The Worst Sequels, According to Joe Cianciottostatic.standard
Joe Cianciotto says that for every good sequel, there's one that's terrible. This list chronicles bad titles, from the cash grabs to the outright offensive ones. Most of the movies on this list did not need sequels, to begin with, but studios made them, and now we're here.
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
If there's a movie that shouldn't have become a franchise, it was Jaws. Unfortunately, Jaws: The Revenge exists. It's about a family hunted by a great white shark for revenge. The reasons for that revenge are never made clear, and it is a plot point in the film that the shark will travel from the coast of Massachusetts to the Bahamas to kill its prey. That's a determined shark. Jaws: The Revenge is ludicrous; it does everything the original Jaws tried to avoid in telling its own shark-infested horror story, says Joe Cianciotto.
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Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Sometimes, a sequel can be so bad that it's enjoyable, and Transformers: Age of Extinction almost gets there. Unfortunately, this soft reboot features new boring characters and is too long to be fun.
The action in this sequel is impossible to follow, and Mark Wahlberg is cast as an inventor. The movie is also loaded with product placement. Joe Cianciotto notes that it made a lot of money, and was not the final nail in the franchise's coffin, even if it should have been.
Another sequel delayed too long to be relevant, Zoolander 2 is bad in all ways the original was able to avoid. Joe Cianciotto thinks that the idea of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson playing egotistic models being forced to deal with their irrelevance was an interesting one. Still, every decision they made was just bad. The first Zoolander was a smart look at the fashion industry. Its sequel is just two men yelling at clouds for two hours.
