Distributor:
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment Certificate: PG | 115
minutes | 1994 Director: Paul Weiland
Available to buy Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Billy Crystal, Jon Lovitz, Daniel Stern, Jack Palance,
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Just as funny sequel to City Slickers sees Mitch
Robbins (Crystal) and his pals
Daniel Stern and Jon Lovitz head
back off on the cowboy after
discovering a treasure map
tucked inside real cowboy
Curly’s hat.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
The original City Slickers (1991) which saw middle aged
suburbanites go on a western cattle drive holiday was a hugely popular
success and a sequel was inevitable, it arrived three years later and
surprisingly as sequels go was easily as good as the first, this time
out Bruno Kirby (who played one of the three leads) didn’t appear, his
place being taken by the cuddly funny Jon Lovitz who can make you just
by raising his eyebrows.
Plotwise the movie
sticks closely to the first movie and a parody of Treasure of the Sierra
Madre (even down to the Walter Huston dance) with some mid-life crisis
problems sorted out along the way.
Jack Palance turned out to be the real star of the
first movie and obviously the producers wanted him brought back for the
second, unfortunately they’d killed him off so in a pretty obvious
move brought him back as his identical twin brother, although this does
provide the opportunity for a good Billy Crystal moment as he thinks
Curly has risen from the dead. Good
fun.
