20 Sequels That Brilliantly Fixed Past Mistakes

Simply put, James Gunn's The Suicide Squad is one of the best sequels to a terrible movie ever. This takes pretty much everything people hated about 2016's Suicide Squad and fixes it to glorious effect.

2016's movie was neutered by its PG-13 rating, and the sequel goes all-out on the profanity and grisly violence. 2016's movie was a muddy-looking, incoherently edited load of ugliness, and the sequel is beautiful to look at and is filled with inventive visuals. 2016's movie has become infamous for its obnoxious overuse of pop music, and the sequel's needle-drops are less frequent, and those it does have are effective and cleverly chosen. 

And above all, 2016's movie looked like it was going to be something kooky, something eccentric, something totally different, but it was, in fact, the most generic of superhero flicks, complete with a beam-in-the-sky finale. In the starkest of contrasts, Gunn's delightful venture actually is that different movie we all wanted. It's a dizzyingly creative and brilliantly bats**t swing for the fences that's every bit as mad as the colourful antiheroes in the titular squad. 

The Suicide Squad certainly isn't without its flaws - for example, it's hard to deny that the plot is paper-thin - but it is an awesome movie all the same, and one of the most satisfying movie follow-ups you'll ever watch. How many other sequels fix the original's problems this brilliantly? Not many, that's for sure.