Meatballs Part II
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| Meatballs Part II | |
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| Directed by | Ken Wiederhorn |
| Produced by | Lisa Barsamian Tony Bishop Stephen Poe |
| Written by | Martin Kitrosser Carol Watson Bruce Franklin Singer (credited as Bruce Singer) |
| Starring | Richard Mulligan Hamilton Camp John Mengatti Kim Richards |
| Music by | Ken Harrison |
| Cinematography | Donald M. Morgan |
| Editing by | George Berndt |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  July 27th 1984 |
| Running time | 87 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Gross revenue | $5,410,972 |
| Preceded by | Meatballs |
| Followed by | Meatballs III |
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Meatballs Part II was an American comedy film released in 1984. It was billed as a sequel to the 1979 movie Meatballs, but was released by a different studio and did not feature the same actors.
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[edit] Plot Summary
This in-name-only sequel to the first Meatballs summer camp movie sets us at Camp Sasquatch where the owner Giddy tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey, the militant owner of Camp Patton located just across the lake, wants to buy the entire lake area to expand Camp Patton. Giddy suggests settling the issue with the traditional end-of-the-summer boxing match over rights to the lake. Meanwhile, a tough, inner city punk, nicknamed Flash, is at Camp Sasquash for community service as a counselor-in-training where he sets his sights on the naive and intellectual Cheryl, while Flash's young charges meet and befriend an alien, whom they name Meathead, also staying at the camp for the summer ski/ snowbard tour.
[edit] Deleted scenes
Over two dozen sex scenes were shot but never used. Producers wanted to sell the film overseas as a sex comedy and shot over 80 minutes of nudity and sex scenes to make it marketable. Several legal issues came up that prevented the producers from using these scenes. Richard Mulligan, Misty Rowe, and Archie Hahn threatened lawsuits if the film was sold as a sex film internationally. Producers attempted to use some of the scenes in the American release. Evenutally, the scenes were cut to lower the MPAA rating from R to PG.
[edit] Trivia
- The role of Fanny was offered to several actresses including Leslie Easterbrook, Lee Meredith, Carol Wayne, Robyn Hilton, and Jennifer Cooke. All of them turned it down due to the graphic sex and nudity.
- Originally the movie was to be entitled Space Kid, but the producers decided to cash in on the franchise and bought the rights to use the title Meatballs Part II.
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