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Ellie and Patrick look back at some past episodes, read some blurbs, and reminisce.

What can we say about The Croods that we didn’t already say about The Croods 2? Not much apparently because they both have the same exact plot. Is this the best or worst Reverse Sequels movie? Grab your communication shell and join us as we discuss The Croods. Dedicated to the memory of Cloris Leachman.

Ellie and Patrick open a Christmas present and share it with the audience.

Dear diary, we finally did it! We watched Croods 2! Who knew it would be a steamy teen romance between cave people, a battle between feuding families, an introduction to the Thunder Sisters, and a tale of wronged monkeys. So form your kill circle and join us as we watch Croods 2!

Ellie and Patrick talk most anticipated sequels of 2021 and reminisce about previous favorite movies they had high hopes for.

This has all the hallmarks of a classic holiday movie - Santa Claus going to prison, elves battling a Chicago crime syndicate, and a little girl nearly being burned alive. Somehow it all works, thanks to Kurt Russell playing a bad ass Santa on a mission to save the Christmas spirit of a pair of orphans. So grab your mint condition Mickey Mantle rookie card and join us for the Christmas Chronicles!

Ellie and Patrick discuss their favorite movie soundtracks, scores, and the best sequel soundtracks.

Merry Christmas true believers! If you like your holiday movies with time travel, musical numbers, and a Santa Claus origin story, then this is the movie for you. So grab your AAA batteries and join us for The Christmas Chronicles 2!

Ellie and Patrick discuss the best movies about movies

We learned a lot this week! For example, Death Race the original is not the original, but rather a 2008 remake or the 1975 original, Death Race 2000. What’s more than that, the 2008 original is the sequel to the sequel which was a prequel! Phew! Grab your release papers and join us as we discuss Death Race.

Ellie and Patrick discuss their favorite movies for every holiday.

What’s more disappointing, watching a movie that you thought starred Jason Statham that stars some bootleg version instead or watching a movie called Death Race that doesn’t have any racing until 2/3 of the way through the movie? Luckily there are plenty of explosions, flame thrower fights, and shower shankings to make up for it. So grab your lucky money clip and join us for Death Race 2!

Ellie and Patrick talk about why some movies only get one sequel while others go on to become multi-film franchises.

Not since Baby Geniuses has a scene in a movie rocked us to our core like this, a movie where an adult man kisses a child. To be fair, he was transporting the blackest soul on Earth from a dead war criminal. In this movie angels are complicated, side characters rule, and children are left unsupervised. So grab your ancient, unauthorized copy of the Bible and join us as we discuss The Prophecy.

In honor of Glenn Danzig in the Prophecy 2 Ellie and Patrick talk about their favorite musician cameos in movies.

From the Reverse Sequel crypt here is a replay of our first Halloween series, the anthology horror series V/H/S

From the Reverse Sequel crypt here is a replay of our first Halloween series, the anthology horror series V/H/S

Angels are jealous of humans, angels are ruthless murderers, and angels are horny for human women! Now these are some religious studies we can get behind! Speaking of behinds, Christopher Walken bares it all and stars as an angel mafioso with leather pants and a tenuous grasp on the human world. Grab your dry cleaning ticket and join us as we discuss The Prophecy II!

This week Ellie and Patrick are talking horror movie sequels. Why are there so many horror sequels, what are our favorites, and at what point does a horror franchise jump the shark?

What we got right, what we got wrong - who cares! Hollow Man will make you feel exactly that, hollow inside. It might also make you feel like you need a long shower after watching it. Grab your infrared goggles and join us as we discuss the original Hollow Man!

In honor of Patrick’s birthday Ellie asks him a series of questions about movies. It’s the Birthday Questionnaire!

A floating gun, an empty hoodie, and police grenades. These are just a few things you can wield as the invisible man. None of that matters because as the titular character you are not the main character. Who is? A horny, low-level cop from Arizona who likes to date scientists. Grab Christian Slater because even he’ll be surprised he is in this movie and join us for Hollow Man 2!

Ellie and Patrick talk about the history and the future of sequels, remakes, reboots, and reimaginings.

Six huge stars, five acclaimed writers, four unnecessary subplots, three loose ends , two scenes of the Rock pretending he has diarrhea, one really bad movie. Grab your guitar for the talent show and join us for the original Tooth Fairy.

On this mini episode Ellie and Patrick do a deep dive on Tooth Fairy lore and the movie Tooth Fairy 2

What can we say about Tooth Fairy 2? This movie is like a really good root canal - even the best parts are painful. Follow Larry, an irredeemable character, as he seeks redemption through chicken, teeth, and sneaking into children’s bedrooms.. Grab you guard pig and join us as we discuss Tooth Fairy 2!

On the heels of Happy Death Day Patrick and Ellie talk about their favorite time loop movies and shows. Join us for the latest mini episode!

It only took 100-something movies but we have discovered the perfect Reverse Sequels movie franchise! You can watch sequel to original or original to sequel. A time loop movie as delicious as a poison cupcake on your birthday. Grab your favorite Teen Mom episode and join us as we discuss Happy Death Day!

Ellie and Patrick rank all the movie franchises they’ve watched so far. Listen in to find out the best, the worst, and what movies they just can’t agree on!

What do you get when your main character is not your main character, bad people are good, and your significant other is dating someone else? You have to choose between the world you know and the world you prefer. The only way out is a death montage and murdering your way out of a time loop. So grab a Yoo-Hoo and join us as we discuss Happy Death Day 2U!

On this mini episode Patrick and Ellie tell the story of Romancing the Stone and the troubled production of it’s sequel the Jewel of the Nile.

Nothing says classic romantic comedy adventure like janitor murder, exotic bird importing, and orgies with a boat. Nothing says Reverse Sequels like an episode where we get little right, a good amount wrong, and a whole lot of craziness that we never could have predicted. So grab your 1982 Rolling Stone and join us for Romancing the Stone!

We are celebrating our 100th episode with a sequel to our previous 50th episode special. We are talking sequel themes, Sequel the Movie, our greatest debates, giving out awards for categories like best one liner and best death, giving you our favorite and least favorite sequels and originals, and counting down our top 5 moments of the last 50 episodes. Join us for the 100th episode special!

Ellie breathes heavily into the microphone, Patrick’s pulse quickens. Forty pirates swashbuckle in. Patrick fights them as he adjusts his headphones. Ellie purses her lips and whispers, “Hi I’m Ellie and this is Reverse Sequels” Patrick adds sensually, “Join us in discussing Jewel of the Nile.” And they did discuss it and then they rode off into the sunset. And as for those pirates, well, you’ll see.

On today’s mini episode we are celebrating Ellie’s birthday with a special movie quiz

The Syndicate, Rogue Nation, IMF, Lane, Hunt, Ilsa, Ving, Pegg. Who are these people and organizations? Who is the true Rogue? Why doesn’t anyone have more than a 4-letter name? Hold your breath for 6 minutes and join us as we discuss Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation.

In this mini episode we are talking more Mission Impossible, whether Tom Cruise should be allowed to do his own stunts, and whether test audiences can be trusted.

Can Ethan Hunt be trusted? We don’t know! Is Ethan Hunt really Lark? We don’t know! Should you tend to your friend who got shot in their bulletproof vest or pick up the briefcase of weapons-grade plutonium? Probably the briefcase but debatable! One thing we do know for sure is Tom Cruise does his own stunts and they are epic!! So trim your evil mustache and join us as we watch Mission Impossible 6:Fallout

They're cooking something up in Walter White's lab, but this time it's not meth, it's a MUTO. It's giant, eats radiation, and is horny for it's sibling. And the only one who can stop it is Godzilla. So grab a box of nuclear bon bons and try not to get stepped on while you join us for Godzilla!

And we’re back with a quarantine edition of Reverse Sequels! Imagine a world plagued by a virus. If that’s a little too realistic, then imagine that the only solution is to wake up ancient mythical creatures to fight for good and evil and in doing so stomp out the virus. That’s right folks, Godzilla isn’t the monster - we are! Hunker down in the family bathtub as we discuss Godzilla: King of the Monsters!

In this mini episode we catch you up on what's been going on during our hiatus and what we have planned for the future of the podcast

The dad from Home Alone plays a photographer who teams up with Marv from Home Alone who plays a preacher and they fight toxic waste monsters in the sewer. It even has some of the same themes from Home Alone like learning to have courage and appreciating the importance of family. What I’m saying is this is basically Home Alone but with more decapitations. So grab your dog jerky and join us for C.H.U.D.!

Take Weekend at Bernie’s, Encino Man, Police Academy, and every 80s zombie movie and mix them together and you have a great recipe for a bad movie. A group of high school kids get mixed up with a government experiment to create undead cannibal super soldiers and a whole podunk town gets chudified. So grab your award winning Wisconsin wine and join us for C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud!

We watched 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Fast and the Furious, Fast & Furious 6, and now Fast Five and we can finally say - we are converts. This movie was a lot of fun. Take the Fugitive, switch out Tommy Lee Jones for the Rock, mix it Ocean’s 11 but with lots more cars and murder and you’ve got a recipe for a good time. So grab your impenetrable safe and tie it to your car with the world’s strongest rope and join us for Fast Five!

In a Reverse Sequels first, we go back to a franchise that we covered in two of our earliest episodes. People swore to us that the movies got better and we were duped into watching another movie full of bad writing, campy acting, ridiculous stunts, and a lot of oiled up muscles. So throw your baby over the wall and run back into the house to join us for Fast & Furious 6!

This might be the first movie we’ve seen where the Wikipedia page is more entertaining than watching the movie. Be sure to have a glossary on hand as you enter a world full of Obscurials, Aurors, Nifflers, Squibs, Legilimens, and giant horny magical hippos. Grab your giggle juice and join us for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them!

Did you ever wonder what would happen if X-Men took place in the world of Harry Potter? Neither did we, but they made it into a movie anyway! Things get dark in this movie about ethnic cleansing, child murder, and funny magic animals. So grab your wand and join us for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald!

What happens when the FBI, the CIA, and assassins come together to fight cartels at the border? A movie that could have been great if it wasn’t ruined by it’s sequel! We thought we had seen it all when it comes to sequels but this movie asks the question can a sequel ruin the original movie? Grab your questionable morals and join us as we discuss Sicario!

This movie raised a lot of questions. Namely - what is a sicario and what is a soldado? Also, what are the character’s names and jobs and relationships to each other? But if you can get past that then… well, this is definitely a movie! So watch your vis and join us as we discuss Sicario: Day of the Soldado!