Meatballs: Part II

"The insanity continues..."

1984 1h 27m EN

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★4.0TMDB · 69

Comedy

Synopsis

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Camp Sasquatch will be bought out and closed unless owner Coach Giddy wins the boxing competition scheduled for the end of the summer. Tough city punk Flash, who's performing his community service time at the camp, is the coach's best hope. Flash reluctantly offers to help and so must use his raw sparring talents to get a motley group of adolescent misfits into fighting shape, while also trying to win the heart of pretty Cheryl.

“The insanity continues...”

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Cast

Richard Mulligan
Giddy
Hamilton Camp
Hershey
John Mengatti
Flash
Kim Richards
Cheryl
Archie Hahn
Jamie / Meathead (voice)
Misty Rowe
Fanny
Ralph Seymour
Eddie
Tammy Taylor
Nancy

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Ken Wiederhorn
Writers: Bruce Franklin Singer, Martin Kitrosser, Carol Watson
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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87 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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ERA

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42 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Meatballs Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Ken Wiederhorn, shot by Donald M. Morgan. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Ken Harrison. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor George Berndt shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Richard Mulligan and Hamilton Camp and John Mengatti carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The insanity continues...".

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The take

Ken Wiederhorn directs. Donald M. Morgan behind the camera. Ken Harrison scores. George Berndt cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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187 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
242 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Meatballs Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Ken Wiederhorn, shot by Donald M. Morgan. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Ken Harrison. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor George Berndt shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Richard Mulligan and Hamilton Camp and John Mengatti carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "The insanity continues...".
9IMDB entry: tt0087700 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Only 69 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Donald M. Morgan
Original score: Ken Harrison
Editing: George Berndt
Production design: James William Newport
Makeup / hair: Cheri Minns
Sound: John Wilkinson
Stunt coordinator: John Sherrod
Runtime: 87 min · 1h 27m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $5,410,972
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Meatballs: Part II (1984)

Part of

Meatballs Collection

Meatballs is a 1979 Canadian comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman. It is noted for Bill Murray's first film appearance in a starring role and for launching the directing career of Reitman. It was followed by several sequels, of which only Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986) had any connection to the original.

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Wuchak2023-05-28
★ 7/10
Silly sequel delivers the goods Two competing camps on a lake in SoCal go through the challenges of a typical summer, except this year there’s an extraterrestrial visitation. Richard Mulligan is on hand as the director of Camp Sasquatch. “Meatballs Part II” (1984) is all-out comedy compared to the first movie, which was a relatively realistic summer camp flick with some amusing bits. This one throws in an ET-like character along with a lot of goofiness and camp, particularly the ‘general’ of the military camp (Hamilton Camp). Petite Tammy Taylor stands out on the feminine front as Nancy, along with voluptuous Misty Rowe (Fanny) and Kim Richards (Cheryl) with her glorious long hair. The flick is superior to the first one in this department. On the other side of the spectrum, John Mengatti is effective as the Chachi-like Flash. While there’s some sex-oriented humor, which is to be expected given the milieu, it doesn’t go overboard into tastelessness like the next sequel. There are some excesses that I could do without (e.g. the implications of John Larroquette’s character and Flash’s boxing outfit) but, other than that, the movie provides practically everything you’d want for a fun summer camp flick. The film runs 1 hours, 27 minutes, and at Veluzat Motion Picture Ranch, Saugus, California, which is north of Santa Clarita, both in the high country north of Los Angeles. GRADE: B/B-

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