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Thats a really tough question. I think there is two ways to look at it.

The sequel that was just the flat out most aweful piece of crap made: Jaws 3D

The sequel that fell shortest from what it could have been: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

I know a lot of people didn't like Blair Witch Project, but I did. That's why Blair Witch 2 sucked so much balls. Was there even a coherent plot to that movie?

But the porn version of Blair Witch Project was top notch!

Since I avoided seeing it based on all the bad reviews and comments from friends, the latest Indiana Jones.

Gotta put Major League II up there.

But my personal award goes to Blues Brothers 2000, for sheer sacrilege purposes.

For me, it's a tie between Ghostbusters II and The Crow: City of Angels.

Gots to be Blues Brothers 2000. What a gigantic turd on the memory of a classic. Just thinking about it makes me want to hug my children.

Meatballs 2. I may be misremembering the hilarity of the first one, but I remember being utterly dumbfounded at the lack of hilarity in the second.

Also, I'm gonna' go with Bridget Jones 2: Bridget Jonesier or whatever it was called. I thought the first movie was cute and charming and pretty palatable for a "chick flick", but the sequel was just asinine.

Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions

Oh, God, Attack of the Clones. Does that count?

Dip in quality eh, I'm posting a Worst Sequels Ever list later on my site, but as for dip in quality, here are the biggest chasms.

Godfather II and Godfather III
Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal
Aliens and Alien 3

lateformyfuneral, did you really hate The Golden Age that much? Did you find it awful of its own merits (or lack thereof) or was it just such a dropoff from the first one? Because I'm with you on the dropoff part, but I didn't hate it...

As for my answer, I'd have to say Annie 2.

Aliens
Posted by: George at April 22, 2009 4:35 PM

GEORGE!! How could you?! :p

I like Aliens better than the original.

TK, you nailed it - Blues Brothers 2000 has got to be the biggest drop off in quality in a sequel - EVER!

figgy, dead wrong - Ocean's 12 was fantastic! Though I get why people who were expecting more of the same were disappointed, I'll quote Ebert in saying that "Ocean's 12 is not so much a caper film as a jazz improvisation on caper themes."

Ooooh, Julie! Jaws IV: The Revenge! That is a good one. I remember MST3K-ing that one in the dollar-movie with my friends. I believe the shark was was wearing a fake mustache and glasses in the airport, following the main characters as they got on the airplane to fly south. I forgot about the roar. That's awesome.

... although I will say it only took me five unbearably shitty movies (Matrix 2 & 3, Star Wars 1, 2,3) before I actually wised up and did not see X-Men 3, Spider-Man 3 or Indiana Jones 4.

I'm saving it all up for Transformers 2, which I am going to solely for the air conditioning and because there has to be at least one explosion.

I agree about Alien 3, I prefer to ignore it and have the Ripley story end just before. Maybe if the studio had gone with the William Gibson script I could allow it to enter my consciousness. Le sigh...
However Aliens is good just a completely different type of movie than Alien, although I do favour Alien.

Twig: I heard even the explosions explode.

When I recovered from the fanboy shock and awe of the Matrix sequels, I realized how must the Wachowskis (sic) violated me. Same to you, Spiderman 3.

Mr. Tusks - if it was a cash-in sequel it would've been O13 - fun but basically the same movie. They were really trying something different with O12. Granted, some of what they tried was bizarre, but I don't think it's fair to call it a cash-in.

I believe the shark was was wearing a fake mustache and glasses in the airport, following the main characters as they got on the airplane to fly south.

HA HA HA HA HA HA!! Hoof Hearted, that visual completely made my day.

Yes, I agree on all of the Matrix 2 & 3 hate -- after the first movie, I totally thought they were going to take it somewhere new. Instead, it became The New Testament: Reloaded. Lame.

OK, that's fair!

Agree that the Matrixes (matrices?) sucked it hard!

Oh, and another one... I can't believe I'm saying this... Clerks 2. Some would argue that the first one sucked, so there was no precipitous drop off in quality. I, however, loved the first one, and was shitting myself silly in anticipation of the sequel.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that it was unwatchable, but as an early 30's follow-up to early 20's aimlessness, it just didn't do it for me. Worthy of 1 viewing only, as opposed to the zillions of Clerks 1 viewings.

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde.

I realize the first one wasn't exactly a cinematic masterpiece, but it was fun and cute.

But the second one was just insulting. It was so bad it ruined the first one for me.

Spiderman 3. I mean seriously, Spiderman 2 was great and wonderful.

Spiderman 3 was cancerous and horrid.

Grease 2.

Hahahahahahaaa!!! Sad, isn't it???

What, annoyingmouse, you didn't enjoy EmoSpidey and his amazing tango skills? Or pretty much the entire rewrite of Uncle Ben's death from the first movie?

28 Weeks Later. It just didn't compare.

All of the Bring It On sequels.

The Mummy sequels

The Halloween sequels

Spider-Man 3

Mission Impossible 2

Terminator 3

I'm with jM. 28 Weeks Later... The best thing about that movie was Jeremy Renner. He gave me something to look at while I despaired at the sequel to a movie I love so much.

I also share in giving the ol' stink-eye to X-Men 3, Spider-Man 3, & Terminator 3.

28 Weeks Later was pretty bad as a sequel, but on its own I didn't think it was that bad. It was pretty stupid, mostly because of two fucking kids (I hate kids in horror movies), but...it's not embarrassingly bad. I guess.

"you didn't enjoy EmoSpidey and his amazing tango skills?"

No I didn't like him, Melissa. Not one bit. And I had actually forgotten about that part of the movie. Thanks for reminding me.

I also thought Casper van Dien was a horrible choice for Venom. I mean, why even bring Venom into the movie?

And why was Sandman like EmoDad? So he could be a match for EmoSpidey?

I second Grease 2.

It's always been on my list of worst movies EVER, not so much because it's terrible on its own, but it's SO terrible and unwatchable when compared to the original. Grease may not be a masterpiece, but it's FUN. Grease 2 sucks all the fun out of the room and shits it out over your head.

Martix 2 & 3 get such a bad rep because after The Matrix there was nowhere to go but down, and while the story's development was somewhat inevitable, its execution was less mindalteringly awesome - the lack of novelty and the predictability likely hurt those sequels more than any lack of quality.

Hannibal, while not excellent, is hardly the immense step down that people make it out to be. The book was way better to be sure, but if Hannibal and the Matrices make this list then I'm going to throw The Two Towers and Return of the King on the pile. Yeah, visually great, but nothing earthshakingly new there, and dear sweet godtopus, the plot really couldn't move much slower, nor the characters be more wooden.

you are not alone, AudioSuede. when was the last time you all watched caddyshack? there are some grueling, long, dull stretches in that movie. interspersed with exquisite brilliance, to be sure, but the down times are painful and sleep-inducing. but blues brothers was super-fantastic the whole way through, with awesome musical numbers and quotes out the wazoo. blues brothers 2000 was an effin' train wreck. how dare they...

Saying Grease 2 is bad compared to Grease is like saying brain cancer is bad compared to ass cancer.

Also, Batnipples.

Austin Powers: Goldmember

Though it did give me some fodder to give my co-worker shit. He's got the most Dutch (Dutchiest? Hollandic?) name I have ever heard. Another co-worker and I take great pleasure in randomly saying, "I am from Holland! Isn't zat vierd?!"

Here's an awesome idea for a terrible sequel from the Fug Girls - There Will Be Blood II: No Seriously, There Will Be So Much.

Teen Wolf Too.

I also thought Casper van Dien was a horrible choice for Venom. I mean, why even bring Venom into the movie?

Just so ya know, the actor portraying Venom was Topher Grace not Casper Van Dien. Either way, the movie still sucked.

That being said, add me to the "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull thingy" as worse sequel ever. I wept silent tears into my popcorn bucket through the entire movie.

Speed 2
Teen Wolf Too
Matrix 2 (I kind of liked 3)
Spiderman 3
Caddyshack 2
All the Star Wars Prequels
Mission Impossible II
Star Trek III, V, VII, IX, X
and
Aliens 3
all reeked to varying degrees of stench, but nothing compares to the horror that is---

Blues Brothers 2000

Gonna second Highlander 2 and defend Clerks 2.

The best thing about the first Clerks is that there is a second Clerks.

Batman and Robin. Fuck that thing. It made my soul bleed from my rectum. Which was more pleasurable than the movie itself. The meds were just starting to work and I had it just about wiped from my memory. Fuck you Batman and Robin. Fuck you in the eye.

I haven't seen the Crystal Skull Fuck yet, because I am afraid. So very afraid.

Fuck you Batman and Robin. Fuck you in the eye.

don't know if this counts as a sequel:

dumb and dumberer

only movie i've ever walked out on. i grew up on dumb and dumber, and to this day can quote it from beginning to end. admittedly, it was not a masterpiece of cinema. but come on.

No sequel has made me as angry as Highlander 2 - it wasn't just preposterous, it also destroyed the mystique of the first - making the immortals aliens - F*ck you!
Also, Speed 2 was one of the worst wastes of film ever inflicted on the viewing public.

No fucking way there's a Butterfly Effect 2.

NO. FUCK YOU. NO!

Highlander 2, end of story.

Wait. I forgot the first 2 batman movies with Keaton. They're safe too.

It's predecessor was a cinematic abortion, and it's technically not out yet, but I'm betting Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakwill.

I'd have to go with The Exorcist/Excorcist II: The Heritic. From a movie that was concidered a cultural phenomenon, to a movie that was laughed right off the screen. The only caveat is, the sequel was so hilariously awful that it accidentally became entertaining again.

George at April 22, 2009 5:50 PM: "That's why I put Silence [of the Lambs], which wasn't a sequel..."

Actually, it was.

Manhunter, 1986
Silence of the Lambs, 1991

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. MM2 (Road Warrior, depending on where you are from) was a action film/road movie that stands up pretty well today, but for whatever reason they turned the third into a family friendly fantasy film with no connection to the original. Tina Turner?????

Alien3 was a turning point for the franchise, but I’ll nominate 4 as the film that really set sail for Suckland. 3 was disappointing by comparison to Aliens, but in isolation from the rest of the series it is still watchable, albeit grim. Besides, I have a soft spot for David Fincher.

The Matrix sequels were disappointments, considering where they could have gone- say, a darker, terrorist themed direction? At least it might have spoken to the times as good sci fi should, instead of becoming yet another fantasy film loaded with awssum tech, cgi and nothing much to say.

Highlander 2 and everything that followed blew chunks, however they did at least unequivocally establish Christopher Lambert’s status as a cinematic no-go zone.

Sorry George, but +1 for Jedi from me for being where the rot started. Eps 1,2 and 3 were uniformly awful, but the seeds of future suck were sewn in Jedi- horrible script, merchandise driven creatures, over emphasis on fx direction vs actor direction, etc. Saying that, there is an argument that Clones was still a tangible drop-off from Phantom. Lucas’ palsied attempt at a romantic subplot was a squirm-worthy cringe fest, with both leads utterly unable to elevate his purple prose* to anything remotely convincing. It was however brought back to par by the lack of Jar Jar Binks and the sight of Christopher Lee fighting Yoda, looking like Bill Murray in a wig and cape trying to bat an angry gopher.

*from my favourite review, ”as livid as a three day old bruise”

Why is there so much hate on Alien 3?

Listen, you hosers, the "Alien" movies are the story of Ripley and the alien species. They aren't about love interests and 8 year old girls.

"But they killed Newt and Hicks!!!"

Cry me a FUCKING river, will you? One character is a second grader played by a girl who had never acted before and has never acted since, and the other is a love interest/expendable soldier, who, while awesome, was severely injured after getting sprayed by acid. He is and was always expendable. You know this. If you didn't realize after the first movie that the only characters that AREN'T expendable are Ripley and the alien then that's your problem.

But I repeat. IT IS NOT THEIR STORIES, so why do they need to be in the next one? Sure, they could have had him in it and given him a proper demise, but in the end Michael Biehn got paid more for a crappy green 2-sec picture of himself in Alien 3 than he did for all of Aliens.

Second, the "directors" cut of 3 that was recently released expands on the characters and their relationships. It also fills in missing scenes (such as why the guy in the straight jacket never reappears and sets the alien free again) and makes the movie far more complete. Not what Fincher had in mind, for sure, but closer and better.

Technically and cincematically speaking the movie is also probably the best looking Alien film aside from the first. The sets were labyrinthical and haunting in their church-like appearance. The direction by Fincher is great for a first time big-budget movie, and, well, if you haven't paid attention to the acting then start doing so because this is a character driven film. There are several awesome performances by some stellar acting talents, and it is easily one of Sigourney Weavers best films.

I will concede that the CGI effects of the alien look like crap, but this was '92 and CGI sucked backed then. However, that doesn't change the fact that the hybrid dog alien design is pretty fucking amazing (having been designed by Giger after all..)

Try to understand that Alien 3 had no chance to be done as an action film after the resounding success of Aliens. None. And because of that Hicks and Newt were superfluous characters.

Aliens is and will always be one of the top action and Sci-fi films of all time. There is no denying that. However, like Alien 3, Aliens was nothing like the previous, so why the hell should they make another action film after the previous one set the bar really damn high? Okay so Newt's in it. What happens? She gets kidnapped again and Ripley is forced to rescue her again? Wow! Original!

Think about that for a second...most of the shitty sequels on the lists you all mention were films that essentially tried to copy off the success of the first. And the reeeeeeally hated ones are sequels to movies that were reeeeeally damn good. Aliens was successful because it was nothing like Alien and I think it is pretty safe to say that had Aliens been an edge-of-your-seat-tension-filled-horror-film like Alien it probably would have "sucked", too.

You all know this but continue to hate on a really cool and well made film because you are so blinded by your love of the previous one. I seriously can't believe that some of you actually put it on your list with movies like Robocop 3 and Alien Resurrection in existence. (But even Resurrection has a peculiar foreign charm to it...that's the unique thing about the Alien films to me. Four unique directors, four unique visions, four unique movies.)

Go look at the extended version of Alien 3 as a character driven horror film for once instead of the sequel to Aliens, and then get back to me. You might surprise yourselves.

No no no you all have it so wrong:

Home Alone 4.

"Stardust Savant", you made me laugh my ass off with that There Will Be Blood crack. If they ever did do a sequel to it, they would have to up the discomfort level from the first one. To do this, the sequel would pick up exactly where the first one left off in the bowling alley and would consist of five hours of extreme close-up on Eli's smashed head with the heavily amplified smacking sounds of Daniel eating ribs dubbed over it with a musical accompanyment by Trent Reznor composed of the sounds of industrial sawblades and herniated babies crying which will keep getting louder until it reaches a near-deafening pitch. To add to the experience, the theaters will crank up the heat in all of the screenings to a sweltering 90 degrees and will have given out free saurkraut before the movie begins. The doors will be locked from the outside. Eight will die at the first and only screening, while others will suffer from a mixture of food poisoning and severe exhaustion, nine will be committed to a mental institution. Grown Men will weep and tear at their hair at the very mention of its title and all who assisted in it's creation will be executed for crimes against humanity and buried in a single unmarked grave. It will go down in history as the worst event in cinematic history, second only to the DVD release of "Big Mamma's House 2".

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So, compare Revenge of the Nerds 4: Booger's Wedding to the original. They're just not the same, man! They're just not the same!

But my personal award goes to Blues Brothers 2000, for sheer sacrilege purposes.

Absolutely.

Batman and Robin - It scarred me forever.

The spouse nominates Rocky 5.

None of you have mentioned Son of the Mask??? One of the worst rated movies of all eternity?

COME ON!!!

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.

L to the AME.

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. I know I am showing my age here but I cannot think of a series of movies that both the best and the worst of the series include the "stars" of the films with Christoper Reeves, Margot Kidder, and Gene Hackman. Granted the Superman flicks weren't that great but seeing them make 4 of them that got astronomically worse as they went along... Its one thing to see a franchise derailed and get bad, but it is so worse when it seems like everyone is in on it. I remember seeing it at the time and thinking "Jesus...they ALL have coke problems?!?!" I remember hearing about Reeves breaking his neck. My first thought was "That sounds about right...Karma for turning the man of steel into a fucking joke".

The latest 'Mummy' movie was absolutely terrible.

Matrix Reloaded!!! The big battle scene in the park had worse special effects than its XBOX video game counterpart.
I found Exorcist III to be funny, not scary, so I'm torn about it being a bad sequel.
Episode I, Godfather III (not terrible, but consider the gap between I-II and this), Blues Brothers 2000, Major League III: Back to the Minors (not even Bakula's new role in Chuck is making up for this growler), and of course, Batman and Robin.
And Caddyshack is overrated, except for Lacey Underall. Sweet Jesus.

Heh George, I see what you were getting at now!

I choose to interpret the guidelines for worst ever to be the worst film to come directly after the original film. By this measure I think that Caddyshack 2 or Exorcist 2 is probably the winner of the last 40 or so years. They had no redeeming qualities. By the time the truly worst sequel, Batman and Robin, came along the quality had already fallen in the series. Matrix 3 is another example. As someone else pointed out ROTJ buffered the suck of Phantom Menace (which was also ever so slightly redeemed by Darth Maul). Jaws sequels, same thing.

Alien3 was a pretty good movie if you look at it like some guy. And Godfather 3 is a good movie if you just read the paper during any scene with Sophia.

I'm going with Caddyshack 2 and Blues Brothers 2000.

There is no way Ghostbusters 2 should even be considered for Worst Sequel.

Thumbs up to some guy for defending Alien 3.

And some of you don't seem to realize that a sequel can't be too bad if the original wasn't great to beign with.

Aliens 3 sucked for many reasons:

1)it was not scary;
2)it made the ending of Aliens 2 seem pointless;
3)the people getting killed were convicts and there was no reason to care;
4)those same people all looked alike and had no distinct personalities, so again, no reason to care;
5)95% of the movie took place in rust-colored corridors and was BORING, BORING, BORING.

I don't know how you make one of those creatures dull, but Aliens 3 managed it.

Anyone who refers to "Aliens" as "Aliens 2" looses any credibility in my opinion to argue the merits of the Alien films.

But to refute you anyways, Bessie:

1) Aliens is not scary.
2) Aliens made the ending of Alien seem pointless.
3) The people getting killed in Aliens were expendable soldiers, 95 percent of which never speak save for a line or two, and there is no particular reason to care about them.
4) 95 percent of those soldiers talked, walked and acted like soldiers. No distinct personalities, save for Hudson and Apone. Again, no reason to care.
5. 95 percent of the movie took place in an abandoned factory which looked exactly the same. The sets in Alien 3 was actually designed and built originally to look like a giant church, which they do.

See how easy that was?

Sorry, Some Guy, I just can't agree with you. Just one of those fuckers roaming around was scary in the first movie, so the idea of a whole hive of them made me wet my pants. And the part where they find the whole colony stuck to the walls, including the kids, all of whom got to watch each other die horrific deaths, was really disturbing to me.

And yeah, they acted like soldiers because they were soldiers, but I liked their personalities. Some of them were definitely redshirts, but not all. Gormon was an ass as a leader, but I liked how he manned up in the end and was OK with taking orders from Hicks. Vasquez kicked ass, Burke was as slimy as they come (Reiser did a good job; normally I hate that guy), Hudson reacted much the way I would have, Bishop was awesome in how he calmly accepted android discrimination, and even the lesser characters were given good lines once in a while. They sure as hell had more personality than the shaved head guys from the third film; I couldn't remember any of their names when the movie ended.

And the setting was a tad generic, but at least it changed once in a while. All I remember from the third film is hallway, hallway, hallway, guys with shaved heads, Forrest Whittaker, big vats of lava. And these were fairly shitty people, stuck on a penal colony for doing fairly shitty things, so why should I care if they die? And since Ripley had spent much of the second movie taking care of Newt, it was a massive disappointment to kill the kid off within the first ten minutes of the next movie.

(Note: I have switched from using the actual titles to referring to them as first, second and third, for fear of accidentally sticking a "2" in there and offending someone's delicate sensibilities. Apologies, apologies all.)

However, because I am nothing if not fair minded, I will admit to liking Resurr...er, the fourth film well enough, and that if I get a coupon or something from the rental store, I may check out the third film again to see if I missed anything. I'm not holding my breath, though.

City Slickers 2
Analyze That

Why do you hurt me so, Billy?

For my friends and I, "Highlander 2" is slang for anything that's disastrous or unpleasant.

"The Bush years were a total Highlander 2."

"Michelle had an unwanted pregnancy, so she went to Planned Parenthood for a Highlander 2."

Nightmare on Elm St 2: Freddy's Revenge

That Jessie storyline BS was just LAME. I hated it. The first Nightmare was a masterpiece and the third film to the end were masterful in special effects. The second film was unnecessary.

Thinking about it, Battlefield Earth is the worst sequel ever.

I mean, it had nothing to do with Stayin' Alive OR Saturday Night Fever.

How has no one mentioned Temple Of Doom?