Some common ones:
- Bigger, badder!
- Hero has to team up with former enemy!
- Main character gets married!
- Main character has a kid!
- Basically the same but in an exotic location!
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Lot of time for previously unknown, unmentioned relative (played by a big name actor signing on now that the franchise has legs) disrupting the frail harmony established in the original.
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The same but in an exotic location.
And the end of original films i always think ‘That film could use a holiday’
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STUNT CASTING
“Those actors would have a lot more fun in Hawaii”
The exact same film only every five minutes someone gets hit by a snowball.
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‘Bigger, badder’ worked out great for The Raid
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an alien infests spiderman’s suit so he becomes an emo
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Alien parasites would make many sequels more watchable
Terminator 2 is the best conceit- baddie becomes goodie and vice versa
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Heroes have to put on a rock festival
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Trying to make a Parasite 2 joke here but struggling.
There’s the Temple Of Doom model, where you take what people liked about the first film and make it more racist.
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using the word ‘squeakquel’ in the title
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Straight to vhs cash in with the big names recast with nobodies. Bring It On, Mean Girls being good examples.
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Godfather Part II
Minions
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Disney used to be absolutely class for this, remember seeing the Aladdin sequel as a child and being very aware of just how bad the replacement Genie voice was (Google has just informed me this was Dan Castallaneta, aka Homer Simpson).
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They like destroying a Super Hero’s house in Super Hero movie sequels.
Promethe-
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I like it when a sequel is made 30 years later that is a reboot but we get to see the original actors as olds