Worst Movie Sequels That Took A Complete Dump On The Entire Franchise
Movies suck. Most of them are bad. But sometimes Hollywood manages to crank out a good one, and it makes a lot of money. So Hollywood goes back to the well again. And again. Hollywood lives on the back of the ever-profitable franchise.
The more it can milk from something with proven box-office power, the more theaters will fill up with movie sequels, prequels, and same universe stand-alones. But at some point, Hollywood’s luck runs out. And we’re left with garbage movies that sort of resemble the franchises of which they belong, but do nothing to live up to its name. And those are the most terrible movies of all.
So here are the worst movie sequels of all time.
Amityville 3-D
Not that the second Amityville movie was all that fantastic, but it at least had something to do with the original’s story. Amityville 3-D feels more like a cheap regurgitation of the original’s most memorable moments — you want flies? We’ve got flies! — only with three dimensions!
Home Alone 3
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If it doesn’t star a young, precocious Macaulay Culkin, then can you really call it a Home Alone movie? No. You can’t.
You also can’t make a sequel five years after a franchise’s most recent installment, make its main character some kid who bears only a slight resemblance to the former, and then give it essentially the exact same plot as the first film, plus a few terrorists.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Remember watching Home Improvement as a kid and fawning over Jonathan Taylor Thomas because he was just so damn cute? Well, he isn’t in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, but the kid that played his older brother is. You know the one.
The less attractive one who also has three names, none of which you can actually remember today.
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
The first Brendan Fraser Mummy movie was actually pretty great, and if you happened to be around at the time of its theatrical release, those graphics were kind of astounding. Granted, they don’t hold up these days, but still. The second one was on the okay side, too, obnoxious kid aside.
Then seven years go by, and we get this turd in the sand, which tried to pass off a completely different actress as Evie, like we wouldn’t know the difference between the goddess that is Rachel Weisz and a damn imposter. But we knew.