He slipped away from the car crash which supposedly caused his death and began a new life under an assumed name. Eddie and Rick start to have a disagreement. One of the recruits, saxophone player Hilton Overstreet, remarks at his audition that you can always identify a guitarist by the way he plays. Once again, as with the original film, critics heavily panned the film and the performances of Pare and Orsini, and also was very critical of the producers the for being more concerned about selling soundtrack albums for the film than promoting the film itself. Joe West has become both mentor and nucleus for his new band that dreams of making it big without knowing their mysterious leader is the real Eddie Wilson.
Clarity and sharpness are generally very good, again helped by an at least occasionally brighter ambience than the first film. In desperation, he turns to his longtime friend and confidant Sal Amato. Eddie Wilson is actually alive. It was quickly pulled from the theaters. All movie reviews are the original work of Jon Dunmore and may not be duplicated without permission. A few scenes before, an expert proved that legendary had played on the mystery tapes before the death of Cruisers sax player Wendell Newton and Eddie's presumed demise in the river. A woman who Rick met at a past gig urges the band to audition for the Montreal Music Festival.
He does a great job lip singing to John Cafferty. The band begins to lose its momentum and Eddie's wrath finally explodes. Eddie introduces his bandmates one by one, then pauses. The newly generated spotlight on his supposed death angers the reclusive rocker, who now resides in as construction worker Joe West. Meanwhile, record company executives release newly-discovered tapes from Eddie's last album and promotes a worldwide search for the mysterious rock star.
While the band hides away in a cabin to prevent any distractions, things fall apart between the band and Eddie. Please by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This is a ludicrous and unnecessary sequel. Eddie returns to Montreal for the music festival. While there, he works construction under the name of Joe West.
Sal and Eddie meet on a New Jersey beach and hash out twenty years of anger and grief. Eddie fears that playing with the band in a public venue would likely expose him of his recluse lifestyle. Satin Records' two executives appear and recognize Eddie. Eddie is not pleased by this, but decides that the band should go through with it. In one of his deeper moments, Sal tells Eddie a simple truth: it's not about setting the world on fire, it's about playing the music. You can also get an instant mobile notification with our iPhone- or Android app.
Eddie caves into the band's desire to do the large public he so fears. At least, that is, until Eddie's car is found crashed off of a bridge and Eddie's body is nowhere to be found. Joe West has become both mentor and nucleus for his new band that dreams of making it big without knowing their mysterious leader is the real Eddie Wilson. Eddie Wilson, the lead singer of his band faces a low point in his music career. For example, the scene where Eddie reunites with Sal, the former bassist of the Cruisers, by approaching him out of the blue on the beach 25 years after faking his own death, is an incredible monument to preposterous dialogue and bad acting and characterizes the ineptitude that defines this movie as a whole. The apps are synchronized with your account at Blu-ray. The record label re-releases the band's first album, which becomes an even bigger hit than its first release.
Later on, the real Eddie was revealed to the band. Eddie takes Sal back to the old abandoned church where in 1963, he and former sax player Wendell Newton had a jam session with a large group of black musicians, including Bo Diddley. Memories of the band's leader Eddie Wilson are being relived as Frank Ridgeway is reunited with the old members of the band. The fact that the soundtrack album eventually went multi-platinum no doubt attracted the attention of Tony and Ben Scotti, whose Scotti Brothers Records had had some success marketing then current day teenage heartthrobs like Leif Garrett to adoring teenyboppers. Once again the palette pops very well, and this film tends to venture out of doors a bit more often, offering a better chance for brightly lit elements like stunning blue skies to offer deeply saturated hues. There is one sex scene, a montage with no nudity. Joe West Michael Pare is a Montreal construction worker with a secret past.
This transfer suffers from recurrent crush as does the first film, with the darker interior moments sometimes looking pretty murky and ill defined. The band -- including construction worker Eddie and his new girlfriend -- somehow manage to go and immediately play packed houses on every stop. He smashes his guitar into pieces and storms off. After much coaxing, he once again becomes the popular frontman of the Cruisers. In the sequel, Wilson is found living under a fake name.  Twenty-five years after his mysterious disappearance, Eddie experiences a sudden resurgence in popularity, thanks to the discovery of a previously unreleased recording. Blu-ray Review Reviewed by , April 14, 2015 Note: This film is available in the double feature.