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 Columbia Pictures
More than 20 years after Sharon Stone’s Catherine Tramell apparently sunk her ice pick into Michael Douglas in the original Basic Instinct, the character was transplanted to London because, well, why should one continent have all the psycho fun?
“Few expected Basic Instinct 2 to be very good, but no one expected it to be this boring.” —Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
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