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Maniac Cop 2 *** (1990, Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner) – Classic Movie Review 8300

Director William Lustig’s and writer Larry Cohen’s 1990 Maniac Cop 2 is a cheaper-looking and even more exploitative-seeming sequel to their 1988 horror thriller Maniac Cop, with a welter of violence and bad black humour […]

Mar, 26

The Return of the Pink Panther *** (1975, Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 8294

Co-writer/ producer/ director Blake Edwards’s bright and lively 1975 slapstick comedy sequel The Return of the Pink Panther stars Peter Sellers, who got his career back on the rails by returning to his iconic hit […]

Mar, 25

Friday the 13th Part 2 ** (1981, Betsy Palmer, Amy Steel, John Furey) – Classic Movie Review 8264

Steve Miner, the producer of part one Friday the 13th, directs the expected sequel Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), a kind of rerun of the original slasher story, taking place five years later, in […]

Mar, 19

Blues Brothers 2000 * (1998, Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton, Nia Peoples, Kathleen Freeman, Frank Oz) – Classic Movie Review 8240

Director John Landis’s 1998 Blues Brothers 2000 is a truly awful, misbegotten, forlorn sequel to the 1980 hit The Blues Brothers, in which Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) is freed from jail and reassembles the old […]

Mar, 13

The Rescuers Down Under *** (1990, voices of Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy) – Classic Movie Review 8184

The 1990 cartoon animated adventure The Rescuers Down Under is the enjoyable Disney sequel to their 1977 hit The Rescuers, with the cartoon mice Bernard and Miss Bianca (again voiced by Bob Newhart and Eva […]

Mar, 01

The Great Muppet Caper *** (1981, voices of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Steve Whitmire) – Classic Movie Review 8175

Director Jim Henson’s Muppets again feature in the 1981 The Great Muppet Caper, a much-improved sequel to the 1979 first caper The Muppet Movie, with a amiable selection of largely British performers, raising reliable laughs. […]

Feb, 27

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World *** (2019, Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, F Murray Abraham) – Movie Review

The third How to Train Your Dragon animation feature movie is still classy and entertaining, mixing laughs with high adventure. Those dragons are fascinating! It is the third and final film in the DreamWorks Animation trilogy […]

Feb, 26

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