May was the ultimate month for movie sequels. Every week had at least one movie coming out that continued with another’s original thought. May 4 brought “Spider-man 3;” May 11 “28 Weeks Later;” May 18 “Shrek the Third” and on May 24, “Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End.”

Sequels are continuing adventures of characters that I grew to love. Most of the time sequels are not as good as the first movie, but it does not matter. I am only worried that the movie stays close to the character development that was portrayed in the first movie.

My complaint, however, is that this summer (and the past few summers), seem to have nothing but sequels to offer the typical American audience.

At the end of April ’07, this summer scheduled 20 sequels for release. Some ranged from comic book continuations to children’s movies. Even sequels for movies that were thought to have a sequel or another sequel, such as “Live Free or Die Hard” showed up. “Evan Almighty” was the sequel to the 2003 Jim Carrey movie, “Bruce Almighty” – which was thought to be just a single movie.

This is not the first summer for this occurrence either. Last summer saw a greater share of movie sequels as well, including “Superman Returns,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” and “X-Men: The Last Stand.”

I want to know where has all the creativity went. Now it just seems that Hollywood’s creative well has finally dried up and can only churn out movies based as sequels or movies that are intended to be sequels so they don’t have to think hard when creating “new” content.

I am making a cry out loud to anyone in Hollywood: Stop being lazy and make a halfway decent movie. I don’t mind sequels, especially when they are good, but Hollywood cannot survive on sequels alone.

We – the American audience – need more fun, creative, interesting and sometimes intellectually stimulating movies. We know you can do it, Hollywood. I mean you came out with “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl,” and that movie was a hit at the box office and with critics. We love that movie. So, since it was done once, we know Hollywood can do it again.

We need to stop these endless summers of movies and bring out quality movie experiences. Otherwise, there’s no point in paying close to $10 for something that probably won’t be good anyway.