Name a sequel that was better than the original movie?
 

The only movie that comes to mind is GODFATHER II. Fucking intense. Any other recommendations for sequels that were better than the original/first movie?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Alvin And The Chipmunks The Squeakquel

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Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace

Aliens, of course. A much better movie.

American Pie II

Terminator II

friday the 13th, the saw, lethal weapon, tombraider, austin powers and more, just can't remember all of them right now.

grease two :upsidedow

Evil Dead 2

rocky XXI - the coffin clash lol

Lethal Weapon had some amazing sequels.

Debbie Does Dallas II

Fuck it.

The Dark Knight.

Back to the Future Part II

That's got my vote. Any others? I was thinking MAYBE the second Austin Powers installment?

the ''raiders' sequels are pretty darn good

Police academy 2-8

007 James Bond

Now, we're getting somewhere. Live and Let Die and the Daniel Craig version of Casino Royale were great.

everyone knows T2 was the best sequel ever

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery

Say what? :mad:

I agree with most of those posted. T2 and Aliens were fucking insanely good, you could tell Cameron really poured so much soul into those movies. Fast forward to 2010 and you have that piece of shit called Avatar.

Robocop 2
Rush Hour 2

I never miss James Bond movies, they all rock, Daniel Craig has done a really good job though

I'm drawing a blank....

Water World 2

Blade 2

The Road Warrior

Wrath of Khan

Evil Dead 2

Aliens

the Dark Knight

toy Story 2

Empire Strikes Back

Fuck man, that's a good one...watched it again recently, definitely holds up after all these years...it's got great horror movie elements :thumbsup

The Sean Connery ones were all killer. You made me think of my Dad(God I miss him) I was a kid and he would work all day come home and take me to a James Bond triple feature. Dr No, from Russia with love and thunderball.

Hands down, Terminator 2 (T2).

I also thought that National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation was hilariously funny. :)

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Sticking with the topic (movies with sequels BETTER than them), I don't think I could say Lethal Weapon...the sequels were good (at least the first couple) but the original movie kicked ass because it had fucking Joshua. Raiders is a tough call...I love Raiders, but I have come to love Temple of Doom a lot too and Last Crusade was always my favorite of the 3.

T2 being better than original is the best example IMO. One I can think of that people haven't mentioned yet is Beverly Hills Cop. Original was nice, but everything was much looser/funnier in the 2nd...i.e. we knew the characters so they could take on funnier more full personalities in the 2nd. I liked the bad guy better too.

Star Trek: First Contact was better than Generations I thought (Generations being the first Star Trek with TNG crew).

I can't fucking think of any others. Tough question!


Ah, good call on that one - MUCH better than the 2 before it I thought.

The godfather 2 really wasnt a sequel. If you read the book, the godfather one and two are actually the whole book. Its more like part 2 I think that's why it worked so well because it was actually the whole story.

Revenge of the nerds 2 FTW!!!

Good point. Godfather II in my mind was way better than the first part. John Cazale (RIP) aka Fredo was an amazing actor. Not to mention the legendary Lee Strasberg aka Hyman Roth. Pacino should have won the Oscar for his work in Godfather II.

Die Hard 2

Hellraiser II.

1st one was ok, but the sequel, MAN!

Terminator 2 is one of the only few that comes to mind. The Dark Night was maybe slightly better too.
Godfather II was definitely worse than the first part in my opinion.

The Hannibal movies 2 and 3 were good.

Shrek 2 I guess.

Did you know Hyman Roth's right hand man is Uncle Junior on The Sopranos?

Rocky 3...by far the best sequel ever.

Yep. He played the Johnny Ola character.

Terminator 2 and Aliens.

terminator 2,
godfather 2 - close call for me, although #1 was awesome i think pacino and deniro nailed it in part 2.

OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus

sequel to OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions

Parody of the James Bond films and quite funny if you can understand French.