Okay, kids, we've all been reading Otter's reviews for long enough to have learned a lot about sequels! Let's see if we remember the lessons (are you paying attention, Troy Duffy?)

1. Sequels almost always suck.
2. Sequels that are a rehash of the original always suck.
3. Sequels that are a rehash of the original with NOTHING NEW IN THEM suck big ol' rocks (and this is generally a family review site or I would have been much more graphic in my word choice...but you can all fill in the blanks)

This was so awful. Maid-of-Awesome introduced me to the original movie, which I love and have told many people about, and they love it too. Funny, original and thoughtful. Full of lovely violence and stuff. A wonderful movie.

This sequel is made (and takes place) ten years later. The cute young guys from the first movie are starting to show their age. But worse? Duffy basically made THE SAME MOVIE AGAIN. He even put their dead sidekick Rocco back in, in a series of flashbacks, PLUS giving them a new, and extremely annoying, sidekick for this movie. Everyone who was in the old movie is in this one. Even Willem Dafoe shows up at the end. His replacement, the new FBI guy, is a gorgeous woman but who does exactly the same thing as he did, down to the opera music in the headphones.

This was so unbelieveably bad. We didn't expect a lot, truthfully, but we really had no idea how awful it would be. Maid-of-Awesome kept mock-barfing into my lap, and I kept shooting myself in the face, that's how bad it is. I'm not kidding. M-o-A said she would have walked out, but I do reviews, and must drink the cup to the hideous, scum-filled, stinking dregs.

Oh, and the best part? they've pretty obviously left it open for another sequel...