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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: The Godfather Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Godfather Part II • The Godfather Part III • The Godfather Saga The Godfather is a 1972 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino.
		Parts of the film were very loosely based on real historical events concerning the very short Papacy of John Paul I in 1978 and the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano in 1982.
		In The Godfather Part II, Michael Corleone receives an orange from an associate of a group behind an attempt on his life, and later in the movie, is seen eating an orange as he orders the "hit" against his enemies, in preparation for the climax of the film.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Godfather-Part-II (8188 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: The Godfather, Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Godfather, Part II is the 1974 sequel to The Godfather.
		In the directory's commentary on the DVD edition of the film (released in 2002), Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use "Part II" as the title.
		Its sequel The Godfather, Part III was released in 1990.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Godfather,-Part-II (1179 words)

	EUFS: The Godfather, Part II
		The Godfather Part II is both a sequel and more than an equal to one of the greatest films of all time, The Godfather.
		Part II shows us how it was that young Vito Corleone came to New York from Sicily and became the Godfather.
		The Godfather, Part II is undoubtedly a harsher film that its predecessor, which it bookends as both sequel and prequel.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/the_godfather_part_ii.html (1039 words)

	The Godfather Part II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film (released in 2002), Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use "Part II" as the title.
		The success of The Godfather Part II began the Hollywood tradition of numbered sequels.
		The Godfather Part II • The Godfather Part III • The Godfather Saga
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Godfather%2C_Part_II (2157 words)

	‘The Godfather Part III’ (R)
		Admittedly, "The Godfather" I and II, which are universally acclaimed as among the greatest works of the American cinema, are a tough act to follow; a very good film might be put alongside them and still not measure up.
		For the most part, though, he busies himself by paying attention to the details of playing an older man -- Michael is around 60 -- and goes not much deeper than that.
		Still, the part is a relatively small one, and her failure -- contrary to much that has already been written -- contributes very little to what is actually wrong with the film.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/thegodfatherpartiiirhinson_a0a9c5.htm (1110 words)

	Reel.com: The Godfather, Part III: Twilight of the Corleones
		Part of the task of The Godfather, Part III is to set that dead man walking again.
		The second Godfather touches on both the postwar economic boom — as symbolized by the emergence of Las Vegas as a tourism powerhouse and the inexorable expansion of the Corleone family fortune — and on the Senate witch hunts of the 1950s.
		The Godfather, Part II was more complex, with the parallel stories of Michael and Vito and all of the elements in Michael's story: the attempt on his life, his foray into Cuba, his appearance before the Senate subcommittee, the dissolution of his marriage, his dance of death with his remaining brother, Fredo.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/articles/godfather3 (1809 words)

	The Godfather Part III (1990)
		Overall, the soundtrack of The Godfather Part III was a mixed bag and I thought it was a disappointment, but it provided enough strengths to merit a “C+”.
		Part of that stemmed from my general lack of enthusiasm for the movie, but I’ve been entertained by commentaries that accompanied flicks I hated - such as - so that factor didn’t explain the apparent decline.
		The Godfather Part III is a film I’ll likely revisit every three or four years out of curiosity, but I doubt I’ll ever care much for it, as it doesn’t provide a strong conclusion to the Corleone saga.
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	The Godfather Part II (1974)
		Many think II is a better film, though I suppose Godfather may have earned the higher ranking partially due to historical importance; it was a seminal flick, while II simply continued and refined its experience.
		II may not offer the same level of slam-bang moments found in its predecessor, but it may be that film’s equal nonetheless.
		Ultimately, the audio of Godfather II showed its age at times, but it appeared to be above average for its age, and it offered a vastly improved experience compared to the first film in the series.
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	WowEssays.com - Godfather Ii
		Godfather Ii Armando Powell The real importance of any movie can't be adequately appraised solely by box office success or critical response.
		While The Godfather, Part II did not exceed the box office gross of the original, the movie can still be considered a blockbuster, and not at all a flop.
		One of the reasons for the high status of “The Godfather Part II” lies in the fact that the movie was authored by the same author with the same intent in mind.
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	Reel.com: The Godfather, Part II: The Corleones in the Promised Land
		Like The Godfather, the middle sequence of the modern section of The Godfather, Part II is concerned with the Corleone family business at work and under threat.
		While Michael in his inner sanctum is always in shadow or in darkness and while the older Vito in The Godfather was often in dim light, the young Vito of The Godfather, Part II is never in shadow, never in darkness, never in dim light, except when he deliberately removes a light bulb.
		The Godfather, Part III: Twilight of the Corleones >
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/articles/godfather2 (2042 words)

	The Godfather: Part II (1974) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		However, Richard S. Castellano (who was the highest paid actor in The Godfather (1972)) wanted to write his own lines and wanted a large salary increase.
		'The Godfather: Part II' is one of the greatest movies ever made and a sequel to one of the greatest movies ever made.
		If this was part one it probably would be better than 'The Godfather'.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0071562 (712 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Godfather Part III (1990) - Printable
		Part of the problem is that there is no "Godfather Part 2-1/2" that shows how the Michael we "know" at the end of Part II becomes the Michael that we meet in Part III.
		I have argued that Michael Corleone should have died at the end of Part II and his presence here is a failure of the overall story as a giantic, tragic trilogy.
		The earliest scenes of the young Vito Corleone from The Godfather Part II are focused on the neighborhood from which the Family emerged.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=1697 (1962 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| The Godfather Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Part II continues the sweeping family epic that ironically juxtaposes quintessential American values with the extremely realistic violence and criminal mentality of mobsters.
		The Godfather Part II, even more so than its predecessor, tells a story of immigrants in America that -- minus the felonies and murders -- many of us might recognize as tales our grandparents told.
		The Godfather Part II interweaves these two stories: Vito as a young man (an incredible Robert DeNiro) building his underworld empire in the Italian ghettos of New York City, post WWI, and his son Michael desperately trying to keep it together, 40 years later.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /oscars/bestpix/godfather2.shtml (390 words)

	The Godfather Part II DVD review on AudioRevolution.com
		All during the making of "The Godfather," director/co-writer Francis Ford Coppola was worried that he might be yanked off the film at any moment, or that the film would be taken away from him once it was finished, and edited by unfriendly hands.
		The Michael sequences are launched, as was "The Godfather," by a huge, lavish party; this one, the first communion of Michael's son, is held at Lake Tahoe.
		Like "The Godfather," "The Godfather Part II" is so magnetically compelling, the characters and incidents -- many of which are based on real criminals and their activities -- are so involving that it's very easy (for some of us, almost unavoidable) to watch these films again every couple of years.
	www.audiorevolution.com /dvd/revs/godfather2.shtml (1803 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: The Godfather, Part II
		The conventional wisdom is that movie sequels are never as good as the original, and the common belief among most critics is that THE GODFATHER: PART II (1974) represents the classic exception to that rule.
		This part starts in 1901 with Oreste Baldini playing Vito Andolini, later renamed by mistake at Ellis Island as Vito Corleone which the immigration official confused his birthplace with his last name.
		The subplot of the young Vito in PART II takes perhaps a quarter of the movie and the sequences go on so long, that when you see the movie for the first time, it is easy to convince oneself that most of the movie may be set in Vito's early life.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-2/godfather-part2.htm (1304 words)

	BBC - Films - review - The Godfather Part III
		16 years after winning an Oscar for directing "The Godfather Part II", Francis Ford Coppola made a belated, ill-advised return to the scene of his greatest triumph and churned out a film which, in every respect, is a pale shadow of its predecessors.
		But anyone with memories of "The Godfather" and its 1974 sequel will shudder at how Coppola reduces their powerful iconography to the level of a daytime soap, and how his self-conscious allusions to King Lear and grand opera falter in the face of lax storytelling and implausible scenes of wholly unjustified mayhem.
		Yet where "The Godfather Part III" really stumbles is in the director's catastrophic decision to cast his own daughter, Sofia, as Michael's daughter Mary.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/12/15/the_godfather_part_iii_1990_review.shtml (368 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Godfather Part II (1974)
		The Godfather Part II breaks free from the claustrophobia of the first film to encompass a crime empire that reaches from New York to Las Vegas to Lake Tahoe and ultimately to pre-revolutionary Cuba.
		However, the end of Part II fails to deliver on the Aristotelian definition of tragedy; Aristotle wrote in his Poetics, more than 2,000 years ago, that true tragedy engenders in the viewer a feeling of catharsis.
		The Godfather Part II is masterful cinema with its unique, multi-layered story structure and some of the finest acting ever committed to film.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1698 (1949 words)

	The Godfather, Part II (1974)
		The Godfather, Part II (1974) of the Godfather trilogy continues the saga of the Corleone Family, serving as both a prologue and a sequel, extending over a period of 60 years and three generations.
		Similar themes from the original are carried over and arise in Part II: revenge, intrigue, betrayal, alliances, violence, the corruptive influences of power, and devoted loyalties to the family.
		The Godfather was born Vito Andolini, in the town of Corleone in Sicily.
	www.filmsite.org /godf2.html (2979 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: The Godfather, Part II
		As 'The Godfather Part II' opens, Michael Corleone is now head of America's most powerful organized crime family and a servant kisses his hand over the opening theme music and the two of them leave Michael's office with Michael's leather backed chair in focus symbolizing the throne of a king.
		We assume that Michael has made a move towards the narcotics business in Part II since he is questioned about it in a Senate committee hearing on organized crime later in the film.
		Coppola is quoted as saying in a documentary on all three films that there were disastrous previews for Part II and he was nervous about its release.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-2/godfather-part2-2.htm (1488 words)

	The Godfather: Part II : filmcritic.com Movie Review
		Godfather 2's most memorable moments -- the Senator's private meeting with Michael ("My offer is this: Nothing."), the denouement of Fredo -- pale in comparison.
		Part one traces the childhood of the "dumb-witted" toddler Vito Corleone (later Marlon Brando) as a kid in Italy.
		Technically, Godfather 2 is just as aptly produced as the original, though by the time we get to the revolution in Cuba, things have gotten a bit garish, losing the austerity and subtle, dim lighting of the original film.
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	The Godfather: Part II Movie Review by Anthony Leong of MediaCircus.net
		With the critical and financial success of "The Godfather" in 1972, a sequel was inevitable, and two years later, "The Godfather: Part II" bowed into theaters.
		Indeed, "The Godfather: Part II" went on to win six out of the eleven Academy Awards it was nominated for that year, including Best Director for Coppola, the award that had eluded him two years earlier.
		Serving as both a sequel and prequel to "The Godfather", it tells two distinct stories in parallel, contrasting the rise of Vito Corleone (played by Robert De Niro, seen recently in "Analyze This") with the continuing decline of his son Michael (Al Pacino, reprising his role).
	www.mediacircus.net /godfather2.html (927 words)

	The Godfather, Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The music score of the Godfather Part II was above and beyond Part I or Part III.
		Part I CD is nowhere nears as good as this and I only listened to some samplers of the compilation...
		This is the only sequel to ever have achieved the same critical acclaim as the first movie in a series, with both I and II winning the "Best Picture" Academy Award.
	www.freeglossary.com /The_Godfather%2C_Part_II (462 words)

	CityBeat: Couch Potato (2001-11-08)
		Meanwhile, The Godfather Part III is further proof of Hollywood's shift towards a more commercial cinema.
		It's been 11 years since the release of The Godfather Part III, and HBO's The Sopranos portrays organized crime with the coarse manners of the nouveau rich.
		The Godfather has more than its share of overly sentimental moments, but the transformation of Michael Corleone from an idealistic college student and war hero into the ruthless head of a crime family is as chilling as ever.
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	The Godfather Part II in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		Finally, Fredo is executed on a fishing boat at the Corleone compound on Lake Tahoe as Michael watches from a distance.
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	The Godfather: Part III (1990) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Having heard the endless amount of critique and insults that the last part of the Godfather saga carries..
		Despite some shortcomings, Godfather Part 3 is a decent ending to the trilogy.
		While I never found Diane Keaton's performances in the saga that good, she still fills the spot required, same goes for Talia Shire, whose role in the ending finale of the film really came as a surprise to me - which was a good thing.
	www.uk.imdb.com /title/tt0099674 (794 words)

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