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* Sequelitis: While this film has its admirers, many others feel that it's a vastly inferior work that not only changed in style and tone from ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'', but that its tendency to resolve the questions left unanswered by the original film took away from its mystery and wonder. Regardless, Creator/ArthurCClarke went on to pen two additional sequels, ''2061: Odyssey Three'' and ''3001: The Final Odyssey'', neither of which were ever adapted to film, though there was talk among some directors and producers of doing so for the former.
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* Sequelitis: {{Sequelitis}}: While this film has its admirers, many others feel that it's a vastly inferior work that not only changed in style and tone from ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'', but that its tendency to resolve the questions left unanswered by the original film took away from its mystery and wonder. Regardless, Creator/ArthurCClarke went on to pen two additional sequels, ''2061: Odyssey Three'' and ''3001: The Final Odyssey'', neither of which were ever adapted to film, though there was talk among some directors and producers of doing so for the former.
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* Sequelitis: While this film has its admirers, many others feel that it's a vastly inferior work that not only changed in style and tone from ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'', but that its tendency to resolve the questions left unanswered by the original film took away from its mystery and wonder. Regardless, Creator/ArthurCClarke went on to pen two additional sequels, ''2061: Odyssey Three'' and ''3001: The Final Odyssey''.
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* Sequelitis: While this film has its admirers, many others feel that it's a vastly inferior work that not only changed in style and tone from ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'', but that its tendency to resolve the questions left unanswered by the original film took away from its mystery and wonder. Regardless, Creator/ArthurCClarke went on to pen two additional sequels, ''2061: Odyssey Three'' and ''3001: The Final Odyssey''.Odyssey'', neither of which were ever adapted to film, though there was talk among some directors and producers of doing so for the former.
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*Sequelitis: While this film has its admirers, many others feel that it's a vastly inferior work that not only changed in style and tone from ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'', but that its tendency to resolve the questions left unanswered by the original film took away from its mystery and wonder. Regardless, Creator/ArthurCClarke went on to pen two additional sequels, ''2061: Odyssey Three'' and ''3001: The Final Odyssey''.
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** On the other hand [[BrokenBase other fans of the original film dislike this sequel because it removes the mysteries surrounding the nature of the monoliths and the causes of HAL's breakdown by spoon-feeding the audience with canned explanations.
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** On the other hand [[BrokenBase other fans of the original film dislike this sequel sequel]] because it removes the mysteries surrounding the nature of the monoliths and the causes of HAL's breakdown by spoon-feeding the audience with canned explanations.
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* ContestedSequel: Upon its release, it was fairly divisive due to it being much less "artsy" than the first film and more action-oriented, to say nothing of ''2001'' in general being a ToughActToFollow. However, it has found itself a growing fanbase in those who appreciate that it replaces the long, silent transition shots with character development, managing to redeem HAL in a way that doesn't come off as overly corny, actually answering many of the questions posed at the end of the first film without downplaying their significance or sense of wonder, and having a scarily timeless impression on Russian/American tensions with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine former's recent invasion of Ukraine]].
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* ContestedSequel: Upon its release, it was fairly divisive due to it being much less "artsy" than the first film and more action-oriented, to say nothing of ''2001'' [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey ''2001'']] in general being a ToughActToFollow. However, it has found itself a growing fanbase in those who appreciate that it replaces the long, silent transition shots with character development, managing to redeem HAL in a way that doesn't come off as overly corny, actually answering many of the questions posed at the end of the first film without downplaying their significance or sense of wonder, and having a scarily timeless impression on Russian/American tensions with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine former's recent invasion of Ukraine]].
**On the other hand [[BrokenBase other fans of the original film dislike this sequel because it removes the mysteries surrounding the nature of the monoliths and the causes of HAL's breakdown by spoon-feeding the audience with canned explanations.
**On the other hand [[BrokenBase other fans of the original film dislike this sequel because it removes the mysteries surrounding the nature of the monoliths and the causes of HAL's breakdown by spoon-feeding the audience with canned explanations.
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* ContestedSequel: Upon its release, it was fairly divisive due to it being much less "artsy" than the first film and more action-oriented, to say nothing of ''2001'' in general being a ToughActToFollow.
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* ContestedSequel: Upon its release, it was fairly divisive due to it being much less "artsy" than the first film and more action-oriented, to say nothing of ''2001'' in general being a ToughActToFollow. However, it has found itself a growing fanbase in those who appreciate that it replaces the long, silent transition shots with character development, managing to redeem HAL in a way that doesn't come off as overly corny, actually answering many of the questions posed at the end of the first film without downplaying their significance or sense of wonder, and having a scarily timeless impression on Russian/American tensions with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine former's recent invasion of Ukraine]].
