Alvin
Rides Again
(1974)
Well,
when your film is a
hit, what do you do?
You make a sequel and
that's where Alvin
Rides Again comes in.
The problem with Alvin
Rides Again is that is
has a massive case of
rush job written all
over it. The first act
is basically a rehash
of the original with
Alvin looking for work
and losing his job
because some woman
wants to or does have
sex with him. Then he
goes on the road with
his friend Spike and
bizarrely join a
women's cricket team
where they dress as
women to help them to
victory and win a bet
they laid. And then
for some strange
reason the film turns
into a gangster comedy
as Alvin is a dead
ringer for an American
gangster and when the
gangster dies, Alvin
is forced into
impersonating the
gangster so that his
crew can get his money
from the robbery that
was set up.
The
writing is all over
the place; it feels
like 2 different ideas
have been awkwardly
forced together and
when it doesn't the
film is just rehashing
the stuff from the
original film like a
massive car chase and
some Benny Hill style
comedy. Ugh, Alvin
Rides Again is a
sloppy mess of a film
with an occasional
funny moment, usually
from Frank Thring or
the gangster's
ridiculous obsession
with Skippy, the Bush
Kangaroo. There's also
the feel that they got
Abigail naked in the
film and just built
the rest of the film
around that moment.
Hmmm, not all bad I
s'pose. (Film
clips linked below;
collage(s) or sample
images below each
link.)
And let's face it,
continuity is never an
issue with this
series. The next film,
Melvin, Son of Alvin,
throws all continuity
out the window.
Judy
Stevenson
Briony
Behets
Candy
Raymond
Chantal
Contouri
Joy
Thompson
Kris
McQuade
 
Abigail
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