Weekend at Bernies: How do you get a sequel out of that? How?
August 21, 2006 12:11 PM   Subscribe

I understand there is a sequel to the film "Weekend at Bernies" - how is this possible?

Surely the corpse would eventually fall to peices? Does it feature a second corpse of a second millionaire (possible manipulated by a second set of slackers) also called "Bernie"?

(I'm sure I could answer the wuation for myself very easily by actually watching the movie, but I'm not sure I'd want to put myself through that.)
posted by Artw to Media & Arts (11 answers total)

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Imdb, dude.
posted by mckenney at 12:13 PM on August 21, 2006


Have you gone to IMDB yet?
posted by k8t at 12:13 PM on August 21, 2006


Nice McKenney!
posted by k8t at 12:13 PM on August 21, 2006


voodoo is used to bring his corpse back from the dead check out the imdb plot summary
posted by phil at 12:15 PM on August 21, 2006


Man, how lazy can you get?
posted by RustyBrooks at 12:34 PM on August 21, 2006


I'd also love to know what a "wuation" is.
posted by RustyBrooks at 12:45 PM on August 21, 2006


That first plot summary at the IMDB link is hysterical.
posted by Brian James at 12:52 PM on August 21, 2006


Unfortunately Henry and Charles goofed and Bernie can only move when he hears music.

What a crazy situation! It was so funny when the music stopped and so did Bernie and they had to scramble to find more music!
posted by sonofsamiam at 1:10 PM on August 21, 2006


I'm not sure if this is what you're asking (what are you asking, anyway?), but in every single case, the answer to the question "How can they have made a sequel to that piece of shit?" is, simply, "The initial piece of shit made a significant return on its investment, and the high sheriffs of whatever studio released said piece of shit decided that it was a worthwhile, bankable risk to attempt to extend the franchise, even if the audience for Piece of Shit II: Electric Boogaloo" will probably be smaller than that for Piece of Shit: The Movie." The budgets for film sequels are, thus, often smaller than those of the films that they, uh, sequelize.
posted by Dr. Wu at 1:31 PM on August 21, 2006


Realy Echoing Dr. Wu here.

If you make enough money on a film, especially a shitty film, expect a shitty solution. Voodoo. Magic. Freezers. Whatever a hack writer needs to make it work.

I'm totally suprised that there wasn't a Dude, Where's my Car 2: Electric Boogaloo.
posted by filmgeek at 1:50 PM on August 21, 2006


filmgeek, don't jinx it. I heard a rumor a while ago there's a sequel in the works...
posted by mikeh at 3:01 PM on August 21, 2006


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