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[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

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[Guest The Second Spitter]

Needs more sfx.

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[Guest themetfairy]

Don't fuck with perfection!

[TransMonk]

Uh, they did already do a sequel of sorts as a TV movie in the late '80s.

Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss

According to the wiki article, PBS did a series of movies based on the Parker family.

Needless to say, this is a terribly bad idea. OE: this will be a straight to DVD release.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

I think the worst thing about that trailer is that every scene is one that recreates something that happened in the first movie as if the Parker family have watched constant repeats of themselves on TBS so often that they just repeat themselves even as they grow older.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, this was already sequeled in 1994 with Charles Grodin replacing Darin McGavin as The Old Man. The earth remained on its axis. There's plenty of Shepherd material out there, of course.

I share your suspicion that this will be a sequel in the sense that it comes purely as a cinematic projection forward from the prior movie, rather than a further dip into Shepherd's memoirs.

It's a funny thing that studios can do. They buy a property and they take it in their own direction. The Commitments had two sequels, but the producers who owned the characters wanted to do their own sequels. so the subsequent books of the family's continuing story, had to be filmed with new names and re-written characters of the family, while the studio hung on to the rights to the characters hoping to film a second movie about the band, which, of course, never happened.

Similar with The Thin Man series I've been watching. Hammet only wrote one Nick and Nora Charles novel, but the studio milked those two freaks for all they were worth, and pounded out five more films. The Thin Man also shares The Pink Panther's penchant for absurd titling in sequels. The "thin man" of the title, like the "Pink Panther" is merely an element in the case in the first film. When the films became franchises, they had to continue to refer to the titles of the first, even though there is no "thin man" and no "pink panther" in the subsequent films. It's the brand, even if it's irrelevant. And in a strange way, Nick Charles becomes "The Thin Man" just as Clouseau becomes "The Pink Panther."

I recommend you not see this film. Leastaways because Jean Shepherd isn't around to narrate it.