Everything that can be recycled is recycled, so that beat for beat and plot point for plot point, there is almost nothing between the two films. If the original film was Simpson and Bruckheimer at their simplest, this is them at their most lazy and cynical. There are exceptions to this rule like any other, but for every sequel that attempts a break (like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) there's at least a dozen which just copy their predecessor (such as The Hangover Part II).īeverly Hills Cop II is perhaps the most blatant example of 'more of the same' in the whole of the 1980s. Sometimes this is just a case of retaining the same actors, writer or director, but a lot of the time there is a conscious effort not only to match the spirit of the original, but its story too. When it comes to making sequels, the standard approach in Hollywood is to offer more of the same.
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