The thing I hate the most about sequels is when they go too far off track from the original movie, introduce too many new characters and too many story lines. This sequel just includes your favorites a little bit older and a lot wiser. It's the good guys vs. the bad guys and a smarmy government guy included of course. Interestingly enough, the old smarmy government guy gets a new role! The new characters add to the story line rather than high jack it and take it to places you don't want to go. All in all we all walked out (ages 39, 38, 16, and 11) going "That was a great movie" which we haven't ALL done in a long time.