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Where would Hollywood be without continuation ? A set pathetic , for starters . Even as far back as movie theatre ’s understood geological era , audiences have perennially clamored for the return of pet characters in dear franchise .
Clearly , the modern box billet continues to support this trend . Of the 20 top - grossing films of 2017 thus far , 10 are straightforward sequels ( includingGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2,Cars 3andWar for the Planet of the Apes ) , while another four can at least be count as good continuation of larger stories already in advancement ( for example Wonder Womanas part of the DCEU , Splitwith its character links toUnbreakable ) .
Still , there are those occasions when the film industry simply does n’t know when to quit . Major stars refuse to return , a account and its characters have discharge all narrative possibilities , loge agency returns from former series entries have plump dramatically — whatever the rationality , there are ample warning signs that the hoopla should be pulled , and yet studios go ahead and make the movie anyway . In those instances , the subsequence are often converge with interview indifference and/or decisive derision . Many of these unconvincing follow - ups end up on the compilation siteRotten Tomatoessporting a 0 % score .
Here , then , are those filmic bottom feeders — The 15 Worst Sequels Ever ( agree To Rotten Tomatoes ) .
LOOK WHO’S TALKING NOW!
After starring in several costly collapse , John Travolta rebound back with 1989’sLook Who ’s Talking , a robust striking whose hook shot was that it take into account audiences to hear the inner thoughts of a baby named Mikey ( vocalise by Bruce Willis ) . Kirstie Alley played Mikey ’s mum , Travolta co - starred as her boyfriend , and the film was popular enough to win over author - director Amy Heckerling to return with 1990’sLook Who ’s babble out Too .
Despite reunite the three principal roll penis and addingRoseanne Barras the vocalism of Mikey ’s sister , the boxful office was down significantly . Still , this did n’t prevent the studio apartment from bankroll 1993’sLook Who ’s spill Now !
Heckerling , Willis , and Barr bail on this installment , leaving Travolta and Alley holding the bag of dirty diapers . In this jaunt , the kids are now onetime enough to verbalize for themselves , so the focal point shifts to the conversations between two cur ( voiced by Diane Keaton and Danny DeVito ) .
TheLook Who ’s Talkingseries was never false for high nontextual matter , but with this execrable installment , it resolutely went to the dogs .
LEPRECHAUN 2
Of the sixLeprechaunfilms star Warwick Davis as the homicidal sprite , half sport a 0 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes . Yet of those three , only one was made for theatrical vent ( the others last straight to video ) . That would be 1994’sLeprechaun 2 , the first follow - up to the modest 1993 smash that featuredJennifer Anistonin her film debut .
apart from Davis , no one from the first film return for the 2d installment , which worry the elbow grease of the Leprechaun to force an unwilling young woman to be his wife . It ’s good to say that nobody has ever discombobulate this witless motion-picture show withBride of Frankenstein , despite alike plot line about a monster assay a partner .
JAWS: THE REVENGE
Steven Spielberg ’s 1975Jawswas such a monstrous hitting that a wave of sequels was inevitable . Despite the flaw constitutional in 1978’sJaws 2and specially 1983’sJaws 3 - D , neither film could contend with the sheer senselessness of 1987’sJaws : The Revenge . kick upstairs with the tagline , “ This Time It ’s Personal , ” the moving-picture show finds the widow Ellen Brody ( Lorraine Gary ) convinced that she ’s being stalk by a shark seeking vengeance on the entire Brody kin group .
Michael Caine , who appear as a heroical pilot , has always been brutally true when it comes to hold which movies he made purely for the sake of a paycheck . It was his involvement withJaws : The Revengethat led to his sterling quip on the matter : " I have never find it , but by all account , it is terrible . However , I have come across the menage that it built , and it is terrifying . "
RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON
make it 11 years afterThe Blue Lagoon , 1991’sReturn to the Blue Lagoonserved up fundamentally the exact same game . Two infants are stranded on a lucullan island with an adult guardian ; the grownup finally dies , leaving the boy and the fille to resist for themselves . As they age and matured ( Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause play the brace as teenagers ) , they expose peril inherent on the island but in the main pass the twenty-four hours handle with their burgeon sexuality .
Return to the Blue Lagoonreally is n’t any worse than its predecessor , but whereas that 1980 film was a box office strike and made a star out of Brooke Shields , this follow - up was a notorious fizzle and did little to bring forward the picture show career of former example Jovovich , who would have to look forotherprojectsbefore breaking out .
The Blue Lagoonalso has managed to fasten an 11 % score on Rotten Tomatoes — ugly , to be sure , but still preferable toReturn ’s 0 % .
DEATH WISH V: THE FACE OF DEATH
Bruce Willis , star of fiveDie Hardflicks , will soon beheadlining a remakeof 1974’sDeath Wish , a franchise that also endure five films . Yet unlikeDie heavily , which only completely bottomed out with that nasty fifth first appearance , Death Wishheaded south directly after the provocative master copy .
Charles Bronson stars in all five films , spiel a mid - mannered designer who becomes a vigilance man after tragedy strikes his family . While the 1974 master was wrap in argument circumvent its substance and its morality , it at least made thematic gumption , with Bronson ’s Paul Kersey motivated by the murder of his married woman and rapine of his girl . The continuation were little more than exploitation romps , and the frequency with which Kersey ’s Friend and relatives were being terrify was two-dimensional - out ludicrous .
The reviews aimed at 1982’sDeath Wish II , 1985’sDeath want 3and 1987’sDeath Wish 4 : The Crackdownwere all blistering , but the worst were reserved for 1994’sDeath Wish volt : The Face of Death , which is so rote and by - the - numbers that even Bronson looks bored .
KING KONG LIVES
Producer Dino de Laurentiis ’ 1976King Kongmay have received a interracial response from critics , but it proved to be a hit with audiences . Clearly not understanding the adage of striking while the iron is hot , de Laurentiis waited an intact decade before get around to making the sequel . therefore , 1986’sKing Kong Livesfailed with both reader and moviegoers .
That delay really plays into the plot , as the celluloid reveals thatKongsurvived his plunge off the World Trade Center and has since been in a coma . To resuscitate the great ape on the 10th anniversary of his surrender , the sequent doctor ( Linda Hamilton ) states that he ask both a blood transfusion and a heart transplant . The former comes courtesy of an oversized female Gorilla gorilla that handily has just been locate in Borneo . The latter fall courtesy of a gigantic artificial center , put in during a sequence that stands among the most laughable in allKongflicks .
THE BAD NEWS BEARS GO TO JAPAN
The Bad News Bearsproved to be quite an audience favorite in 1976 , with Walter Matthau ably cast as the drunken coach of an underachieving Little League baseball team and Tatum O’Neal andJackie Earle Haleyas the outfit ’s dear players . Of the three actors , only Haley returned for the two sequel .
The 1977 mediocrityThe Bad News Bears in Breaking Trainingconcerned the efforts of Haley ’s role to convert his estranged papa ( William Devane ) to train the outfit . Yet the series strive its nadir with 1978’sThe Bad News Bears Go to Japan , with Tony Curtis as a small - time cheap-jack who decides to pay off his debt by arranging a across the nation televised plot between the Bears and a formidable Japanese team .
As if two sorry subsequence were n’t enough , The Bad News Bearsalso had to suffer the indignity of a short - hold out 1979 TV situation comedy ( with an 8 - class - honest-to-goodness Corey Feldman as one of the kids ) and a feeble 2005 remake asterisk Billy Bob Thornton .
THE TOXIC AVENGER: PART II
It turn out the Bad News Bears were n’t the only single elect to hightail it to Japan for a desultory sequel . In 1989’sThe Toxic Avenger : Part II , the first of three follow - ups to 1984’sThe Toxic Avenger , our twist hero ( play by John Altamura and , after he was fired , Ron Fazio ) head to Japan to explore for the father he never have a go at it . Taking advantage of Toxie ’s absence seizure , a empire call Apocalypse Inc. descends on his hometown ofTromaville , New Jersey , with plans to sour the country into a waste site .
Like other Troma Entertainment offering such asClass of Nuke ‘ Em HighandTromeo and Juliet , The Toxic Avenger : Part IIhas develop a cult following among fanatical fan . Critics , though , have always see it less charitably , taking exclusion to what was perceived as wilted humor and improbable , over - the - top gore . They were n’t much kind to 1989’sThe Toxic Avenger Part III : The Last enticement of Toxie , though several have fit in that the series bound back with 2000’sCitizen Toxie : The Toxic Avenger IV .
BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
The 1972 hitThe Poseidon Adventurewas one of the first ( and arguably the best ) of the 1970s glut of calamity pic , so perhaps it was only meet that 1979 ’s pointlessBeyond the Poseidon Adventurewas one of the rubric that helped toss off off the musical genre at decade ’s last .
nibble up right where the original celluloid ended , Beyond the Poseidon Adventurefinds a tugboat captain ( Michael Caine ) , his correct - mitt man ( Karl Malden ) , and their chirpy rider ( Sally Field ) board the overturned ship with the intention of salvaging its worthful loading . or else , they spend most of their fourth dimension rescue survivors ( Peter Boyle , Jack Warden , Shirleys Knight and Jones ) and unconvincingly throwing themselves around the exercise set after every photographic camera cut of meat to yet another internal explosion .
The sizable cast of this chintzy function also admit a young Mark Harmon as one of the stranded survivors , Telly Savalas as a scoundrel named Stefan Svevo ( not to be confused withCrank ’s Chev Chelios ) , and Slim Pickens as a Texan named — what else ? — Tex .
HOUSE II: THE SECOND STORY
If nothing else , 1987’sHouse II : The Second Storyserves as dwelling to a number of interesting trivia facts . Political commentator Bill Maher turns up in a rare act function as an obsequious music executive director . The film ’s stunt coordinator was Kane Hodder , shortly to be playing Jason Voorhees in a trio ofFriday the 13thsequels . And just as 1985’sHousefeaturedCheersstar George Wendt , this one featuresCheersstar John Ratzenberger .
While these trivial tidbits are fascinating in hindsight , they did little to serve ease the discomfort of critics , who take to trash this in - name - only sequel in which four friends move into a house and become involved with repair corps , pterodactyls , and a crystal skull that evenIndiana Joneswouldn’t feeling .
House II : The Second Storywas accompany by another unrelated film , 1989’sThe Horror Show(akaHouse III ) , which can also shoot a line of a 0 % designation on Rotten Tomatoes . It was n’t until 1992’sHouse IVthat a sequel actually tied back to the 1985 original .
