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Second in the series of Meatball movies. A group of kids attempt to save a summer camp that's a financial failure.Second in the series of Meatball movies. A group of kids attempt to save a summer camp that's a financial failure.Second in the series of Meatball movies. A group of kids attempt to save a summer camp that's a financial failure.
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- TriviaMisty Rowe wore a heavily padded bra in order to play the top heavy Fanny.
- GoofsWhen Tommy "Wheelchair" McVee tries to stop Colonel Hershey under the bleachers, he struggles to stand up from his wheelchair. But when Meathead is leaving, all the boys come to the window to see him off, including Tommy who walks with no difficulty.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Masters of the Hunt... (2015)
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Camped out...
The first "Meatballs" had Bill Murray, Chris Makepeace, a lot of laughs and no alien subplot.
"Meatballs II" has Richard Mulligan, Paul (Pee-Wee Herman) Ruebens, Hamilton Camp, Archie Hahn, John Larroquette, a few laughs and an alien subplot.
By the time "Meatballs II" came out, there had already been so many ripoffs of "Meatballs" that this just paled liberally by comparison (TIDBIT - this in fact was a "Meatballs" ripoff originally, until the rights were grabbed up and it was released instead as "Meatballs II". Who says there aren't any new ideas in Hollywood?).
In spite of the mountain of talent in "Meatballs II", there is little in the way of actual humor. Instead, you have a hyperventilating Richard Mulligan, an off-center Paul Reubens playing in Pee-Wee mode, a screaming Hamilton Camp, a horny Archie Hahn, a lisping John Laroquette, and your usual plethora of horny teens, junior class military cadets, brain-dead boxers, and pot-smoking aliens who ask why camp counselors are such dorks.
There's the major laughs; do with them what you will. And whatever you do with these laughs, it's more than what "Meatballs II" could ever do with them.
Two and a half stars. Maybe there's just something about Pee-Wee Herman. Or John Larroquette. Or Richard Mulligan....
"Meatballs II" has Richard Mulligan, Paul (Pee-Wee Herman) Ruebens, Hamilton Camp, Archie Hahn, John Larroquette, a few laughs and an alien subplot.
By the time "Meatballs II" came out, there had already been so many ripoffs of "Meatballs" that this just paled liberally by comparison (TIDBIT - this in fact was a "Meatballs" ripoff originally, until the rights were grabbed up and it was released instead as "Meatballs II". Who says there aren't any new ideas in Hollywood?).
In spite of the mountain of talent in "Meatballs II", there is little in the way of actual humor. Instead, you have a hyperventilating Richard Mulligan, an off-center Paul Reubens playing in Pee-Wee mode, a screaming Hamilton Camp, a horny Archie Hahn, a lisping John Laroquette, and your usual plethora of horny teens, junior class military cadets, brain-dead boxers, and pot-smoking aliens who ask why camp counselors are such dorks.
There's the major laughs; do with them what you will. And whatever you do with these laughs, it's more than what "Meatballs II" could ever do with them.
Two and a half stars. Maybe there's just something about Pee-Wee Herman. Or John Larroquette. Or Richard Mulligan....
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- Also known as
- Call Me Meathead
- Filming locations
- Veluzat Motion Picture Ranch, Saugus, California, USA(Camp Patton sequence)
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- Gross US & Canada
- $5,410,972
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,515,268
- Jul 29, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $5,410,972
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