5 Comedy Movie Sequels That Lived Up To The Original

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Sequels in general are tricky to pull off, but comedy sequels in particular tend to be a bitter disappointment. It’s difficult to recapture the magic that made a comedy classic so great. They usually just rehash the jokes from the first movie without bringing anything new to the table. The list of comedy sequels that failed to live up to the greatness of their predecessors is practically endless: Zoolander 2, Caddyshack II, Horrible Bosses 2, Little Fockers, Dumb and Dumber To, Blues Brothers 2000, The Hangover Part II, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, Airplane II: The Sequel. But not all comedy sequels are a let-down. From Shrek 2 to Clerks II to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, there are a few exceptions to this rule.

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s movie adaptation of 21 Jump Street was a game-changer. It was initially dismissed as an unnecessary reboot of an old TV show no one remembered, but it emerged as a must-see comedy thanks to its meta riffs on the pointlessness of rebooting Jump Street and the impeccable chemistry shared by Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill. The film’s unexpected box office success earned it a sequel, 22 Jump Street, in which the heroes go undercover on a college campus. While the first movie’s high school setting evoked the works of John Hughes, the second movie’s college setting evokes Animal House.

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The story is more or less the same – this time, Tatum pulls away from Hill – but the gags are all new, from a cost-cutting campus car chase to Ice Cube furiously demolishing a buffet. Like the original, 22 Jump Street is a smart, self-aware gem that pokes fun at itself, mocking sequels instead of reboots. As Nick Offerman’s