This gets all the gang back, and has some decent ideas: breaking up Burt and Sally, throwing in Dom de Luis and a comic elephant. It doesn't have the pace or ticking clock, Jerry Reed and Jackie Gleason chasing after Field seems contrived this time (because she clearly doesn't want to marry him... they should've given Gleason a daughter who loved Reynolds).
Lots of Southern accents and music, and not really funny jokes from Gleason (one about bussing, another about his wife looking like an elephant). Things pick up in the last third with Gleason playing some multiple roles and terrific visuals on a salt plain.
Sally Field and Reynolds make a wonderful couple - he never found anyone as good. There's a lot more Jerry Reed in this one, if that's a selling point. But elephants are funny.
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