The Burbs II - They're Back!,They're Back!

Oh maaaan, it is fun to think about all the possibilities for this one.

Possible cheesy title: The 'Burbs II: There Goes the Neighborhood!

In a perfect world I'm imagining this movie having come out in 1991; Joe Dante back at the helm.

Possible synopsis:

Ray and Carol have moved to a nice neighborhood in south Florida and find that now they are the newcomers in town. It seems like a perfectly peaceful, idyllic suburban paradise not far from the beach, but something is not quite right. As Ray and Carol attend barbecues and mingle with the neighbors they meet the big man on campus of the neighborhood Pete Slater, a local city councilman, his perfect wife Linda, their douchey preppy son Max, and Pete's brother in law Newton (played by Clint Howard). Newton is the odd duck in the bunch, a slimy weirdo who spends all his time working on strange contraptions in his cluttered dungeon-like basement bedroom, or slinking around the neighborhood looking highly suspicious.

Ray soon gets the intuition that something is not quite right with The Slater family.

After witnessing a series of bizarre incidents with the Slaters, Ray calls up Art, Rumsfeld, and Ricky who are still living the dream back at Mayfield Place. Ray informs them that he's "got a live one!" and the guys load up in Rumsfeld's RV and hit the road for Florida.

To add to the insanity during all this, Ray thinks his house is haunted; all kinds of bizarre and inexplicable things happening--power suddenly dying, bumps in the night. Turns out it's one of Newton's hyper-intelligent lab rats who has escaped and made his home in Ray's house.

After a series of bumbling and inept surveillance missions,, Ray begins to piece together that Councilman Slater has been offing all of his election competition (many of which live in their subdivision) and his ghoulish brother in law has been disposing of the bodies.

A wacky and chaotic final encounter with Pete Slater takes place on his yacht escaping the marina, headed for the Bahamas with Ray and the gang subduing the twisted, sociopathic Slater family via an epic "Citizen's Arrest"!
 
Required watching when preparing for a Burbs II movie where they move to a new neighborhood, one MUST watch the Richard Prior movie from 1988 Moving

You might even think Joe and a few others had seen this movie and might have been subconsciously lifting a few things....or not.
 
Oh man, this looks great. I need to see this, especially if it has a similar tone or scenes that influenced Dante! I'm always on the lookout for other good movies that take place in a weird or wacky suburban setting.
 
Well, there was no zoom in from outerspace, but it does start out with a Paperboy scene, delivering papers to the neighborhood. And my lord, Randy Quaid. I won't ever pass up a 80's Randy Quaid movie. Same goes for Bill Paxton.






 
 
When Randy catches up with the PaperBoy...... Something Ray would like to do but he left this balls in his wife's purse.

 
Neat. :):!: Now, my fan sequel for “The ’Burbs” would be quite different (except in a good way).

Possible very neat title: The ’Burbs II: The Rise of Ricky Butler.

In a perfect world, I’m imagining this movie to have come out in 1990, with Joe Dante as the director. (Plus, Corey Feldman would do really well as Ricky, and that Ricky would have a turn at being the main character for this one.)

Possible synopsis:

While looking through the attic of his house, Ricky finds an old spellbook in a trunk, and begins reading it, intrigued. Soon, he gets the power to cast spells, and when the Petersons, Art Weingartner, Lt. Mark Rumsfield and his wife Bonnie take notice of the spellbook, they put the proverbial two and two together, and realize how Ricky has changed from the nosy teenage “meatball” (as Rumsfield remembered calling him in the original film).

Art begins spouting nonsense about how they should set up a pyre, tie Ricky to it and then see if they could burn him at the stake, which would be kind of similar to the witch burnings in Europe. (However, Art would point out that Ricky would be called either a warlock or a wizard in this case.) Rumsfield wonders if that would really bring Ricky back to his senses; before Art can think of an answer, Rumsfield then asks, “Wouldn’t it be better just to burn that spellbook he found? Then the spells he cast would be cancelled, and he’d be back to his old self, like that.”

Meanwhile, Ricky lures Ray and Carol’s son Dave to his house, and shows him the spellbook. Ricky then pulls an Ursula from the 1989 film The Little Mermaid, but in attempting to get Dave to become his apprentice of sorts. (However, he’d sing a male version of Ursula’s song “Poor Unfortunate Souls” in this case.)

It’s a fight to the finish as the Petersons, Art and the Rumsfields do their best to help Ricky in his battle with his evil warlock self in order to turn back to normal.
 
I love this story. & I also love the idea of Clint Howard playing the weirdo character, he definitely looks the part... lol

Some points:

* Ray finally calls Art & Rumsfield, when Carol finds out, she goes ballistic.

* Art Weingartner & Mark Rusmfield roadtrip to Florida would be epic. With Art wanting to stop at every rest stop & diner along the way, to Mark's chagrin. I wonder if Bonnie would be coming along? Carol really needs the company & help containing the boys, down in Florida.

* Ricky Butler? Tagging along this road trip?

* Colin Hanks could play Ray's son, If Corey Danziger isn't available.
 
 
I just asked ChatGPT to write a couple of outlines for a sequel to the Burbs. Among the results this one here isn't bad:

The sequel to The Burbs picks up several years after the events of the first film. Tom Hanks' character, Ray Peterson, is now divorced and living alone in his suburban neighborhood. He becomes increasingly isolated and paranoid, but when a new family moves in next door, he starts to feel a renewed sense of purpose.

Act 1: Ray is struggling to adapt to his new life alone and has become increasingly isolated and paranoid. The arrival of the new family next door starts to bring back memories of the events of the first film, and he starts to suspect that the new neighbors may be hiding something sinister.

Act 2: Ray starts to investigate the new family, but his attempts to connect with them are met with rejection and ridicule. He becomes increasingly obsessed with uncovering the truth about his new neighbors.

Act 3: Ray's investigation leads him to discover that the new family is actually a group of con artists who are using the neighborhood as a cover for their scams.

Act 4: Ray, with the help of his old neighborhood friends, confronts the new family and exposes their schemes. He becomes a local hero once again and gain back his self-esteem and sense of purpose.

Act 5: With the con artists gone and the neighborhood safe again, Ray can finally start to rebuild his life. The ending shows Ray sitting on his porch, watching the new family leaving the neighborhood with a sense of satisfaction. He realized that he has found a new sense of purpose in helping to protect his community
 
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