Review of More American Graffiti (1979) by Steph O — 23 Aug 2010

I'm not sure what to think about this movie. "American Graffiti" is one of my top ten favourite movies of all time. Maybe even top 5. So naturally it was nice to see some of those characters again. I'm glad they at least got some of the main cast back for this... although there are some very obvious people missing. No Curt?! That was sad. "More American Graffiti" does have a pretty good soundtrack though. Not as good as the first movie's soundtrack, but still decent. The parts with John Milner were pretty great too. Just as entertaining as he was in the first movie. And I loved seeing Milner and Debbie in scenes together.

Most of this movie bored the crap out of me though. The timing jumps all over the place. Skips from year to year. New Years Eve 1964. New Years Eve 1966. New Years Eve 1977. And then back to 1964 again. And this really isn't done very well. I'm assuming they did it this way because at the end of the first film we are told that two of the characters in this movie die. We're told HOW they die as well. So that's...worrying. The movie kind of builds up to those deaths. I'm not confirming both of those people die though, because you never know... But yeah, it's all about the characters living in the 60s. Dealing with 60s issues. Vietnam. Husbands not wanting their wives to work, because they're women. Protests. Weed. And suchlike. Maybe I didn't like this movie because I have little to no interest in that time in history. But more likely because the direction was weird, the story was meh, and I missed Curt too much.