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Title: Fletch Lives (1989)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Chevy Chase | ... | Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher | |
| Hal Holbrook | ... | Hamilton "Ham" Johnson | |
| Julianne Phillips | ... | Becky Culpepper | |
| R. Lee Ermey | ... | Jimmy Lee Farnsworth | |
| Richard Libertini | ... | Frank Walker | |
| Randall 'Tex' Cobb | ... | Ben Dover | |
| Cleavon Little | ... | Calculus Entropy | |
| George Wyner | ... | Marvin Gillet | |
| Patricia Kalember | ... | Amanda Ray Ross | |
| Geoffrey Lewis | ... | KKK Leader | |
| Richard Belzer | ... | Phil | |
| Phil Hartman | ... | Bly Manager | |
| Titos Vandis | ... | Uncle Kakakis | |
| Don Hood | ... | Tom Barbour | |
| Dennis Burkley | ... | Joe Jack | |
Ailing Los Angeles newspaper reporter Irvin "Fletch" Fletcher, in debt, inherits from a aunt "Bell Isle", a sprawling 80-acre Louisiana plantation estate, quits his job and moves east expecting to live like a Dixie king. But he failed to inspect the run-down inheritance, leaving him only a shabby mansion with a shifty caretaker instead of reliable staff. Having celebrated anyway with an attractive lawyer in bed, he wakes up finding her mysteriously murdered and himself jailed, soon to be bailed, as prime suspect. Undaunted by a neighborly lawyer's warning to leave town, he waves foxy real estate agent Becky Culpepper's persistent offer well above the apparent value from a third party and starts snooping why with Becky. That proves a dangerous activity for him and almost anybody around, everything pointing to local magnate Hamilton "Ham" Johnson and his 'Confederate' circle of friends; including TV preacher Jimmy Lee Farnsworth and a dodgy chemical plant. Written by KGF Vissers
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Since I enjoyed the first, and this one also aired on TV, I gave it a chance, too. It defines itself very strongly as a sequel(in spite of not actually referencing the start of this series, at least as far as I could tell)... scenes and occurrences from the film it follows are redone with something of a step up... in intensity. It's perfectly clear from the start that this tries to outdo the other by making it all "bigger". It doesn't all work, and on the whole I'd go for Fletch before this. The gross-out comedy for example did not need to go that far... nor did the sexual material. To be entirely honest, I didn't particularly care for all the jabs at the South, either. But it still is funny, and I was into this, as well. The dry wit returns. The plot isn't bad, if the ending is a bit much. Pacing is pretty good, and some of the stuff that is of a larger scale than last time around is worthwhile. The acting is fairly solid, and Ermey does a nice job(and Chase). Hartman had far too little to do, for how entertaining he could be(R.I.P.), though I suppose fully unleashing him would compromise the style of humor(not to mention overshadow Chevy). The music is great. The mystery is interesting, and the script isn't bad(though the man behind it doesn't seem to have worked since... hmmm...). I recommend this to fans of the character, the movie that came before this, and/or Chevy Chase(people who like what he does, not the... man himself). 6/10