Sequels

Truth time: It Chapter Two failed me. It (2017) remains one of the biggest surprises and smash-hits of its respective year. I loved it so much that I saw it multiple times in theaters. The…

My mother and I went on a cross-country Greyhound bus trip in the summer of 1989. At the time, they had a pass you could buy that gave you a lot of freedom. We made…

John Wick is the best franchise in terms of producing higher quality sequels. There, I said it — feel free to disagree, but know that you are wrong. The Keanu Reeves franchise has gotten better…

Is Happy Death Day 2U the most necessary sequel ever made? Absolutely not. The first Happy Death Day was a perfectly watchable film that knew it had something special in Jessica Rothe as a star. But…

With Bumblebee out and about, it’s time to look back at the entire Transformers franchise. It’s been quite the checkered history for the franchise with some of its entries ranking as some of the worst…

There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it, and any more than a whisper, and it would vanish; it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive…

As part of October, the scariest movie month of the year, MovieBabble is looking back at one of the most prominent horror franchises out there: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. The following article is part…

The sequel that everyone has been waiting for has finally arrived! Yes I’m talking about the sequel to the 1995’s anthology horror film Tales from the Hood, called, well, Tales from the Hood 2. Original director…

There’s been a lot of stir lately about the famous caped hero we call Batman. We’ve been given a look at our new Joker, Joaquin Phoenix, and Zack Snyder, director of the most recent Batman…

We’ve been down this road many times before. A film overperformed greatly at the box office years ago only to get a sequel many, many years later as a studio became hungry for cash and sifted…

Adam McKay’s Step Brothers (2008), like a fine Catalina Wine Mixer, gets better with age.  Therefore, my way to celebrate its 10-year anniversary is to suggest my best ideas for the plot of a possible sequel.…

If The Equalizer 2 (2018) seems familiar, let’s figure out why.  A fun game to play is to see how many other films you can identify in this movie — and there’s a lot of…

Star Wars: Once such a solid franchise appears to be on the ropes a little these days. The opinions from the fan base fluctuate drastically from one movie to the next. The Force Awakens, Rogue…

Die Hard (1988) is 30 years old.  Imagine that.  Three decades represent solid proof that it has passed the test of time as an enduring action movie classic.  Thank you, Die Hard, for so many…

Hot take right off the bat: Sicario is one of the best movies of the 2010’s.  Denis Villeneuve’s sure direction powered the 2015 thriller to some haunting heights, showing the grey area that comes with fighting against…

Andres Muschietti’s record-breaking It (2017) had an impressive impact on audiences and critics just less than a year ago. Arguably so, the Stephen King adaptation glued itself quite closely to the 1986 novel and achieved…

Next week, The Incredibles 2 (2018) will hit theaters, and you’d best believe that I will be eagerly waiting in the theater queue to see my favorite family kicking evil butt once again. I grew up watching The…

On Saturday, IndieWire reported that James Cameron hopes that moviegoers will soon develop “‘Avenger’ fatigue” because, in his own words, “there are other stories to tell besides hyper-gonadal males without families doing death-defying things for…

When a film proves successful (especially from a financial standpoint) it can occasionally lead to horrible sequels. Unfortunately this can happen whether the story calls for one or not. Often we view horrible sequels as…

It seems like sequels are becoming more and more commonplace in film. Is this a period of Hollywood enlightenment or a dismal slump in the quality of movies? Let’s take a look back at the…

After making a mockery of the competition at the box office, the sequel to the popular It has finally received the green light. The Report This news was probably a forgone conclusion after It smashed records with a $117…