Smokey and the Bandit II As he did in the first movie, Reynolds breaks the fourth wall after being reunited with Frog, by addressing the camera and saying, "She still loves me." Many of the movie's scenes take place in northern Palm Beach County, especially at Burt Reynolds' ranch in Jupiter, Florida. Although the Bandit again sticks to a Pontiac Trans Am, this time a 1980 Turbo model with 5 color decals unlike 1981's single color decals, Snowman switches to a 1980 GMC General, silver with blue trim with the same mural on the trailer as on the original film. This "new rig" suggests that
The Gumball Rally as many rides in Disneyland as possible in a single day. The winning teams are presented with medals and have bragging rights forever after; and the grand prize is a gumball machine topped by Cinderella's Castle, obviously inspired by the movie's Gumball Trophy. As noted above, "The Gumball Rally" ushered in a subgenre of road-race films, many of them starring a younger Burt Reynolds, one of whose more popular films, "Smokey and the Bandit", spawned a still-ongoing yearly rally event called The Bandit Run. The Gumball Rally The Gumball Rally is a 1976 American comedy film directed and co-written by