TBoldOne Strangely This Movie has a Soft Spot in my Memory - I was a Freshman at College and went to see this movie with my Brother who is 5 years younger than me. He had seen the Every Which Way But Loose Precursor , and let me in on the comedic scenes. If you were 11 in 1978 it was funny. It was great to bond with him, since we always seemed to fight growing up. So 30 years later ....Well i just got this at a Garage Sale for 33 cents on DVD. I had an inkling of how bad this movie was from my memory but watching it again, phew it's a real stinker.First my review summary , about the defenseless animal comment. You will never, ever, ever, ever see this full movie on TV because of the Rattler and the "Mongoose" scene. Did PETA not exist in 1978? What was/is the point of that scene? I learned from another reviewer that it wasn't even a mongoose, it was a FERRET. For those of you who don't know, in Asia there used to be betting on a mongoose-rattler type of match. It's supposedly about 50-50, but like dog fighting most civilized people just don't do it nowadays. How in the heck did this scene get into a major movie? (A ferret wouldn't have a chance in this encounter. The producer just said, lets just drop a defenseless ferret into a rattler cage for fun, and stick it in the movie. ) DON'T BUY THIS MOVIE UNLESS YOU WANT TO SEE A DEFENSELESS ANIMAL KILLED. I digress too much, but I just wanted to warn people. About the restSandra Locke - Untalented, ugly, and can't sing or act.Clint - Should Stick to Tough Guy Movies. Every comedic attempt ends in disaster.(Anyone remember the 2012 Republican Convention Chair Speech)Country Music - Really Really Bad in this movie. Way beyond normal country music bad. Glen Campbell wen't way down in my eyes. I can't get the horrid title tune out of my head.Clyde The Ape - Would scare the crap out of me. Not funny, and his repeating "Right Turn" joke was obviously staged. (If you got hit by a real ape you could be dead). Also if he defecated in police cars, why not show it (The crap at least). Implied Crap is supposed to be funny?Other People/Characters Clint's Buddy - Pretty Good Biker Gang - Leader - Best part of the movie. Dumb, funny, harmless. They keep the movie from being a 1Ruth Gordon - Old Clint's Opponent - OK - But why the Homo-Erotic bonding scenes with Clint?Jackson Hole - Looks like a beautiful place to visit +10Plot Holes - Just the most obvious one. Are we really supposed to believe that two 50+ guys are champion bare-knuckle fighters? Two of the best in the USA? The major premise of this movie would make a lot more sense if both characters were in their 20's.All the Ape Scenes.Summary: An unfunny, nasty, nasty movie.

Jackson Booth-Millard The sequel to Every Which Way But Loose is a slight improvement to its predecessor in terms of story telling, but it doesn't make it any better. Basically Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) takes part in a bare knuckle fight for big money, and decides to retire from fighting and earn money with a car repair business, with the help of his friends Orville Boggs (Geoffrey Lewis, Juliette's father), and of course orangutan Clyde. But the Mafia come along to arrange a fight for Philo to take part in which many people are taking bets on, as he is meant to face Jack Wilson (William Smith). Of course Philo and Jack both originally refuse to fight, but they manage to have an argument and start fighting, not for competition, and everyone betting on them show up to watch. Also starring Sondra Locke as Lynn Halsey-Taylor, Harry Guardino as James Beekman, Rosemary's Baby star Ruth Gordon as Senovia 'Ma' Boggs, Michael Cavanaugh as Patrick Scarfe, Barry Corbin as Fat Zack, Roy Jenson as Moody, Bill McKinney as Dallas, William O'Connell as Elmo, John Quade as Cholla, Al Ruscio as Tony Rapoli Sr. aka Big Tony, Dan Vadis as Frank and Camila Ashland as Hattie. Eastwood does alright, but once again the show is stolen by his hairy co-star, possibly a little more than the previous film. Worth watching!

dunmore_ego "Right turn, Clyde!" – and the orangutan's fist shoots out the passenger window, impacting anyone dumb enough to have their face there. It's just one of many running gags in this inexplicable, fuzzy film.Any Which Way You Can (sequel to Every Which Way But Loose) opens with an illegal street fight, pitting bareknuckle street machine Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) – now a local legend – against a Marine-beating bent cop, cheered on by a rowdy mix of truckers, crooked cops and busty chickie babes.While Philo ogles some jiggling boob, the cop catches him unawares. Before he rises from the sand, Philo gives his opponent a menacing look – that tilted head with one eye slightly squinting… All I know in this world is: you don't wanna be on the receiving end of the Clint Glare. Ever. In short measure, the cop goes down. Meanwhile, Philo's orangutan, Clyde, has crapped in one of the squad cars… Any Which Way You Can, written by Stanford Sherman and directed by stuntman extraordinaire, Buddy Van Horn, is one of those rare movies that takes everything good about its predecessor and mashes it up in a big bowl of wrong that tastes just right.One of the reasons this movie works is the palpable camaraderie on set – even between Clint and his "enemies." They've all worked with him before, in a cavalcade of past Clint classics: John Quade (in High Plains Drifter) along with his Black Widow gang of Clint regulars, Dan Vadis (Bronco Billy), William O'Connell (Josey Wales), Bill McKinney (The Gauntlet); underworld bookie Beekman is Harry Guardino (last seen chewing out Dirty Harry); there's the team from Every Which Way, Ruth Gordon once again steaming the screen as trash-talking Ma, Geoffrey Lewis as ever-faithful Orville, Sondra Locke still skeletal and untalented as Philo's girl, Lynn Halsey-Taylor; (the luminous Beverly D'Angelo was sorely missed in this sequel), and then there was Clyde the orang utan, always in the background, yet somehow in the furry foreground whenever a punch or a fart was needed to punctuate the action.Philo is still trying to make ends meet in Anytown San Fernando Valley by rebuilding engines and bareknuckle boxing. A $10,000 underworld match comes his way, against a man-mountain renowned for maiming and killing his opponents, Jack Wilson (William Smith). Philo and Wilson meet unofficially in a – what else? – barroom brawl, eventually befriending each other enough to cancel their bout and anger all the underworld figures who organized the betting stakes. They end up fighting unofficially, the fight growing in intensity and public attention until the whole betting populace of the small town is cheering them on, all bets on.With both competitors pushing 50, we wonder how this plot could even be plausible, yet through a blend of laconic humor and outlandishness, Any Which Way makes it believable, with a wham-bam-thank-you-ham third act that makes you want to do 50 pushups and sit-ups a day, just to look half as good as these veteran, iron-thewed warriors when you're their age.There's nothing deep here; crack a beer, strip down to your wife-beater and just enjoy it. Every which way you look at it, Any Which Way is a Right Turn, Clyde.

possumopossum Clyde stole this movie even more than he stole EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE. But it's still a fun little ride. Clint and Sondra are involved in more dangerous situations, but the resolutions are entertaining and satisfying. We have the old gang back with Ruth Gordon, Geoffrey Lewis, and the motorcycle gang who just don't know when to quit. The ending is sad because you know that it is the end of an era. People who have been together for a long time are now going their own separate ways and living different lives. Still you can't help smiling at the end of this movie. 7 out of 10.RIGHT TURN, CLYDE. (Man, he was one horny ape, wasn't he????)