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That's pretty much it. Everyone's long panned this movie as being nothing more than a commercial for Coke and McDonald's that happens to be an ET ripoff (I'm pretty certain the movie was named after the Big Mac), so I probably don't need to say anything more than that. But I will say that if you have a drinking game where you take a drink every time you see a product placement, like Coke, Skittles, Sears, McDonald's, Chicago Bears, and the Chicago Cubs, all that alcohol will make the movie a lot more bearable, but be careful that you don't succumb to alcohol poisoning.

Still, though, for being such a bad movie, the cinematography is decent. So it gets a star for that, at least. But I guess that's the difference between a high budget bad movie and a low budget bad movie.

This has to be one of the worst movies ever made, second only to Birdemic. The entire movie is filled with green screen, extremely poor CGI which looks like it was generated on a 486 from the 1990's, characters who act like video game NPCs, numerous continuity errors, and terrible acting. But there are a few moments which are so laughable at how bad it is, like when people are "running." And worst of all, the entire movie is basically just a ripoff of The Incredible Hulk. However, instead of transforming into a giant green monster, the hero transforms into a giant cheesily-drawn monster. But the plot is just plain poorly written and lame. And if that weren't enough, the final insult is that the credits are all done in Comic Sans.

This was even a bad movie for bad movie night. Only lovers of truly terrible cinema will appreciate this one.

I finally saw this turkey on broadcast TV last night. I honestly didn't even know there was a S&TB3 until a few years ago, and recently LaffTV showed the entire S&TB trilogy, so I decided to watch it just so I could say that I've seen it.

One thing that's obvious is that S&TB3 follows the mold of so many movie franchises. By the second sequel the premise has run out of steam so they're just trying to cash in on the name, such as Jaws 3 and Jaws 4. However, all movie producers should realize that when the main stars of the franchise refuse to take part in the latest sequel, they should cancel the project because it's just over.

So what's so bad about S&TB3? A little bit of everything. First there's the plot, which makes no sense. Sheriff Buford T. Justice decides to retire to Florida, but the Enoses offer him a bet to drive from Florida to Texas to deliver a fiberglass shark in order to advertise the Enoses new seafood restaurant. This is the first thing that doesn't make sense, because why make the offer to Buford instead of the Bandit? Or, since the Bandit was MIA from this movie, why not offer the job to Snowman? And if the Enoses were shelling out lots of money to hire people to slow Buford down, why did they need to hire the Snowman to act as the Bandit?

A few plot devices which continued to wear thin were the endless pointless chases, Buford's idiot son Junior, and the amount of damage continuing to occur to Buford's car, which with all the continuity errors changed from scene to scene. It just makes an unfunny movie become tedious. And for some reason they end up on a race track doing stunts at a fairground, which apparently was written into the movie to justify their stunt budget and didn't really add anything to the plot. Also there's a completely pointless boat chase scene that ends exactly where it started. It really just seems like this movie was just made up with all the discarded ideas from the first two movies. The editing was also apparently hastily done, as I couldn't count how many times Buford & Junior got caught up in a mess, giving the Bandit time to escape and likely a 5-10 minute head start, but the very next scene showed Buford right behind him again.

And, of course, for some reason they had to throw in the same old plot device of having a young, somewhat attractive woman riding with the Bandit for no reason at all. So they kind of redid the scene in the first movie where the bandit picks up a woman just needing to get away from someone. Maybe it worked in the first movie but this time it was totally unnecessary and her character didn't really add anything to the movie. Plus they couldn't even come up with a better name for her character than "Dusty Trails." Really? They weren't even trying when writing this movie. They certainly didn't give her any good dialogue.

It's also obvious they decided to use gratuitous nudity in order to prop up a lame movie, but of course watching it on broadcast TV everything was blurred out.

So all in all, this is one movie which shouldn't have been made. Of course it wasn't totally bad, but there's just way too much wrong with it to make it good.