Smokey and the Bandit 3

[BigSwede]

Originally Posted by Mark S.

If you want to be impressed by Jerry Reed in a really underrated movie, check out The Survivors. Very underrated comedy from the '80s.

Thanks for the sugesstion.
I would like to point out that I really liked him in the first movie.
It´s just the third one that disappoints me.

[Lakewooder]

Isn't this the one with the shark?

Just put the movie on and listen for Jackie Gleason. He does have some good lines.

Of course this is my favorite:


YouTube - Smokey and the Bandit

[Mopac1980]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

Isn't this the one with the shark?

Just put the movie on and listen for Jackie Gleason. He does have some good lines.

Of course this is my favorite:


YouTube - Smokey and the Bandit

It is with the shark, I would watch Smokey 3 just for Jackie Gleason

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Mopac1980

Has anybody ever seen Smokey and the Bandit 3 (aka Smokey is the Bandit)? If so what did you think of the movie?

How can SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 3 BE "SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT"?? (You said 3 was AKA Smokey and the bandit)

THE ORIGINAL SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT is the BEST .. 3 is nowhere near as good! (Neither is 2)


I have the first one on VHS and I do love it!!!!

[Labonte18]

6 year old topic, but there's an interesting story behind this movie.. It was supposedly originally shot as "Smokey IS the Bandit"

Jackie Gleason was playing dual roles as Smokey and as the Bandit.. Apparently that sucked, so they brought in Jerry Reed to play the bandit parts, and the mess that was released is what you got.

Gleason playing a dual role I can see as a confusing mess.. They should have just brought him in as 'the bandit' and had Jerry Reed be the antagonist trying to stop him with all his trucking buddies. That might have worked.. Certainly couldn't have been any worse.

[Dude111]

Jerry Reed??

The bandit is Burt Reynolds


EDIT:

Oh I see what your saying..... In Part 3 Burt isnt in it.......

[Babe_Ruth]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Jerry Reed??

The bandit is Burt Reynolds

Oh I see what your saying..... In Part 3 Burt isnt in it.......

Yeah, they basically used Reed as a fill-in for the absentee Bandit. Reed had essentially the same clothes, car, and it looked like he dyed his mustache dark too. The plot was that Reed was a decoy to prevent Buford from winning a Bandit bet/reward. But it was an obvious method to recreate the dynamic of the first two movies without Reynolds. Reynolds only showed up briefly at the end, in a Buford' hallucination.

I know this movie was universally disliked & ignored; but I liked it, thought it was funny.