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	'''''Meatballs Part II''''' is a 1984 [[comedy film]] and the first [[sequel]] to the 1979 film ''[[Meatballs (film)\|Meatballs]]''. The film stars [[Richard Mulligan]], [[Hamilton Camp]], [[John Mengatti]], [[Kim Richards]], [[Archie Hahn (actor)\|Archie Hahn]], [[Misty Rowe]], and [[John Larroquette]], and was directed by [[Ken Wiederhorn]].<ref name="Meatballs Part II">{{cite web\|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83175/Meatballs-2/full-credits.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203210916/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83175/Meatballs-2/full-credits.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=February 3, 2017\|title=Meatballs Part II\|work=[[Turner Classic Movies]]\|publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting System]] ([[Time Warner]])\|location=[[Atlanta]]\|accessdate=January 31, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://mubi.com/films/meatballs-part-ii\|title=Meatballs Part II\|work=[[MUBI]]\|publisher=\|location=United Kingdom\|accessdate=January 31, 2017}}</ref> The [[screenplay]] for the film was written by Bruce Franklin Singer based on a story by Martin Kitrosser and Carol Watson.{{sfn\|Pittsburgh Press Staff\|1984\|page=26}}		'''''Meatballs Part II''''' is a 1984 [[comedy film]] and the first [[sequel]] to the 1979 film ''[[Meatballs (film)\|Meatballs]]''. The film stars [[Richard Mulligan]], [[Hamilton Camp]], [[John Mengatti]], [[Kim Richards]], [[Archie Hahn (actor)\|Archie Hahn]], [[Misty Rowe]], and [[John Larroquette]], and was directed by [[Ken Wiederhorn]].<ref name="Meatballs Part II">{{cite web\|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83175/Meatballs-2/full-credits.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203210916/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83175/Meatballs-2/full-credits.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=February 3, 2017\|title=Meatballs Part II\|work=[[Turner Classic Movies]]\|publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting System]] ([[Time Warner]])\|location=[[Atlanta]]\|accessdate=January 31, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://mubi.com/films/meatballs-part-ii\|title=Meatballs Part II\|work=[[MUBI]]\|publisher=\|location=United Kingdom\|accessdate=January 31, 2017}}</ref> The [[screenplay]] for the film was written by Bruce Franklin Singer based on a story by Martin Kitrosser and Carol Watson.{{sfn\|Pittsburgh Press Staff\|1984\|page=26}}

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{{short description|1984 film by Ken Wiederhorn}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Meatballs Part II
| image = Meatballs2poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Ken Wiederhorn]]
| producer = {{Plain list |
* Lisa Barsamian ({{small|[[Executive producer]]}})
* Tony Bishop
* Stephen Poe
}}<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087700/mediaviewer/rm1442654976/?ref_=tt_ov_i Credits per movie poster]</ref>
| story = {{Plain list |
* Martin Kitrosser
* Carol Watson
}}
| writer = Bruce Franklin Singer (credited as Bruce Singer)
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[Richard Mulligan]]
* [[Hamilton Camp]]
* [[John Mengatti]]
* [[Kim Richards]]
* [[Archie Hahn (actor)|Archie Hahn]]
* [[Misty Rowe]]
* [[John Larroquette]]
}}
| music = Ken Harrison
| cinematography = Donald M. Morgan
| editing = George Berndt
| distributor = [[TriStar Pictures|Tri-Star Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1984|7|27}}
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = United States<br>Canada
| language = English
| gross = $5,410,972
}}
'''''Meatballs Part II''''' is a 1984 [[comedy film]] and the first [[sequel]] to the 1979 film ''[[Meatballs (film)|Meatballs]]''. The film stars [[Richard Mulligan]], [[Hamilton Camp]], [[John Mengatti]], [[Kim Richards]], [[Archie Hahn (actor)|Archie Hahn]], [[Misty Rowe]], and [[John Larroquette]], and was directed by [[Ken Wiederhorn]].<ref name="Meatballs Part II">{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83175/Meatballs-2/full-credits.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203210916/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83175/Meatballs-2/full-credits.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 3, 2017|title=Meatballs Part II|work=[[Turner Classic Movies]]|publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting System]] ([[Time Warner]])|location=[[Atlanta]]|accessdate=January 31, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://mubi.com/films/meatballs-part-ii|title=Meatballs Part II|work=[[MUBI]]|publisher=|location=United Kingdom|accessdate=January 31, 2017}}</ref> The [[screenplay]] for the film was written by Bruce Franklin Singer based on a story by Martin Kitrosser and Carol Watson.{{sfn|Pittsburgh Press Staff|1984|page=26}}

==Plot==
The owner of Camp Sasquatch, Giddy, tries to keep his camp open after Hershy, the owner of Camp Patton, located just across the lake, wants to buy the entire lake for Camp Patton. Giddy suggests settling the issue with the traditional end-of-the-summer boxing match over rights to the lake. A tough, inner city punk named Flash is at Camp Sasquatch for community service as a counselor-in-training. Flash is recruited to box in order to save Sasquatch. Cheryl, a naive teen on whom Flash has set his sights, has never seen a "[[Penis|pinky]]", so her fellow teenage girl campers arrange for her to see a man naked. Meanwhile, the campers try to hide an [[Extraterrestrial life|alien from another planet]] who has been dropped off by his parents to learn Earth culture. He is nicknamed "Meathead" by the kids after repeating one of them saying "Me, Ted".

==Cast==
* [[Richard Mulligan]] as Coach Giddy
* [[Hamilton Camp]] as Colonel Jack 'Batjack' Hershy
* [[John Mengatti]] as Armand 'Flash' Carducci
* [[Kim Richards]] as Cheryl
* [[Archie Hahn (actor)|Archie Hahn]] as Jamie / Voice of Meathead
* [[Misty Rowe]] as Fanny
* [[John Larroquette]] as Lieutenant Felix Foxglove
* [[Paul Reubens]] as Albert
* Joe Nipote as 'Boomer'
* [[Jason Hervey]] as Tommy
* [[Ralph Seymour (actor)|Ralph Seymour]] as Eddie
* [[Elayne Boosler]] as Mother
* [[Nancy Glass]] as Daughter
* [[Felix Silla]] as 'Meathead'
* [[Joaquin Martinez]] as Chief Rawhide
* Blackie Dammett as Sergeant Paladin
* [[Donald Gibb]] as 'Mad Dog'
* Jason Luque as Jai Styxxx

==Reception==
''Meatballs Part II'' grossed [[USD|$]]2,515,268 the first weekend.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=meatballs2.htm|title=Meatballs Part II|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|publisher=[[Amazon.com]]|location=United States|accessdate=January 31, 2017}}</ref> The film grossed $5,410,972 domestically overall.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=meatballs2.htm|title=Meatballs Part II|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|publisher=[[Amazon.com]]|location=United States|accessdate=January 31, 2017}}</ref>

===Critical response===
Critic [[Lawrence Van Gelder]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote in his review: "Trailing bits of ''[[Rocky]]'' and ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.]]'' and using a plot device from the 1983 film ''[[Screwballs]],'' which itself aspired to be ''[[Porky's]]'', ''Meatballs Part II'' shares with 1979's ''[[Meatballs (film)|Meatballs]]'' not much more than a summer camp setting. This time - amid the efforts of two senior counselors to find sexual privacy, amid prurience and budding romance involving an innocent blonde preppy and a young punk given a choice of a counselor's job or reform school, and amid the efforts of some of the little campers to harbor an extraterrestrial - the future of Camp Sasquatch is in peril.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F05E0DE1238F93BA2575BC0A962948260|title=Screen: 'Meatballs Part II,' Hih Jinks At Summer Camp|first=Lawrence|last=Van Gelder|authorlink=Lawrence Van Gelder|work=[[The New York Times]]|location=[[New York City]]|date=August 18, 1984|accessdate=January 31, 2017}}</ref>

''[[Rotten Tomatoes]]'' lists only two critics' reviews, both of which are negative. Lawrence Van Gelder of the ''New York Times'' said, "Pallid writing, awkward acting, familiar situations and tired jokes make the morons, wimps and losers of ''Meatballs Part II'' easy to pass up." ''TV Guide'' reported, "The difference between this movie and the original is Bill Murray, whose charm gave the first film its best moments and raised the mediocre plot into something mindless but sweet." Meanwhile, 675 users have scored the movie with an average of 2.5 out of 5; only 23% of those users reported liking "Meatballs Part II."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/meatballs_part_ii/|title=Meatballs Part II|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|accessdate=March 15, 2017}}</ref>

==Release==
''Meatballs Part II'' was released in theaters on July 27, 1984. The film was released on [[DVD]] on March 4, 2011, by [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Meatballs-II-Hamilton-Camp/dp/B004HGQMW8|title=Meatballs Part II|work=[[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]]|publisher=[[Sony Pictures Entertainment]]|location=[[Culver City, California]]|date=March 4, 2011|asin=B004HGQMW8|accessdate=January 31, 2017}}</ref>

==References==
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===Sources===
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* {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/146615809/|title=Meatballs Part II|last1=Pittsburgh Press Staff|work=[[Pittsburgh Press]]|publisher=[[E. W. Scripps Company]] (1924–1992)<br>[[Block Communications]] (2011–present)|location=[[Pittsburgh]]|date=July 27, 1984|accessdate=January 31, 2017|page=26}}{{Subscription required}}

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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090828134130/http://www.meatballsonline.com/ MeatballsOnline] Meatballs Movie Website
*{{IMDb title|0087700}}
*{{TCMDb title|083175}}
*{{rotten-tomatoes|meatballs_part_ii}}

{{The Meatballs Series}}
{{Ken Wiederhorn}}

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