Worst sequels
 

After watching Men in Black 2, I'm pretty saddened. I think I can say it's one of the worst movies I've seen in my life. Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith hold it up though with some entertaining lines.

This happens a lot with sequels, they don't hold up, they can't capture the magic of the original.

What would you say are the worst sequels to great movies?

-Men In Black 2
-The Matrix sequels (how can you f*ck up this bad?)
-Alien sequels besides Aliens
-Escape from L.A
-Taken sequels

What else?

Terminator: Anything after Terminator 2

Jurassic Park: Anything after the first movie

Batman '89: Anything after Returns in the 90's era.

The Mummy 3

No way. MIB 2 gave us more of Frank the pug thus making it the superior movie.

Frank the Pug was annoying and one of the worst parts of 2. The worms were better comic relief.

Anchorman 2 was horrible
Dumb and Dumber 2 was ok but Medicore
Rocky 5 (It wasn't as good as the other movies even Sly hates it)

I like Escape from L.A. The whole Escape from N.Y./L.A. is absurd, but interesting. Jerry Fallwell as president? Map of the Stars Eddie? So stupid its funny.

Home Alone should have stopped after Lost In New York. 3 was not Kevin and not even left home while out of town. Then going by to Kevin in the direct-to-T.V. film? Why even bother?

I did not like Returns of all the Bat films. It was trying to hard to be dark and was not natural like the Nolan films.

Superman should have stopped after 2.

Terrible opinion. Frank is the only redeeming part of the movie.

-Son of the Mask
-Batman & Robin
-Spider-Man 3
-The Amazing Spider-Man 2
-Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
-Transformers 2 and 3
-Thor: The Dark World
-TMNT 3
-Karate Kid Part III & The New Karate Kid

Jaws 2 and 3

Superman 3 and 4 (and Returns too for that matter)

Agree to disagree man.

Terminator Genisys
Superman IV
Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection
Dark Knight Rises
Superman Returns
I like the Star Wars prequels better than Force Awakens.

There are good movies in some of these lists. :cry:

Regardless, I'm going to throw in Die Hard 2. I think if Die Hard with a Vengeance wasn’t as good as it is, Die Hard 2 would be lumped in with 4 and 5, but a lot of people give it a pass because it's part of the original three. 1 and 3 are great, but watch 2 again - it sucks.

Highlander 2: The Quickening.

Sweet Mother, yes. That movie does not exist in my book. What were they even thinking?! :teek: The other Highlander films were okay, but 2 was just- ugh.

Here's a few- Evil Dead 2 (Sorry, but I prefer 1 and AoD. ED 2 just basically rehashed the same story.)
Iron Man 3- Mandarin. Nuff said.
Child's Play 3 and 4- Yes, they were fun, but it loses something when Chucky suddenly has a wife and kid.... :trolleye:
X-Men 3- That was NO Phoenix, I do not acknowledge that movie. Plus, since when is Jamie Madrox a BAD guy?! He's part of frigging X-Factor, fer f**k's sake!

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.
Paul Blart II
Teen Wolf II

Both are better than the first ones.

Does this include all the DTVs?
The other day I was on wiki to check out Air Bud since I felt nostalgic and thought about re-watching it only to see that had like 8 sequels about the dog doing different sports, I think I only remember the soccer sequel. And not only that one of the sequels apparently got spun-off into another DTV sequel series with another 5 or so solid entries into the Air Bud franchise. :lol: I always find it amusing when I see these generic movies span sagas in DTV trash.



To add something to the thread, I recently saw War Games:Dead Code a 2008 DTV sequel to the 80s movie and what a terrible movie it was. My OCD will probably force me to watch it again in the future since the original computer and professor from the first movie appear in it just to have some "continuity".

Unnecessary? Maybe but they are not the "worst" sequels ever, these movies don't fit the other examples we see here.

It gets worse. The movies aren't about Bud himself. They're about his puppies. And they talk.

Ace Ventura 2 is better than the first one. Fact.

Preach it.

Fun fact: that was going to be a really good film. The original edit was really amazing. You can find super grainy copies on YouTube.

Then at some point it was re-edited into an almost unrecognizable film, and of course that's the one they released. :cry:

How about reboots that also suck? They're basically the same thing as sequels nowadays, just a cash-in on the original.

Now, we can all be agreed that Titanic: The Legend Goes On is a horrible load of tripe, its sequel, Tentacolino, is a whole new breed of awful. It's one thing to be a bad sequel, but it's another to be even more insulting mess than the original already was.

Cars 2
Batman & Robin
Star Trek V
Superman Returns
X-Men: The Last Stand

Ya know these sequels are bad, but still a lot better than A Crow: A wicked Prayer and Hellraiser 4- onward.
except the quickening. Oh man, I like the first Highlander and wanted to check out 2. Man that sucked.

I wish people would explain why instead of just making wall lists that no one reads.

As far as the Crow sequels I agree, I've seen them all since I'm a big fan of the first movie and my mind is a little bit hazy on them but they're all pretty bad. The second is basically a bad re-telling of the first movie except that it's a direct sequel since the little girl from the first movie appears in it as an adult. The other movies I can't even remember what they're about but some of them did have potential with having an original/interesting story for the character to have a tragic death and wanting to return for revenge but the rest of the movie just falls flat. I've never seen the TV show but I'm curious to watch it even if I heard it wasn't very good. A remake has been in development hell for years, and I kind of want to see it but I think it's just hard to re-create that 90s feel that makes the original so well. It's supposed to be based on the comics which I've never read but based on synopsis it doesn't look as fun as the first movie.

Every sequel to an old 80's or 90's movie has been terrible or mediocre. Someone refresh my memory if I'm forgetting something.

Worst of the worst? Dunno since I don't watch a lot of movies, but TMNT 3 was quite lousy. Hell, each TMNT movie is worse than the on that came before. And I'm not including TMNT 2007 and much less Turtles Forever in this. Those are animated films, so they should not be compared to the live action ones.

Die Hard 2 was my least favorite Die Hard movie. And before you ask, I haven't watched 4 or 5. DH2 was just, unmemorable. Then again it was hard to top the first ever Die Hard film, one of the greatest action movies of all time.

A fairly disappointing sequel was The Two Towers. Fellowship of the Ring was pretty good and Return of the King was epic, but The Two Towers was kinda boring.

Fury Road and Creed

They're not unwatchable, but they are really crappy. 4 is better than 5, which says a lot about 5.

Interestingly, I understand that neither one was written as a Die Hard sequel; they were generic action movie scripts that were re-purposed. It's tempting to say, that's why they stink, but Die Hard 3 wasn't originally a Die Hard movie either, and it's awesome.

-Thor: The Dark World
-Avengers: Age of Ultron
-Iron Man 2
-Iron Man 3
-Batman and Robin
-Superman IV
-Almost every Highlander sequel (Endgame ain't too bad)
-Every Universal Soldier sequel
-Every Land Before Time sequel
-X-Files: I Want to Believe