Elvis Gratton II: Miracle à Memphis

The first Elvis Gratton picture has become a cult movie. Now we have a sequel done with a small budget rather than the first movie's microscopic one. It may not have the "cult" quality the first one had, but it is rather good, and I recommend it to any Elvis Gratton fan.

I had plenty of good laughs for the first hour or so. On the negative side, the last 10-15 minutes are totally out of place and are really a hard sell of the movie's underlying socio-political theme. I had understood it very well in the first hour. It was unnecessary to "rub it in".

OH LALALA! I couldn't stop laughing at the theatre due to the # of jokes in that movie.

The plot is nothing but the jokes are so Quebequish! It even beat French Star Wars in Quebec by over $400 000!

I wasn't expecting something funnier.

For those who don't know

Elvis Gratton started in 1981 and was made for TV. There was a first small 30 min movie in 1981. 1983 the second small movie 1985 the final movie

If you glue all these small movies the result is: ELVIS GRATTON: Le King des Kings which makes a 90 min movie approx.

Isn't this amazing to see a TV movie with a cinematic sequel? It's the opposite for US movies. Original movies comes from theatre and some sequels are TV or direct video movies.

Gratton II my second personal fav movie after Le Diner de cons.

VIVE ELVIS GRATTON!!!!!

For years fans of the original Elvis Gratton movie have been demanding a sequel. Both creators of Elvis Gratton (Pierre Falardeau and Julien Poulin) said they would never make one. Fan kept bugging and bugging and to shut them up this is the crap we got. I bet they told themselves "Here's your "crise" the sequel now shut up and deal with the crap you got" and man I bet they are laughing at us now.

Elvis Gratton: Miracle à Memphis is one of the greatest comedies of the year in Canada. It's a superb movie with some hard messages for the canadian goverment. Pierre Falardeau hit hard and he don't miss the target with this sequel to the cult movie Elvis Gratton. Julien Poulin is excellent. We see an original end with humour.

8 out of 10

Think Big

The first Elvis Gratton, in 1985, was witty and funny. But this one is a collection of stupid jokes. Some Canadian federalists disliked this movie because it was making fun of the Canadian government and institutions. Some people from Québec who favor independence from Canada saw it as a great movie for their cause. I, being only a film lover, think it's stupid from beginning to end.

Sure, there's a few good jokes. But Falardeau tries to make them go forever. A scene is funny for 20-30 seconds but keeps going up for 5 minutes. So you have 30 seconds of fun and 4 and half minutes of yawns.

See the first one and definitely skip this one!

4 out of 10.