5 really good sequels!

What's better than the new Wall Street turning out to be a pretty worthy successor to the original?

Infact here are Five sequels that turned out to be better than their originals!

P.S. the Lord of the Ringses, Harry Potters, James Bonds and Twilights of the world are series, not sequels.

OK, and now the list…
Empire Strikes Back Twentieth Century Fox Film


1. Empire Strikes Back (1980): You know how great this movie is? We couldn't abide by our own rules for more than one lousy paragraph. Who cares if it's not called Star Wars 2? And who cares if George Lucas now wants us to call it Star Wars: Episode Whatever? We love Han Solo. And we love that Han Solo knows it.

2. Toy Story 2 (1999): Toy Story was very, very good. Toy Story 2 was very, very good. "When She Loved Me" was the tie-breaker.
Star Trek II Paramount Pictures

3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982): Oh, was Star Trek: The Motion Picture slooooow. The only thing that lingers in this whiz-bang adventure is Wiliam Shatner's "Khaaaaan!," and that's the way it should be.
Godfather 2, Rober De Niro Paramount Pictures



4. The Godfather: Part II (1974): A classic, a Best Picture-winner that brought honor to the sequel and one of the few followups that deserves its Roman numerals. (Oh, c'mon, you know they look more impressive. And, yes, to be honest, we think Star Trek II is too fun to be not be titled Star Trek 2.) In any case, it's hard to out-epic The Godfather, but Part II, with its dual storylines, timelines and Robert De Niro, did it.

5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991): If the 1984 original was, literally, a James Cameron fever dream, then this was our wake-up call. What we learned: (1) Cameron was a master; (2) you could safely make your bad guy go kid-friendly, so long as your leading lady got rock-hard; and, (3) nuclear annihilation, as imagined by Sarah Connor, is really, really, really scary.