10 Movie Sequels That Just Copied The Original
3. The Hangover Part II
If ever a movie could’ve used a dose of Die Hard 2’s self-consciousness about being just another big dumb sequel, it’s The Hangover Part II, which after all was supposed to be funny. It’s too bad nobody informed the filmmakers.
As you’ll recall, Hangover I was a painfully funny movie about 3 guys who wake up after the stag party from hell to discover that they’ve lost their friend somewhere in Las Vegas. Proving that jokes become less amusing with repetition, Hangover II is a painfully unfunny movie about 3 guys who wake up after the stag party from hell to discover that they’ve lost their friend somewhere in Thailand.
Mike Tyson and Ken Jeong return, and it’s too bad somebody didn’t think to cast Bruce Willis as the tattoo artist after the cast and crew objected to Mel Gibson taking the role. Imagine the comic mileage the film could’ve gotten out of Bruce lecturing them about how to make a sequel – it’d be better than anything that made the final cut.