I loved the original movie - Bill Murray was fantastic, Chris Makepeace did a great job in his first big role, and the rest of the cast were hilariously wacky. Then this movie came out. I tried to enjoy it; I really did... but it's not a sequel. It's a different camp, run by different people, with different kids. They could at least have brought SOMEBODY back (having Spaz as an assistant for instance). The jokes are flat, the plot is awful, and there is none of the chemistry that made the first movie the gem that it is. Even Richard Mulligan, who was outstanding as Bert Campbell in Soap, couldn't save this. He's the only reason it gets two stars instead of one, but the material he had to work with was so lousy, it's a forgettable item on his otherwise stellar resume. Don't watch it, even if you want to watch it just to say you saw it, because you probably won't watch the whole thing. I couldn't.
Review of Meatballs Part II
