I saw the the first Grizzly movie in a theater the year it was originally released. I was a teen and it scared the you-know-what out of me. Grizzly II: Revenge is a far (emphasize FAR) cry from the original. Despite a lot of big name talent (George Clooney, John Rhys-Davis and more), nothing can save this mess. The movie plot is implausibly based around a huge outdoor music concert which is held in a National Forest with Grizzly bears roaming free. 18 foot tall grizzly bears. Gee, no bear would ever think of going near 100's of rubbish cans filled with half-eaten food. The top actors are eaten in the first 10 minutes of the movie by an 18 foot tall momma Grizzly on the rampage because her cub has been killed. Rhys-Davis plays a tracker who dresses like Daniel Boone, has an indecipherable accent, and darkens his eyes at night to look like a raccoon. A sizeable portion of the movie inexplicably features the music acts (unknowns) both rehearsing for and performing in the aforesaid concert. And they are bad....very bad, like Human League and the Solid Gold Dancers had an ugly love-child. It's no plot + poor acting + hideous music. But that's not all. The special effects, particularly the Grizzly, are atrocious...maybe part dog, part wookie, and part stuffed animal. The only moment that made this stinker worth the torturous watch was the Grizzly's attack on the protagonist park ranger (driving a palet-laden fork lift). Clearly, someone pulled a rope on the large stuffed bear torso and had it run into the forklift which tipped over. My watch group actually died laughing, it was so fake but so hilarious. Best to avoid this at all costs. Life is already to short to waste precious time on celluloid rubbish.
Review of Grizzly II: Revenge
