Sequel to the 1981 film, History of the World: Part I.Sequel to the 1981 film, History of the World: Part I.Sequel to the 1981 film, History of the World: Part I.
- Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 1 win & 7 nominations total
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- TriviaFrom all the segments promised at the end of History of the World: Part I (1981), only the segment "A Viking Funeral" is not included at all in this sequel. In History of the World: Part II (2023), "Hitler on Ice" is featured at the start of the first episode and "Jews in Space" is featured at the end of the eighth episode.
- GoofsIn the Civil War segments, Ulysses Grant and Robert Todd Lincoln go to West Virginia, which is depicted as enemy territory and strictly Confederate. In reality, West Virginia represents 50 counties that chose to leave Virginia in order to stay with the Union. While technically the last slave state added to the Union, it did so with the provision that it would abolish slavery and did so within 18 months. Most of the state was solidly Union. While some of the eastern counties were mixed, the Confederacy were never able to threaten the Union's hold on the state. Grant and Lincoln certainly wouldn't be scared to go there nor would there be a Confederate flag so brazenly hung up in a saloon.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Garch the Great: Remake It! Redo It! Sequel, Prequel & Reboot It! (2023)
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Very Disappointing
It just feels like "this is supposed to be funny, right?"
Where as with the first one the audience sees history through Mel Brooks eyes, this one just feels like Drunk History sketches without the drunk person. It doesn't feel like the piss is being taken, it's just feels cheap. There's no voice that ties it all together, it's all really funny people whose ideas don't mesh well. All these performers are charismatic and so its watchable, like background while your cleaning kinda watchable, but the jokes themselves aren't clever enough for the performers delivering them.
It all feels like sketch that might work live, but definitely doesn't work filmed.
Ultimately, it suffers from everyone behaving like it's a comedy. What worked so well about the first movie is that all of MB's characters behaved as though they were the hero's of their narrative, but this one is just clowning, and at least for me, that really doesn't translate to film.
JB Smoove as JB Smoove is so far the best part.
It all feels like sketch that might work live, but definitely doesn't work filmed.
Ultimately, it suffers from everyone behaving like it's a comedy. What worked so well about the first movie is that all of MB's characters behaved as though they were the hero's of their narrative, but this one is just clowning, and at least for me, that really doesn't translate to film.
JB Smoove as JB Smoove is so far the best part.
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- Mar 5, 2023
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