The track record of long-delayed follow-ups to highly beloved pop culture properties isn't exactly littered with tons of success stories. Two notable examples of this trend came in 2013, when
Arrested Development came back with a narratively ambitious new season that was OK but not quite as successful as its initial seasons while
Anchorman 2 reunited Ron Burgundy with his news team for occasionally humorous but mostly just scattered antics. I'd imagine director Danny Boyle knew about this trend going into the making of
T2: Trainspotting, a follow-up to the 1996 film Trainspotting, and if he did, he'd likely be happy to know that
T2: Trainspotting is a massive departure from that trend in that it's a worthy follow-up to the original movie.
