burt reynolds smokey and the bandit cb radio

#BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT CB RADIO MOVIE#

#BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT CB RADIO MOVIE#

If you like this sort of thing and do not live within commuting distance of Santa Fe Speedway, I suppose this movie is just what you're looking for. There are cars hurtling through the air, and 50 semi-trucks roaring down on 50 squad cars, and trucks driving on top of trucks, and cars getting sandwiched between trucks, and you name it. The film's director, Hal Needham, was once the most famous of Hollywood stuntmen, and he has realized his wildest-dreams this time. Most of the effort in the movie has gone, once again, into the stunts. Why couldn't they just have had another silly flirtation? I can almost imagine the writers having conferences with Burt and Sally while this pseudo-serious dialogue was drummed up. Bandit wants to be a kid forever, his girl wants him to grow up, they can't communicate, etc. And their spats in this movie are conducted in 'meaningful' terms borrowed from freshman psychology. Indeed, Burt didn't even accompany Sally to the Oscars - an ominous sign. As everyone who has the National Enquirer read to them must know by now, in real life Sally and Burt have broken up. Why can't the movie allow Burt and Sally to have a nice, dumb, wide-eyed romantic relationship? Probably because the filmmakers suffered an attack of Creeping Realism. It seems that Bandit has become a folk hero of Good Ol' Boys everywhere as a result of his original exploits. Given those small adjustments in the successful premise of the original movie, what's new this time? Well, the relationship between Burt Reynolds and Sally Field has changed, and the changes are almost fatal to the story. The plot involves a payment of $400,000 to Reed and Reynolds if they transport Charlotte from Florida to Texas, with Gleason once again on their trail. New additions this time are Doc, a gynecologist played by Dom DeLuise, and Charlotte, an elephant. They all play the same roles in the sequel, and Sally Field is also along as Burt's sometime girlfriend. Reynolds was Bandit, the advance scout with the CB radio to alert Reed to the traps laid by Smokey, who was an apoplectic sheriff played by Jackie Gleason.

Burt reynolds smokey and the bandit cb radio