User blog comment:Gene Worm/For Figure Collectors: Recent Buys/@comment-26939588-20160410173003/@comment-26939588-20160411171140

Very true. In fact, it's very hard for any film to be quite as good as it's sequels. Examples: Jaws - Jaws 2 (quite an entertaining sequel but it can't top the tension and pure fear that the first one posed), Godzilla (1954) - Godzilla Raids Again (OMG! This sequel answers the life long question of "What happens when two monsters drink 20,000 gallons of Mountain Dew?". But really, again, the fear-factor and scale are completely gone), Terminator - Terminator 2 (Wait... What's this one doing here!?!?), The Mask - Son of the Mask (Okay, I LOVE the first Mask film. It was funny, took a stab at some older stuff and Jim Carrey was just the perfect casting choice. But then, they had to ruin it's reputation with this overly-kiddy yet strangely terrifying 2005 film. It's not funny, the effects are so outdated already and the cast is unmemorable).

However, there are those odd moments where the sequels are better then the originals, like the already mentioned Terminator 2 and Kung Fu Panda 2 as it had more story for me then the first.