Making a comedy sequel has always been a dodgy venture. No joke gets funnier the more times you hear it (except that one about the nun and the hand cream), and even the most potent comic formula can lose its flavour when applied to more than one movie. Airplane was great; Airplane 2 was okayish. Naked Gun was mostly chucklesome; Naked Guns 21/2 and 331/3 were mostly lame. Even Wayne's World 2 failed to tickle as many ribs as the original. But, with The Spy Who Shagged Me, Britophilic Yank comedian Mike Myers has spawned a strange beast: a comedy sequel that's funnier than the original.
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