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15 Movies With More Than 15 Years Between Sequels

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is far from the only movie to take its sweet time following up the original.

Any fears that 2014’s Dumb and Dumber T o would be woke and woker are quickly allayed by a look–slash–don’t look catheter yank that launches this sequel to the 1994 hit that marked the Farrelly brothers’ directorial debut and firmly established Jim Carrey as the then–reigning king of comedy. Paul Newman won his only Academy Award revisiting one of his most indelible roles as the pool shark undone by his own lack of character who finds a new lease on life when he meets Vincent (a live-wire Tom Cruise), a prodigy and “incredible flake,” and becomes his mentor. The best-realized pieces include “ The Carnival of the Animals,” featuring a yo-yo playing flamingo, and “ Rhapsody in Blue,” set in Jazz Age New York and visually inspired by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld (can you spot his signature character, Nina?).

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