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...is so obviously hilariously NOT from the original 1983 footage. (For those that care, they're called The Dayz and have an Instagram page; kudos to them for being one of a BILLION bands to be randomly selected for a very hyped cult film release! Perhaps they know the producer??) It's obviously a modern day band (the sound is different, they didn't even ATTEMPT to make it sound like a live performance), the hair styles and clothes are different (a man bun? A dude in a backwards baseball cap and a shirt that says GREENPOINT?? In 1983 when no one outside Brooklyn had even heard of Greenpoint??) and the footage of them playing is clearly not at a concert! They're playing in a studio or perhaps warehouse. Furthermore they keep using the SAME shots (guy on saxophone! Female member headbang in slow motion), with quick cut aways to wide shots of the actual 1983 live audience in hopes you won't notice. Well, we did!

Oh this was bad.

Right, well I was lured in by this 2020 release of a movie that apparently was made 37 years prior to being released. Now, how or why something like that could or would happen is simply beyond me. But I think a movie such as "Grizzly II: The Predator" is one that should just have remained buried and unreleased, given whatever problematic circumstance prevented it from being released 37 years earlier.

I was, of course, intrigued when I saw that the movie had Charlie Sheen, George Clooney and Laura Dern listed on the movie's cover/poster. And yeah, sure they were there, all young and such, but come on. They weren't even in the movie for a good whole 5 minutes. Then aside from them having something less than a cameo in the movie, "Grizzly II: The Predator" boasted the likes of John Rhys-Davies and Jack Starrett. So this wasn't really a star studded movie after all. I will say, though, that it was actually a blast to have Jack Starrett in the movie, just a shame he didn't have a bigger role and more on-screen time - but then again, most performers in the movie had little screen time, as it was eaten away by pointless concert footage.

And not once did director André Szöts actually convince me that there was a huge and mean grizzly bear within close proximity of any of the actors or actresses, and it never felt like anyone was in any real danger. As such, the movie just failed to provide entertainment and didn't pass as being believable.

While we are on the topic of entertainment, then "Grizzly II: The Predator" is showing an abundance of pointless concert footage that served as nothing but filler in the movie. It was horrible and laughable.

This movie is without a doubt a complete and utter waste of time. It is not even a campy guilty pleasure movie. Nay, "Grizzly II: The Predator" is just downright boring and pointless.

My rating of "Grizzly II: The Predator" lands on a two out of ten stars. I would say that it is hardly worth the time, money or effort.

Grizzly II (1983) is a movie that I recently watched on Prime. The storyline follows Yellowstone National Park setting up for a concert when a killer bear starts collecting victims. The bear 🐻 is so huge it threatens to kill everyone at the concert. Can anyone stop a monster this huge?

This movie was directed by André Szöts in his directorial debut and stars John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings), George Clooney (From Dusk till Dawn), Laura Dern (Jurassic Park), Louise Fletcher (Flowers in the Attic), Charlie Sheen (Major League), Deborah Raffin (Death Wish 3) and Dick Anthony Williams (Edward Scissorhands).

The history of this movie is crazy. Charlie Sheen turned down the lead role in the Karate Kid to be in this movie. This movie was filmed in Hungary and ran out of money before it began, so Clooney, Charlie Sheen and Dern carried the equipment and helped with set setup. The infamous concert was a lie where they told the locals Nazareth was performing. They played Nazareth songs, the entire concert was fake and the audience didn't know it wasn't actually Nazareth performing. When the movie team ran out of money, and didnt pay the Hungary for the time in the park or anything else they promised, Hungary seized all the film equipment, the rights to the movie, sets, and footage and sold most of it to get some of the money they were owed. Thirty-seven years later the movie showed up illegally on the internet and is now available to be seen. A huge robotic bear was built for this movie but it never worked, so you only see it the last few clips of the movie.

Sheen, Dern and Clooney are barely in the movie; however, the cast is really good overall. The cinematography is solid but the CGI and special effects are awful. The entire movie you're waiting for something to happen, it doesn't until the end. The concert scenes are way too long. The bear scenes at the end are funny and you never really get to see the bear attack and eat someone the entire film. The ending is a fairly ridiculous but as you'd expect for this genre.

Overall, this movie had potential but is dreadful. I would score this a 3/10 and strongly recommend seeing this monstrosity once.

I read comments that there were problems with the animatronic 14" bear". That may be what techs were told in the US but there was NO such item. The 14 foot version was a puppet that was only intended to be used on the full sized stage and all those shots were completed before leaving Hungary. The half size animatronic version was complete and working prior to leaving Hungary too and we shot tests of it at that time. I had an agreement with Joe Proctor to direct the half size effects unit and all elements ( other than the man in a suit version which was almost complete) were finished and ready to shoot in coordination with the storyboard that I also supervised with artist Tony Beasley. The money dried up and the crew's PERSONAL equipment was seized by the Government who told us they were held against non payment of production bills. We never got our stuff out of there.

Grizzly II (1987)

Ahh, don't you just love lost movies? This sequel to William Girdler's 1976 cult favorite GRIZZLY was a Hungarian production that started filming in 1983 but for some reason it was never fully completed. Rumor has it that something illegal was done during the production and local authorities pretty much shut the film down. For nearly two-decades this film was surrounding in quite a myth as many believed it was never actually filmed while others thought they simply ran out of money and couldn't complete it. Then around 2005 or so, a workprint turned up and thankfully the majority of the film was complete. Being a killer grizzly film I guess it's fitting that the only thing actually missing are the bear attacks. Apparently the producers were going to film everything involving the bear in the final weeks of production so this never happened. The rest of the movie is pretty much complete but whenever something with a bear is about to happen the footage is simply missing. You still see the people attacked but there's just no actual footage of the bear doing it. With that said, if GRIZZLY II were to be released, completed or not, it would become an instant cult classic. Hell, it already is even with the missing footage. Let see what all this film has to offer:

* Academy Award winner Louise Fletcher.

* Deborah Raffin from DEATH WISH 3.

* John Rhys-Davies from the Indiana Jones series.

* Charles Cyphers from HALLOWEEN.

* Deborah Foreman of VALLEY GIRL.

* A soundtrack that illegally uses countless Michael Jackson songs.

* GRIZZLY star Christopher George was signed to play the lead but died of a heart attack shortly before production.

Wait there's one more big thing.......

* George Clooney, Charlie Sheen and Laura Dern in the same scene together.

GRIZZLY II has a, what else, grizzly eating people just as a State Park is about to hold a major concert. The owner (Fletcher) refuses to alert the media about the bear fearing it won't sell tickets so she demands the lid be put on it. Soon enough a group of rednecks (led by Cyphers) are trying to track down the bear while innocent campers (Clooney, Sheen, Dern) are eaten alive. Unfinished or not, GRIZZLY II is a must see for fans of bad cinema or just those who enjoy the "nature attacks" genre. There's so much wackiness in this movie that it really does seem as if you're watching about twenty-different campy movies rolled into one. You can start with the god-awful "concert" footage, which actually takes up a very big portion of the running time. The music is so awful that you can't help but have a good time with it and even though you'll want to cover your ears you just can't simply because of how funny it is. The men dancing around in tight shorts isn't any better and the silly redneck hunters are just downright crazy. There's one hilarious scene where one of the hunter's loses his brother to the bear and the only thing his buddies can do is tell him to just forget about it so they can go make money. More campiness arrives when the big three are out campy. Dern does a striptease for Clooney who is in a sleeping bad. The scene has them both cuddling in the bag when they're attacked by the bear. Just watch how Clooney appears more interesting in touching Dern than actually fighting the bear. This is followed up by Sheen getting attacked and just wait until you hear that scream of his, which has to be one of the worst in film history. There are so many campy moments in this film that you really can't help but just sit back and enjoy them. It's really too bad that the film was never completed but looking at the movie it probably wouldn't take too much money or time to fill in the missing pieces. The attack sequences really wouldn't take that long to film and when you see how many known stars are in the movie you can't help but think they'd have a terrific selling point. GRIZZLY II, so far, remains unreleased and it's a real shame because camp fans would have another classic to add to their library.

This is one of the worst executed movie that I ever watched. Yes, this movie got delayed and most of it's part was lost due to producers incident but then also.

Starting 20 minutes looks like we are watching Animal Planet and rest of the movie looks like we are watching some rubbish band concert. There was nothing about Grizzly in this movie. Overall, it was a total headache.

Review based on the "completed" version screened by the Monmouth Film Festival (having seen the VHS workprint version some time ago).

Modern, digitally-shot stock footage of concert goers dressed for Coachella is introduced with no regard for the anachronistic continuity errors it creates when cut into the original 80s film footage of extras covered in denim. There has been no attempt made to degrade any of the new footage to match the old.

Also new are two sets by a Hungarian band... singing in Hungarian. Their presence at an American rock concert simply makes no sense. There's a third added performance by an American band that's not bad at all... but their style is also at odds with the stylings of the bands originally featured (and their act looks to have been shot in someone's backyard, nowhere near resembling the elaborate stage borrowed from The Rolling Stones).

Speaking of the original performers, their acts have been drastically cut down. And though I found them kind of grating in their unrefined workprint version, their nigh-on absence in this new cut makes me weirdly nostalgic for them. Their oddity added a weird charm to the proceedings. This paring down also leads to some strange moments, story-wise. Immediately springing to mind is with the flirtatious dress rehearsal of "So Good, So Pure, So Kind" being essentially nixed, the remnants of the doomed-to-never-be romance subplot between Chrissy and Barry that are still included seemingly come out of nowhere and are just as quickly forgotten.

Festivals can be great proving grounds for works before releasing them to a wide audience. My words of advice would be: ditch the newly shot stuff (and the mismatched modern stock footage) and reincorporate more of the original production. And maybe scour the music libraries for more period-accurate pieces for the score. The newer compositions stick out and take one out of the piece. Maybe license cues from Robert Ragland's score for the first Grizzly? That'd be fun and a way to further tie the franchise together!

"Grizzly II" is one of those films of which the disastrous production process, the cowboy stories and the trivia aspects have become far more legendary and notorious than the actual film itself. It was filmed in 1983, in Hungary, but unfinished and most of the footage supposedly got confiscated by the Hungarian authorities for the settlement of financial losses the country suffered. Boy, did they ever get ripped off. Illegal VHS-footage got upload onto the internet, and it wasn't until recently - early 2020 - that producer Susanne C. Nagy "officially" released the film in all its, ahem, uncut glory.

I reckon the version I watched was still the illegal bootleg, though. According to the film's freshly renewed IMDb-page, it has a running time of 1h14min. The thing I watched ran for 1h37min.; which - in reality - is about one hour of film and an awful long half hour of tedious and unendurable New Wave concert footage as padding material. The grizzly also only appears briefly during the climax, at the actual concert, whereas all the earlier appearances are just grey/blank screens with a bear's roaring as voiceover. And, oh yeah, "Grizzly II" is also famous for starring three major stars (George Clooney, Laura Dern and Charlie Sheen) in their earliest roles. Please don't let they be the reason for you wanting to see the film, or you will be sorely disappointed. Yes, they appear on screen, but with that pretty much everything is said.

And yet, in spite of the horrible picture & sound quality, the absence of grizzly bears in my copy, the excruciatingly painful musical parts and the lack of a half-decent ending, I still can't pretend I didn't like "Grizzly II". Purely seen as a product of its (original) release era, I even daresay it's quite likable. It's a sequel to William Girdler's 1976 "Grizzly", which I personally consider to be one of the better "Jaws" (on land) imitations, and features a handful of praiseworthy elements.

The plot of an enormously bloodthirsty killer-grizzly (or, "devil-bear" as Rhys-Davies' character refers to it) approaching an open-air music concert whilst prowling after the poachers that slayed her cub is quite a compelling one! Meanwhile, the good old-fashioned "Jaws" clichés remain intact as well. Louise Fletcher, typecast as the heartless lady ever since "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", is genius as the stubborn executive who refuses to cancel the concert in spite of the increasing likelihood of a bloodbath. When the Head Ranger insists that she must call off the event because three campers on their way to the concert were slaughtered, she motionlessly replies: "I heard two people were killed in a road accident as well. Do you want me to cancel it for them too?". And of course, we have two more mandatory stereotypes, namely the eccentric wildlife expert (John Rhys-Davies) and the female Park Ranger who insists on capturing the bear alive regardless of the dead bodies piling up.

So, you see, in between all the rubbish and production difficulties, "Grizzly II" is giant-animal attack horror at its purest and finest! Just look for it.

Watching Grizzly 2 without Dad seemed useless but i found it thru Movies Unlimited and got it for EASTER. It should have stayed lost. It was awful. I mean one of the very worst. The 1st one can't be beat anyway, there is not beating the original. Dad loved that one so much i still have his VHS i haven't the heart to get rid of it yet. This one was pitiful. I give it 1 star but i really don't know why. Rhys Davies was good in it, maybe that's why.

Greetings again from the darkness. The slate of movies I review each year leans heavily towards serious and dramatic material, but is there anything more serious than an 18 foot tall grizzly bear seeking revenge for the poaching of her cubs? And is there a better springboard to success for actors than the sequel to a cheesy land-based riff on JAWS? OK, I sense your skepticism. What if I told you that sequel featured three Oscar winners, and the original was one of the most profitable ROI films of the year? Starting to come around, aren't you?

Well, before you get overly excited in anticipation of this film's release, please allow me to explain ... or come clean. This 1983 film has its own special place in cult film lore. Some even doubted its existence (or at least the actual title). But now, after all these years and rumors, the legend comes to life, and has not only been "completed", but is getting a semblance of release. If you love schlock horror where nature-goes-awry, with the added bonus of 'spot the actor' (now almost 40 years older), then there is the possibility you are worthy of watching this ... this ... abomination (meant here as a term of endearment).

You should know that there are very few sightings of the enormous grizzly bear; although we do get an opening sequence with some quality camera work featuring grizzlies in the wild. Even though we don't see much of the titular beast, she does dominate the story. The earliest sequence features three young campers ignoring bear warning signs. These three campers are why we are all here. A pre-"E/R" George Clooney (21 years old) sports a denim vest before climbing in a sleeping bag with a partially clothed 16 year old Laura Dern, who has somehow managed to complete the hike wearing sandals and whining the entire time. The third wheel is played by a 17 year old with hair hanging in his eyes and acne on his face. You'll recognize him as Charlie Sheen, although here he looks very much like brother Emilio. If you show up for this trio, hold off on the potty break, because there's an angry grizzly lurking.

There are other pieces to the story ... and I use 'pieces' in a manner similar to what one sees in an intersection after a couple of cars collide. A group of drunk poachers roam the woods looking to collect grizzly gall bladders, which evidently have value on the black market. The Park Rangers are preparing for an upcoming rock concert where 100,000 attendees are expected. A concert promoter played by Louise Fletcher (an Oscar winner as Nurse Ratched in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, 1975) bullies the newest Park Ranger played by Steve Inwood (who also appeared in STAYING ALIVE that same year, reaching world class clunker status twice in 1983) into "the show must go on" despite the grizzly killings.

This was director Andre Szots' second and final feature film as a director, though he did have a career as a producer. The husband and wife writing team of David Sheldon and Joan McCall 'crafted' the screenplay. He was also a co-writer on the original GRIZZLY (1976), while she appeared on screen in it. Continuing our game of 'spot the actor', we can't help but notice Deborah Foreman as the lead Ranger's wide-eyed daughter. Ms. Foreman was a very popular actor in the 1980's, including a starring role in VALLEY GIRL (1983). Unfortunately her career never hit the heights many predicted, although she does have one of the best lines in this film when she proudly states her skill at working a phone - both dial and push-button! Fans of either the "Lord of the Rings" or "Indiana Jones" franchises will surely get a kick out of John Rhys-Davies as a lumberjack-American Indian, who is renowned for his expertise in hunting "the devil bear". Other familiar faces include a young Timothy Spall (MR TURNER), Deborah Raffin (rumored to be the second choice for Sandy in GREASE), Ian McNiece (ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS, 1995), Dick Anthony Williams (a hard-working actor from the 1970's until his death in 2012), Jack Starratt (actor in FIRST BLOOD, 1982, director of RACE WITH THE DEVIL, 1975), and Charles Cyphers, who played the Indians' General Manager in MAJOR LEAGUE (1989).

The joy in seeing these folks in one place is compromised (to say the least) by the horrendous 1980's pop music being performed by those on stage attired in just about any outrageous 80's fashion you can recall. Initially comical, the musical acts quickly evolve into something stomach-churning to watch. The kindest description of the production quality is "low-budget", but there is simply no term for the effects. A Darth Vader breathing sound is heard when the grizzly is near, a speeding Ranger jeep on a dirt path is used to create suspense (the same shot is used multiple times), the day-night inconsistencies could be their own drinking game, and fireworks and a forklift prove to be a bad mix with our grizzly. Finally, for reasons we never really understand, a US Senator is a guest at the concert, and these days a Senator would likely be considered a greater threat than an 18 foot grizzly. You've heard the adage, "so bad it's good", well this one is simply so bad it's bad. William Girdler directed the original GRIZZLY in 1976, and he tragically died at age 30, just two years later. Available On Demand January 8, 2021

This is often right up there on the list with 'Troll 2' and 'The Room' as one of the so bad it's funny movies.

We'll considering the budget and the fact that it was never finished, 'Grizzly 2' came out remarkably well.

How Oscar winner Louise Fletcher got on board for this project I have no idea. Perhaps she was told in the climax she would get to wrestle the grizzly and kill it with her bare hands? She certainly would have won.

First and foremost this is a bearsploitation film. So few good bearsploitation films exist that the premise actually interested me.

The plot: A crew of roadies set up for a Woodstock sized concert in... the woods of a national park (actually filmed in Hungary). Greedy industrialist Louise Fletcher diverts all the park rangers to providing security for the concert. She's invited the governor to exploit her political aspirations.

The film opens with a worm shot of Fletcher doing her cxxx from hell walking entrance set to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It!' Not kidding! This is one of the greatest opening sequences in film history!

The characters are all stereotypical. The concert crew consists of a jive talking wise black man giving advice to a younger man whom falls for the sheriff's (park ranger's) beautiful nature loving daughter.

The oddest part about the opening 20 minutes is how only Michael Jackson music blares. Seriously, it's all of Jackson's greatest hits. Just him. The roadies don't listen to anything else until the concert starts.

For a national park there's an awful lot of poaching going on and a mama bear must avenge the death of her cub. We hear the poachers tell each other the bear is "20 feet standing." Come on! Even cave bears never got that big. But we'll have to take their word since the bear is never actually shown. Not kidding, we never even see the bear! All we get is the POV shot of something growling in the woods. Its shadow reveals it's the camera man! NOT KIDDING! Similar to 'Jaws' the bear was supposed to make its first climactic appearance at the concert but the animatronics bear never worked. One of the reasons this film was never finished.

Our next three victims are young fornicators played by Charlie Sheen, George Clooney, and Laura Dern. Again, not kidding. Perhaps Sheen was still hiding out in the woods from the Soviet invasion? The three are eaten and the attack starts a forest blaze from their campfire. "Smokey says only he can start forest fires." Sheen's final words are, "I read somewhere that, 'bears are the impossibility of reason.'" OK, I am kidding about that part.

As with all horror films, the sheriff (head park ranger) wants to patrol the woods for the killer bear. But evil Louise Fletcher refuses to let a single ranger leave concert security. Hence, a legendary French Canadian trapper is called in, literally at a minute's notice to hunt the grizzly. He's played by John Reese Davies of 'Indiana Jones' and 'Sliders.' Meanwhile, evil poachers plot to kill the grizzly.

Far worse than seeing a camera man pretending to be a giant bear is the actual concert. It's live acts will horrify even the most die hard 80s new wave music fan like myself.

Since the climax was never actually finished, we're left to piece together what would have happened based on raw footage. It's so raw we can even hear the director giving stage directions. No music or sound FX and multiple takes of the same action.

Apparently the bear arrives at the concert and starts a fire on stage. It successfully fights off attacks from a forklift and John Reese Davies with a bowie knife. Don't any of the park rangers have a rifle? Remember, they're ALL there at the concert! Davies is actually killed two different ways and as I said before, the bear never actually appears on camera except for a shot showing a bear head sticking out of a pile of wrecked scaffolding. We can only presume it was killed by the stage collapsing.

There is audio for the closing shot of the governor witnessing the carnage from a distance and asking Louise Fletcher, "Is this part of the show?" "Yes, yes it is." she answers. Ha ha ha. The deaths of dozens of innocent people are funny.

This makes a great film to play a drinking game around or riff with friends. But the worst elements are the simple fact it was never finished and had a low budget to begin with.

All the elements existed for a great bearsploitation film. If only we'd seen the actual bear, and more importantly seen the bear killing people!

Wow this was good. I especially like the concert scenes. This grizzly bear is scary.

Few hours ago I noticed fresh information about "Grizzly II":this long lost unreleased sequel to the 1976 William Girdler animal attack classic has been found."Grizzly 2:The Predator" was shot in Hungary in 1983.It stars Deborah Foreman and Louise Fletcher with small cameos by future acting stars Laura Dern,George Clooney and Charlie Sheen.The bear footage was never actually completed.The film is surprisingly enjoyable with many ultra-cheesy new wave music performances.The scenes of murders are bloodless and mostly off-screen,so if you are looking for gore you will be sorely disappointed.Still it's nice to know that "Grizzly II:The Predator" was finally awaken from the forgotten tomb of obscurity.6 killer bears out of 10.

I don't have the whole story, but my father was sent to Budapest during filming to represent an investor in the film. He has a poster for the concert that featured Nazareth (the rock band) that was part of the film. I know he also has hidden somewhere still pictures of the filming and events surrounding the making of the movie. He came back home early from Hungary because of events described in other notes and incredibly disappointed that the investor he represented lost a great deal of money that was never recovered because of certain folks taking advantage of the investors involved. My dad still talks about how he thought it was a great script and a high quality movie with a quality cast. Two big mistakes: producer didn't take care of the investments of others and they didn't use a real bear for some of the scenes opting for a mechanical puppet that didn't operate the way they hoped. I don't know much about this, but I assume that many creative types are not good business people and many can't manage a budget wisely. Is there a copy available for public viewing at this point? It would be interesting to see the attention it would receive with a cast that includes George Cluny, Charlie Sheen, and Laura Dern from the beginnings of their careers.

It is just bad. Has some big names well before they were big names, but it is so bad. Writing is terrible, editing is nonexistent, soundtrack is dismal, effects about as awful as low budget can get, and there's a concert amidst the movie- and I for the life of me don't know where they found people this bad.

Thankfully the movie is short and abruptly ends.

Having worked on numerous festivals, band setup, special events and such...I can state that there are numerous safety infractions.

The bear is the least of the worries of that concert.

There are numerous fire hazards - too many to list, there is improper staging and scaffolding setup, overloaded lighting sytems, lack of fire extinguishers, , lack of fire prevention crew, lack of security and fencing to the stage area, lack of exits, lack of stage shrouding and markings of where the stage ends.

The trucks which are parked are not guarded as they should be.

There is in sufficient washroom facilities and I didn't see any first aid stations on on-site ambulances.

There was also no safe markings for walkways, gates and fencing for walling anywhere on the grounds.

The staging crew were not wearing high visability vest, steel toe boots, hard hats or harnesses when they were connecting the truss beams.

The truss beams were also being welded - whicch should not need to be - because they should either be pin connections or cheese clamps or loops hooks. There wwas also a severe fire hazzard due to the open flame and it being near flamable material.

The forklift had it's forks up far too high when the person went after the bear - which should not have been more than 1 foot off the ground for balance and to ensure a safe carrying of the load. The driver also failed to fasten a safety belt in case of the machine tipping - which it did.

When parked, the forks should have been pointed down into the ground, clase to the ground as possible and away from a path - perferably under some pallets or something which would block the path for any foot traffic or vehicle traffic.

There were no safety lights on the grounds.

There was lack of radio communication between stage and grounds.

There were no walk-overs.

The rigging crew should have been using chains instead of lifting such heavy items up a narrow stairwell.

The hunters weren't wearing their orange and marking off areas not to use.

Overall, the safety was a dismal failure that the bear was the least of things to be concerned about.

Whomever planned that event should never plan another one - because they will do another lousy job.

The person who chose the bands - they also should never work again either...those were absolutely horrid performances

The bear should have performed and it would have been more interesting.

Overall, the entire concert was a dismal failure - as was the movie.

Whomever edited this - also didn't realize that dark is dark and light is light and day and night should not switch every few minutes for no reason.

So - in closing...NUMEROUS safety infractions, bad editing, horrible music and an ending which leaves you wondering what happened...

No wonder the bear never bcame a big star...he worked on such a lousy film.

If he would have worked with Steven Spielberg, he would have had a career that lasted at least 20 years.

That bear probably regrets doing this film as his career as being a scary animal has been destroyed by this lousy film.

Oh yeah...that Charlie Sheen performance....wow....so instense....there should be awards named after him.

His entire career will never match up to his scene stealing performance as it did here.

Now, maybe i'm a bit biased because of my searing loathing of the disappointment that is known as Grizzly (i call it a waste of time) but I liked this movie. Now, it is unfinished and a bit dull, but there was huge potential in this. It's just as dumb and inaccurate as the first one, but seems better to me. The bear is over-kill in height, better than the crap one from Grizzly, and is actually kinda scary to think about. The giant robot is a nice effect too, not looking that bad. Maybe it worked better because it rips off Claws, one of the few good killer bear films of the 70's. The original songs are okay and fit nicely. Hopefully it will see a nice remake soon that can show the glory it could have had!

The movie is horrible and makes him very angry. How could they intercut so much B-roll that looks like it was filmed this year on digital film?? How did Charlie Sheen, George Clooney, and Laura Dern allow this atrocity to come to fruition??

If you are clicking on the title to watch it I assume you are not really taking it seriously, much like myself. Of course its a stinker but had to watch to see Charlie Sheen, Laura Dern, and George Clooney. Its funny to see them so young Laura is of course smoking hot as always. I really hoped the bear would get on stage, maybe even dance a little, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone else. The music reminds me of the 9th grade really awkward and bad. I cant imagine anyone in this day and age watching this movie and seriously looking to critique it. I mean have you seen the first one from 1976 ? What were you expecting in part 2? I did watch it the whole way through its good for some laughs at how bad it is.

At Yellowstone National Park a colossal mother grizzly is enraged by the slaying of her cub by poachers. She goes on a killing spree, but the timing is bad because a highly publicized rock concert is scheduled and can't be cancelled just because of a rogue bear. Steve Inwood plays the chief ranger, Deborah Foreman his daughter, Deborah Raffin a bruin expert, John Rhys-Davies a grizzly hunter and Louise Fletcher a politician.

"Grizzly II: Revenge" is the sequel to the "Jaws" knockoff "Grizzly" (1976) shot in 45 days in Hungary in 1983. Unfortunately post-production was never completed due to financial troubles and the movie was forgotten by 1988. Its very existence was questioned until a workprint manifested in 2007. The only reason the film exists and was finally released in 2020-2021 is because of the dedication of producer Suzanne Nagy.

Whilst George Clooney, Laura Dern and Charlie Sheen are emphasized in the cast they are actually only featured in the first six minutes. But it is interesting seeing these iconic actors when they were so young and before they made it. I was never big on Laura but, wow, she's stunning here and immediately changed my opinion of her. Meanwhile Sheen turned down the starring role in "Karate Kid" (1984) for this gig (of course he had no way of knowing that "Karate Kid" was going to be a megahit).

The flick has the concept of the original movie but the look & tone of "Prophecy" (1979) mixed with a lot of energetic concert footage. Speaking of which, you'll see the kinetic performances of several early 80's acts, like Toto Coelo, The Predator, Set the Tone and KFT, but also a couple songs by the modern band The Dayz, which were added in post-production to beef-up the concert scenes and runtime.

I thought the original "Grizzly" was too prosaic as a "Jaws"-in-the-forest flick. It was okay, but nothing more. This one also contains the basic "Jaws" plot yet it's more dynamic with several highlights, including its fascinating history. Sure, its troubled production is obvious, especially at the end, and it's just another creature-on-the-loose flick, but there's enough good here to entertain those interested.

The film is streamlined at 1 hour, 14 minutes, and was shot in the area of Pilisvörösvár, Hungary, which is just northwest of Budapest. The concert scenes were filmed after a performance of Nazareth wherein the crowd wasn't aware a movie was being shot. It was the largest gathering in Hungary since the revolution in 1956. The sets were built on a Russian military base.

GRADE: B-

I can see that there a lot of holes in the production... But the new blu ray adds modern footage and cgi blood... It just took me out of the film and looks like a bad Ed Wood or George Lucas remake... Also they sped up the edits... Why?! Not to mention the soundtrack they chose... Why they allowed this company to do the restoration of this movie is beyond me. John Rhys Davies is the only bright spot through the whole movie.