First of all, there are a quite a few very funny moments in this movie.
The problem is they're hidden among reruns. Most of the movie seems like an excuse to show unused footage from filming the first Rutles movie (The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, which is brilliant if you haven't seen it. Which you have. Hi, Mom!) and quite a bit of it feels like Eric Idle really wanted to visit a bunch of different cities and used making a second Rutles movie as an excuse.
It's not that it wasn't good, exactly; it just ... wasn't all that good. I liked some of the interviews. Conan O'Brien and Billy Connelly specifically were quite funny. Tom Hanks should never have a mustache. But there were a couple of bits that felt borrowed from Monty Python, a lot of bits that were recycled from the first Rutles movie and a few scenes with Jimmy Fallon that were not at all funny (but had a good payoff, I'll give them that).
And, weirdly for a movie about The Rutles, I felt like not much of the movie had anything to do with The Rutles. It was all about the host of the documentary. There was much more of him standing around explaining "well, not on this spot exactly, but over there" and him being in the wrong cities to talk to the people he wants to talk to.
I don't know. It was funny, but it wasn't nearly as good as the first one.
End of line.
-Sally
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Hi!
Yeah, it WAS too much of the same joke over and over. It was fun to see the footage we hadn't seen before, but that was about it.
proffy
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