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''The Three Amigos Ride Again!''

posted 19 years ago by Damian_
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I saw The Three Amigos in the theatre when I was a little boy and I loved it. I thought it perfectly blended comedy with affectionate parody and adventure. People can badmout it all they want. It's still a heck of a lot better than the recent embarassing Wild, Wild West (which, incidentally was also scored by Elmer Bernstein) and similar in concept to the recent, and very successful, Galaxy Quest (which everybody loves).

Anyway, I am fully convinced that they should do a sequel to this film. John Landis, Chevy Chase and Martin Short are all in desperate need of another hit (Steve Martin seems to be doing okay). Even though the original did not do quite so well in its initial release, the movie reached a HUGE audience on video and has spawned quite a following. A sequel would be extremely popular! It could rejuvenate everyone's career. Why shouldn't they do it? I mean, if Landis can make Blue Brothers 2000 why can't he make The Three Amigos Ride Again? I know at least that the thought has occurred to Martin, Chase and Short since they did a joke about it at the roast of Chevy Chase.

It's been about 20 years since the first once, so I think the sequel should take place at least 15 years after the events of the film when. Hollywood has now completed the painful transition from silent films to talkies (chronicled in such films as Singin' in the Rain). All of the Amigos have gone their separate ways, perhaps due to a conflict between Dusty Bottoms and Lucky Day, and have become worthless old "has-beens" in humiliating dead-end jobs. Inevitably they all get reluctantly reuinted by a greedy, villianous studio head who plans to cash in on their former popularity and exploit them for his own sinsiter purposes. Eventually they have to assert their heroic sides once again and have another great adventure! This story could give them a chance to parody, along with westerns and musicals again (with perhaps more great songs by Randy Newman), such varied genres as film noir, gangster flicks and Hitchcockian-style thrillers.

Anyway, it's just an idea! We should get a petition together (and maybe even a script) and send it to John Landis..... although if he's anything like how the character he played in The Muppets Take Manhattan, he'll just throw it in the garbage!

Viva los Amigos!

"The distance between genius and insanity is measured only by success."

[–] Connor207 19 years ago

IO have a perfect idea for a plot

It is long after there last advenbture and they split up and took differant ways. Dusty Bottoms got a job as alawyer and moved to New York, Ned Nederlander got a job at a car dealer ship while Dusty and Ned are happy Lucky Day isn't so lucky he is trapped working in a bar mopping up floors for only five cents an hour he also lives in a closet sort of thing with an orphan named Mollie. Lucky then gets an idea to get The Amigos back together and go to Texas to entertain kid s for rich Miss Dalloway's twenty five children but when the take a wrong turn and end up in a fight against Halbert Edmund it is going to be a wild ride to defeat Halbert.

[–] ot444 17 years ago

I think a sequel would be great and it would be a good opportunity for all three actors. Have them as old washed up actors that are trying to get by in Hollywood when somebody (maybe the kid from the first one) asks them for their help in Mexico once again. They all get together again for one more Amigo Adventure.

[–] juarr1 17 years ago

no one thouhgt theyd ever make a Rocky6 or a Rambo4 and they did. so anythings possible.

[–] yesterdaysman_2000 17 years ago

Chevy Chase is 64yrs old. Steve Martin is 62yrs old. And Martin Short is 57yrs old. Nuff said. Get real.

[–] juarr1 17 years ago

harrison ford is doing another Idny at 65 so anythings possible.

[–] stevenackerman69 15 years ago

They won't do a sequel since this film was a box office disappointment. It lost money, okay? When that happens you don't make a sequel.

[–] spectrx 14 years ago

I would LOVE nothing more than to see a sequel to this. I think they could do an awesome job. The only bummer is John Landis passed away recently =(. However, I just don't see a sequel happening, unfortunately.

[–] PookaDude 14 years ago

Spectrx, John Landis is very much alive and well. I have a feeling you're thinking of John Hughes, who recently passed away. He didn't direct Three Amigos, of course, but he did direct plently of other classic comedies.

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