Sentences with phrase «sequel live up to»

Does the sequel live up to the high expectations?

Does this sequel live up to the standards of Team Ninja's past efforts?

Will the new sequel live up to the caliber of its predecessor?

It's pretty rare to see a sequel live up to the greatness of the first film but Empire Strikes Back does that and more.

But for the most part, the sequel lives up to the original and fans of the original will still love every ounce of what this game has to offer.

For the most part the sequel lives up to expectations even though there's that nagging sense that there were a lot more cooks adding some salt, pepper, paprika, etc. to help the franchise rolling in the green.

It's not often that a sequel lives up to the original film but How to Train Your Dragon 2 is one that does.

I think the sequel lives up to that bar.

«The shortlist features huge sequels living up to the hype, new IP establishing itself, and incredible innovation and creativity wherever you look,» says GamesMaster editor Robin Always.

Not exact matches

Intellectual Memoirs, 1936 — 1938 by Mary McCarthy Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 114 pages, $ 15.95 The novelist and critic Mary McCarthy, who died in 1989, was up to the time of her death working on a memoir of her life in the late 1930s, in effect a sequel to her two previous autobiographical....

I've heard so many good things about Red Queen, it's too bad the sequel doesn't live up to the original!

It does seem that sequels have trouble living up to really great book 1's.

Being the sequel to the phenomenal Bioshock this title certainly has a lot to live up to, but Bioshock 2 does manage to deliver an engrossing and entertaining experience.

The third and hopefully final entry in the American Pie series, American Wedding keeps with the sweet charms and gross out comedy of the first two movies, but can't live up to the humor of the original or its sequel.

It is a sequel that ably expands on the original film while still living up to its own worth.

It is precisely this Hall of Fame status that its sequel must attempt to live up to while simultaneously trying to live it down.

In Coogler's follow - up, Creed, a sequel to and cultural recontextualizing of the Rocky series, Jordan's L.A. - based Adonis struggles between living up to the legacy of a father he was robbed of and creating a legacy of his own.

I am curious if the sequel can live up to its

But this sequel, just never lives up to the so - so «epicness» it is trying to promote in its title.

It's a sequel with Cate Blanchett reprising the royal role that won her instant stardom and an Oscar nomination and Geoffrey Rush back as her trusty counselor, both once again directed to perfection by Shekhar Kapur, whose career between «Elizabeths» has not lived up to its early promise.

Fall of Cybertron lives up as a solid sequel to the first good Transformer game.

One month remains until release, where fans will finally see if the sequel to one of the greatest RPGs of the last generation can live up to the hype.

The long - awaited sequel to the original Star Wars trilogy lives up to expectations in terms of entertainment and nostalgia.

Well, what we didn't tell you (because we didn't know) is that it's a prequel to My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument that takes us back to the teenage years of the characters in the 1995 film... And least promising sequel of the week has to be Spring Breakers: The Second Coming, a cash - in scripted by Irvine Welsh and directed by Jonas Akerlund, the man behind such bad - boy music videos as «Smack My Bitch Up» and the 2002 meth - addict comedy Spun.

A little over two years later, producer Hideo Kojima & company finally deliver a sequel that lives up to the promise of the original.

In addition to the three sequels that followed, there has been a slew of clones that try to live up to...

We were really big fans of the first «Thor,» so our expectations were pretty high going into this sequel, and though «The Dark World» failed to live up to them, it's still a pretty fun film.

While significantly better than the first, Anarchy was still a sequel that didn't live up to the concept of what a night like this could entail and dare I say the excitement that should come with such a visceral idea.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that Seth MacFarlane's follow - up to his bromance tale of two best friends, one a dim lug played by Mark Wahlberg and the other a magically brought to life teddy bear voiced by MacFarlane, is more of the same and so your mileage for this sequel is entirely dependent on how much you were able to tolerate that first picture, and MacFarlane's brand in general.

All too often a sequel doesn't live up to the appeal and success of the original.

Presented as a «sort of sequel» to Apatow's 2007 sophomore feature, Knocked Up, This Is 40 gives center stage to the earlier film's supporting characters: Los Angeles record label executive Pete (Paul Rudd) and his wife Debbie (played by Apatow's real - life wife, Leslie Mann).

Sequels designed for demographics who weren't alive for the earlier instalments are less risky because they have less to live up to, and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle has very little in common with its inspiration.

Overall, this safe sequel is certainly engaging and entertaining enough to recommend, though it fails to live up to the franchise's daring, appointed mission «to explore strange new worlds» and «to boldly go where no man has gone before.»

Now it just has to live up to maybe the biggest hype ever, set the stage for a concurrently filming sequel, and maybe try not to kill every Avenger in the process...

After 2012's The Hunger Games caught us off - guard with its subtle themes, this sequel more than lives up to the hype, dramatically expanding the scale of the action while letting the actors deepen their characters...

The clip even closes with Deadpool offering his own assessment of the upcoming sequel, quipping, «It lives up to the hype — plus plus.»

Filmmaker Paul King returns to direct the sequel, which picks up with Paddington Bear (voiced by Ben Whishaw) who has now settled into his life with the Brown family at Windsor gardens.

If you haven't seen the trailers, filmmaker Paul King returns to direct the sequel, which picks up with Paddington Bear (voiced by Ben Whishaw) who has now settled into his life with the Brown family.

Oddly enough, this is also where Life comes back to life — setting up what is clearly an opportunity for a sequel (which is entirely too predictabLife comes back to life — setting up what is clearly an opportunity for a sequel (which is entirely too predictablife — setting up what is clearly an opportunity for a sequel (which is entirely too predictable).

The DS and 3DS sequels available in the US haven't lived up to its greatness, but a nice, deep console game with all that extra disk space could be incredible.

Disney is continuing to dig around in their vault for new movies inspired by their old movies with Mary Poppins Returns, a sequel to the 1964 live - action musical classic Mary Poppins that will have Emily Blunt stepping up to play the titular nanny instead of Julie Andrews.

For those who haven't been keeping up, State of Decay 2 is the sequel to the 2013 Xbox Live Arcade survival game by Undead Labs.

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Although many film sequels are made, few live up to the movies that inspired them.

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Four sequels later, we find the pair still up to their old tricks, although the ex-cop is now with the FBI while the ex-con has just been sentenced to life for murdering a mobster during a heroin sting gone bad.

Despite a pair of sequels that failed to live up to the first film (in fact, some might even say they were downright awful), Disney makes so much money from the «Pirates» movies that the decision to do another installment wasn't much of a decision at all — especially when most fans were clamoring for one.

Stretchmo is a sequel to Pushmo that came out of nowhere, but does it live up to the high standards set by previous installments?

WHY: It's always nice to see an original idea like «Now You See Me» find success amid the usual summer barrage of rehashed properties (and a sequel has since been greenlit), but unfortunately, the movie doesn't live up to its full potential.

Surely that will clear things up and confirm that this is some sort of meta - sequel to It's A Wonderful Life: