Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

I'm a pretty solid Burt Reynolds fan. I like a good, cheap redneck comedy. And I'm no saint. But what the heck was this guy's deal? I can't remember the last movie character I saw that was such an obvious scumbag, and that I was supposed to root for and laugh along with like he was one of my buddies. Maybe the book got it right, but the movie lacked any conflict in character and simply celebrated his tasteless behavior. When a driver can't handle being taken into the wall--it happens, dude-- but he takes it out on the winner by faking an injury, cause that's the only way he can steal his girl; then loses another race fair-and-square because he takes a bad outside line, so, instead of looking at himself and his losing ways, he tosses the winner through a plate glass window; then he can't start a fight like a man, so has to trick a guy into looking up, then he sucker punches him; then can't get the woman he wants because she actually has integrity, so he has to trick her into downing alcohol against her wishes like some frat boy; then when he's got her passed out in bed, he can't handle the fact he's losing a battle against someone respectable, so has to undress a completely unconscious woman, yeah, you read that right (really Burt?).... that person isn't a hero or someone I want to chum along with, that person is a loser and a scumbag.I'm not even talking about the misogynist jokes and putdowns, that was kinda the norm of comedy then. I mean, that stuff was kinda funny for that kind of humor.Sure, it's all for laughs and not to be taken seriously. The Nascar stuff was cool like one of the other reviewers said. But even with a stupid redneck comedy I want my hero to have a grain of integrity. Which, nah, wasn't here.

Oh man is this movie bad. It flows horribly. The story is about a race car driver who is in love with himself, and then has to promote a chicken fast food chain and while doing this, doesn't love himself. He tries getting out of the contract and horrible, painfully unfunny gags ensue. Jim Nabors seems as if he's sleepwalking, not acting. You'll miss such Burt sidekicks as Dom Deluise and Jerry Reed while watching this stinker. Loni Anderson's hair is downright scary, proving that tons of hairspray didn't go out in the sixties. Or maybe that was a wig. Speaking of, Burt's wig wasn't bad in this film. His worst "wig day" was in "Smokey and the Bandit 2". Anyhow, this movie is the worst Reynolds car movie, ever, ever, right up there with "Cannonball Run 2". The original "Smokey" and "Cannonball" (and "Hooper" which, thankfully, had no sequel) are great, funny films. This one isn't. Even Ned Beatty, who is a great actor, stinks. You'll long for a Jackie Gleason type villain who is fun to hate. And mind you, this isn't one of those fun movies to bag on. It's lousy, pure and simple. Even the outtakes at the end were tiresome and boring, and worst of all, unfunny. And least I forget, "Stroker Ace" was one of the first heavy nails to seal Burt's coffin before his somewhat-revival years later in "Boogie Nights", another film that, like "Deliverance" years earlier, shows that the man can act quite good when he has a decent platform to do so.

I was one of quite a few extras in this big bomb. I just happened to be in the right place working safety for the race scenes at A.I.R. as it was know as back then.Thank goodness my scene in in the first few minutes of the movie and I don't have to sit through the whole thing. It was more of a big party than a movie set but hey, the pay was good.Attention to detail was not a strong point for this one, but who was going to know.The funny thing was seeing the cars in the track at the really slow speed and then in the movie speeded up to the what was close to normal speed.A lot of the scenes were changed as they were filmed I suppose to shave cost and time.But every one was having such a good time who cared!

I'm a big Burt Reynolds fan. This wasn't one of his box office hit movies but it's worth seeing if you like humor. The end where they had the mess-ups were funny too. In one of them Jerry Reed appeared. That was funny. It all depends on the type of comedy. I give it 7/10.