Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
[4] The old fraternity house next door to Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne has moved away... but now there's a sorority there -- and the girls are even worse than the boys were. Rogen and Byrne seek out their old…
Now You See Me 2 (2016)
[4] Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Caine all return for another game of magicians playing cat and mouse. (Isla Fisher is noticeably replaced with a new character played by Lizzy Caplan.) I enjoyed…
Pet Sematary Two (1992)
[4] Mary Lambert returns to direct the sloppy, uneven sequel about new characters who discover the burial ground with resurrection powers from the first film. She's working with a solid cast that includes uber-baddie Clancy Brown (Highlander, Carnivale), Anthony Edwards,…
Scream 4 (2011)
[6] You really aren't supposed to return to a well too many times. But in the case of the Scream franchise, I was still thirsty. So I drank... and the water's still good! Of course the novelty has worn off,…
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
[5] I loathe Michael Bay, but to be fair, this movie wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. The script pays little attention to logic and prays that you forget about certain plot elements until its convenient…
Fast Five (2011)
[4] Vin Diesel and Paul Walker star as hot dudes who drive fast cars, apparently for the third or fourth time. I would never have given this kind of movie a look if it weren't for the unusually good notices…
22 Jump Street (2014)
[6] Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum go undercover at college to bust another drug lord in a sequel that is admittedly and unabashedly more of the same. But the sequel is even more bromantic than the first, playing the relationship…
Rocky IV (1985)
[6] I know I'm being too kind to this over-produced piece of cheese, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it at least a little bit. It falls short of all previous installments primarily because the justification…
Rocky II (1979)
[7] Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) tries to slide into a normal life after the events of the first film, but Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) keeps insisting on a re-match. Rocky II follows closely enough to the narrative of the original…
Poltergeist III (1988)
[4] There really isn't a compelling reason for those ghosts to continue haunting poor little Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke). But if it were a stand-alone movie outside a famous franchise, Poltergeist III might not have been half bad. There's inventive…