Top 5 Movie Sequels That Showed Up the Original
Proof that a second try can work, ranked by how badly each one outdid the first movie.
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The Godfather Part II — Francis Ford Coppola
It's a sequel and a prequel at once, and putting young Vito next to Michael turns a great crime movie into a tragedy that spans generations.
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Aliens — James Cameron
Cameron took a haunted-house movie in space and made it a war movie without losing the dread, and Ripley went from survivor to legend.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day — James Cameron
Turning the killer robot into the protector was a huge gamble, and the liquid-metal effects still look better than half of what came out this year.
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Paddington 2 — Paul King
The first one was lovely, but this one adds Hugh Grant at his most shameless and a prison marmalade montage, and it's close to a perfect film.
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior — George Miller
The original was a cheap revenge thriller, and the sequel basically invented how the apocalypse has looked in every movie since.