Worst sequel in movie history.

[Plane Sailing]

I hate sequels which rip up and throw away things that you know from previous films with no good reason.

My top offenders:

Highlander 2 (I saved a Highlander 1 fan from this, I felt great about that) Changed every basis for the film

Alien3 - simply wiped out major characters from Aliens without any thought. A pointless sequel that missed so much opportunity.

Karate Kid 3 - after the relationship which built in 2 (kid and master, kid and girl) that was unbelievably thrown away.

(I doubt if anyone will agree with me on this last one)

Terminator 2 - The first film was perfect, especially it's ending and the recursive nature of Biehn being the boys father etc. The second film introduces the T-2000 which is too incredibly advanced to be believed, the humans sent an Arnie back to protect this time (why didn't they send an arnie back last time? Didn't Biehn say they planned to blow the time transmitter after he was sent through). I feel that they wanted to do a sequel and include lots of cool effects but Arnie wanted to be a hero now and they needed to make it different. But for me it runs roughshod over the entire plot and backstory of the first one.

P.S. Of all the bond films I really liked "The world is not enough"; primarily where it is the first example I can recall of Bond actually killing someone in cold blood (and the second time in the film when he could have done it). I hated tomorrow never dies (the helicopter blades scene! the "stealth" boat!) and any bond film with "Jaws" in it. I recognise those are just personal taste issues of course.

Cheers

 

[LuYangShih]

Karate Kid 3. Damn, I had blocked that out of my mind. Not as bad as Insurrection, but it really did destroy any semblance of continuity between the previous films. It also managed to lose most of the charm the second film had.

 

[Someone]

I´m surprised no one mentioned the brain-numbing American ninja and Direstalker series.

 

[Rackhir]

I´m surprised no one mentioned the brain-numbing American ninja and Direstalker series.

I'm not sure they really count since they were ALL so bad, but only in a kind of bland generic stupid kind of way. I guess if someone is just trying to shove out a film to make some money it's not quite the same level of awfulness that can only be achieved when someone was trying to make a good movie or what ever it was some people were trying to do.

 

[Hackenslash]

The Worst Ever, Ever.....

My vote for worst sequels ever are as follows:

1st: Highlander 4-End Game - How Pants was this movie ? Should be used as a sample for movie students on how NOT to make a movie. Poor Acting and Very bad plot line. Just Terrible. Worse than Highlander 2.
2nd: The 2nd Crow Movie:City of Angels - a tragedy to the memory of Brandon Lee.
3rd: Star Trek: Nemesis - Way too Predictable and Old Hat, not even worthy of a double episode.
4th: Jeepers Creepers 2 - Drowned in extremely poor acting and crappy dialogue, lost the mystique and originality of the Creeper in the first movie. And what was up with that Pathetic Truck Harpoon Cannon Thingy ? Pleeease.....!!!!This actually deserves a Dennis Miller type Rant !!!
5th: Jaws 3 - Just awfull !!! Way too Bubbly and Cheesy. No Suspense and not thrilling at all, unlike the 1st Jaws, which caused Millions of people all over the world to look over their shoulder and pretend to not be scared, when swimming in the sea.

There are a lot of very poor sequals, but way too many to list here, these are just the ones that stick in my mind. Cheers All

 

[Dark Jezter]

I can't believe I forgot to mention Alien 3 in my original post. Alien and Aliens were fantastic, but Alien 3 was just awful. What happened?

Alien: Resurrection is actually fun to watch in a silly way. It feels like a live-action video game. It's also very MSTable if you have friends to watch it with.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I've never understood what people found wrong with Alien: Resurrection.
I saw it again the other day for the first time since I saw it in theatres
and I kinda expected it to suck (I mean, everybody seems to hate it, I
just reckoned I was awed by the FX or something when I saw it on the
big screen). But no, still brilliant. Second best in the series.

 

[Villano]

I've never understood what people found wrong with Alien: Resurrection.
I saw it again the other day for the first time since I saw it in theatres
and I kinda expected it to suck (I mean, everybody seems to hate it, I
just reckoned I was awed by the FX or something when I saw it on the
big screen). But no, still brilliant. Second best in the series.

I like it except for that terrible, unscary hybrid alien and the ending, which we saw in 2 other films. Sheesh, isn't there any other way to kill the things?

 

[Viking Bastard]

Heck, those are the things that are keeping it as 2nd best for me. Hate it
when good movies have kinda lackluster endings. One thing that bugged
me is that the ending kinda implied that the next movie would take place
on Earth but it doesn't seem to happening.

 

[jdavis]

There are a lot of ways to judge a bad sequel. Did it make money, was it generally disliked, did people claw their eyes out and run screamming from the theater? I think you can throw out sequels of crappy movies, it's crappy sequels of good movies that are bothersome (if the first movie was bad you expect the second to be bad too). Personal taste obviously has a lot to do with it too (I like Temple of Doom and hate Last Crusade for instance).

I'm probably dating myself but I'd have to vote for Smokey and the Bandit 3 "Smokey is the Bandit". It's 29 on the IMDB worst movies list: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0086325/
Granted Smokey and the Bandit 2 was horrible but the third one takes bad to a whole new level.

Mortal Kombat Annihilation also holds a hated place in my heart, my friends went to see it the day before I went to see it, they told me it was pretty good. They were waiting for me when the movie got out so they could laugh at me, I didn't find it that funny myself. What a crappy movie experience that was, it was so bad it wasn't even worth laughing at, it was just sad. (by the way Mortal Kombat 3 is in production: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0293429/ )

Highlander 2 deserves the recognition it is getting in this thread too. Man I'm glad it doesn't exist. If you had made a movie called Highlander 2 then changing "Planet Ziest" to "A long time ago" does not make for a improved Renegade version, it's the same crap.