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
Ghost Rider didn't score well, but it was a guilty comic-book pleasure in 2007. The 2012 follow-up, which gave Nicolas Cage’s Johnny Blaze a kid to look after, was guilty of being a mess, per the top critics.
“To question where things went wrong feels somehow strange, as the project seems to have been ill-conceived from the very start.” —Michael Nordine, Slant Magazine
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