Grizzly II: Revenge

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.

...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!

This movie is easily one of the worst hack jobs I have ever seen. Why in the love of fudge would you take an unfinished film from the 1980s and pad it out with stock footage from the 2010s instead of using stock footage that was around when production was initially halted? Those clips stick out like a sore thumb and completely take me out of the film. This movie is all a giant train wreck from start to finish, every decision they made while stitching together this Frankensteinian abomination is the absolute wrong, worst possible choice they could have made.

William Girdler made Grizzly, Day of the Animals, and The Manitou which are all amazing films. I'm willing to bet that had he been alive to see what became of this movie, cease and desist orders would have been sent out fast enough to make your head spin. This is a complete insult to his legacy that no doubt has him turning in his grave. I myself have zero film-making experience and I could have put this film together better. Ed Wood could have done a better job!

If this is the best they could have done, they shouldn't have even bothered. Nothing in the new footage syncs up with the old stuff, things that are meant to be in the same location look like they are miles away. This "movie" is little more than a compilation of stock footage with the thinnest plot possible and it's a complete waste of time, effort, and money. Not just yours, but everyone who "finished" it. Shame on all of you.

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.

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.