Easy Rider: The Ride Back

Easy Rider: The Ride Back is a 2012 drama film and a prequel to the 1969 film Easy Rider. Although none of the cast or production team of the original film were involved in its production, the director Dustin Rikert did secure the legal rights to the name, thus making it an official sequel. The film focuses on the history of Wyatt Williams' family and takes an unusually conservative point of view compared to the countercultural tone of the original.

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, Easy Rider: The Ride Back has an audience rating of 27%, based on 123 reviews, with an average rating of 2.1/5. Leonard Maltin has called the film a bomb and has described the film as a "staggeringly bad attempt to cash in on the iconic original" and that it is "poor on all accounts."