Much like the last article, this was originally going to be a review but I decided to do something a bit different.

Comedy sequels are notoriously difficult ground.  Ask someone to come up with a list of five good Hollywood examples and most people would struggle.  Most often they fail as they attempt to cover old ground, forgetting that often what is funny the first time around, has already become dull by the second.  The Hangover is probably the best recent example of this.  Two films after the original (which despite the amount of people who may claim differently, wasn’t that good itself) the formula has now been milked past any short shelf life it may have had and left the laughs behind a long time ago.

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