An early flag for this category asks whether Rosewood and Taggart could have been spun off into a TV series or limited series about bumbling LA cops solving rich people’s crimes.
The added-character and spinoff ideas are carried over, and Wesley’s question from the first film about whether Axel Foley was gay is revisited; this sequel ignores it.
A belated question asks whether the franchise had more legs; the sequels should have added new stars as Lethal Weapon and Die Hard did instead of running the same nucleus back.
The third film, the Disneyland one, is called an abomination that is not even fun-bad.
Adding characters is called the missed answer, and a Detroit-set sequel, perhaps with Rosewood undercover there, is endorsed.
An alternative sequel premise has a newly famous Axel hired as a consultant on a Hollywood cop movie that turns out to be laundering drug money.

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Roger Ebert gave the film one star, calling Murphy a loud, arrogant bore and objecting to the assumption that he is funny by definition while anyone in his way is a fool.
One star is considered too harsh; two stars would have seemed reasonable.
Ebert may have been fed up with such comedies at the time, having criticized Spies Like Us on television, much as critics now tire of Marvel movies.

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Bronson Pinchot could not return because he was filming Perfect Strangers.
Dennis Hopper was reportedly wanted for Dean Stockwell’s part but could not do it.

Geena Davis as Bogomil’s daughter; new Lisa Bonet character

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Geena Davis is proposed as Bogomil’s daughter, which would force new scenes such as drinks with Eddie or being followed while jogging.
A new Lisa Bonet character at the strip club befriends Axel and is later killed, combining 48 Hours and The Last Boy Scout.
The sidetrack would give Axel a revenge motive, though that risks removing the comedy; this would be Angel Heart-era Bonet.

TV-series idea; 2GAT123 license plate; Richard James alias; Rambo and Cobra jabs; Axel gives away money; Don Simpson’s trunk guns; Nielsen’s romances

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Paramount wanted a TV series, which Eddie turned down.
The film’s license plate is reportedly a recurring placeholder plate, like 555 phone numbers, seen in L.A. Story, Go, Pay It Forward, Traffic, Drive, and Two and a Half Men.
Axel’s gun-club alias Richard James is linked to Rick James.
Taggart swears at Rambo while firing a rocket launcher and Rosewood has a Cobra poster, while Tony Scott reportedly had an affair with Stallone’s wife.
Axel never keeps money, handing $20 to Billy, $50 to Chris Rock’s valet, and $200 to the mayor’s charity dinner.
Rosewood’s trunk of guns was reportedly based on Don Simpson keeping guns in his trunk.
Nielsen’s reported romances with Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Tony Scott, Flavor Flav, and others are recounted as quite a list.

Distinctive front woman; no sex for Axel; cement truck edit; needless extra villain; simplistic name clue

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An Amazonian blonde woman is questioned as the best front for crimes obscured by a cipher-based code. — Chris Ryan
She wears no mask, and every witness, from Bogomil to the jewelry store, remembers a six-foot-one blonde, making her the most distinctive-looking woman in Los Angeles; she then turns up at the gun club.
Axel again has no sex life.
A cement truck appears seconds after Axel tells Billy to get a car, one of the worst edits in a Murphy movie, and such a truck could hardly catch anything.
Dean Stockwell’s character is a needless hat on a hat, and the Carlos-is-really-Charles clue feels too simple for 1987.

Loved it; favorite moment is the house takeover

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Producer Craig, born years after the film’s release, loved both films though he is unsure the sequel beats the first. — Craig Horlbeck
His favorite Eddie moment is stealing the Andersons’ house. — Craig Horlbeck