Roadhouse 2 – Top 5 Flops & Final Thoughts.
April 11th 2008 08:35
Alright let’s get straight down to business Bucket Heads. It was a crap movie yes we all know but what were the big things that really stood out in this film? Let’s take a look at the top five things that contributed to the horribleness of Roadhouse 2.
#5: Why make a sequel?
Can someone explain to me the logic behind making a sequel to a bad movie twenty years after the first one came out? I don’t know who was smoking what when this little idea popped into their heads but they must have been smoking something pretty heavy. I couldn’t stand watching the first movie even with that whole garbage “it’s good because it’s bad” thing. The first movie was bad and the second movie was just as worse. There was no need for a second film when the first concluded normally. In fact, why did they even bother making the first movie to begin with?
#4: Same, yet worse, script.
It was really amazing to see how they managed to keep the script of this movie similar to the first movie. Let’s see, the first movie was about a bouncer who heads over to a remote hillbilly town to help some rundown bar become better. While there he encounters a corrupt rich man who can do whatever he wants in the place. In the end he beats the bad guy, saves the town, makes the bar awesome and scores the chick in the end.
The second movie was about the son of the first guy going to his uncle’s bar to take over his business (a bar) that is in a remote hillbilly town. While there he runs into a local gang who has been pushing drugs and corrupting the law. In the end he beats the bad guy, saves the town, makes his uncle’s bar better and scores the chick in the end. What’s the difference between the two movies? The second sucked more than the first.
#3: I’ve seen these characters all before…
Not only did this movie have a similar script but they all pretty much had similar characters. Here are a bunch of character types that appeared in both movies:
The main character was a tough guy who has been involved in the bar business. He also doesn’t listen to the advise he gives to other people.
There’s a hot, blond chick that falls in love with the main character.
The owner of the bar is some old guy who gets bullied around by the rich guy in town.
The rich guy in town does what he feels like, corrupts officials and has a bunch of goons around him.
The rich guy’s goons are all stupid but one who’s actually good at fighting yet rarely talks.
An old friend of the main character comes down to help him out since he owes him a favor.
There’s a band at each bar that sings bad country music.
If you’ve seen both movies before, or have seen the first and want to watch the second, you’ll soon start seeing the connections and realize this as recycled as Komodo vs. Cobra. Speaking of seeing these characters before…
#2: I’ve heard this all before too.
Now it is nice to have a little phrase from a movie be repeated in the sequel. For example, in Terminator 3 Arnold says “I’ll be back” which was pretty cool to hear. It was just a cool line and there’s other movies out there where the main character of the movie will say something. Another example is John McClane in the Die Hard series who manages to drop off his “Yippy Kiya Mother F***er” in each movie. It’s nice you know, a little nostalgia to hit an old spot in your heat…
But Christ the amount of quotes that were regurgitated from this the first movie drove me insane. There was everything from “Pain doesn’t hurt” and “I’d thought you’d be bigger” right down to the three crappy rules of bouncing “Don’t underestimate people, take it outside and be nice.” I think each character said everything from the second movie twice over and it really got annoying. It’s like they didn’t even try to rewrite a script, like someone grabbed a pen, added new names to the original movie and put a “2” on the end of “Roadhouse”.
#1: Everybody was kung-fu fighting!
Now the only thing I liked about the first movie was the bar fight scenes. There’s nothing to get the adrenaline pumping like watching a good ol’ bar fight with chairs flying around the place and people going through tables. This movie well… there were bar fights whoever instead of seeing people smash glass bottles over each other’s heads, we were treated to some choreographed kung-fu fights. No more clenched fists to the mouth, no more chairs across the back, no more heads through duke boxes – it’s time for some Kung-Fu Fighting!
Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, knows how to do kung-fu in this movie. Shane, Beau, Wild Bill, Shane’s uncle Nate, the sheriff, Wild Bill’s superior Victor Cross, Wild Bill’s thugs, hell even the bouncers and some locals know kung-fu as well! It is absolutely ridiculous. Not only does everyone know kung-fu everyone also knows how to use firearms. All this “kung fu” took away the one thing that made the first movie good and that’s a good ol’ fashion bar brawl.
Final Thoughts.
This movie is one of the many movies out there that is a shiny example of a sequel that should never have been made. It was bad enough the first movie sucked so why they felt like they should make a sequel to a movie that came out 20 years later is beyond me. Like I said, someone had to be smoking something heavy to come up with an idea like this.
The acting sucked just as much as it did in the original. Yeah have a cry about me bagging Patrick Swayze but the only movie that Swayze has stared in was Ghost, and maybe Dirty Dancing… maybe. The acting in both movies was bad so it is good to see that they were similar in that aspect as well. That’s the same with the script as well.
I would say only watch this if you liked the first movie but I think even fans of the first bad film would say that this movie is pretty bad. So saying that, I declare this review officially over and it is time to move on to our next movie. Join us Monday when we look at another bad disaster movie. This time we’re looking at a volcano movie that is titled… Volcano. Poor L.A copes a beating again and we’ll take a look at it next week. Take care my Bucket Heads!
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