20 Terrible Movie Sequels, Ranked from Bad to Badder
by
Joal Ryan, for Metacritic
– June 16, 2016
The Hollywood sequel is 100 years old this year, and we know what you’re thinking: That’s a long time ... and a lot of bad movies.
With apologies to The Dark Knight, you are not wrong. We mined our Metacritic archives to come up with 20 great examples of lousy sequels.
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photo by Warner Bros.
This 1997 Caped Crusader film, starring George Clooney and Chris O’Donnell in the titular codpieces, is a classic bad sequel. It may even be the ultimate bad sequel, so cartoony and dumb it shut down the Batman franchise for nearly 20 years.
“This chapter--so action-packed, yet so insufferably dull--makes it clear that there's nowhere else to go.” —Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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