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Saturday, 16 August 2025

Weekend at Bernie's II (1993)


How does one pull off a sequel to a film where the lead is already dead? By resurrecting him with voodoo magic, of course. Man, this film is a trip... How anyone thought this was a good idea is beyond me. Yet it travels all the way from terrible to strangely compelling. I don't even know how else to describe the odd appeal. I probably liked this film more than anyone else on the planet.

2½ Bernie Dances out of 5

5 comments:

Dr Faustus said...

I'm enjoying the pre-2000 era movies, even though I've only seen two of them, iirc (the original Freaky Friday + the first Porky's flick).

budarc said...

As always, the only ones I recommend are 3 stars and up, but I'll mostly be focusing on older comedies for the time being. Once I hit 100 drafts in my folder, I realized I need to start pumping these out with more regularity, otherwise I'll be off-loading them through the Halloween season. (Speaking of which, time is fucking flying!)

Neg said...

There's a Spirit open, already. A bit far. Shouldn't be long until the usual ones are.

budarc said...

I saw Christmas decorations at the store the other day, I shit you not. Along with rows and rows of Halloween candy out in full force. It's still fucking summer, dammit. Let me enjoy each season in turn.

Dr Faustus said...

I got a 'Prepare for Xmas' email a week ago from a book store.