They never say, but I assume she’s to be the mascot at the Republican convention. Ebert didn’t know why the elephant had to be taken to Texas.
Yes, the Bandit calls him a putz later, but he’s no different from anyone else in the film. Even the fellow running the animal park isn’t going to let Charlotte give birth on his grounds until the Bandit pays him off. That same spirit of cynicism finds its way into the film.
BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2 FULL
In the face of the critical brickbats director Hal Needham took out ads in the trade papers featuring quotes from negative reviews alongside a picture of himself sitting beside a wheelbarrow full of cash.
BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2 MOVIE
To give you some idea of just how stupid and thoughtless it is: how are we supposed to believe that the Frog we knew and loved in the first movie has gone back to marry Junior? They couldn’t think of any other way to reintroduce the same characters except to replay the exact same situation? Roger Ebert called it “basically just the original movie done again, not as well.” Not nearly as well, I would say. His co-star, Sally Field, would consider it the worst movie she ever made.
And in his defence, he thought this sequel nothing but a stupid cash grab (which it was). But as I say, Burt was just doing what he was supposed to do. But that charm wore off in a hurry, even when treated in a winking, self-referential manner, as it is here (a manner that, I think, is also supposed to be charming). I think the most you would be able to say is that he had charm. Watching Smokey and the Bandit II I found myself wondering whether, if you’d only seen Reynolds in movies like Smokey and the Bandit or The Cannonball Run, you would think he could act at all. The Bad Burt was in far more popular movies where he was. The Good Burt played well in good movies.
When discussing Burt Reynolds it’s often said that there’s a Good Burt and a Bad Burt, the latter being most easily identified by his moustache.
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