By Chris NashawatyNo one ever sets out to make a bad movie. But it happens. A lot. Especially when there's a 2, a III, or an Electric Boogaloo in the title. Hollywood's mania for sequels is a relatively new development. Sure, there was a string of Thin Man comedies back in the '30 and '40s — not to mention the ongoing B-movie shenanigans of Charlie Chan, Abbott and Costello, and Dracula, Blacula, and Scott Bakula. But never has the impulse to wring more something out of nothing been so craven and commonplace as it is right now.
Stars generally skip the inevitably cruddy sequels. And when they do crawl back for sloppy seconds, their heart never seems to be in it. That's because sequels, as a general rule, blow. But some are so ill-conceived, so cynically calculated, and so aggressively inept that they need to be called out and held accountable in the public square. Or, in this case, Entertainment Weekly. Hence our list of the 25 Worst Sequels Ever Made. But before we kick off the countdown of caca, a quick word on our criteria. First, we looked at how steep a sequel's drop-off in quality was from the original. Then we weighed how utterly unnecessary the sequel was. You're probably thinking, ''Yeah, but some sequels are so bad they're good!'' Those aren't on this list. These movies are so absolutely bad their badness can be measured only in Kelvin degrees. Finally, we factored in a certain intangible stankitude — a sort of je ne sais crap that makes a film so god-awful you wish there were a cinematic Hague where it could be tried. Until such a court is convened, however, all we can do is offer our testimony against these 25 offenders. We hope you have more fun reading about them than we had watching them.
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#1 in my book is 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
I challenge anyone to come up with a greater quality difference between the original and the sequel.
Maybe The Sting II with Mac Davis reprising the Paul Newman role. I didn't read the article yet.
Exorcist 2!
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It's annoying to go through that list one at a time but I made it. Here it is:
25) The Matrix Reloaded
24) The Next Karate Kid
23) Porkies 2
22) Teen Wolf 2
21) Legally Blonde 2
20) Godfather III
19) Revenge of the Nerds 2
18) Battle for the Planet of the Apes
17) Star Trek V
16) Oceans 12
15) Dumb and Dumberer
14) Conan (forgot which one)
13) The Sting 2
12) Star Wars: Episode I
11) Dirty Dancing 2
10) Jaws 4
9) Speed 2
8) Friday the 13th part 8
7) The Fly 2
6) Weekend at Bernies 2
5) Batman and Robin
4) Blues Brother 2000
3) Leprechaun 2
2) Caddyshack 2
1) Staying Alive
Oh, this article is a total wash. I mean, c'mon, isn't it about fifteen years too late to make noise about lame sequels? This statement is beyond irrelevant: "That's because sequels, as a general rule, blow."
And their criteria is farked. Was Weekend at Bernie's 2 really such a huge disappointment based on the first one? How about the fact that Phantom Menace isn't a sequel. Shouldn't somebody in contemporary cinema journalism know the difference between a sequel and a prequel, or was this just written by someone's grandma?
And it's clear they just picked the funniest-sounding names for the Friday the 13th and Leprechaun series instead of doing the actual work. Scanning the work of our intrepid Leprechaun hunter Marc we see that it's the third Leprechaun movie that's the worst. And there's a couple 'thonners who will testify that Jason X is far worse than Jason Takes Manhattan, myself included. Have ye not heard the lore?
They lost me when the first one was Matrix Reloaded. The "common knowledge" that those sequels were bad is more infuriating than people who liked True Lies.
Thanks, Mr. Pants!
Well put, Rodrigo!
I wholeheartedly agree Rodrigo, Superman 3 should have made the list.
And I thought the same thing as you Octo, regarding Jason X & Lep 3.
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