like a lot of people and i love the original while american graffiti be one of the great movie of the 70 . the sequel and more american graffiti be a horrible and depress mess of a movie . it wasn not funny and the wide eyed and likable character have become cynical and jaded and and the story be contrive ( such a laurie character have another brother because richard dreyfus do not do the sequel and terry the toad and pharaoh joe somehow manage to serve together in vietnam ) . they even have a police officer by the name of falfa ( harrison ford character in the original ) who make a cameo . he doesn not even look like harrison ford and who be way too big a star by 1979 to even bother with this garbage . the operative word here be funny . this movie isn not even amuse . debbie ( candy clark ) be a stripper mixed in with a bunch of dope spoking hippy and try to bail her dealer boyfriend out of jail while steve and laurie ( ron howard and cindy williams ) and the lovebird in the original and have two kid and have become an annoying and bicker couple while adorable little tomboy carol ( mackenzie phillips ) have become rainbow and yet another hippie child . john milner ( paul lemat ) be a loser race car driver whose fortune be foretell at the end of the original . even wolfman jack and whose voice be such an integral part of the original and and give it such a great flow and only be hear sporadically . perhaps it be different writer and a different director and the complete lack of a cohesive story line that make this movie such a dismal failure . the episodic charm and authentic nostalgia of the original be nowhere to be find in the sequel . it be a movie that do not need to be make and it best just to remember what a great movie american graffiti be and avoid the movie with more in the title .