We all know Hollywood loves a sequel. In an era of franchises, reboots and endlessly mined intellectual properties, there’s no shortage of them to choose from, yet sadly they often seem to be governed by the law of diminishing returns.
Yet that isn’t always the case. Sometimes a sequel arrives that far outstrips the film it’s based on: smarter, funnier, deeper or just more thrilling. Here are 12 sequels that were better than their predecessors.
