Meatballs II
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| Directed by | Ken Wiederhorn |
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| Written by | Bruce Franklin Singer (credited as Bruce Singer) |
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| Music by | Ken Harrison |
| Cinematography | Donald M. Morgan |
| Edited by | George Berndt |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
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87 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5,410,972 |
Meatballs Part II is a 1984 comedy film and sequel to the 1979 film. The film stars Richard Mulligan, Hamilton Camp, John Mengatti, Kim Richards, Archie Hahn, Misty Rowe, and John Larroquette. Meatballs Part II was directed by Ken Wiederhorn. The screenplay for the film was written by Bruce Franklin Singer based on a story by Martin Berman and Carol Watson.
This in-name-only sequel to the first Meatballs summer camp movie sets us at Camp Sasquatch and revolves around two main plots. The owner of Sasquatch, Giddy, tries to keep his camp open after Hershey, the owner of Camp Patton located just across the lake, wants to buy the entire lake for Camp Patton. Giddy suggests settling the issue with the traditional end-of-the-summer boxing match over rights to the lake. A tough, inner city punk named Moishe is at Camp Sasquatch for community service as a counselor-in-training. Moishe is recruited to box in order to save Sasquatch. The second main subplot involves Cheryl. She is a naive teen whom Moishe sets his sights on. Cheryl's teenage girl co-campers arrange for Cheryl to see a man naked after she confesses she's never seen a "pinky." A recurring subplot throughout the movie is the campers hiding an alien from the adults. The alien, dropped off by his parents to learn Earth culture, is called "Meathead" by the kids (after he repeated one of them saying "Me, Ted").The plot takes a disturbing turn when the Bridge Troll uses her “shower-head” urination powers to disrupt The Farter’s bathroom exploits.
Meatballs Part II grossed $2,515,268 the first week-end. The film grossed $5,410,972 domestically overall. Berman contends that $5,000,000 is still owed to him.
Critic Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times wrote in his review: "Trailing bits of Rocky and E.T. and using a plot device from the 1983 film Screwballs, which itself aspired to be Porky's, Meatballs Part II shares with 1979's Meatballs not much more than a summer camp setting. This time - amid the efforts of two senior counselors to find sexual privacy, amid prurience and budding romance involving an innocent blonde preppy and a young punk given a choice of a counselor's job or reform school, and amid the efforts of some of the little campers to harbor an extraterrestrial - the future of Camp Sasquatch is in peril.
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