The Party is over... Die Fortsetzung von American Graffiti

Originaltitel: More American Graffiti

1979
12
1 Std. 50 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,4/10

5222

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Ron Howard in The Party is over... Die Fortsetzung von American Graffiti (1979)

Home Video Trailer from Universal Studios Home Entertainment

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23 Fotos

Comedy Drama War

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuTold in four different New Year's Eves in the mid 1960s, John, Terry, Debbie, Steve and Laurie deal with adulthood, the Vietnam war, peace rallies, and relationships.Told in four different New Year's Eves in the mid 1960s, John, Terry, Debbie, Steve and Laurie deal with adulthood, the Vietnam war, peace rallies, and relationships.Told in four different New Year's Eves in the mid 1960s, John, Terry, Debbie, Steve and Laurie deal with adulthood, the Vietnam war, peace rallies, and relationships.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,4/10

5222

IHRE BEWERTUNG

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Wissenswertes
George Lucas, inspired by Francis Ford Coppola's Der Pate 2 (1974) wanted to make his sequel darker and more complicated. Writer and director Bill Norton thought that cutting between four different time frames would be too jolting for most of the audience and also didn't like the various film formats used for each of the four storylines. Years later, Lucas would admit that Norton was right.

Patzer
Toad is a helicopter pilot, wearing the appropriate rank of a warrant officer, yet he is treated as a low-ranking enlisted man who takes orders from the First Sergeant and is placed on details for enlisted men. Normally, this would not be the case, as a warrant officer outranks a First Sergeant, and therefore would not carry out such tasks. Additionally, Toad's poor vision would have most-likely precluded him from being a helicopter pilot in the first place.

Terry the Toad holds the rank of a CW2 Chief Warrant Officer. The Sergeant berating him about latrine duty is a Staff Sergeant, not a Sergeant First Class. Also, US Army helicopter pilots are allowed to wear glasses as long as their vision is correctable with glasses to 20/20.

Zitate
Terry 'The Toad' Fields: Oh, come on, look at me, I'm a free man! The war is over, and I win!

Crazy Credits
The current whereabouts of the characters are shown during the movie's final scene.

Alternative Versionen
The original epilogue, similar to American Graffiti (1973)'s ending, revealing the fate of the primary characters, states that the Bolanders (Ron Howard and Cindy Williams) divorced a couple of years later. A newer version has no mention of a separation but, instead, states that Laurie works in Community Service.

Verbindungen
Featured in Sneak Previews: More American Graffiti, The Amityville Horror, The Muppet Movie, The Wanderers, North Dallas Forty (1979)

Soundtracks
Fixin' to Die Rag
Written by Country Joe McDonald
Performed by Country Joe and the Fish

Benutzerrezensionen78

Rezension

Ausgewählte Rezension

7/10

yes, flawed, but entertaining

First off, you can not expect a sequel to excel. We get lucky sometimes but usually they are either totally lame or they fall into some sort of formula hellhole. This film, as many many reviewers have pointed out, does have flaws. Most films do. It is not that different in structure from the original either, following different story lines with different characters, albeit in different years rather than in the same night. The Vietnam sequences with Terry the Toad and Little Joe from the Pharohs gang are the best part of the movie. They could almost have made a single full-length sequel following that story line. A lot of reviewers liked the Milner sequences more than the Debbie sequences. I sort of go the other way around. I thought the Milner storyline was weak and there just wasn't much there. Maybe the hippie sequences were more familiar to me, but I related to that and thought most of it was hilarious. They could have dropped the entire other sequence as well ... it just labored to tell their story against a backdrop that was much bigger than they were.

Also liked the cameo by Falfa, Harrison Ford.

Anyway, maybe someone will come back and make the rest of the Terry-the-Toad in Vietnam story. Feel the same way about D-Day "whereabouts unknown" in Animal House. There's a movie there waiting to be told.