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Wow, they must have merged together in my mind, because I thought there was only one movie, but I definitely saw both in theaters.
There was even going to be a third movie, but between the second one underperforming and Freddie walking away citing issues with censorship of the first movie, which I believe was initially going to go for an R-rating, as well as the studio kinda underpaying everyone for the second, it got canned.
What is it with comedy movies going for the R rating? Same thing with Galaxy Quest. I dont get the reasoning.
I don't know about Galaxy Quest, but the early 2000s were big for the R-rated sex comedy, it's probably the defining genre for that time period in my mind. Wet Hot American Summer, Wedding Crashers, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Another Gay Movie, etc. Idk what exactly it was and I think a lot of the era aged pretty poorly tbh, but it was definitely the style of the time. You even kinda see it bleed into other genres of the era, like Freddie vs Jason is ostensibly a horror film but has a lot of shots that would not look out of place in a raunchy comedy.