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Film Critic Hulk actually has a pretty convincing argument that that's why sequels to comedy movies don't really work ever. Comedy is generally about saying something that a person hasn't heard before. Comedy movies become beloved and popular because they manage to catch people off guard with a unique way of saying something that people find amusing. Movie sequels are more or less required to be "the same but more" of their predecessors in most cases, and unfortunately jokes just can't survive well when you've already heard the same joke, just for smaller stakes, previously. The joke can still be good, and it can even be better than the original joke, but it won't be as memorable or enjoyable as that first joke because you've already heard that thought, to a lesser extent, and in more or less the same way.
Which is why comedy sequels are almost never as good as the original, unless they go in an entirely different direction from the original (or unless they're better movies, i.e. plot / character-wise, rather than joke-wise). The exception being comedic sequels to non-comedies, c.f. Army of Darkness.
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