15 Singularly Perfect Comedies That We Hope Never Get A Sequel

We have Old School. We don’t need Older School and Oldest School.

Dear studios, executive producers, and even just plain old producers… Leave these singularly perfect comedies alone! No need to call a meeting about how much money they made, and get bright ideas about sequels, remakes, or spin-offs. We’ve seen how you take a great comedy like Dumb and Dumber, and crank out two lesser versions and an even worse cartoon series. If any real fan of the original wants to check in on those characters again, they’ll just rewatch the original! 

Great comedy movies aren’t like sitcom episodes! You can’t just think, “Oh, people seem to like this Lloyd Christman character… Let’s see him doing his laundry! Now let’s see him wear a turkey on his head!” It shouldn’t be that way! And yes, there are rare cases where unnecessary sequels like Son of the Mask, Caddyshack 2, Mean Girls 2, Anchorman 2, The Blues Brothers 2000, Zoolander 2, etc.? Honestly, we’re surprised we could even scrounge up these 15 amazing comedies that haven’t had (and don’t need) sequels.

Groundhog Day stands alone as one perfectly singular concept.

Looper / U Chicago 

We may actually get one of two possible remakes of Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

MovieWeb / Roger Ebert 

We applaud Director Ben Stiller and Jim Carrey for The Cable Guy’s originality.

Cheatsheet / Variety 

Where most fail, Mary really nailed “gross-out” humor.

BFI / RT 

Spinal Tap happened at the right time, so let’s just leave it that way!

NME / Nerdist 

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