Mannequin Two: On the Move

Mannequin Two: On the Move
Original movie poster
Directed by	Stewart Raffill
Written by	Edward Rugoff Michael Gottlieb David Isaacs Ken Levine Betsy Israel
Produced by	Edward Rugoff
Starring	Kristy Swanson William Ragsdale Terry Kiser Stuart Pankin Meshach Taylor
Cinematography	Larry Pizer
Edited by	John Rosenberg Joan E. Chapman
Music by	David McHugh
Production company	Gladden Entertainment
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	May 17, 1991 (1991-05-17)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$13 million
Box office	$3.8 million

Mannequin Two: On the Move is a 1991 romantic comedy film and a sequel to the 1987 film Mannequin. The film stars Kristy Swanson as a mannequin who was frozen one thousand years ago by an evil sorcerer using a magic necklace. She remains frozen until the necklace is removed and can stay permanently unfrozen if she receives a kiss from her true love.

The original film's theme song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Starship, written by Diane Warren and Albert Hammond, was featured in this film. The original music score was composed by David McHugh.

Plot

A thousand years ago in the kingdom of Hauptmann-Koenig, Prince William wants to marry his beloved Jessie, a peasant girl. But his mother, the Queen, does not approve and has an evil sorcerer trick the Prince into putting a necklace on Jessie, which turns her into a wooden icon for 1000 years (or until she finds true love in a foreign land).

A thousand years later in the city of Philadelphia, Jason Williamson is hired to work in Prince & Company's visual display department, which is headed by flamboyant window dresser Hollywood Montrose. As a tribute to Hauptmann-Koenig, the Enchanted Peasant Girl is being sent to Prince & Company for a window display. Jason removes the necklace, which awakens Jessie. She believes he is Prince William until he convinces her a thousand years have passed and he is not the Prince (although Jason and his mother mention his family history, suggesting Jason is the descendant of the Prince).

The sorcerer's descendant, Count Gunther Spretzle, arrived with the Enchanted Peasant Girl. He plans to take Jessie when she awakens (along with her necklace and the royal jewels) and hop a flight for Bermuda. Jason (with help from Hollywood) is the only one who can stop him.

Cast

• Kristy Swanson as Jessie
• William Ragsdale as Jason Williamson/Prince William
• Meshach Taylor as Hollywood Montrose/Doorman
• Terry Kiser as Count Gunther Spretzle/Sorcerer
• Stuart Pankin as Mr. James
• Cynthia Harris as Mrs. Williamson/Queen
• Andrew Hill Newman as Andy Ackerman

Production

The first film had been financially successful and the production company wanted a sequel. A script was written and David Begelman hired Stewart Raffill, who had made The Ice Pirates (1984) for Begelman earlier, to direct.

Raffill said his philosophy was "just to play the humor. It’s a situation comedy so you have to set up the situation. It’s obviously an outlandish idea—it’s an inanimate thing and then it comes to life—so in that structure you have all sorts of humor. Particularly if the person is just suddenly falling in love. You want that person’s reactions to be interesting, so you try to come up with scenes that, you know, take advantage of that particular configuration of comedy potentials."

Filming took place in Philadelphia at Wanamaker's department store. "It was a good shoot," said Raffill. "And Kristy was a charm to work with. Very accessible and not spoiled in any way. She was just a neophyte as far as being an actor is concerned, but she played that part pretty well... It's a cute movie."

Soundtrack

Track list: Mannequin Two: On the Move

Title:	Performed by:	Produced by:	Courtesy of:	Composed by:
"Do It For Love"	Gene Miller	Phil Galdston John Van Tongeren		John Van Tongeren Phil Galdston
"Wake Up"	Gene Miller	Phil Galdston John Van Tongeren		John Van Tongeren Phil Galdston
"Can't Believe My Eyes"	Gene Miller	Jon Lind		John Bettis Jon Lind
"Pick Up the Pieces (To My Heart)"	Cindy Valentine	Tony Green for TGO Records, Ltd.	Arista Records, Inc.	Cindy Valentine Tony Green
"Casa De Coati"	Meshach Taylor Coati Mundi	Coati Mundi		Coati Mundi
"The Sea Hawk"				Erich Wolfgang Korngold
"Feel the Way I Do"	Shoes	Shoes	Black Vinyl Records	John Murphy
"That Love Thang"	E.I.E.I.O.	Phil Bonanno & E.I.E.I.O.	Frontier Records	Richard Szeluga David Kendrick
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"	Starship	Narada Michael Walden	RCA Records	Albert Hammond Diane Warren

Reception

Mannequin Two: On the Move received negative reviews from critics and unlike its predecessor, it was a box office bomb, grossing just less than $4 million against its $13 million budget. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 13% based on reviews from 23 critics. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "B" on scale of A+ to F. This sequel was dubbed as "one of the worst follow-ups ever made."

Variety gave it a negative review: "It took four writers to struggle with another idea of why a mannequin would come to life in a department store and what would happen if she did." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "even more feeble than the original" and "From start to finish Mannequin Two: On the Move is insipid in the extreme." July 15, 2014

David Cornelius of DVD Talk called it "as woefully incompetent as its predecessor".

Home media

Mannequin Two: On the Move was first released on VHS and LaserDisc in 1992 by Live Home Video. MGM Home Entertainment released the film to DVD for the first time on January 16, 2008 as part of a double feature two-disc set with the first Mannequin as the first disc. Mannequin Two: On the Move was released on Blu-ray for the first time by Olive Films (under license from MGM) on September 22, 2015.

External links

• Mannequin Two: On the Move at IMDb
• Mannequin Two: On the Move at AllMovie