Scene of the Week: The World’s Biggest Game of Chicken

I acknowledge that Smokey and the Bandit isn’t for everyone. That is doubly true when it comes to Smokey and the Bandit II. It is pretty much the same as the original with the charismatic Burt Reynolds as the Bandit, the lovely Sally Field as Frog, my personal favorite Jerry Reed (High-Ballin’) as The Snowman and one of the most underrated villains of all time with Jackie Gleason’s Sherriff Buford T. Justice. There plot is almost the same as the first, except for the elephant in the room… which is an elephant in the trailer.

This week’s Scene of the Week takes a look at the climatic ending of Smokey and the Bandit II that sees Snowman and his fellow truckers come to the rescue of the Bandit who is being chased by not only Texas police but Canadian Mounties. You must be commode hanging drunk if you don’t find what is basically demolition derby with semis and police cruisers entertaining.