Elvis Gratton II: Miracle à Memphis

Elvis Gratton: Miracle à Memphis is one of the greatest comedies of the year in Canada. It's a superb movie with some hard messages for the canadian goverment. Pierre Falardeau hit hard and he don't miss the target with this sequel to the cult movie Elvis Gratton. Julien Poulin is excellent. We see an original end with humour.

8 out of 10

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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.

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.

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!!!!!

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.