# Best sequels

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sequels/543685
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 18, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sequels/543685 "2010-06-18T16:34:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![davidw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@davidw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidw)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sequels/543685/21 "2010-06-19T23:50:53Z")

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Blade 2

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### Author: ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sequels/543685/22 "2010-06-20T00:00:36Z")

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Clerks is clearly better than Clerk II, with the exception of the Pillowpants bit and just about anything that kid said.

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### 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: [June 20, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sequels/543685/23 "2010-06-20T01:24:26Z")

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> [@Drew\_Kit](#):
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> The New Testament.
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> It totally broke away from the established plot progression and epic scale of the Old Testament, and instead focussed on one protagonists personal development through the remininces of friends. Plus, I don’t want to use the spoiler tag, but it has a surprise ending.

I’m definitely looking forward to the conclusion of the trilogy: _Testament 3: Revenge of the Messiah_.

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### Author: ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sequels/543685/24 "2010-06-20T01:42:24Z")

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> [@BunnyTVS](#):
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> Hate to be really nitpicky (I know how much that is frowned on here:))
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> Army of Darkness, Last Crusade and Clear and Present Danger were all part **three** of the respective movie series. OP asked for best **second** acts.

Actually, I meant third acts as well. Er. I was using “sequel” in the very loose sense.

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