And she likes Bandit because he pulled a thorn out of her foot. There's a GOP convention and a doctor enlisted to care for the elephant. There's an elephant and a governor's race. The first time around, it was simple: deliver beer across state lines, don't get caught. In 1980, making gay characters something to be laughed at was, sadly, a common motif that doesn't translate to anything near funny today. Gaylord is played effeminately which, in conjunction with the name Gaylord, signals the first of the problematic content. Justice, only this time he plays two of Buford's brothers as well, Reginald and Gaylord. And, of course, Jackie Gleason returns as Sheriff Buford T. Sally Field comes back and Dom DeLuise joins the crew. Decades later, the movie is more of a curiosity than anything else, with some problematic content to boot.īurt Reynolds returns as Bo "Bandit" Darville, and he and his friend Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Jerry Reed) once again take up a challenge proposed by Big Enos (Pat McCormick) and Little Enos (Paul Williams) to make a run for cash. Reynolds himself felt it was unnecessary and just a cold move to make money, which it was and which it did. In 1980, three years after the original Smokey and the Bandit (1977) blew up at the box office and transformed Burt Reynolds from Hollywood star to Hollywood legend, the same director and cast reunited for a sequel, Smokey and the Bandit II.
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