Most Disappointing Sequel?

[JCB]

Hannibal

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

I only read the first page so far, but Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. That movie was straight up garbage. The first movie was so awesome and to come out with that pathetic excuse of a movie is deplorable.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

Robocop 2. Robocop3 was so bad that I have an ongoing joke with a friend of mine that the movie really doesn't exist...because whatever that hunk of crap was, it wasn't a Robocop movie. Flying Samurai robot....what will they think of next?

Robocop 2 kicked major ***! How could you not like the kid? He's one of my idols. He bribes a mayor with millions of dollars in gold, how can you not love that?

 

[GW93]

Most disappointing:

both Matrix sequels. Blech! Way to ruin a good mythos, Wachowskis
The Lost World: Jurassic Park II. The book was an obvious cash-in by Crighton, but it could have made a decent movie. The movie version just reeked.
Hannibal. Another case of an author cashing in. Once I finished the book, I knew the movie would suck. They changed the ending a little, but it was still crap.
Prequels, not sequels, but the less said about Star Wars: Episodes I-III, the better.
Star Trek: Nemesis. So was that crap at the end with Data's prototype supposed to be something like Spock's mind-meld with McCoy in ST II:TWoK? We'll never know, because Nemesis effed up so bad it killed the franchise and led to the JJ Abrams reboot of ToS.

Now for some sequels to good movies you knew were going to suck because these movies in no way demanded sequels:

Major League 2. Really?
Caddyshack 2. No, really?
Blues Brothers 2000. They saved the orphanage, went to jail for their vehicular carnage, and played some kickass shows in the prison dining hall. Did we really care what happened next?
Jewel of the Nile. Another movie (Romancing the Stone) where everything fit in perfectly, and it ends with the hero and the dame sailing (sort of) into the sunset. Why was this necessary?

And now, sequels to movies that were unexpectedly enjoyable.

Aliens. Instead of trying to recapture the feel of the original horror film, Jim Cameron created a slam-bang action flick. Too bad the franchise went off the rails in later installments.
Terminator 2. Another Cameron success. The less I think about the time travel implications, the better (hey, Skynet: send your upgraded terminator to the 1930s and kill Sara Connor's grandfather or something, it would be much easier than sending your cyborgs back to a time period where technology is catching up to them), but the action comes so fast you don't have time to worry about it.
Crocodile Dundee 2. No, seriously. The first one was a barely-interesting fish-out-of-water romantic comedy, the sequel was more of an action-adventure. Implausible as hell, sure, but Paul Hogan's personality helped carry it.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. I really didn't care for the first one. The second one was better, in a "I'll stop channel surfing when I come across it" way.
Predator 2. A totally unecessary but enjoyable sequel, and it has Bill Paxton and Gary Busey. That alone can make a movie entertaining.

 

[GeauxSaints53]

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, solely for this.

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Too bad YOU...

 

[CoolBrees1]

Rocky 7....anything after one....ferget it....

 

[Optimus Prime]

Back due to the debate about the merits (or lack thereof) of Gremlins 2 in the Gremlins 3 thread

Been over a decade since the last post so there should be a lot more candidates

A lot of my new ones are MCU and Star Wars related

Thor 2 and Love & Thunder, Iron Man 2 & 3, Age of Ultron, Wonder Woman 1984 and Batman vs Superman

Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker

Coming 2 America

 

[Taurus]

Blade Runner 2049

Denis makes just the most beautiful, utterly emotionless and forgettable movies. It's like he got a wish from an evil genie or something.

 

[Optimus Prime]

BATMAN RETURNS - Ive only seen it once. that was opening weekend

So I just watched this for the first time since then

A bit of a reappraisal in recent years with some saying it’s better than the original

No its not

I hated just as much as I did when I first saw it

 

[sonicboom]

Grease 2.

 

[Sun Wukong]

So I just watched this for the first time since then

A bit of a reappraisal in recent years with some saying it’s better than the original

No its not

I hated just as much as I did when I first saw it

It's Tim Bueton making a German Expressionist movie masquerading as a Batman movie and it's absolutely incredible, but it isn't a good Batman movie.

Anyway, I'm going to say The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. But also, in the years after The Matrix released and I got deep into my cyberpunk phase, the more I realized that almost everything cool about that movie was lifted wholesale from seminal Cyberpunk works like Neuromancer, Ghost in the Shell, the 80's Cyberpunk TTRPG, Snow Crash, etc.

Once the Wachowski's ran through everybody else's better and more original ideas they clearly had no clue where to take things.