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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

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The original film, The Poseidon Adventure (1972) was a huge success. It helped to energize the disaster film genre. Having an all-star cast was also the big boost that audiences love to see. It was followed by Earthquake (1974), The Towering Inferno (1974), Airport 1975 (1974), Airport '77 (1977), Airport '79--The Concorde (1979) and Meteor (1979).
This paved the way for a sequel to "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), albeit, seven years later, but the storyline takes place after the end of the first film which makes Beyond The Poseidon Adventure (1979) a delight to watch including a new all-star cast: Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden, Shirley Knight, Slim Pickens, Shirley Jones, Karl Malden, Veronica Hamel, Mark Harmon, Angela Cartwright.
A salvage crew whethers the storm to get to the Poseidon ship. The survivors got out, but now the salvage crew must go in and why not take some treasures with them too. Telly Savalas plays a tycoon with his guard crew has exactly the same thing in mind. Once inside the ship, they take the same path as the survivors did and it does look familar, but they find some other passageways to explore and they find more people alive. That's what makes this film fun. Going in is one thing, but trying to get back out is another. This cruise ship is still moving and exploding. It could totally sink in any minute.
2 Remakes:
NBC/Hallmark has made their own " The Poseidon Adventure" television mini-series starring Adam Baldwin and Steve Guttenberg. It will be broadcast on NBC, November 20, 2005.
Warner Brothers will be releasing a new version, "POSEIDON", on May 12, 2006 for the movie theatres. The all-star cast will include Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum and Josh Lucas.
Both versions will be different.

At last!!! I have been waiting for this movie to be released for years.
This movie helps bring the original movie to a logical conclusion. The original left me wandering what had happened to the rest of the people on board, and did any more survive? This gives a very credible answer, while telling you it's own story. The cast is good and the action while not as thrilling as the first movie's is every bit as good in it's own way.
I cannot understand the negative reviews for this. I found it to be a really good movie done by the man who gave us such gems as Towering Inferno. Irwin Allen knew how to make a good disaster movie and people must remember that this was made in the days when special effects weren't as good as they are today. I found the sets etc to be fairly realistic looking (I have never been in such a situation, so cannot tell truly) and passed along the feeling of unreality in a world turned upside down.

I saw "The Poseidon Adventure" a few months ago and thought it was a great, classic movie. Therefore, when I found out that a sequel had been made, I couldn't wait to see it.

Instead of several people taking a cruise on the luxury liner called the Poseidon, this time around, a few people headed by a captain (Michael Caine), board the capsized and upside down Poseidon in search of plutonium and gold. But it might not be as easy to find the riches and then get off the ship as they first think it will be.

"Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" is a decent movie. It has good enough acting, decent special effects, and in parts it's somewhat interesting. However, it's not nearly as interesting or as suspenseful as the original was in my opinion.

If you liked "The Poseidon Adventure," I recommend watching "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure," but I don't recommend buying it unless you absolutely have to have it so you can say you own both movies in the series.

I loved the original Poseidon Adventure, and looked forward to seeing the sequel, and the recent remake. (The latter which I'm REALLY looking forward to seeing!) While it's not a patch on the original, it was still an above average sequel.

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure makes use of old sets, and also keep your eyes peeled for a shot of one of the dead from the previous film just to keep the continuity. (Although I think it's just an actual shot from the previous film.) Most of the actors are doing their best with the script, and most of the characters are the exact same as the previous characters. For example, Michael Caine's a bossier version of Gene Hackman's character, there's Wilbur, who's another Rogo all over again. I don't think the original really called for a sequel to be made, but yes, it does actually work.

I did find Sally Field's character really whiny, and her hair, oh my god, even on my worst hair days, my hair looks nowhere near as bad as hers did! And it's amazing how she's 60 now, and still looks exactly the same. Apart from the hair of course.

Rather than follow the usual course for the sequel, trying the story again with another group of survivors trying to get out, they try it with people trying to get IN to the boat. A pretty impressive storyline, considering some sequels do the exact same storyline over again.

I'd definitely give this film a shot if you love movies dealing with water (like me, for some sick reason), or just loved the original.

I had the perspective of viewing "The Poseidon Adventure" and "Beyone the Poseidon Adventure" back to back, having never seen either one previously. In this context, the sequal holds up better to the original (which was also less than stellar) then most of the reviewers have given it credit for.

True, this movie suffers from a lot of clichés and some bad inconsistencies (such as the trek through the kitchen which had been flooded in the original film). Again, the cast, now headed up by Michael Caine, Sally Field and Telly Savalas, does a decent job with a mediocre script.

Caine and Fields encounter the capsized Poseidon "the morning after" and proceed to board it to find gold that had been stashed aboard. Along the way, their party grows as they encounter survivors who Gene Hackman's gang failed to pick up on their way out of the ship. Conflict ensues when Savalas' gang arrives to pluck out a cache of weapons that were being smuggled to them. Needless to say, the gang seeks to eliminate the scavangers because they "know too much". There's even a shootout as the cache of weapons is found. Needless to say, a few of the stranded passengers are lost along the way.

Fortunately, Michael Caine was able to climb to respectability after this.

Oh CRIPES! Irwin Allen could not get much cheesier than the great THE SWARM, but he tires here so hard! In a follow-up to the obvious precursor of all disaster movies which makes SPEED 2 look worthy for an Oscar, Michael Caine leads a motley team of salvage wannabes intothe capsized wreck of the POSEIDON to search out the ship's safe(CAINE: That's where the money and the jewels are!)(what, no killer bees! ). Telly Savalas appears as a medical team leader, but he is really after the nuclear missile in the cargo hold(! ). As both sides clash, survivors are picked up, including the ship' nurse, who has mysteriously gone on an overnight crash diet(the rather large SHEILA MATHEWS played her in the first movie, and now we get the thinner SHIRLEY JONES! ), a blind man, Peter Boyle's character who is searching for his daughter, played by Angela Cartwright of LOST IN SPACE(the series) and goes into an overacting frenzy when he find her, and Veronica Hamel, from TV's HILL STREET BLUES who sides with Savalas and his cronies. Can they all get out before they are either shot of the ship sinks? This cheesy epic disaster has everything - poor production design, inconsistences with the first film, terible acting, eveyone getting a soaking(serves them right for appearing in it!) and awful scripting! Sample dialogue:(CAINE, ten seconds after hearing a boiler room explosion: That was an explosion inside the hull! SALLY FIELD: Maybe it's trying to tell you something like split!) But we would not have been so well entertained! Don't miss this, it's a laugh riot!

This sequel has two salvage parties boarding the Poseidon hoping to retrieve some valuables from the wreck. Soon they find themselves trapped and voila: you've got the same story again: they need to get out. Add one plot twist where Telly Savalas turns out not to be a good guy (don't say I spoiled it, you could figure that out yourself). Add some cheesy scenes with Sally Field crying and Michael Caine calling her a monkey, and Jack Warden playing a blind surviving passenger and you've got a slightly enjoyable but not very good movie. "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" doesn't live up to its predecessor, but is entertaining enough and interesting as a curiosity piece.

Beyond the Poseidon adventure is a totally rediculous sequel to the excellent movie The Poseidon Adventure, the effects are good, the acting is great(given the situation they were in, it would have been very hard not to laugh!) but the film is let down by poor directing and very poor planning, it does not relate at all to the origonal film, firstly there was no storm, just a tidal wave caused be a seaquake, seccondly if a ship as big as the Poseidon(Queen Mary) was topopled then why was the tug just tapped?! I found the beginning sequence especially awful, the water splashing against the tug,s windows is obviously from people chucking buckets full at the set!! The crew of three(this is on a big voyage to africa????) and the terrorists claiming to be doctors go into the hull, which incidentally is totally clean(the ship was on its last crossing, then the scrap yard!)no rust or sea dirt at all, they go in looking for gold, diamonds and a nuke! The decks are dry, only a few drops of water but a lot of steam, is it only a coincidence that the water is flooding the engine room when the last film left off but this film begins be venturing to the gym, which is actually not near the engine room at all, its near the bridge! If the water was flooding the decks in the last film, then I would like to know who is pumping it out now??????!! The doors are closer to the cieling than to the real floor so if the ship was the right way up then you would need a ladder to get into the cargo holds! And what has made the large gaping hole in the floor all around the pursers office, and who the the hell build the ship, the wiring fell down covering the corridors, and would the persers office really be near the engine room, or even the gym! Basically I would say it is so bad its a must see!!!(for a good laugh, but you need to have watched the origonal, to make the comparison)

Captain Michael Turner (Michael Caine) lost his cargo overboard in the storm that capsized the Poseidon. Now strapped for cash, he and his crew of Sally Field and Karl Malden descend with their little tug onto the crippled hulk of the Poseidon to claim salvage rights. Complications arise when Telly Savalas and his crew of "paramedics" also arrive, and the two camps set up an uneasy alliance. Of course, Telly and company are terrorists looking to retrieve their shipment of plutonium aboard the ship. That causes trouble aside from all the exploding metal and rushing water. Caine and his people find some survivors, including obnoxious Peter Boyle, blind Jack Warden, drunken Slim Pickens, and friendly nurse Shirley Jones. Unecessary but enjoyable bubble gum fare. A critical and commercial failure, Michael Caine learned enough from this experience to star in "Jaws the Revenge."

i wish you would offer this movie for sale it is a great movi