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Soldier Girl
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A sequel to "The Hopscotch Summer " Molly Fox has grown up in the back streets of Birmingham at the...
The Last Roman: Abyss (The Last Roman #2)
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The much-anticipated sequel to The Last Roman: Exile Can all sins be forgiven? Marcus...
David McK (3752 KP) rated Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) in Movies
Nov 4, 2021
Direct sequel to 2017s 'Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle'; itself a quasi remake of the 1995 original updating it to a more modern audience in which the cursed game is now a video game cartridge rather than a boardgame.
Anyway, this mainly follows the same characters as in the previous entry but also introduces a few new 'real life' characters into the mix (portrayed by Danny DeVito and Danny Glover), with those characters then also getting sucked into the game.
As before, most of the comedy comes from watching the in-game characters (still portrayed by Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Kevin Hart and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) doing imitations of their 'real life' counterparts, with Jack Black again stealing the show with his imitations!
Anyway, this mainly follows the same characters as in the previous entry but also introduces a few new 'real life' characters into the mix (portrayed by Danny DeVito and Danny Glover), with those characters then also getting sucked into the game.
As before, most of the comedy comes from watching the in-game characters (still portrayed by Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Kevin Hart and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) doing imitations of their 'real life' counterparts, with Jack Black again stealing the show with his imitations!
David McK (3752 KP) rated Good Omens - Season 2 in TV
Oct 22, 2023 (Updated Oct 22, 2023)
I was one of those who wandered how they would do a second season of a show based on a single book, when the entirety of that book had been covered in season one.
The answer, it turns out, is that Gaiman and Pratchett had ideas for a sequel, which nothing ever came off.
Gaiman is one of the showrunners here (as he was in season 1).
This, even more than that earlier season, concentrates on the pairing of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley, with lots of flashes of the two of them throughout the years since the Creation, and here trying to uncover just why the Archangel Gabriel has arrived at Aziraphale's bookshop with absolutely no memory at all.
The answer, it turns out, is that Gaiman and Pratchett had ideas for a sequel, which nothing ever came off.
Gaiman is one of the showrunners here (as he was in season 1).
This, even more than that earlier season, concentrates on the pairing of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley, with lots of flashes of the two of them throughout the years since the Creation, and here trying to uncover just why the Archangel Gabriel has arrived at Aziraphale's bookshop with absolutely no memory at all.
David McK (3752 KP) rated Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) in Movies
Apr 10, 2022
Well, that was weird.
Surreal, maybe.
Sequel to 2010s 'Alice in Wonderland' which, truth be told, I don't really remember all that much about other than it included the Jabberwock, and that it took liberties with source material.
As I'm not all that familiar with the source material here (Alice through the Looking Glass), I can't really comment on that aspect here (although I have heard that it only has the name in common).
Still heavily relies on the visual aspect, with Johnny Depp again doing his weird and wacky sthick, and with Helena Bonham Carter also returning as the Queen of Hearts alongside the likes of Anne Hathaway, the late (great) Alan Rickman and Sacha Baron Cohen being introduced as Time.
Surreal, maybe.
Sequel to 2010s 'Alice in Wonderland' which, truth be told, I don't really remember all that much about other than it included the Jabberwock, and that it took liberties with source material.
As I'm not all that familiar with the source material here (Alice through the Looking Glass), I can't really comment on that aspect here (although I have heard that it only has the name in common).
Still heavily relies on the visual aspect, with Johnny Depp again doing his weird and wacky sthick, and with Helena Bonham Carter also returning as the Queen of Hearts alongside the likes of Anne Hathaway, the late (great) Alan Rickman and Sacha Baron Cohen being introduced as Time.
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Hellraiser: Deader (2005) in Movies
Apr 27, 2022
Not gonna lie, I spent a lot of this film completely zoned out, I was that bored. The seventh installment in the Hellraiser series has some decent ideas, and a few creepy moments here and there, but it's not enough to raise Deader above the extreme monotony presented. All of the dialogue is typical mid 00s edgelord tripe, and it's just all round difficult to focus on as a result.
It's not all bad - Kari Wuhwer is a likable enough protagonist, and the closing 5 minutes are gloriously Hellraiser-esque, but it's ultimately another sequel that feels like a completely different project with Pinhead thrown in at the last minute to sell more copies. Still more enjoyable that Hellseeker though. It's the little victories.
It's not all bad - Kari Wuhwer is a likable enough protagonist, and the closing 5 minutes are gloriously Hellraiser-esque, but it's ultimately another sequel that feels like a completely different project with Pinhead thrown in at the last minute to sell more copies. Still more enjoyable that Hellseeker though. It's the little victories.
Matt Biedrzycki (195 KP) rated Avatar: The Way of Water (2021) in Movies
Dec 25, 2022 (Updated Feb 7, 2024)
The storyline is held together nicely but one thing is a lot of going on (1 more)
The character development.
Good sequel
I went in with high expectations because of the first movie being very great. And this one the story was good. It just had a lot of different parts going on that became a little difficult to follow and a little out of pieces that had to fit together. I would suggest the movie and I think my problem was I just had really high expectations for it and then didn't meet those high expectations the way I thought it would. And that's the only thing I would say is not great about the movie.
David McK (3752 KP) rated The Old Guard 2 (2025) in Movies
Dec 21, 2025 (Updated Dec 21, 2025)
It only took 5 years.
Which, for an immortal, is nothing.
For us mere mortals, however, it's a long enough time to wait for a sequel to the 2020 original, with this following on from that and again following Andy of Scythia (Charlize Theron) and her fellow immortal warriors, who never know when they are going to lose said immortality (she already has).
I do have to say, though, I didn't find this *quite* as enjoyable as the first - I also have to say, ending on a cliff-hanger, as it does (somewhat reminiscent of the end of The Empire Strikes Back), I do hope we don't have to wait another 5 years for those loose ends to be tied up!
Which, for an immortal, is nothing.
For us mere mortals, however, it's a long enough time to wait for a sequel to the 2020 original, with this following on from that and again following Andy of Scythia (Charlize Theron) and her fellow immortal warriors, who never know when they are going to lose said immortality (she already has).
I do have to say, though, I didn't find this *quite* as enjoyable as the first - I also have to say, ending on a cliff-hanger, as it does (somewhat reminiscent of the end of The Empire Strikes Back), I do hope we don't have to wait another 5 years for those loose ends to be tied up!
David McK (3752 KP) rated The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) in Movies
Dec 28, 2025
"Something has survived"
1997 sequel to the original Jurassic Park, loosely based on a book that itself was written (again by Michael Crichton) after the first film, that moves the action from Isla Nublar to Isla Sorna, aka Site B, where it transpired the original dinosaurs were created before being shipped off tonthe park.
Said facilities shut down after the accident in the Park.
And is where Goldblum's returning Dr Ian Malcolm finds himself, on what he believes to be a rescue mission as his hastily-creared paleontologist girlfriend is already on said island.
While not as good as the original film, this is still enjoyable (and takes inspiration from both the second novel as well as from unused portions of the first novel).
Said facilities shut down after the accident in the Park.
And is where Goldblum's returning Dr Ian Malcolm finds himself, on what he believes to be a rescue mission as his hastily-creared paleontologist girlfriend is already on said island.
While not as good as the original film, this is still enjoyable (and takes inspiration from both the second novel as well as from unused portions of the first novel).
David McK (3752 KP) rated Avatar: The Way of Water (2021) in Movies
Jan 8, 2023 (Updated Jan 13, 2026)
2021 sequel to the 2009(!) original, which was the first movie - I felt - to really make 3d feel like part of the experience rather than a gimmick.
The less said about 'Unobtainium' the better, however.
That might be why that resource is NOT mentioned at all in this, with the humans again returning to Pandora but now in search of a new resource instead, and with Jake Sully and his family initially fleeing from those settlers (to join a tribe of sea-people) before events lead them to fight back.
Yes, the story (this time around) is perhaps even more basic than the first time. That might be because this is part 2 of (projected) 5.
The effects, however?
Absolutely mind blowing.
The less said about 'Unobtainium' the better, however.
That might be why that resource is NOT mentioned at all in this, with the humans again returning to Pandora but now in search of a new resource instead, and with Jake Sully and his family initially fleeing from those settlers (to join a tribe of sea-people) before events lead them to fight back.
Yes, the story (this time around) is perhaps even more basic than the first time. That might be because this is part 2 of (projected) 5.
The effects, however?
Absolutely mind blowing.