GamerTab That was an excellent one.

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

bluesman-20 Eddie and the Cruisers 2 Eddie Lives was a pleasant surprise. To me the film was about love. Eddie loves music but was hurt he became scared so that one night in 1963 Eddie's car blew a tire and went over a guardrail and Eddie escaped he saw this as his chance to escape to get out of a life that had spun out of control. He split and just left everyone and everything behind and in the process hurt a lot of people. But Eddie also created a legend. Now Eddie and the Cruisers are enjoying a revival and Eddie is tortured he's living as a construction worker named Joe West and when he sees a band with the same drive he once had struggling he steps in to help and in the process creates a whole new band.He begins to create music again and this time is the added fear that he'll be found out. The movie is good from start to finish and the soundtrack is superb. This one got a bad reception when it should never have and is good enough to stand beside that first movie. This movie is pure entertainment dynamite from start to finish.

penniweninger I am not a sequel watcher as a rule. There have been so few of them that haven't disappointed me. But here I am on a cold and rainy Monday night with not much else on, and having just re-enjoyed Eddie and the Cruisers a few weeks back, I finally took a stab at it. In the first twenty minutes I thought the script was weak and Michael Pare was overacting. But as the film moved on, the story deepened, giving the actors more to work with. I loved that the film was made in Canada with many new actors, maintaining the freshness and originality from the first film. And the music is fabulous. The extra bonus for this New Jersey transplanted Jersey Girl were more great Jersey Shore scenes. Some have said the music and maybe even the story are inspired by Springsteen, and that could be, but he didn't have a movie to wrap around him, and John Cafferty's music is soul-satisfying. Long live Eddie.

Jimi Ross I thought the movie was pretty decent, especially for a sequel, but it lacked original music. I say this because there were times when I thought that they were actually playing obscure Bruce Springsteen B sides, complete with a vocal imitation of Bruce. I actually came here to see if they were obscure Springsteen songs. I guess if you are going to borrow from anyone in a Jersey based movie it would be the Boss.I am a musician myself and I thought the feelings and references he made toward his passion for music were good, but I think he took the hard ass routine too far. The whole starving artist idea went out the window with me on the merits of playing unoriginal music that had been done for years prior. JMO

ggrosbach The music in EATC II is great, but the continuity between the two movies leave much to be desired. The second movie leaves out the vital Frank Ridgeway character entirely without so much as mentioning him - a case of revisionist history. In the second movie,in a flashback, Eddie utters the words "Words and music..." and it is Sal to whom he is speaking. But in the original movie, he was saying those words to Frank "Word Man" Ridgeway (played by Tom Barringer). Eddie's girlfriend Joanne Carlino is likewise left out. The flashback scene with Bo Diddly seems as if it could have been an outtake of the first movie (comments, anyone?). In summary, II is worth watching (and hearing) for its great, great music, but as a movie, it does serious violence to the marvelous first movie.