't know if the word invited would be

they're they're called in as they're

sent to the principles yeah exactly

but uh he tells them that he's

embarrassed by their antics

and uh he doesn't want to endorse either

one of them

and then he sends them out

to take a call from silsby and big enos

stays behind to eavesdrop on the call he

hears instructions to go to pier number

three in miami pick up crate number 1444

and deliver its contents to the

republican national convention in dallas

in nine days

this film was made before the republican

national convention for 1980 was moved

to detroit so it takes place in an

alternate reality although i guess that

was clear already you know i think i

missed this line about it going to the

republican convention that's why it's an

elephant that is why it's an elephant

which the entire movie i was waiting for

them to explain that i'm like this is

really weird

and too bad we never come back to this

plot line ever again at the end of it we

never know who wins the gubernatorial

race yeah

i was really upset about that unless

they're governors in the next movie i

guess we'll have to wait until we get

there anus plans to intercept the crate

and deliver it to ensure the governor's

endorsement i don't i feel like that's a

bad plan already like you're essentially

hijacking it he already had someone that

he was going to pay to do this

and you're going to pay hundreds of

thousands of dollars to do it instead

unless he's trying to frame the other

guy well then frame the other guy and

just kill the elephant just pay smoky to

drive it off oh no because you have to

be a hero and get it back

i guess

also don't kill the elephant

i i don't like that plan okay

we cut to a race happening with big rig

trucks at the atlanta international

raceway for the opening credits in the

cab we see jerry reed the snowman is

doing this driving with his hound dog

sitting up on the

on the dashboard the snowman wins the

race and he takes home a check for forty

thousand dollars

after the race he's approached by big

and little anus with a challenge pick up

this package and drive it to the rnc in

nine days for one hundred thousand

dollars when snowman says he doesn't

know where the bandit is big enos

doubles the reward and suddenly snowman

is completely on board oh yeah i got

some ideas where he might be to sweeten

the deal he assures him that this is 100

percent legal which means that there's

really no reason to bring in the bandit

at all

because you can just drive the elephant

to the place where you hire a moving

company yeah in his hotel room at the

gator motel a fully drunk bandit is

peeking through a pyramid of empty

budweiser cans we think this is an

intentional reference i think there's a

lot of intentional references to the

career of mr reynolds over the course of

this film but this is maybe the first

maybe not even the first but gator is

for sure reference to the the double

feature of white lightning and gator

which both came out in the 70s snowman

tries to tell the bandit about the deal

but he's literally falling down drunk so

snowman slaps him to wake him up and

bandit just slaps him right back

big and little enos show up and to

explain the 200 000 offer to bandit they

hold up two fingers and he just falls

over drunk so they ask how much more he

would need and he holds up the same two

fingers

seemingly implying that he needs two

hundred thousand more and they agree to

400 000 on the spot

and pay them half up front yeah they

have some of that money already again

not illegal i feel like you could have

gotten a better deal somewhere else yeah

that's a lot of money yeah and and nine

days like obviously the governor thought

that he had enough time

to

ship it legally

you know yeah yeah um i mean i guess

this quarantine plot line that'll come

up

is is the only thing that might have

been holding him back but the governor

didn't seem to know about that yeah i

think it actually would have worked

better if you had him arguing with the

warehouse about the quarantine yeah and

then

he it's like he's saving the day he

sends someone in to steal it by cover of

night without the governor's knowledge

so that he can't get in trouble for it

and it makes sense to pay a lot of money

because it's illegal yeah but what's

happening right so far is not illegal

what i thought was going to happen too

and i thought it would have made the

scene funnier is that when they said

agreed to 400 000 that bandit would just

snap out of his

like

no no but but that sobered him up like

like like it it would just be like oh

yeah okay four hundred thousand like but

then he would immediately pass out after

they leave

but just for because otherwise he's just

he's not even really present in the

scene yeah he's weak being weakened at

bernie's like yeah

yeah

uh the enus brothers leave in their

limousine while snowmen and bandits

celebrate with the big pile of money not

brothers not brothers the enos's

the enig the eni the eni leaving their

limousine while snowman and bandits

celebrate with their money suddenly

bandit is crying blowing his nose with

it

a lot dumb and dumber he's sad about

having broken up with frog sally field's

character from the first film we cut to

the texarkana reformed united

evangelical fundamental church of god

the 12 apostles and assorted saints with

buford t justice standing outside his

son is about to be married for the

second time in two films to the same

woman sally field's character frog i

declare i didn't realize this floozy was

the same one as the last one says a

woman outside who's complimenting the

ceremony as justice speaks with the

woman outside the church his heartbeat

is elevated to the point that it

activates his hemo gauge

and it tells him when he's too pissed

off

she continues to speak glowingly of the

bandit which repeatedly triggers his

anger fitbit

and the ceremony begins

and at the head of the church suddenly a

phone rings

in the chapel on a table right next to

the altar yeah there's a pedestal right

by right near i guess in case they get a

call

uh from the governor yeah the last

minute you need to reprieve this person

but this phone call is for carrie aka

frog aka sally field and her groom to be

insists that she must take it you have

to take it it's long distance

turns out it's cletus aka jerry reed aka

snowman and he's calling to offer her 50

000

in exchange for helping the bandit to

pull off another challenge on her way

out of the church she promises to bring

back enough money to buy a milking

machine for her husband and then he says

then maybe we could get a cow how does

cletus know where to find her in this

very moment he's just that good

that's how

i imagine

that cletus was invited to the wedding

oh maybe that's possible and did they

put the phone number for the church in

that invitation she probably asked for

that phone to be there in case a

challenge came up at the church doors

she's blocked by her future

father-in-law who levels a gun at her

but she just walks past him and takes

the the car they would they would have

left in together and drags a bunch of

cans out of the parking lot the next

morning cletus is combing through all of

bandit's stuff trying to find cans of

beer that he's hid for himself

reflecting on the money they won at the

end of the first film and where it went

bandit suggests releasing an album of

bandit sings cole porter may have been a

mistake

despite missing her dearly he seems

pretty upset that frog is somehow

joining them for this mission snowman

catches him taking a bottle down from a

ceiling lamp and he says oh somebody

must have left this while he's putting

it back slowly

reuniting bandit tells carrie that it

must have been seven months since they

last saw each other and she says i don't

know i think it's more like eight months

and four days six and a half hours but

i'm not really sure and he says after we

broke up where did you go and she says

to pieces

they pick on each other for a while and

fight here about their dumb clothes

but end the conversation by pretending

this is strictly business

they never feel particularly

affectionate to each other about the

entire film that's true it's not a very

convincing relationship yeah yeah and in

fact the most convincing moments are

usually in a montage where they're both

laughing probably that are just outtakes

yeah that they're just living oh this

looks like they're having fun

well either way they were in a

relationship

in this movie and in real life right and

it wasn't very convenient no it's not

very convincing probably in either

because like you said it lasted till 80

so maybe this was on the

oh for sure it was on the outskirts of

that there's there's other stuff oh more

to come

after she walks away burt reynolds turns

to the camera and tells us for the only

fourth wall breaking moment she still

loves me we cut to a workout montage at

a gym because it's very important to be

fit if you're going to drive a car fast

but it's all nonsense equipment anyway

like spinning things that you sit on or

bands that wrap around your waist and

wiggle i mean those were things that

they used to use yeah like in the 50s

yeah i think they were they were sold to

people i don't think they actually did

much yeah they make bandit chase them on

foot while they drive a golf cart and

then he practices driving a go-kart

with children and then suddenly he's

running alongside horses on a track and

beating them handily snowman says well

damn if you ain't ready for the kentucky

derby son

bandit admits that he sold his trans am

for alcohol and doesn't even have a car

for this mission and they surprise him

with a new car outside the motel yeah

sally field says that she traded in

the car uh

does she say

yeah was like you guys got 200 000 a

trans am in 1980 maybe cost twelve

thousand to twenty thousand yeah but

where did she leave the car

they just had to explain where the car

went that she took from the

they do have a lot of cash on hand

on their way to miami bandit drives past

a police officer going the speed limit

and he mentions that the cops probably

furious that he wasn't speeding because

he didn't get the chance to arrest him

carrie suggests that maybe he's not

super famous and the cop just didn't

recognize him but immediately refuting

this theory a car full of girls

recognize him and start whistling from

their car bandit says it's hard being

famous because the girls want his

autograph and then to rip his clothes

off carrie says she just wants the

autograph cause she's seen him out of

his clothes and it's no big deal

bandit takes time to get photographs

with two teen girls at a truck stop

sorry so before we get into this whole

road trip i don't really understand the

premise of having him in the trans am in

front of the truck

in the first movie

they're driving coors across state lines

coors

because of some legal reason was only

available in certain states at the time

and crossing alcohol into certain states

was called bootlegging right they were

still laws on the books yeah and so

coors was only allowed to be distributed

in certain states and so whenever a

truck would be transporting this kind of

material to distract all the cops you

would hire a guy with a fast enough car

to stay ahead of the police to move with

your truck so that he would blow through

an area and all the cops would chase him

and nobody would stop this truck to see

what he was transporting also they were

they had a short amount of time so the

truck was speeding

so bandit would you know prevent the

truck from getting speeding tickets yeah

okay but what's the premise of him doing

it in this movie in this movie there's

literally no reason for the band because

he's not speeding he's going the same

speed as this truck which is going like

55 miles an hour which he just said he's

like yeah i bet that cop was mad i

wasn't going fast right so he's not

trying to lure the cops away aside from

the fact that

technically it is illegal to move this

elephant because it was not quarantined

for the requisite three months

uh three weeks three weeks

then

that that would be a reason that you

would need someone to distract the

police but he's never doing that because

he's driving the speed limit but like do

cops stop and check what's in trucks

yes is that something they do well i

mean weigh stations that's kind of what

they're for is to make sure the stuff

that's supposed to be transported is

what's being transported okay

so that the weight of the truck isn't

changing from place to place

yeah i guess i just like i feel like it

has a heart like i have a hard time

believing that anybody cares what's in

this truck it doesn't make as much sense

in this movie and what he's he gonna do

about it if truck truck or uh cop tried

to stop the truck yeah he can't do

anything and and it was just that people

had already grasped onto the notion that

this is the thing that happens when

you're transporting something illegally

then you can have a bandit that helps

you and so we can make another movie

where he does the same thing and people

aren't going to question it because

they vaguely understood what he was

doing last time well you're wrong i'm

questioning it well you didn't see the

first movie if you saw the first movie

you wouldn't question it at all and i'd

be like why not

the team of three meet a security guard

at the pier and try to pick up crate

1444 but he informs them that that crate

is in quarantine and can't be released

for three weeks at this point they don't

know it's an elephant so they're still

like why is a crate in quarantine i

don't think at this point anyone knows

it's an elephant because

that elephant except for the governor

yeah that elephant just can't be kept in

a crate for three weeks

right that's true

i don't know i don't know how long how

long can you starve an elephant for

somebody google that i don't even think

that the elephant should be kept in the

back of a semi truck for a

it few days

in this warehouse for a day

the security guard jokes that they can

take the crate if they want but they

have to leave the contents behind and

he's very entertained by his own joke

they break in after hours but like so

far after hours that it's almost the

next day for some reason like it's

already light outside i don't know why

they waited until like an hour before

the place opened to break in

uh it turns out that crate1444

is so big that they almost didn't even

notice it because it looks more like a

wall

why'd they paint the number on the side

of a building well

it's a great acting like a building when

they bust the crate open a charging

elephant flies out terrifying carry

and

flipping bandit up into the air onto its

back with his trunk at first i thought

he just did a backflip on the elephant

but i think the implication is that

charlotte threw him up there i have to

say that a lot of these actors are in

very close quarters with an elephant

yeah and that's got to be frightening

yeah it's scary i mean elephants are

gentle you know especially if they're

trained but still

it's a freaking elephant they can always

go crazy and she caught me off guard

otherwise i would have wrote it the full

10 seconds oh that was incredible they

walk the elephant out onto the pier in

broad daylight and get it to step up

into the back of their truck

charlotte get in the truck based on my

cursory research this elephant is named

cora and is still alive and about 60

years old today

why are we calling it charlotte again i

don't know that's what its name is in

the movie someone says something like

like oh she's like she's is

like strong and stubborn with my aunt

charlotte it kind of reminds me man

sharp smells like it too

oh how rude now charlotte don't you

listen to any of that

on our way out of the storage area they

come across buford blocking the exit how

was he there i don't know how did he

know to come here

and show up

like

i don't understand i don't understand

you must have followed her down but also

why

why is he here

because he wants to arrest the bandit

because he didn't get it or what for all

the stuff he's done in the past he

doesn't even know that there's new stuff

i mean

there's a lot of stuff in this movie

that i don't think is actually based on

a factual representation of the law

um but yeah no i don't think uh i think

the statute of limitations on the coors

being run out of town

three years ago is probably up but he

says

you handsome some [ __ ]

i just i like that

uh buford's like actually complimenting

him every time he like gets angry if you

make one move i'm gonna put a hole right

between those gorgeous brown eyes

bandit dares him to show off his gun

skills and uh justice wastes all of his

bullets proving his marksmanship but

anticipating being this move he asks for

his son's gun so when bandit moves to

escape smokey gets the other gun and

very quickly realizes it's not loaded

why didn't you have your gun loaded when

i put bullets in it daddy it gets too

heavy

bandit pulls up to where the pittsburgh

steelers practice to have a conversation

with terry bradshaw who knows him yeah

they're like good friends

because she he knows frog too yeah like

they hang out yeah i liked that that

terry leans over and says hi to bandit

and frog's like oh hey there terry and

he's like oh hey frog like he knows her

name they're all good friends was he in

the first movie no no okay but he is

also in cannonball run because

they shot it at the same time bandit

intends to use the steelers to slow down

smokey

and terry says no problem and points to

mean joe green and says hey joe yeah

tackle that car

so joe green lifts the car with his bare

hands and just flips it over on its top

uh i had to

look up

what buford said

when they flip him

and i still don't understand the line

because i'm not a big football guy

he says something along the lines of

i knew this would happen as soon as they

started that bustling ship

i don't think that has to do with

football is it a racist thing that's

kind of what is that what he said i i

don't remember him saying that i looked

up the script and he says bussing

hmm i i don't know interesting i i mean

i'm glad that i don't know because i

feel like that's a better it's probably

better that i don't know

that it has a meaning but i was very

confused by the line when i heard it

yeah for whatever reason snowman doesn't

realize he's out of gas until it's

almost too late and they find a last

chance gas station which we determined

was actually a set built on burt

reynolds personally owned jupiter ranch

that you recognized richard yeah uh i

recognized it from a movie that wouldn't

come out for several years later and it

was totally not totally different but a

little bit more touched up but from

flight of the navigator the big owls

gator city gas station yeah where uh

julie kramer pulls the ship over to get

directions for florida yeah

um it's also in the movie dances with

wolves no i just made that up why would

they have a gas station

it's probably in other things though i

just couldn't find any but i do like

that it's called gator city though

because now in flight of the navigator

we have another reason why it's

connected to burt reynolds i wouldn't be

surprised if that's the sign that bert

reynolds put above it yeah like he would

they just kept it that way for the movie

exactly

bandit has to whistle to wake up the gas

station attendant sleeping on a rocking

chair on the porch this feels like

another intentional reference to

deliverance

on imdb there was a point of trivia that

this actor had something to do with the

dueling banjos track or the scene and

deliverance but i couldn't find any

connection so i'm not sure that that's

true when snowman makes it to the gas

station they take charlotte the elephant

out to check on her suddenly an

ambulance pulls up and an emt gets out

rushing for the outhouse

snowman moves to drag a second paramedic

out of the ambulance to check on their

elephant but the man that they find is

an italian gynecologist eating a

sandwich and drinking wine

over the body of a man with

a swamp fever swamp fever

the doctor claims that it's not

contagious at the same time admitting he

knows absolutely nothing about swamp

fever me either what is swamp fever

i don't know dom deluise is obviously

less than excited to give this elephant

to check up but while he's telling them

what he understands is wrong the other

emt gets back in the ambulance and

drives away leaving him there

he says give her 800 aspirin and call me

in the morning

that that seems too much even for an

elephant maybe i don't know

they load the italian doctor played by

dom deluise into the back of this truck

with the elephant and he's giving her a

checkup as they continue driving but

there's like no light in the truck so

it's just a pitch black truck where

you're giving an elephant a physical

okay upon a very quick google search

swamp fever is a disease of horses

and does not affect humans

so that makes that joke funnier that

makes sense that it's not contagious

it's impressive that this one guy caught

it

swerving around an alligator in the road

the ambulance accidentally dumps the

patient

out onto the highway

buford and son approach and swerve

around the same alligator too close for

my taste looks like they almost hit this

alligator in the road

but the justice family rolls up

alongside the man in the gurney rolling

down the highway who can barely speak

and he's just mumbling swamp fever to

them

before they just leave they're like oh

this must be some like new fancy foreign

car that i don't recognize it's like no

it's a gurney from an ambulance hudson

hawk did it better yes they stop at a

raised bridge and snowman gets out to

stretch his legs when he notices smokey

a couple of cars back

he also notices that directly behind him

is joe klecko

a giant trucker

and they're friends with him bandit

pulls out of the line to clear the

bridge while it's still up

and smoky notices him and starts

shouting at him when klecko backs into

smokey's cruiser and then when smokey

tries to pick a fight with him this you

know seven foot tall dude gets out of

the back this is another nfl player

playing a trucker but he's for a

different team he played for the jets he

leans into smokey's cruiser and says

badge is crooked sir

and he crushes smokey's badge in his

hand while the heart rate monitor is

beeping away smokey decides to try and

clear the bridge also and probably get

stuck at the top because he's going like

10 miles an hour but also how did

snowman get over there yeah i was

wondering this did snowman go over no

like but i think snowman just waited for

the bridge to go down oh yeah okay so

okay

like i i was like once again the cop

doesn't care at all about whether

they're trying yeah he's only trying to

arrest burt reynolds and the only reason

that he's there is to get arrested

so i feel like the truck would

successfully get to where it's going if

burt reynolds just left

then there would be no problems well

that even happens in the third act yeah

he's like well just deliver the package

i guess

smokey decides to clear the bridge also

and probably get stuck at the top he

tells junior to get out and junior

stupidly just falls out of the side of

the car into the water and then the men

operating the bridge flip a coin to

decide what to do and settle on opening

the bridge further to drop the entire

police cruiser into the river crushing

the son of buford t justice well i'm not

exactly sure what would have happened if

they decided to close it because i feel

like it also would have like crushed the

car that's why i feel like they wouldn't

have done anything until there was a

crane here to lift the car up yeah

yeah but dropping a car on top of the

guy that just fell in the water probably

not safe no also it doesn't matter

because he's immediately driving his

police cruiser the next time we see him

yes so it's not water logged or anything

yeah like there's no jokes about like

fish throwing fish out of the car

wrapped around it yeah there's multiple

times when he gets his car back

with no explanation in totally perfect

order

yeah very weird in the back of the truck

we see dom is splitting a bottle of wine

with the elephant which we learned later

might be a bad idea the justices pull

over so that junior can pee again their

car's pristine and they're 10 miles down

the road see in in the first movie his

car just constantly is being damaged and

it stays consistently damaged yeah it's

getting worse and worse and worse yeah

but here they pull over so junior can

pee but he gets his zipper stuck

and requires his father's assistance

unsticking it for some reason

so

smokey's like leaning over holding the

zipper on his son's pants

like yanking it up and down while he

then he notices a crowd of people are

watching them and then he just says get

back in the car we have to leave now

don't you ever embarrass me like that

again

that night bandit meets with carrie to

gift her one of the albums that they

printed of his music

apparently there's only 75 copies yeah

so she should be flattered he says i

have 74 of them yeah

she jokes that frank sinatra was singing

my way and you sing let's do something

cheap and superficial which is an actual

track name from the soundtrack to this

film with burt reynolds providing the

vocals obviously

[Music]

the doctor shares the great news the

elephant is pregnant baby baby

lisa baby yeah you just said baby why'd

you say baby because of los angeles

charlotte are pregnant oh

gonna have a little baby elephant no

you're gonna have a baby

all right who did it bandit wants to get

going but the doctor recommends keeping

the elephant in place for the next 24

hours or at least 12. hoping to buy the

elephant time carrie suggests that she

and bandit could rekindle their romance

tonight so that he won't put them back

on the road so she's like pretending to

care about him yeah so they offer sex

yeah so just to help this elephant in

its labor

it's not even in labor and it's in its

pregnancy

charlotte wraps her trunk around bandit

clearly jealous of carrie's affections

snowman says i think she's in love with

you and adds needlessly in front of

bandit's ex-girlfriend of course the fat

ones always did go for both

it's like i'm right here why would you

say that uh charlotte sleeps on the

ground between oh sorry i put beau again

but that's confusing to call him beau

because nobody calls him beau well yeah

i didn't realize his name was bo yeah

bandit's name is bo they they establish

a lot of weird

things from in this movie like

carrie being called carrie and not frog

that the car's name is trigger

which was no true that was just a joke

about

like trigger's the name of the horse

right but they keep referring to it as

trigger right and they call this this

vehicle the son of trigger yeah and uh

and yeah and then and i'm calling him bo

instead of bandit uh

which is it's just there's like a lot of

weird little things yeah

um so charlotte sleeps on the ground

between bo and carrie

uh that night interrupting every attempt

bo makes to sneak to carrie's side of

the ground

the next day on the road buford catches

up with them and a quick chase leads

them to a closed fairgrounds where an

enormous wooden roller coaster is

wrapped in fencing smokey and the bandit

chase each other between the wooden

beams occasionally clipping them

and uh

they knock out all the supports under

this roller coaster until the whole

thing collapses well i like when you

when you first got there and you're they

started driving in there and you're like

this is really uncomfortable they must

have been ready to demolish this thing

or i can't believe they let them drive

there and then we see them blow up the

entire thing like yep and they had like

aerial footage and everything you're

like oh this was an important shoot well

planned yeah and that was exactly the

case that uh

they were actually that fairgrounds was

in trouble for how unsafe the conditions

of that ride were and so it was being

demolished to be replaced so they were

there on that day so they could do it

with the cars this is the last draw for

smokey who decides it's time to call in

his brothers reggie and gaylord bandit

stops at a gas station where an

attendant out of nowhere tells him that

he's one of the top five [ __ ] of all

time based purely on his reputation

bandit cannot deal with everyone not

loving him and freaks out on the kid

before carrie intervenes i don't really

understand they never really explained

this like explain why the kid doesn't

like it why this kid doesn't like it i

think he just

he doesn't like his ego he thinks he's

full of himself

there's there's always going to be one

guy out there that just doesn't like the

guy but i feel like

this movie is setting a precedent that

would have been further explored in a

third movie of

the bandit is long forgotten yeah and

like this is only the second bandit

movie like to to establish that that

people are already tired of him or in

his antics and targeting about him is

like well i i mean i guess he had a

reputation in the first one yeah that he

was already well known but the weird

thing is that this is the only hint we

get of it in the whole movie well well

that and like his like constant like

needing of reassurance right but

the only evidence we have that anyone

doesn't like him is this one kid calling

him an [ __ ] and then and that no one

bought his record

right that's it

and i guess maybe the fact that we start

him out as being in a drunken stupor

that seems like he's trying to mask his

unhappiness that yeah he isn't really

doing that well well i thought he was

just sad about her leaving was like the

entire impetus for his so it's not his

his career yeah

although they they do try at the end of

this to make it about his reputation

but yeah so he gets really mad at this

kid for not loving him because it's the

first hint in the entire franchise that

anyone on the planet other than smokey

doesn't like him

and

but carrie gets in the way and says all

right we're ready to go and they drive

to the center of this overgrown football

field

where they open up the truck and they

take charlotte out and give her a

checkup on the grass the doctor insists

they can't move the elephant anymore and

bandit starts freaking out apparently it

would be bad for her legs to be in the

truck all day and so

he's pissed off because he just wants to

finish this run and collect their money

and then carrie pulls him aside and says

it's not about the money it's about your

reputation isn't it like she realizes

that he could care less about any of

this money he just wants to be known as

the guy who gets things done on schedule

a random neighborhood kid shows up

anthony t towns

and they offer him to watch the elephant

while they go out drinking tonight

they start to threaten the kid if

anything happens and he finishes the

threat i know you're gonna feed me to

them

but if the elephant dies you can't feed

this kid to it it doesn't make sense

well

you can't just stuff the stuff the kid

into the corpse it's gonna be like a

hook moment yeah just have the elephant

fall on him well and i love that he he

fully introduces himself as anthony t

downs yeah and the actor is anthony t

downs the kid

but he's credited as young black boy

perfect it's like you gave him a name he

has a name he has a name are you sure

that's the same kid

yeah well the character is the k the

character of young black boy is played

by anthony that could be a

coincidence

maybe they named one character after the

other actor

probably not though

that

oddly enough was named young black boy

he was korean

they head to a don williams concert and

he notices them in the audience and

invites the crowd to applaud the bandit

and they all do

everybody here likes him uh he sings a

song dedicated to the bandit and carries

love for each other which he walks out

on yeah kind of bothers me i'm like this

dude has singing a song for you don't be

so rude isn't the whole joke about

smugglers is that they're not supposed

to be famous

isn't there like a game of thrones line

yeah where somebody says something like

aren't you the famous smuggler and he's

like well if i'm famous then i'm

probably not a very good smuggler yeah

so davos yeah well if you're a famous

smuggler you're not doing it right

so it seems weird that you would

celebrate having a fan base as a person

who's who's you're famous for being a

distraction eventually the police would

catch on to the fact that that's what

you're doing

carrie notices him scribbling something

on a napkin and he tells her that it's a

poem about her and when she finally sees

the finished product it's a diagram on

how to transport an elephant without

using her legs it's like a big

cargo net that would go underneath her

belly to hold her up

carrie gets very upset about this and

tells the bandit that he's too obsessed

with fame and that she can't be around

him anymore and she gives them this

whole breakup speech that was actually

written by her

and was relevant to their exact

relationship at the time that she

thought he was too obsessed with fame

and he encouraged her to include as much

of her own personal thoughts about their

relationship to to help the performance

but she means what she says here in this

scene and then she walks off into the

night and bandit gets drunk with the

elephant in the truck

and the next day they're finishing off

the last leg of this transport suddenly

buford t justice hears his effeminate

brother gaylord speaking and wonders

aloud where their third brother is

reginald the royal canadian mounty i

guess

he pulls up in his car

and he's singing opera music with a

woman like they're just playing opera

music really loud in their car and they

get out singing to it

so they've been at this road trip for a

while now

and they started in

where did they start this miami is where

they got the elephant

miami is where they got the elephant and

where are they going they're going to

dallas dallas

okay they had nine days to get from

florida to dallas it does not take but

they started in florida right well well

they also had a training montage we

don't know how long that took yeah okay

i just it doesn't seem like they're

making very much progress i agree in

case it needs to be said for some reason

jackie gleason is playing all three of

these characters

reginald gaylord and

smokey all pose for a photo together but

stand far enough apart that the seams

between multiple shots are invisible

smokey sees bandit passing all three

cars and moves to pursue him testing

bandit's ability to walk away from a

challenge buford suggests he take a side

road and bandit goes for it on the road

he is speaking on the cb with smokey who

tells him to look to his left and right

and notices huge lines of cop cars that

surround him in every direction

at the top of these

hills and they're just yeah these dunes

and they're ready to just drop down into

the canyon behind him

it's about 40 police cars 20 on each

side a lot of blues brothers right but

it doesn't make any sense what they do

because they wait for him to pass and

then they pull out after him all 40 of

them yeah you know after him

you guys were there first if some of you

got in front it wouldn't be a chase you

could have just stopped him but here

he's radioing to snowman and saying

i think we're in trouble i think i might

not get out of this so just go ahead and

make the delivery without me basically

i got wall-to-wall county mounties and

mountie

mounties snowman agrees not to intervene

but he refuses to leave bandit behind

and says that

he's just gonna make a loop he's gonna

you know stick around in this area until

bandit gets out of it that's where we

get our

used car

reprise here of uh hundreds of cars

driving across the desert chasing each

other um he's leading all these cars

through just flat desert land and then

he notices through a mirage that

snowman's truck is headed straight for

them

and he suddenly notices that

there was actually one long line of

trucks

and they start to spread out and now

they have a wall of 18 wheelers coming

straight on and all the police cars to

block the desert path so that bandit can

sneak between some of them presumably

but instead

yes uh it becomes a very dusty boring

version of the airport fight from

captain america three with a bunch of

cars

and a bunch of trucks facing off and

then all the cars just flip u-turns and

try to drive away

but still the truck drivers are just

straight murdering police yeah oh my god

they're just slamming into the cars

flipping them over a tow truck throws a

hook

and tears the back half of a patrol car

off a dump truck lifts one up and flips

it upside down into his dumpster two 18

wheelers just sandwich a car between

them yeah and the driver we see him

escape because you have to show this guy

escape because otherwise that's the for

sure murder and then a big trailer dumps

a huge metal tube

and a patrol car drives right into it

and it slices off huge portions of the

car here we notice that the doctor is

just sitting out in the middle of the

desert unprotected with this elephant

while this whole

mad max scene plays out which is good

that the elephant's not in there but i

don't know that's sitting in the middle

of this desert with a you know

monster truck rally going on is the best

place yeah the trucks form a small path

to a ramp and start loading police cars

up onto a trailer truck the 18 wheelers

start circling the wagons around a huge

pile of destroyed police cars apparently

all three jackie gleasons are undamaged

and they're still able to drive and they

follow bandit out of this mess but

snowman and bandit drive across the

roofs of a bunch of 18 wheelers that are

filling this canyon yeah which which

must have been

perfectly sheer on both sides otherwise

there'd still be a large gap between the

first and the last truck yeah

but it works out great for them and then

just one truck pulls out so that when

smokey tries to follow he falls into the

gap and then we cut to

i guess later that day and smokey is

driving the car that fell into this gap

but it's folded into like an a-frame

but somehow still drives and they're

sitting at the peak of this folded car

with the top ripped off uh smokey asks

his son for a handkerchief so he can

wipe a spot off the dash and suddenly a

tractor comes out of the weeds and he

veers off the road dumping his son into

a swamp

was this planned this tractor it's just

coincidence i think it's just a

coincidence tractor

uh bandit hears over the radio that

charlotte is in labor and agrees to stop

luckily they're right at lyon county

safari

and there will be someone to feed this

elephant to when it shows up dead

jesus

they bribe the employees of the wildlife

reserve to let the elephant have its

baby here i thought that they were going

to agree to have it stay here

yeah that would make a lot more sense

than what happens because like i'm not

going to pay you to let my elephant drop

a baby in your grass yeah

would just

i dare you to stop that from happening

they drank it oh well that worked

the baby could still come out

the doctor wakes up snowman and bandit

when the elephant is born and it looks

way bigger than a newborn baby elephant

to me but

i'm not a zoologist anymore

those days are behind me

nothing the licensing board kind of

that was a sad day

again bandit encourages them to rush

back onto the road snowman is more and

more frustrated with this approach and

punches bandit into the elephant's side

and then to the ground he just like

bounces off of charlotte's ribs and then

collapses yeah

once bandit stands up looking especially

angry he resembles as closely as he does

in anything nor mcdonald's portrayal of

burt reynolds from saturday night live

he might even be dressed as the

character from this movie when he makes

his jeopardy appearances

bandit asks what's wrong with the doctor

and snowman what is the matter with you

two idiots

you act like she's human and then the

elephant starts crying yeah and bandit

sees the teardrop from its eye and then

apologizes to it

this is such a corny scene

but it's great and and it would have had

an impact had he not had an affection

for the elephant throughout most of it

yeah all of a sudden he's like whatever

chop its head off yeah we'll move it in

multiple cars

bandit leaves to find carrie at the bus

stop and he tells her you know we're

going to keep the elephant everything's

great we're we're not going to dallas

and we should we should give ourselves

another shot they put the elephants in

decorative trailers and drive away like

they're keeping them

i guess we never get the joke that big

enos and little enos match up with the

big elephant and the little elephant

that i was waiting for this entire time

i really wanted them to be riding both

elephants by the way right

we don't get any conclusion to that

plotline no and suddenly we hear

smokey's voice and it turns out he's

stolen or commandeered a greyhound bus

to chase bandit with and we freeze frame

on his angry face gripping the wheel

over the

credits

um we we start to see the scroll starts

over black and then on the left side of

the screen we're getting the bloopers

this is the first time that they played

bloopers during the credits of a movie

is this this our first time for that

this year no this is the first time

they did they didn't play bloopers

during the credits of movies before this

hal made him invented this really yeah

huh

so this is this is the first time

no they weren't great uh but what what

uh always makes me laugh is that uh as a

reference to the fact that this is the

first time they put bloopers in the

credits

they they used these bloopers

over the anchorman credits so the first

the first blooper you see over the

anchorman credits is that burt reynolds

going i guess we'll go back to doing

what i do bet i guess we'll go back to

doing what i do best show off

when we get started

when do we get started

that's my line when we get started

that's my line you say whenever whenever

you like whenever you like

he's just like doesn't understand what's

going on but i i would have loved to

have been in the room when they're like

having a covered station like

oh what if we did bloopers over the

credits like like smokey and the bandit

too and he's like well yeah but we don't

have the rights to those bloopers and

he's like that's not what i meant he's

like oh what if we could get him though

let's do that

so it must have been so funny for them

when they finally got it locked down

like yeah you could use those bloopers

it's like great

so confusing

uh but that's the end of the film

our director hal needham uh he did the

first couple smokey and the bandits and

cannonballs

uh one and two i think he did both of

them uh he also did hooper

the villain megaforce stroker ace he was

an actor also and a stuntman and a lot

of stuff

writer jerry belson

he wrote the 77 version of fun with dick

and jane he wrote the end he wrote

steven spielberg's always

he was an uncredited screenwriter on

close encounters of the third kind he

was a longtime writing partner of gary

marshall he wrote on the tracy allman

show the odd couple and his wife also

does a lot of extra characters on the

simpsons

and she also played one of the singers

from the 40s and xanadu very recently

for us uh writer brock yates also wrote

both of the cannonball run movies the

story author here michael kane

uh he has uncredited dialogue for jaws

3d but he did not appear in jaws 4.

uh he also wrote hot stuff southern

comfort all the right moves and macgyver

episode bitter harvest that's right

which is like the really that's a really

disturbing one where it gets sprayed

with pesticides right yep it's pretty

pretty crazy it has the director of

vanishing point uh is is like the guy

who owns the farm all right his son is

like using this chemical against his

orders the characters were uh

from obviously from robert el levy and

uh hal needham from the first film but

robert l levy was a producer of the

first film he also produced point break

a kid in king arthur's court a lot of

mary kate and ashley olsen videos

and then later on he did she's all that

pay it forward wedding crashers so he

had big big budget comedies in the 90s

and aughts

because pay it forward is hilarious yeah

never stop laughing burt reynolds was

bandit uh he was quint on gunsmoke for a

long time he's in deliverance he's in

the white lightning gator movies he's

smokey bandit cannonball run sharky's

machine stroker ace best little

whorehouse in texas and all dogs go to

heaven of course yes of course and as

much as i like that film my favorite

performance from him is still from

boogie nights

he's phenomenal in that movie uh he has

a cameo in smokey 3 but he does not play

the bandit in that film as we mentioned

earlier and he appeared as himself in

archer episode the man from jupiter

in which he begins dating archer's

mother

which is great because they had already

at that point had archer episodes based

on white lightning and gator yeah and

archer pitches him a gator sequel he's

like it could be a sequel to gator he's

like well gator was already a sequel

jackie gleeson was buford t justice and

gaylord justice and reginald van justice

he was minnesota fats and the hustler he

was in the sting too

he was ralph crammed in on the

honeymooners jerry reed was cletus

i don't know why he's just credited as

cletus he's

more well known as the snowman again

this is what this movie does it tries to

establish like new lore about these

characters yeah

but he is a popular country in western

singer

he played bama mccall in gator he played

doug van horn in the stuff and he played

red baloo in waterboy that's the coach

of the opposing team the one who

he envisions babies replacing the faces

of the coach

dom deluise plays the doctor here this

is his fourth movie for the year after

fatso last married couple and holy moses

he was paired with bert in both

cannonball movies

the best little whorehouse the end

silent movie and all dogs go to heaven

they did a lot of stuff together yeah

sally field was carrie she was gidget on

the gidget tv series in addition to her

bert reynolds films she was also norma

rae in norma rae she was in places of

the heart and both of those films earned

her oscars for lead actress she was in

steel magnolias mrs doubtfire forrest

gump she was married todd lincoln for

spielberg and aunt may in the amazing

spider-man 2.

paul williams was little enos he's a

prolific songwriter for three dog night

helen reddy david bowie the carpenters

uh he wrote the rainbow connection for

the muppet movie you read a lot of

muppet songs he did i think he did all

that he appears in the first muppet

movie too right and i think i think he

did all the songs from up at christmas

carol and that's possible

his song evergreen for streisand's star

is born won the grammy for song of the

year and an oscar for best original song

he's currently the president and

chairman of the american songwriting

society ascap

and hey

did he write flying dreams for a secret

of name

sure why not

let's say you did yes he did cool wow we

got to meet him at the new beverly

that's right it was a triple feature of

paul williams movies it was wait wait

let me try to remember

three movies he wrote all the music for

phantom paradise yep

uh he also plays a character in that

movie bugsy malone

and ishtar yep yeah it was bugsy phantom

ishtar uh it was hosted by edgar wright

at the new beverly well because he was a

baby driver right and and this was

before baby driver but paul williams was

there for the screening and for the

entirety of ishtar paul williams and

quentin tarantino were sitting in the

back row singing along to every song in

the movie which was just magical to

listen to there was just an article uh

in a b club about

ishtar being

an underrated movie oh it for sure is i

think the joke that the director elaine

may made about it was that if everyone

who wrote a bad review for that movie

had seen it it would have made a lot

more money right

but we got a picture with him that night

so we'll throw that on the instagram for

this one

uh pat mccormick was big enos he plays

tiny and under the rainbow next year

he'll be back for smokey three uh and

he's also the ghost of christmas present

and scrooged uh in the in the uh in the

tv tv yeah uh david huddleston was john

conn that's the other guy that's running

for governor and not charles during yes

uh he plays the big lebowski he was

walrus wallman in gorp earlier this year

and he was olson johnson in blazing

saddles i i feel an underused character

yeah because he he's he has two scenes

there's a there's a few people like that

where it's like come on you could have

used this person for more

mike henry was junior he played tarzan

in three films in the 60s and he plays

uh calozyk in soylent green

john anderson governor very excited to

see john anderson here he plays

california charlie and psycho and

more importantly to me and richard he

was macgyver's grandfather harry jackson

on the original macgyver series um and

he's wonderful it's funny to see him

cursing and i think he even like makes a

fart sound in one of the bloopers yeah

he's like that's wonderful i've never

heard him joke around like that brenda

lee was nice lady she's credited as nice

lady but she's the lady who sings

rocking around the christmas tree

you know where michael jordan is sliding

through the living room yeah that's

always what i think

terry bradshaw was self i don't remember

which character self was

he's back as self in cannonball run

which was shot concurrently he's also

sherman and hooper he plays colonel

march and a couple briscoe county

juniors he was in a blossom he was in a

couple married with children's

good stuff he's a funny guy i've always

liked him

joe green was self

he has an uncredited cameo in ace

ventura but i don't remember joe green

being in that

so i'd have to watch it again i tried to

find it and i couldn't find any clips of

that

but he's probably best known for that

coca-cola commercial where he tosses a

kid his jersey in exchange for a coke or

the family guy bit making fun of it

where peter offers him a coca that he

throws in his jersey and then his pants

so that his jocks trap and then peter

just drops everything and runs away

uh joe klecko played himself

he was a nfl

defensive lineman for the jets

he also appears in cannonball run as a

polish racing driver and in the movie

heat as kin law

jeffrey brian king was another football

player he plays dill harris in to kill a

mockingbird and arthur rose in the

cannonball run

jerry lester was the warehouse guard

this was his last film and there was not

much i recognized probably because he

was very old in 1980 but he was super

funny i would have liked to see more of

this game yeah he he had a very like

mickey rooney i was just gonna say very

mickey rooney but he's older than mickey

rooney would have been here but yeah he

very much liked that um and then this

one threw me off

you probably noticed this too yeah a

character credited as party guest

presumably at the beginning who gets

splashed with the orange stuff right

right chuck yeager the first man to

break the sound barrier is for some

reason a party guest in that first scene

are you sure it's the same yes his imdb

page makes it very clear he's only in

two movies the other one he plays a

character fred in the right stuff in

which he is also played by sam shepard

in that movie so it's very weird to

suddenly have him be in this but it

makes sense that he's in that movie yes

but it just makes no sense maybe he's

just a fan or they had to use those

planes

and maybe like someone at the base was

like oh well you know hey chuck we're

shooting a movie and we're using these

planes if you want to come out and see

them shoot the movie and you can be in

it or whatever was he involved in

cannonball run at all no okay because

that seems like those are literally his

only two feature credits or this and the

right stuff um and this one's barely a

credit cause he's probably just extra um

and then the last credit i wanted to

mention here was a preacher character

named james th the actor's name who

played the preacher that answers the

phone is james l buchanan ii just this

this is his only credit on imdb

and i when i first read it i thought

presumably related to the former

president which confused me because i

think buchanan is very often referred to

as the first gay president if not openly

it turns out buchanan adopted his niece

harriet lane the youngest surviving

child of his sister jane after the

untimely deaths of her parents

and she went on to serve as the first

lady

one of 11 women to serve as first lady

without being married to the president

this was his niece was his first lady

but she was also his adopted daughter i

did not know that that was a thing that

you could have a first lady if you

didn't have a wife apparently apparently

you can uh she did have a son named

james though neither of her sons lived

to their 15th birthday so the line

likely ends there this man is probably

not related to the president why did we

go through all this because he sees

james l buchanan ii he's clearly he

clearly wants you to think he's related

to the president and maybe he is some

other indirect way

like the way people say oh i'm related

to lincoln it's like

no i was you know one of my yeah we're

all related to genghis khan you go far

enough back

but yeah those are all the credits i had

for this one um this movie's not great

there's not there's not a lot powering

it and

honestly jackie gleason is the funniest

part of this movie and that's a problem

yeah i mean uh other than maybe that one

line they really tone down his racism

yeah because in the first movie you're

not supposed to like him he's supposed

to be a jerk who's mean and and very

very racist

but in this movie like

he just appears for no reason yeah uh

like there's no reason for him to be

pursuing the banter in this case in the

first movie he's pursuing them because

they have his

his his future daughter-in-law hostage

he thinks yeah exactly like this whole

plot is doubled because

frog jumps into the car

from the wedding and so he there she's

being pursued but then also they need to

watch out for the police because of the

stuff that they're carrying in the truck

right in this movie there's no reason

other than

just

why was he why would he agree to even

allow this marriage to to happen in the

first place well he clearly didn't

because he's outside the church saying i

can't believe you're trying to marry

this woman again i told you this was a

dumb idea but also

he doesn't need to be in this movie once

he's in this movie as three characters

and the other two characters serve

little to no purpose yeah they literally

have like one line each and that's it

that's the end of those characters

and as much as i appreciate that gaylord

actually seemed like a completely

different actor like obviously they look

the same but he's he's doing a different

character for that part i feel like

reggie is pretty much just the same as

smokey but gaylord actually felt like a

different person and i was i appreciated

that he was able to pull off a second

character

but

neither of them served a purpose in the

movie other than he was like i want to

show off my range a little bit

and that was it

but yeah the

the premise doesn't make any sense

obviously there's

there's no

there's no gravity to the situation

because they don't need the money they

don't care about the money and at the

end they don't get the money yeah

so all that happens is they pick up an

elephant at the beginning and they keep

it they stole an elephant and they kept

it they're still transporting a stolen

elephant at the end of the film i know

you were disappointed that you didn't

know about this movie when you made your

elephant transportation movies list yeah

but i think it'd be at the bottom

probably of all of the elephant

transportation movies i don't know have

you seen larger than life

i don't know if i've said it i don't

remember if i've seen it either so no

offense to that movie i don't know maybe

it's great

but it's no operation dumbo drop i could

tell you

that yeah um

not much to say about this one uh up or

down jess

it's a down yeah it doesn't have much

going for it yeah it's a down for me uh

although i probably have it up higher on

my list than mo either of you guys but

uh

i i just

i i really like the first one i i i try

to show it to people and and they don't

like it yeah and maybe it's just because

i grew up with it a little bit with my

with my dad that happens uh and and i i

can kind of see it

last time i watched it i was like man

this movie is actually pretty long

uh or is it felt long

uh i think my dad literally drank coors

when i was a kid because it was in smoky

in the band like he was like oh that's

kind of cool i'm just going to buy this

stuff and then he liked him he's like

i'm just going to keep buying this stuff

i think like when people think about

burt reynolds i think one of the first

movies that'll come to people's minds

she's smoking in the bandit yeah

uh certainly won't be smoking in the

bandit two no

uh but i think

it's amazing to me that you got dom and

burt in this and that they don't they

don't get to do anything with each other

like it's such a waste because we'll see

next year and cannonball run they are so

funny together it's like ridiculous how

much chemistry the two of them have and

they do nothing with it in this movie

but i remember as a kid loving

cannonball run

and i think

cannonball run 2 is probably on par with

smokey too as far as

sequels ruining it but at least like you

don't have to come up with a whole new

premise it's like no it's just another

race

but yeah um i'm excited for cannibal run

next year but this was this was a waste

i feel like it might have been funnier

if dom wasn't having to do this

character the whole time yeah if they

just let him be dom deluise i i almost

feel like dom chose it

yeah like what if i'm what if i'm like

an italian doctor and what if i'm an

italian stereotype for the second time

this year yeah and i'm always drinking

wine like i always have a wine glass

yeah

it's a choice

um

but yeah i think that's three downs for

us then for this one um and then where

is this going on your list

richard um i actually have this just

below roadie

and just above small circle of friends

which puts it at uh 58th

okay

jess that's a little bit higher than

what i did i mean actually mine's fairly

close to roadie too but um

mine's i think in 69th place and it is

just above holy moses and just below

the heck movie is this the hunter

okay yeah

still figuring out where it goes for me

i mean it's so for me it's below the

windows threshold it's certainly yeah

same below that um but it

it's a very middle-of-the-road movie um

you know and it's actually not too

terribly far away on my list from rough

cut

yeah uh same here for that i mean it did

have some impressive like stunt driving

and some car wrecks and

and you can see where the money went

uh

but

i don't know i i don't i really just

it's so mediocre i just don't have

anything to say about it

um i think for me

also not super far from rough cut

this is going to go

just under the hunter and just above

small circle of friends

which is only three slots up from rough

cut so burt reynolds

he outdid himself barely with this movie

um and actually i think

cannibal run is like gonna be as high as

he gets for me until

until uh all dogs go to heaven comes out

i actually liked rough cut better than

this though mine's rough cuts above that

for me yeah um

at least that one i thought was engaging

in so much as it was sort of an

intriguing story

but neither one of them makes sense at

the end

no

not really but at least throughout the

movie before i knew that it didn't make

sense i was like what's happening

you're like oh we didn't see that coming

because it doesn't follow logically from

what happened

but you got me

all right

well i think that's about everything for

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we'll be discussing those lips those

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cleveland 1951 pre-med student artie

shoemaker dreams not so much of a

medical career but a life in the theater

against the wishes of working-class

parents we leave you now with the

trailer for those lips those eyes

this is 1951

this is your first summer in stock you

know that there's no season like the

first season you're gonna remember it

all your life frank langella is harry

crystal

look at him

he has strength and authority and

control

he can do anything

he has talent

he has command

he has confidence

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he has a future the key

he has an agent who's mickey bellinger

he's a big gun legit at mca as soon as i

sign with him it's goodbye graveyard

hello schubert valley frank langella

glennis o'connor

and animal houses thomas hulse

those lips those eyes

when i'm calling

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