The best and worst movie sequel titles

It's been announced that the sequel to 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' will be called (drum roll, please)... 'The Wolverine'. All we can presume is that director Darren 'The Wrestler' Aronofsky must have had a team of chimps working around the clock to devise that one. Adding an extra 'The'? Really? Is that it? No further offers?

Meanwhile, the next Batman film is named, equally uninspiringly, 'The Dark Knight Rises'. Truly the days of the brilliant sequel title seem both dim and a bit distant. Let's have a look at who's got it so, so right, and who's got it so, so wrong...

RIGHT: Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
It was so damned obvious to follow 'Naked Gun 2 ½' with 'Naked Gun 33 1/3'. So damned, blasted obvious. But however much we tried to resist the singular charms of hapless detective Frank Drebin (played deadpan by Leslie Nielsen), it cracks a smile every time.

WRONG: Fast & Furious (2009)
It's probably a fair assumption that concocting the title for Vin Diesel vehicle 'Fast & Furious', the sequel to the sumptuously-titled-by-comparison 'The Fast & The Furious', cost something akin to an annual salary. Come on, make the effort.

RIGHT: Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
Fans of the sublime 'Dumb & Dumber' were rapt when the title of its sequel emerged. Sadly, the only thing that was great about this otherwise risible imitation of its predecessor (which featured neither of the original's stars, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels) was its strangely inspired title. This was not enough to carry weight of the film's towering craptitude.

WRONG: I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)
That, friends, is the sound of a barrel being scraped. Following 'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer' was clearly tougher than anyone involved had anticipated, but sadly not so tough that they decided instead not to make the film.

RIGHT: Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust (2008)
Who cares if this was a case of the name coming first, then building the film around it? Who cares that it's about a homicidal biscuit, set, in a rather post modern twist, on the set of a low-budget horror film? This isn't perhaps the best sequel title ever devised, but a contender for best film title full stop, only perhaps equalled by the third instalment, 'Gingerdead Man 3-D: Saturday Night Cleaver'.

WRONG: Howling III: The Marsupials (1987)
Werewolves are scary. Fact. Half-men, half-marsupials, not so much. But rightly or wrongly, this third instalment in '80s budget werewolf series 'The Howling' went for mucus-filled pouches over fangs and hairiness. Was it right to do so? Only history will tell us.

RIGHT: Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
Come on, we're not made of stone. While the animated antics of Alvin and his rodent siblings didn't do a great deal for us artistically, we appreciate the effort that went into the name. Take that, 'The Wolverine'.

WRONG: 5nal Destination (2011)
We've checked, and 'fivenal' isn't a word, whether you spell it with a number '5' or not. Patently not an obstacle for the next instalment in the dog-tired death-cheating franchise.

RIGHT: Die Hard: Mega-Hard (1995)
OK, so the third in the 'Die Hard' series was only called 'Die Hard: Mega-Hard' in Denmark, but if that's not the way to title an action film featuring a man in a dirty vest, then we don't know what is. Equally, its UK equivalent 'Die Hard: With A Vengeance' is dumb as a box of hair. In a good way.

WRONG: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Come again? The only possible explanation for this train wreck of a name is that Pink Floyd wouldn't let them use 'dark side of the moon'. Nothing else makes sense.

Do tell us what you think are the all-time great (and all-time stinking) sequel titles...