As hard as it is to make a great movie that’s well received, it’s even harder to make a sequel that lives up to the original. In the cases of these franchises, the second or third installments not only recaptured the magic of their predecessors but surpassed them… even when the audiences and critics didn’t agree.
Check out this list, in no particular order, of some of our favourite movie sequels compared to the first film in the series, reboot or spin-off series (rated by critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes).