More American Graffiti – 1979
Director
Bill L. Norton
Writers
Bill L. Norton
George Lucas
Cast
Candy Clark
Bo Hopkins
Ron Howard
Review by Wayne Malin
Pointless sequel,
“American Graffiti” while overpraised, is certainly one of the best films of the early 70s. It made tons of money and jump-started the careers of many stars. So, naturally they made a sequel–but why? At the end of the original it told us what happened to the main characters–there was absolutely no surprises here. That being said it’s an OK movie.
The different types of screen sizes are nice–70mm for the race car sequences; small, hand-held for the Vietnam sequences; multiple screens for Candy Clark and the hippies and regular size screen for Howard and Williams “normal” couple. But, storywise, there was nothing new here and the different screen sizes can only hold you interest for a while. It was just an average movie–but a big let-down from the original. This was not a big hit when it was released–it disappeared quickly.
This is mostly a forgotten movie–as it should stay.
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