Sunday, August 10, 2025

The Cannonball Run 2

 I can see why these films have been forgotten in a way that Airplane, and Duck Soup have not been

It is not bad, but it is off it's time.

Jackie Chan does stunts. We get Ratpack jokes. Oh and lots of drinking while in charge of motorised vehicles 

That said I still enjoyed it. Ricardo Montleban, Doug McClure, Catherine Bach- Daisy Duke to you. Richard Kiel. Who I recently saw in Simon and Simon 

My brother reminded me that Daisy Duke is the same age as my uncle. Which killed the mood

It is the last Rat Pack movie- Frank Sinatra makes a Cameo, where he is compared to American Royalty  and the last of the Reynolds and Dom Deluise films. Smokey and the Bandit 2. Cannoball Run, and Cannoball 2. Best Little Whorehouse ...

I liked the Thorn Birds joke- Which Dean Martin makes while trying to pick up a girl in bar. He is dressed as a priest

I never realised how Short Sammy Davis Jnr was- he really is tiny 

Did Tony Danza age noticeably in this before they made Who's the Boss



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