Sequel News – The Good, The Bad, and the Fugly!

Sequels continue to sprawl across the video store shelves like housing developments outside major cities. And like many of those, they are gated off and isolated from the real world, causing horrible developments to be made. Still, sometimes movies that actually deserve it get some extra adventures!

The Good:

Harold and Kumar 2 has been given the go (finally!) Harold and Kumar travel to Amsterdam so Harold can join with Maria, but Kumar is mistaken for a terrorist. Thus the Department of Homeland Security chases then from Guantanamo Bay through the Deep South. No confirming word on if NPH will re-cameo, but hopefully so, as he is rumored to be.

Wallace and Gromit sequel! – After Aardman split from those idiots at Dreamworks, they can get back to making good movies, and Wallace and Gromitt 2 will be awesomely awesome, like the first.

The Departed 2 – rumors of this getting a sequel are hitting high, but it won’t be based on either the sequel or prequel to Infernal Affairs, the HK flick The Departed is based on.

The Bad:

The Prince & Me III – Why is there ANOTHER one of these?????? Still no Julia Stiles, even though she’s not doing much better in the real acting department!

Bachelor Party 2 – Based on a script by Jay Longino, the sequel follows Ron, who’s been engaged to his fiancée Melinda after only knowing her for a couple months. Ron gets treated to the ultimate bachelor party in Florida, courtesy of Melinda’s brother-in-law Todd, in an attempt to sabotage his relationship with Melinda. Fully ready to party but determined to remain true to Melinda, Ron must endure temptation after temptation if he wants to remain engaged. Poor Ron. Poor us. Will there be donkeys? That’s all I want to know. DTV, of course.

RETURN TO HAUNTED HILL – Another DTV mess, capitalizing on the horror DTV trend. Will be lame, like the original remake, but not the original Price film, if you were lucky enough to see it in theaters when a glow in the dark skeleton was flown over the audience. I was several decades away from being born, so I missed out.

NEW JACK CITY 2 – another DTV sequel. Ho-hum

The Ugly:

Lost Boys 2 – Hey, let’s do surfing vampires in San Diego! NO! DTV of course.

Vengeance of Cleopatra Wong – With Gary Daniels. Gary Daniels. GARY DANIELS! (sequel to Cleopatra Wong)

PINK PANTHER 2 – This will hit theaters, with Steve Martin. I weep.

The more life goes on, the more sequels movies will get. That closing line sucks, but so do many of these sequels!