140 Character Movie Review – #140RVW
Largely more of the same; possibly cuter with the emphasis on kids. More streamlined, which is good. Hard pressed to fill out even 140RVW…
Spoiler-free Movie Review of Oh, God! Book II:
I’m not kidding – I really had a hard time even coming up with 140 characters about Oh, God! Book II…
Umm…it’s good? I frankly think in some ways Oh, God! Book II is better than the original, even without the novelty of the original premise. It’s just a cleaner story. On the other hand, if the first one was too long and it had to establish the whole concept of God coming to Earth and recruiting a spokesperson, you can reasonably assume that this simpler story should take less time. Which it doesn’t.
Louanne, the young actress who plays the eleven-year-old lead character Tracy Richards, is marvelous; very cute and precocious, but more importantly a kid. She acts like a kid, she gets frustrated with God about being put-upon and things being unfair. Really a nice contrast to the lead character in the original, worried about his job and family. Both work great, but differently…
Oh, God! Book II is a good picture; don’t let my extraordinarily brief review give you a different impression. It’s just that it is exactly what it looks like; if you saw the first one, you sort of saw the second one, too. Your preference almost certainly would be for whichever one you saw first. All of these would make better TV shows than feature films, but that’s sort of a minor point. They’re cute and fun…
Poster:
Trailer:
https://youtu.be/CuQE32bEq_Q
Bechdel Test:
Pass
The Representation Test Score: B (10 pts)
(http://therepresentationproject.org/grading-hollywood-the-representation-test/)
| Main Cast | George Burns God Suzanne Pleshette Paula Richards David Birney Don Richards Louanne Tracy Richards |
| Rating | PG |
| Release Date | Fri 03 Oct 1980 UTC |
| Director | Gilbert Cates |
| Genres | Comedy, Fantasy |
| Plot | God asks a young girl to help spread his word and influence with a slogan. |
| Poster |  |
| Runtime | 94 |
| Tagline | That’s right, I made another movie. You know me, I can’t stop creating. |
| Writers | Josh Greenfeld (story), Josh Greenfeld (screenplay) … |
| Year | 1980 |
