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
1995’s Bad Boys was the beginning of a non-beautiful relationship between critics and director Michael Bay. By the time the second film rolled around, Bay was even more reviled. (And he hadn’t even made Transformers yet.)
“Bad Boys II is the rare case in which escapism involves leaving the theater.” —Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club
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