Pauly Shore Wants To Do Encino Man Sequel

“Encino Man 2—let’s do it,” Shore told Variety while walking the red carpet for Chris Rock’s Top Five this week. “My agent and I are talking about it.” He added that fans interested in actually seeing it come to fruition should tweet at his co-stars — Sean Astin and Brendan Fraser — as well as Disney.

Asked why, he didn’t have any big ideas or philosophical reasons. “I think it would be fun,” he said. “It was a cute movie.”

The first film, which Gene Siskel said “badly mixes the juvenile humor of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure with the story of E.T.,” centered on a pair of slacker teens played by Shore and The Lord of the Rings‘s Astin who find a caveman (Fraser) frozen in a block of ice. They thaw him out, he comes back to life like a Cro-Magnon Captain America, and the rest of the film became a fish-out-of-water comedy as they struggled to help him adjust to the modern world.

In spite of earning a dismal Rotten Tomatoes score and netting Pauly Shore a Razzie Award for Worst New Star, Encino Man made more than $40 million on a budget of about $7 million, making it a big enough commercial success to earn a feature-length, made-for-TV spinoff Encino Woman.

…Yeah, we didn’t know that existed, either.