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A great movie to help you forget the rat race of life
Picture this: It's Wednesday night, and you had a fight with your boss. Your significant other just left you. On the way home from work, you get a flat tire. Your cell phone battery went dead while trying to get a hold of roadside assistance, and to top it all off, you had to rush your kid to a supermarket bathroom that had a sign on it that says, "Out of Order." So I am guessing that you will need the funniest video you can find to watch. A movie that is also very unusual, with a lot of slapstick comedy. And one in which you can put your brain on hiatus while you watch it. "Weekend at Bernies II" is just such a movie.

Even better than the first movie "Weekend at Bernies II" has some voodoo, and a couple of guys that think a dead body will somehow lead them to a treasure chest of money at the bottom of the ocean. You're probably thinking, these guys have to get a clue. I mean really, but somehow they make it happen.

Bernie, when he was alive, was a rich swindler, who liked milking people out of their money. He just never realized he could cause so many people so many problems after he died. But that's what happens in this movie. Bernie goes parasailing, pulls a trailer with some people riding in it, and listens to head phones while underwater, amongst other things. And he does all this looking as dead as anybody could be.

You will laugh so hard while watching, "Weekend at Bernies II" that you will probably forget your bad day. Wouldn't that be nice.

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The opportunity for a good sequel was there.......
....but all hopes were dashed when they said, "Action!"
The first "Weekend at Bernie's" was an absolute hit. A cult classic comedy loaded with humor, crazy situations, and kept the audience involved the entire time. "Weekend at Bernie's Part II" had some great moments, but this movie seemed to go in the wrong direction.
To make a sequel enjoyable, the viewers need more from the first film to make a connection. Only Richard, Larry, and Bernie were back. Where were many of the major characters from the first film?? The mob boss, the girlfriend who was fooling around with Bernie, and Gwen, who was Richard's love interest, should have been back to build the story. Even some of Bernie's beach pals (remember the nut who wanted his car?) could have made cameos.
This time, however, things changed for the worse. Barry Bostwick was essentially the "new" Paulie (who was the hit man in part I) and did a horrible horrible job. Paulie should have returned in some way or form. Can you say prison breakout?
Instead of Richard having a love interest or continuing things with Gwen, this time it was Larry trying to make it with the girl on the island. HUGE mistake, as there was no chemistry or any sense that the relationship might have worked. Larry seemed way to silly to even attempt date or romantic scenes!! Not even close to believable.
I fully agree with one viewer who suggested that Terry Kiser (Bernie), who was hilarious when he was alive, should have been in Part II in a flashback mode or something playing the part of the living Bernie. He was great in the first one and had very little chance to improve the part this time.
The two clowns who were chasing Bernie's body around and carried out the voodoo were terrible. The whole idea of voodoo was super silly, except for it giving Bernie a chance to move around a bit and not be a lifeless corpse the whole time.
Also, the soundtrack for Part II was awful! The first one had great party/beach music. Why not capitalize on that? Who could forget the "some like it hot/cold/never know" song from the first one? Just another example of how the writer-turned-director (he wrote the first and directed this one) helped make this movie tumble.

WAB fans should still see it but true comedy happened in the first film.

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LAME
I suffered through this movie at work the other day, because we had some down time, and I didn't have a book with me. It must be a big hit with severe head injury survivors, but I don't know who else would waste their time with this crap.

The movie has two jokes than run the entire length, and neither are funny. Watch Bernie's corpse slam into things, and worse, watch Bernie come to life and dance when music is playing. Ho ho. Perhaps our military would find this film useful in interrogations.

If your idea of great comedy is watching a middle aged man dance the limbo for two hours, occasionally falling down, or banging his head into something, then this movie was made for you.