The original characters from The Cannonball Run (1981) race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.The original characters from The Cannonball Run (1981) race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.The original characters from The Cannonball Run (1981) race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.
- Awards
- 1 win & 8 nominations total
Michael V. Gazzo
- Sonny
- (as Michael Gazzo)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAccording to Hal Needham, the day Frank Sinatra showed up on-location to shoot his scene in the Dodge Daytona Turbo, talking to Blake (Dean Martin) and Fenderbaum (Sammy Davis, Jr.), almost every cast member (even those who did not have a call to be on-set that day) came on-set to see Sinatra, Davis, Martin (and honorary Rat Pack member Shirley MacLaine) reunite and reminisce.
- GoofsWhen Blake and Fenderbaum try to run the military car off the road, the overhead shot of the accident shows them being cut off by a red/gray Dodge Daytona, not the solid red Corvette they were driving.
- Quotes
Don Canneloni: In the past, the Canneloni family was the most powerful of the families. We controlled drugs, prostitution, extortion, prostitution, gambling...
Slim: Uh, you said 'prostitution' twice.
Don Canneloni: Well, I like it.
- Crazy creditsOuttakes during the credits.
- ConnectionsEdited into Gumball 3000: Off Road: Los Angeles (2008)
Featured review
The first Cannonball Run was enjoyable enough, but this stinks so badly that you can smell it coming from a considerable distance.
Shoddy, disjointed & cheap-looking, this would fail to entertain a dimwit in a coma. Simply keep it on a loop on daytime TV and just watch the unemployment level drop.
Burt Reynolds must have known that this signalled the beginning of his cinematic hibernation period, whereas Sammy & Wino just go through the motions, trying to make the best of a script that was almost certainly ghost-written by one of the stars (the hairy, orange one)
Jackie Chan gets screwed-over again with another choppy fight scene set on sand (he always complains that it's impossible to 'take off' on the stuff), and consequently is much slower. Or is it just the case that they didn't under-crank the camera?
What can you say about a movie that has hardly any form, no pacing or sense of rhythm/humour? The climax of the movie was even forsaken in favor of a cheap laugh.
To perfectly illustrate the idiocy of the whole project, at one point the prize money of the Cannonball Run is raised from $1million to $2million which causes one dumb broad to exclaim "how many zeros is in that?"
More fun can be had from repeatedly banging a tea-tray on your head...
Shoddy, disjointed & cheap-looking, this would fail to entertain a dimwit in a coma. Simply keep it on a loop on daytime TV and just watch the unemployment level drop.
Burt Reynolds must have known that this signalled the beginning of his cinematic hibernation period, whereas Sammy & Wino just go through the motions, trying to make the best of a script that was almost certainly ghost-written by one of the stars (the hairy, orange one)
Jackie Chan gets screwed-over again with another choppy fight scene set on sand (he always complains that it's impossible to 'take off' on the stuff), and consequently is much slower. Or is it just the case that they didn't under-crank the camera?
What can you say about a movie that has hardly any form, no pacing or sense of rhythm/humour? The climax of the movie was even forsaken in favor of a cheap laugh.
To perfectly illustrate the idiocy of the whole project, at one point the prize money of the Cannonball Run is raised from $1million to $2million which causes one dumb broad to exclaim "how many zeros is in that?"
More fun can be had from repeatedly banging a tea-tray on your head...
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $20,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $28,078,073
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,323,948
- Jul 1, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $28,078,073
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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