Customer Reviews
Many people never heard of this sequel 
2009-01-07
This movie picks up a few years after the famous American Graffiti ended, and follows the same cast of characters from the original during the turbulent Vietnam era. All the same actors are back except John Dreyfus. Using a unique series of split screens, often times they show the action going on in different places or from differing vantage points. They have all moved on and the movie captures each persons story individually. The focal point for each character concerns events in their lives surrounding a crucial mid 60's New Year. While not quite the feel good movie like the original- it continues the story and follows the events of the mid 60's.
MEMORIES 
2008-11-25
Just loved this one and the original American Graffiti. They brought back memories of my younger days.
Underrated 2008-11-23
This is a film that gets better with age.
When it was first released in 1979, the original was considered a modern classic and Part 2 could not hold up.
As the years went by and Part 1 remained a classic Part 2 took even more of a dive in relam of critics.
Nevertheless, I believe that More American Graffitti has gotten a bad rap.
I feel that it's an honest depection of how "the old gang" grows up and matures and deals with the changes in life.
Especially in the 1960's when the innocence of 1962 changed so much with the culture of the mid and late 1960's.
This film drives home the message that even though we go are sepearte ways we always keep our true friends in our heart and never forget them.
Also, whether it is intended or not, every sequence has some sort of reconciliation on New Years Eve.
John is reconciled with is opponent who helps him get his car back on track.
Toad is reconciled with his superior officer who helps him go AWOL to be falsely reported MIA.
Debbie, although not reconciled to her boyfriend, finds new friends in her Ex's favorite band, who somewhat represents him.
Steve and Lauri reconcile to eachother and to their counter culture the Anti War Demonstateres.
A much deeper film that it's give credit for.
more american graffiti 
2008-08-09
Well the only reason i give this movie a 4 star is because it lets you know where everything ends up (which is exactly what it sumed up at the end of the first movie) This movie is a far cry from the first. NO 55 chevy and the 32 coupe is always parked in this one. It is worth seeing once to see what happens from the first but not going to be one of my faverate movies
Forgotten but not all bad 2008-02-09
Like The Next Sting, Texasville, The Two Jakes and, before long, Evan Almighty, More American Graffiti is one of those sequels to that most people not only didn't want but don't know even exists: certainly George Lucas seems happy to pretend it doesn't (it's conspicuous by its complete absence in the otherwise comprehensive 78-minute documentary on the DVD for the original film), a fate not even Howard the Duck or The Radioland Murders share among his oeuvre. No Richard Dreyfuss, and Ron Howard is little more than a cameo but the rest of the original cast are all present and correct - even an unbilled Harrison Ford turns up as a traffic cop - while Scott Glenn, Delroy Lindo and Rosanna Arquette provide the "they were around that long?" factor in the supporting cast. Yet the result is even more of a mixed bag than the original, with writer-director Bill L. Norton separating his main characters over four different New Year's Eves with wildly varying results: Paul Le Mat has now graduated to drag racing, perhaps the least cinematic sport ever invented, Cindy Williams and Ron Howard get mixed up in student riots, Candy Clark's hippie chick finally gets the message about her loser guitarist boyfriend while, in by far the best part of the film, Charles Martin Smith's Terry the Toad is doing everything he possibly can to get out of Vietnam. Shot in multiple aspect ratios from 1.33:1 to 2.35:1 and with some imaginative and often amusing split-screen work, the execution is often better than the material and it's more entertaining than you might expect, but there's little of the resonance of the original.
No extras on the DVD at all, though the original multiple aspect ratios are preserved.
Great fun movie 2007-07-19
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/22/2006 Run time: 111 minutes Rating: Pg
More American Graffiti 2007-01-19
It is a very good movie. Had it on VHS and wanted to up grade to DVD. So that is why I bought the movie
unrealistic 2004-08-14
I lived through that era including a tour in Vietnam. The military scenes are totally unrealistic. People do stupid things that would get them killed. They have unrealistic attitudes. They are not following what they should have learned in basic training. The main character is a warrant officer, yet he is always doing duties usually done by privates.
The video, 84 Charlie Mopic, which is available here on Amazon is much more realistic, but still has a few flaws.
A worthy sequel to the original 2004-04-13
My brother and I discovered the original American Graffiti by accident. Our parents had taken our younger sister to see a G-rated movie that we both thought we had outgrown, so we opted for another movie instead. I don't even remember what the other movie was anymore, but it was so bad that we left after fifteen minutes. American Graffiti was showing down the hall and we went in to watch that instead. At that time I think it's safe to say we considered it to be the coolest movie we'd ever seen. I completely missed out on More American Graffiti when it was in the theatres, but caught it on a late night cable run a few years later. I thought the update idea was cool and it took me forever to even realize that Richard Dreyfus wasn't in the movie. I thought it was an average movie, but the thing that sealed the deal for me was the scene where John Milner has wrecked his car just before the final showdown with the "factory" team. All of his local rivals pitch in to get his car running so that he doesn't miss his big chance. Just when it looks hopeless and the track announcer is telling everyone that he'll have to forfeit, he is spotted running his top fuel rail down the breakdown lane on the way to the starting line. I almost fell off of the couch. I completely bought into it. Nice concept, nice movie, but the final race scene really pushed it over the edge for me. (What can I say? I'm a car guy.)
Un"American" 
2004-04-05
How bad is this sequel? "Howard the Duck" is Shakespeare compared to this. At the conclusion to "American Graffiti" the viewer finds out what fate is delivered to each main character. So why have a sequel? One word - money. The characters from "American Graffiti" are back in this uninspired, lame sequel, aptly titled, "More American Graffiti".
The film chronicles the lives of the four friends from the first "Graffiti" on New Years Eve in four different years (mass confusion ensues). For John Milner life hasn't changed. He still chases fast cars and fast women (currently a foreign exchange student whos hot to look at, but, can't speak a lick of english). Terry the Toad can't stnd being in Vietnam (who the hell does?!?) and tries every effort to get out while he still can. Laurie and Steve have gotten married, have 2 kids, and argue constantly about how Steve doesn't do his share around the house and does nothing to encourage Laurie to go out and get a job (both wind up joining the womens movement. Stupid & unfunny).
The film is a mish-mash that tries to be a comedy but becomes an outdated and embarassing social commentary of the 60's told through the eyes of the greedy 70's. George Lucas is executive producer of this celluloid turd and if I were him would distance himself farther from this than "Howard the Duck" (I personally would have bought the rights to the negative from Universal and had it burned). The principal cast looks like there commiting celluloid suicide (you can almost hear the toilet flushing down there career).
I bought this on VHS a few years back and I wound up taping an episode of "The Greatest American Hero" over it.
