10 Movie Sequels WAY Crazier Than The Original
1. Bad Boys II
Michael Bay's original Bad Boys was certainly no slouch in the action department, though ultimately a relatively familiar - if well-crafted - buddy cop film.
The film's box office success led Sony to give Bay a stonking $130 million to produce the sequel - compared to the original's $19 million - resulting in one of the looniest live-action tentpoles of all time.
Bad Boys II is, to be clear, a mess, but an absolutely glorious one: an overstuffed 147-minute feast of gorgeously oversaturated visuals, ridiculously juvenile humour, ultra-violent action, and hilarious banter between Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
In one moment we're watching cars being thrown across the freeway like toys, but before long jokes are being made about attractive corpses in a morgue, and we also get to watch two rats having sex - because reasons.
Bay shows restraint in no aspect of the film's production, and as exhausting as it might threaten to be, it's tough not to at least begrudgingly respect Bay's go-for-broke refusal to rein things in.
It's such a hyperactive, restless piece of work that the recent third film, Bad Boys for Life, actually seemed a little demure, even boring, by comparison.