Movie sequels, prequels, and threequels you wish had died in production Hell.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

In other words, bad followups to otherwise good first films. Stuff that was done just to cash in and probably wound up cheapening the original. Extra credit for movies where a popular supporting character from the original was clumsily brought back for the followup film(s), maybe by redefining their relationship to the protagonists.

A couple to start you off:
- Back to the Future III
- Rocky III, IV, and V (II didn't help or hurt the original and I liked VI)
- Ghostbusters II (Revived character: now Rick Moranis is the Ghostbuster's lawyer; he was an accountant in the 1st one)

[Xyzse]

1. I am going to be hated for this but...

Matrix II and III
Star Wars prequels 1-3
Indiana Jones - Crystal Skull
Spider Man 3 - Tobey Maguire and Topher Grace as Venom... TOPHER!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. With ya on all but the Matrix II & III... but only because somehow I never saw them OR the original.

[arcane1]

3. No argument there!

I'd add the recent Star Trek prequel to that list

[sharp_stick]

27. I can't disagree with any of those

Although I haven't seen SpiderMan III.

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull was probably my biggest disappointment. I went into that movie with the full intention of enjoying every second of it. At around the 45 minute mark I was starting to fidget at the truly idiotic plot and by the time the aliens, (again with the damned aliens from Spielberg... he ruined AI with this little shtick...I almost expect to see aliens come down and help Schindler save the Jews) show up I was ready to start chucking stuff at the screen. Truly a terrible movie and a total wrecker of the entire franchise.

[Xyzse]

28. Spielberg Ruined AI with Aliens?

I only seen one version of AI, the one with Haley Joel Osment right?
I thought those things were robots of the far future.

[sharp_stick]

29. I think you're right

I only saw it once in the theater and avoided any other production of it. Checked on Wikipedia and you are right they just look like aliens which in and of itself is another strike against the movie IMO.

They looked like Aliens and they provided one of the most sappy contrived endings I've ever seen in a film. It was so bad just reading about it stimulates my gag reflex.

"However, at David's insistence, they recreate Monica from DNA in the lock of her hair which had been saved by Teddy. Unfortunately, the clone can only live for a single day and the process cannot be repeated. David spends the happiest day of his life with Monica and Teddy, and Monica tells David that she loves him and has always loved him as she drifts to sleep for the final time. David lies down next to her, closes his eyes and goes "to that place where dreams are born". Teddy enters the scene, climbs onto the bed and watches as David and Monica lie down peacefully together."

[Xyzse]

30. LOL - Ok, I get the point.

I wasn't happy with that movie any how either.

[sharp_stick]

31. My wife, girlfriend at the time,

just loved it. She was sobbing through the ending with about half the theater and couldn't stop talking about it all the way home.

I just drove and tried to keep my mouth shut. I've been fortunate in that she never insisted on buying or renting in down the road.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Jaws 2-3,esp 3.

[Orrex]

7. So you liked 4?

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. OMG, there was a 4?????

I never even knew that.
Movie theatres have not been a large part of my life.

[Orrex]

13. after you see 4, you'll feel wistful and nostalgic for 3

[Angleae]

18. You ain't kidding.

It is quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen (or at least in the top 10).

[edbermac]

5. BTTF 3 was good, BTTF 2 was not.

And every Jaws sequel sucked ass.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. BTTF3 just seemed like beating the series to death.

"What can we do with them now?" "I know, send them to the old west! " Though granted if they hadn't done this one we might never have seen either Brisco County or Legend.

[Chan790]

32. Yeah, but that decision was made before they made BTTF2.

The two came out less than a year apart and I believe they went directly into shooting 3 from 2. The script for 2 was written expressly to presage the 3rd one in the way the end of the 1st one kicked off the second one. (The difference is that I think the end of the first was a lark (Doc Brown's in the future!) and not written with there being a second one in mind...the second one was clearly written to flow into part 3.)

[Mr.Bill]

8. Godfather III n/t

[Moondog]

9. Everything above, plus all "Species" sequels. n/t

[sakabatou]

10. Godzilla '98

[mythology]

12. Several I haven't seen mentioned

The other movies in the Crow franchise (although they aren't direct sequels), Highlander 2, 3 and Highlander the Source (Endgame was fine), X-Men 3, Rambo 2 and 3, The NeverEnding Story 2, Caddyshack 2, the most recent Die Hard (I mean who does Die Hard without cursing?), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. Caddyshack II !!! Should be the poster child film for this whole thread.

Extra credit for Chevy Chase semi-reprising his role, but now as the main owner of Bushwood.
No one else but the gopher came back.

[KamaAina]

14. The Pink Panther remake with Steve Martin.

They didn't even have him play Clouseau, but a distant American relative, Clifton Sleigh.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. I think you're thinking of Curse of the Pink Panther with Ted Wass from 'Soap' as Clifton Sleigh.

And, yeah, waaaaay bad. But hard to say which of the last 3 in the 'original' series was the most embarrassing:

Trail of the Pink Panther 1982 Features Peter Sellers as Clouseau using unused material from Strikes Again. This was intended as a tribute to Sellers, but after its release Sellers's widow Lynne Frederick successfully sued Edwards and the studio for tarnishing her late husband's memory. David Niven and Capucine reprise their original roles.

Curse of the Pink Panther 1983 Inspector Clouseau and the Pink Panther diamond, both of which had gone missing in Trail, are pursued by the bumbling American detective, Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass). Clouseau returns in an amusing cameo played by an uncredited Roger Moore after having plastic surgery to disguise his identity. Although intended to spawn a new series of misadventures for Sergeant Sleigh, the film's dismal box office performance and critical drubbing led to a decade-long hiatus of the series.

Son of the Pink Panther 1993 Roberto Benigni tries to revive the series by portraying Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli, Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son by Maria Gambrelli (the murder suspect from A Shot in the Dark). Once again, many former Panther co-stars return - Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk and Graham Stark, and a star of the original 1963 film, Claudia Cardinale. Although intended to relaunch the series with a new lovable bumbling hero, Son became the final installment in the original Panther series.

[Hayabusa]

15. Every single sequel to

any Don Bluth film. I'm talking Land Before Time, Secret of NIMH, American Tail and the others.

[sakabatou]

16. But I liked American Tail 2

[Hayabusa]

20. It's not bad

I'm primarily talking about everything else.

[sakabatou]

24. Oh.

[Angleae]

21. The Exorcist II, Star Trek V

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Honey, I Blew Up the Kids/We Shrunk Ourselves

[cmdrowens]

22. Any Which Way We Can.

Clint Eastwood. The first one, Any which way but loose was pretty funny, but the sequel really sucked I thought.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

23. Remember 'Any Which Way Rattan'? Clint bare-knuckle boxed patio chairs.

Straight to video as I recall.

[Initech]

25. Transformers!!! Ugh, I hate them all so much.

At least Megan Fox was nice to look at but that was the only redeeming qualities for those shitty movies.

[Inkfreak]

26. The sequel to The Boondock Saints

Just terrible.