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PICK YOUR WORST SEQUEL(S) EVER. IT'S A CHOOSE YOUR OWN NOMINATIONS DEBATE THIS TIME. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE RESTRAINED TO MY OWN.

My nominations?

 

[Do The Mario]

Staying Alive the god awful squeal to my favorite movie of all time Saturday night Fever.

Grease 2 gets a dishonorable mention.

 

[xsarien]

Uh, HELLO?

The worst sequel ever is obviously the sequel to an original that's in the running for "Worst movie ever."

 

[Outlaw]

 

[kumanoki]

Uh, HELLO?

The worst sequel ever is obviously the sequel to an original that's in the running for "Worst movie ever."

Who wrote that tagline? 'A lively comedy about a living doll'? Jesus Christ. I hope someone got fired over that piece of tripe....

 

[Tarazet]

2010: Odyssey Two was pretty bad. Half of the critics who watched 2001 hated it for being so abstract, but the sequel is so literal that it's mind-numbing.

 

[xsarien]

Who wrote that tagline? 'A lively comedy about a living doll'? Jesus Christ. I hope someone got fired over that piece of tripe....

The person who came up with the tag line should be the last person on the list of people who need to be fired over M2.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[android]

This piece of garbage. Fuck you Joel Schumacher

 

[Bigfoot]

Starship Troopers 2

No returning actors, and a Outer Limits type story.. it was like they just put the Starship Troopers name on it to sell more.
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[calder]

SO bad it pretty much ruined the first, actually pretty cool, movie. Not only bad on every level, but utterly incomprehensible and the few things you could understand TOTALLY contradicted the cool mythology the first movie created.

But don't just take my word for it:

Highlander 2: The Quickening

BY ROGER EBERT / November 1, 1991

This movie has to be seen to be believed. On the other hand, maybe that's too high a price to pay. "Highlander 2: The Quickening" is the most hilariously incomprehensible movie I've seen in many a long day - a movie almost awesome in its badness. Wherever science fiction fans gather, in decades and generations to come, this film will be remembered in hushed tones as one of the immortal low points of the genre.

The story opens in the year 1999, and then we get the title card "25 Years Later," followed not long after by the title card "The Planet Zeist, 500 Years Ago." Uh, are those Earth years or Zeist years? Apparently Zeist, which has a sun so close it takes up a quarter of the visible sky, revolves around that orb so slowly that a Zeist year is exactly the same as an earth year, which accounts for the fact that one of the Immortals sent to earth 500 years ago found himself in medieval Scotland, also 500 years ago.

Now about the Immortals. They led a rebellion on Zeist, and were banished to Earth, under a sentence of eternal life. They cannot die. In a sense. Actually, they can, but it depends. Or, as one of the characters explains it more helpfully, "You will live forever here, until you return to Zeist, where you can die, or, under certain circumstances, you can die here, but not on Zeist." The immortals are played by Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert, and they have both been on Earth 500 (Earth) years, and will be here a lot longer, looks like. Meanwhile, in the year 1999, the disappearing ozone layer is causing global panic on Earth. The ozone has finally been destroyed by billions of deodorized armpits, and people are dying like flies, until a corporation headed by Lambert devises a shield to save the planet. This shield, known as the Shield, involves using all of the energy on the planet, concentrated into a laser beam which is shot up to a satellite, whereupon the Earth is saved from excess solar radiation, but there's a catch: It will always be night, and the temperature and humidity will both hover around 99.

Flash forward 25 years, as the older Lambert goes to an opera, wearing a tuxedo, which people still wear despite the heat wave and the 99 percent humidity. Life in big cities has grown dangerous and criminal, although people are still alive and should not complain, considering that you would think that the total blackout on Earth might have curtailed food production, since nothing could grow.

For that matter, why isn't everything covered with a carpet of fungus? And for that matter, why is the humidity 99 percent - after all, the lack of sunlight should have (a) ended the process of cloud formation, so that, without rain, all of the water would end up in the oceans and the land would be a desert, and (b) without warmth from the sun, a new Ice Age should have begun? Never mind. Earth is in the grip of an evil cartel which manages the Shield, until a brave underground scientist (Virginia Madsen) hacks into the computers of the Shield's owners and discovers, as she breathlessly reports: "The solar radiation above the Shield is normal!!!" She explains that the ozone layer has "repaired itself." Meanwhile, Sean Connery, still a creature of the medieval Scotland where he first arrived from Zeist, appears in the 21st century wearing a kilt and talking in a thick brogue, and gets himself suited up in modern dress before there are several sword fights. Also some byplay involving bad guys on the planet Zeist. If there is a planet somewhere whose civilization is based on the worst movies of all time, "Highlander 2: The Quickening" deserves a sacred place among their most treasured artifacts.

FILM NOTE: "Quickening" is a process by which two people touch each other and are surrounded by special effects making it look as if one of them is standing in a puddle and the other had just stuck his finger into a light socket.

 

[xsarien]

Hm, I'm not sure if I can top that.

Wait, wait....

 

[Dead]

among the most recent.

 

[FrenchMovieTheme]

 

[Mike Works]

 

[Firest0rm]

Ghost Busters 2

 

[Ecrofirt]

Return of the living Dead 3 is the one everyone knows about. It's more good than bad.

 

[border]

This is a tough question because it is difficult to come up with the criteria for what makes a bad sequel. Is a bad sequel to a bad movie better or worse than a bad sequel to a good movie? Should I judge on how much it screwed up a franchise, or just from more objective standards?

Hm, I'm not sure if I can top that.

Wait, wait....

Fission Mailed -- Kangaroo Jack isn't a sequel to anything.

What's up with the "Family Edition" of SuperBabies 2? Are you telling me that there is a more raunchy cut of the film featuring tits and foul language?

 

[demon]

OH YES I WENT THERE.

 

[Jim Bowie]

Ghost Busters 2

BAN THIS FILTH

+1 Mannequin 2. Have you guys actually SEEN it?

I HAVE.

 

[FoneBone]

among the most recent.

Not even close...

 

[demon]

BAN THIS FILTH

+1 Mannequin 2. Have you guys actually SEEN it?

I HAVE.

But, but, dude turns into a manequin and falls out of a hot air balloon! THAT'S classic cinema!

btw, I used to watch Manequin 1 over and over and over on tape when I was in gradeschool. No idea why. Maybe it was because the manequin chick was fuckin hot.

 

[xsarien]

Fission Mailed -- Kangaroo Jack isn't a sequel to anything.

Nevermind. It's 1 a.m., I can't read.

 

[Dead]

Not even close...

You have no idea how much I loathe that film.


And besides I added recent, of course its not the all time worst

 

[hobbitx]

No way, for the "Freeway" and "I'll handle them." scenes alone this movie will be worshipped forever by me. It had deadly albino jamaican things for crying out loud, you just can't go wrong with those. :lol

Oh, Robocop 3 was absolute shit.

 

[Pudding Tame]

Any sequel that has Too in the title instead of 2 or II, should pretty much automatically qualify.

 

[xsarien]

Ooooh.

Trump card!

Any sequel that has Too in the title instead of 2 or II, should pretty much automatically qualify.

Hey, you leave Teen Wolf out of this!

 

[DrForester]

There is only one true winner for bad sequels. The first one was a classic. From that the money makers spawned ALMOST A DOZEN BAD SEQUELS! At 8, they stoped numbering them....

and now the pictures, to drive the horror home!

 

[Chony]

 

[NLB2]

http://imdb.com/find?q=Pope Leo XIII;tt=on;nm=on;mx=20

All of these movies suck.

 

[TheDuce22]

I havent seen it but this is a safe prediction.

 

[Ironclad]

And to think that the first one was a great movie. The second one was absolute blasphemy.

 

[Manabanana]

Ghost Busters 2

Wasn't as good as the original, but it wasn't BAD by any stretch.

I'll nominate BR2. The first movie seemed really complete to me. Even the conept of a sequel seemed really forced, and the movie was awful to boot.

 

[Jim Bowie]

Wasn't as good as the original, but it wasn't BAD by any stretch.

I'll nominate BR2. The first movie seemed really complete to me. Even the conept of a sequel seemed really forced, and the movie was awful to boot.

I think they just did it in a completely wrong way. It would have been cool if they had picked up where BR left off, with Shuuya finding other survivors and trying to break down the system. Then they could have had this whole thing where the students in the current game stand up to them and don't kill each other, and the collars don't go off at the end of three days. When that happens, they all go back to the school, and the military just kills them all. School kids rebel, led by Shuuya, and take down the current government. It'd be sweet.

 

[Deleted member 4784]

 

[Deleted member 4784]

There is only one true winner for bad sequels. The first one was a classic. From that the money makers spawned ALMOST A DOZEN BAD SEQUELS! At 8, they stoped numbering them....

and now the pictures, to drive the horror home!

OMG I loved the first cartoon. I knew that they made a shitty sequel and all but I had no idea they did EIGHT of the. D= WTF?

 

[Ristamar]

WINNER

 

[Shazapp]

 

[Jim Bowie]

That was pretty bad. And it was all in Russian, I couldn't understand it.

 

[Error Macro]

Ghost Busters 2

I was just waiting for someone to mention that.


YOU SHOULD BE BANNED!!

But only after you've been tarred and feathered, drug out of town, hung upside down from a tree, and horsewhipped.

Should your maker even be so lenient!

I think you should start repenting now.

 

[impirius]

Jurassic Park II: The Lost World


Raptors cannot withstand the power of GYMNASTICS!

 

[lexi]

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

I vote for:

Mortal Kombat Annihilation
Dumb and Dumberer(never saw it, but it still gets the vote)
The Son of the Mask (never saw it, but it still gets the vote)

And who the hell said Matrix Reloaded? That movie is great, my favorite of the series (yes.. BETTER than the first.. muahahaha).

 

[Firest0rm]

I'm sorry i pissed off my fellow GB fans, but to me it was complete disappointment. No where near the original's quality. The story completely sucked, by the end of the movie it didn't feel like I really watched a movie because it was so shallow and boring. No enjoyment came out of it. It simply lacked the magic that GB had. And FYI, GB is my favorite movie.

 

[Crag Dweller]

 

[MIMIC]

Only one killer? C'mon....

 

[bud]

It wasn't as good as the first two, but it's still good!

 

[Blackace]

the first one was good?

 

[WedgeX]

 

[EdLuva]

Naw, Breakin' 2 is a classic.

Son of the Mask looks to win Worst Sequel Ever.