The original City Slickers was a pretty damn good movie (especially since it made Bruno Kirby tolerable for more than one minute with that mustache of his) but they had to go and ruin it by making a sequel after the first made $124 million (not an easy feat in the early '90's) and won Palance the Oscar (and a bunch of one-armed pushups)


This time, they took out Bruno Kirby and replaced him with Jon Lovitz (not such a good thing) and brought back Jack Palance's Curly as a twin that he never mentioned in the first movie.


"Hats off to a bigger paycheck!" - Billy Crystal

Yeah, it's the contrived sequel - bring back what everyone loved - Jack Palance - and make it about the search for Curly's gold. Really? In retrospect Crystal knew he fucked up with a crappy movie and chased the money on this one because it shows. And he made the same mistake with Analyze That because nobody saw that sequel either.



Keep Billy Crystal away from his own movies - he'll make sequels and fail at the box office. People will show up and make his first film a success, then less than a quarter of them will show up for the sequel.

City Slickers (1991): 124 million (USA)
City Slickers 2 (1994): $43 million (USA) Opening: $11 million (USA)
Analyze This (1999): $106 million (USA)
Analyze That (2002): $32,122,249 (USA) Opening $11 million (USA)

Not surprisingly, Hollywood made an unofficial remake of City Slickers with Wild Hogs, which made over $160 million.