# Best movie duology? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177 "2015-12-02T01:20:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/41 "2015-12-04T13:57:09Z")
2008’s **Journey to the Center of the Earth** and 2012’s **Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.** Both are big silly fun! ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/42 "2015-12-04T15:06:03Z")
_Flags of Our Fathers_ and _Letters From Iwo Jima_. Yes, they’re about pretty much the same events from two different viewpoints, but the first two _Godfather_ films didn’t have “one after the other” timelines either. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/43 "2015-12-04T15:13:41Z")
I wish they hadn’t made Mummy 3. Mummy 1 and 2 with Brendan Fraser were a lot of fun. 3 was…horrifyingly bad. Re-cast Rachel Weisz, had a son who looked like Fraser’s brother, and a total snoozefest of a movie. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/44 "2015-12-04T15:19:49Z")
I wish they’d never made Beverly Hills Cop 3 - it was horrible - but the first two were really good. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/45 "2015-12-04T15:21:01Z")
Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness. (We won’t count the first Evil Dead.) ---
**Author:** ![Abner\_Ravenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Abner\_Ravenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abner_Ravenwood)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/46 "2015-12-04T16:25:54Z")
Spaceballs and Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/47 "2015-12-04T17:28:24Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The creative team behind Airplane! (Jerry and David Zucker and Jim Abrahams) weren’t involved in the sequel, and it showed. So, IMO, it fits the OP’s bill, but the second one should never have been made, and the original creative team never saw it as a potential duology. > > In early '84, when I was a student at UW-Madison, the three of them put on a screening of a rough cut of their new film (Top Secret!), which I attended. Afterwards, they had a Q&A session, and they talked about what happened with Airplane and Airplane II, which went something like this: > > Paramount: Hey, Airplane was great! It made a fortune! We want you to make a sequel. > ZAZ: We’ve already done all of the good disaster movie jokes. We want to do something else. > Paramount: No, no, no, do another Airplane movie! > ZAZ: We don’t want to. It’ll suck. > Paramount: Well, see, we own the Airplane rights, so we’re going to make a sequel. You can be involved, or not, but it’s going to be made anyway. > ZAZ: Knock yourselves out. I’m imagining the equivalent conversation being held today. Studio executive: Your last movie did okay and we broke even with the dvd sales. So we’ve decided we want you guys to make another movie. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer: Great! We’ve already got the script written! Studio executive: What? We haven’t even told you what the movie’s about. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer: Doesn’t matter! We’ll just change the names and use the same script! Studio executive: Wow, I sold my soul to Satan fifteen years ago and even I’m appalled by this. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/48 "2015-12-04T22:03:30Z")
I nominate _Babe_ and _Babe: Pig in the City_. Lovely, funny, wonderful movies. Hard to believe that they were directed by the same man who directed the Mad Max movies (which are wonderful, but not very lovely or funny). ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/49 "2015-12-04T22:47:00Z")
_House_ and The greatest sequel name ever… _House II: The Second Story_ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/50 "2015-12-04T22:58:46Z")
King Kong (Fay Wray) and Son of Kong McHale’s Navy and McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/51 "2015-12-04T23:11:13Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I nominate _Babe_ and _Babe: Pig in the City_. Lovely, funny, wonderful movies. That’s a very respectable choice. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/52 "2015-12-04T23:33:04Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I nominate _Babe_ and _Babe: Pig in the City_. Lovely, funny, wonderful movies. Hard to believe that they were directed by the same man who directed the Mad Max movies (which are wonderful, but not very lovely or funny). **Nanny McPhee** and **Nanny McPhee Returns** (aka Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang). **Grease** and **Grease 2**?! ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/53 "2015-12-05T01:26:15Z")
Without looking at the list, I will go with **Stakeout** **Another Stakeout** Both are pretty good… The first one was better, but even with Rosie O’Donnell doing her best to drag down the second one, I can still watch it and laugh. Dennis Farina is one of my favorite character actors, especially when he’s playing for laughs. (His deadpan mobster in **Midnight Run** is a classic). If there is a 3rd in this series, I don’t know it… And I don’t want to know it. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/54 "2015-12-05T02:30:03Z")
Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000. Admittedly the 2nd one sucked, but it still had a kick ass soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/55 "2015-12-05T06:41:52Z")
The two Doctor Who films with Peter Cushing. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/56 "2015-12-05T22:04:54Z")
I would have to go with King Kong and Son of Kong also. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177.md?page=2)