Elvis Gratton II: Miracle à Memphis

OH LALALA! I couldn't stop laughing at the theatre due to the # of jokes in that movie.

The plot is nothing but the jokes are so Quebequish! It even beat French Star Wars in Quebec by over $400 000!

I wasn't expecting something funnier.

For those who don't know

Elvis Gratton started in 1981 and was made for TV. There was a first small 30 min movie in 1981. 1983 the second small movie 1985 the final movie

If you glue all these small movies the result is: ELVIS GRATTON: Le King des Kings which makes a 90 min movie approx.

Isn't this amazing to see a TV movie with a cinematic sequel? It's the opposite for US movies. Original movies comes from theatre and some sequels are TV or direct video movies.

Gratton II my second personal fav movie after Le Diner de cons.

VIVE ELVIS GRATTON!!!!!

That's my favorite comedie-quebecoise I ever seen after Elvis Gratton. Isn't this amazing...the first one which was never played on Big Screen has a sequel which IS on big screen.

It's not like some US movies that turns into TV series or get Direct-to-video sequels.

Pierre Falardeau did an excellent job getting all the jokes in the last 14 years after the end of Gratton I.

For years fans of the original Elvis Gratton movie have been demanding a sequel. Both creators of Elvis Gratton (Pierre Falardeau and Julien Poulin) said they would never make one. Fan kept bugging and bugging and to shut them up this is the crap we got. I bet they told themselves "Here's your "crise" the sequel now shut up and deal with the crap you got" and man I bet they are laughing at us now.

The first Elvis Gratton, in 1985, was witty and funny. But this one is a collection of stupid jokes. Some Canadian federalists disliked this movie because it was making fun of the Canadian government and institutions. Some people from Québec who favor independence from Canada saw it as a great movie for their cause. I, being only a film lover, think it's stupid from beginning to end.

Sure, there's a few good jokes. But Falardeau tries to make them go forever. A scene is funny for 20-30 seconds but keeps going up for 5 minutes. So you have 30 seconds of fun and 4 and half minutes of yawns.

See the first one and definitely skip this one!

4 out of 10.

This is not really a sequel to the first one, as no sequels were really possible. But they found a way to do it in a illogical manner, which can be quite funny by moments. But, we need to remember that this movie was made to fund the production of the movie "15 Février 1839", which, for me and many Quebecers I'm sure, is a valid cause.

The movie picks up (sort of) where the first movie end, summarily explaining the what and why, which have no consequences, or importance for that matter, on the final result. It is more like a sequence of gags à la Benny Hill than a real movie but it tries real hard to have a continuity. Except for the scene where the director and the main actor explain the movie (I can't believe they did not cut that one out) the movie has funny moments, probably more if you're drunk but who knows...

As much as I hate to admit it, Elvis Gratton is the worst part of Quebec, but, in a pre-Borat world, it was the best of its kind.