15 Laziest Movie Sequels Of All Time

4. Ocean's Twelve (2004)

Warner Bros.

Ocean's Eleven is quite simply one of the greatest remakes in Hollywood history. An A-list ensemble clearly enjoying themselves in a light and breezy heist caper loaded with wit and charm, all held together by Steven Soderbergh on top form. When the movie earned over $450m at the box office, people were generally excited about the potential for a sequel. Until they saw it.

The movie does have some merits; Soderbergh laces proceedings with his usual visual flair and David Holmes' music is once again brilliant, but the rest of the sequel just seems to be about the cast getting to travel around Europe. Whereas the original's script was well-paced and smart, the sequel's writing is often convoluted and sometimes downright lazy. Frequently self-indulgent and smug, the worst moment comes when Julia Roberts' character pretends to be Julia Roberts when dealing with a cameoing Bruce Willis.

The laziness inherent in the script extends to the big reveals towards the end of the movie, with flashbacks used as a device for the script to explain itself out of some flimsy writing. Ocean's Twelve is undoubtedly a well-directed movie, but a sequel that seems to have been made up on the fly as an excuse for a bunch of A-listers to go on a European holiday, without any of the redeeming qualities that made the first movie so entertaining.

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