“R.I.P.D. 2: Rise Of The Damned” (** out of four) was an unnecessary prequel to the 2013 horror comedy set in the 1876 wild West in which a small-town sheriff (Jeffrey Donovan) finds himself killed after a shootout with a local gang and is then recruited in the afterlife by the R.I.P.D. and finds a chance to come back and avenge his murder and also save the world at the same time. Hard to imagine why they made a follow-up to a movie that was a box-office flop and virtually no one liked but in all fairness- this is better and more watchable than the original. Still, though, it’s pretty thin stuff and probably has more in common with “Wild Wild West” than anything in the original movie.