{"id":34406,"date":"2021-01-14T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=34406"},"modified":"2021-01-15T02:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T07:06:19","slug":"grizzly-ii-revenge-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/14\/grizzly-ii-revenge-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzly II: Revenge (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You have to appreciate the giant balls on Gravitas Ventures and their release of (long thought lost, but now completed) 1983\u2019s \u201cGrizzly II: Revenge\u201d (aka \u201cGrizzly II: The Concert\u201d). Not only have they centered their marketing on the fact that the movie features a very young George Clooney, Charlie Sheen, and Laura Dern, but the aforementioned trio even get top billing in the opening (and closing) credits. As expected, the trio is<\/strong><\/em> in the movie, sure. But for about four minutes, tops, and then we\u2019re thrown in to the silly narrative.<\/p>\n

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All hell breaks loose when a 15-ft grizzly bear, reacting to the slaughter of her cub by poachers, seeks revenge and kills anyone that gets in her way. In the 3 days before the major concert, the gigantic grizzly has brutally attacked campers, a poacher and a park ranger. The terror doesn\u2019t end there as the giant grizzly bear finds its way to the concert grounds to go on a killing spree.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrizzly II\u201d plays out like a dull remake of \u201cJaws.\u201d There\u2019s even a Quint antagonist in the form of John Rhys Davies, who has a good time hamming it up as Davey Crockett on steroids. A la \u201cJaws,\u201d the Camp Rangers head Nick and his assistant \u201cDirector of Bear Management\u201d Samantha, are urging the park manager Eileen is insistent on holding the major concert. At seventy four minutes in length the movie works around a very minimal narrative so it fills a lot of the empty space with concert performances. There\u2019s even a silly sub-plot involving an aspiring performer who wants to hit the big time. The narrative centers mainly on Nick, Samantha, and Davies\u2019 character Bouchard.<\/p>\n

Their mission is to find the murderous bear and trap it. However the adrenaline addicted Bouchard is more intent on murdering the angry bear, and this causes considerable conflict. The movie is obviously cut together by whatever footage the producers could muster up, and what they don\u2019t have is tacked on with horrendous inserts of stock footage of bears and wildlife. The prologue is especially awkward and clumsy as an extra shoots two poorly animated bears. This sets up the entire movie, and when you\u2019re done laughing, you might just find something of worth in all this. The best thing to say about \u201cGrizzly II\u201d is that after so many decades it\u2019s finally complete. So\u2026 there<\/em><\/strong> you go.<\/p>\n

Now in Select Theaters and On Demand from Gravitas Ventures.<\/strong><\/p>\n