What movie series had the biggest drop off in quality between the first movie and its first sequel?

The answers (in order recieved):

  • The Matrix

  • Dude, this is an easy one. Highlander. OHHHHHHHH yeah.

  • Between first movie and first sequel I'd have to say the Matrix series. I think PVP Online nailed it. "Those scenes where everything just slows down... You know. When Morpheus starts talking."

  • Hmmm...The Matrix, maybe? :(

  • Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

  • The Sandlot "series"

  • From the first Star Wars trilogy to the second. Jar Jar Binks??? What was Lucas thinking??!!

  • Airplane! and Airplane 2 - Not only did they fully recycle and resuse the same jokes from the original, but over and over again, they use scenes from the first movie as flashbacks to the second, so you only get something like 10 minutes of original film

  • I read: "What movie series had the biggest drop off in Italy " Tough question!he original, but over and over again, they use scenes from the first There aren't many movie series based on or in Italy. The Godfather comes to mind, but not really. There's _The Italian Job_, original then remake. But a remake is not a sequel and I haven't seen the remake. Spaghetti westerns, then? _Per qualche dollaro in pił_ is just as good as _Per un pugno di dollari_. So I can't answer this question. But I enjoyed thinking about it.

  • Star Wars old trilogy vs. new. Not being a Trekkie, I can't comment on whether that degradation is worse...

  • This is a good one. It's really tough if you limit it to a dropoff in quality from the first movie to the first sequel, otherwise Godfather Part III, Rocky V, Superman IV would fit right in. The question didn't specify whether or not to include straight-to-video sequels or not, but I'm not going to count those, because then it would be too easy. Thus, the "winner" is: Universal Soldier and Universal Soldier: the Return. There were a few straight-to-video sequels in between, but these were the only two to actually star Van Damme and make it to theatres. Compared to Van Damme and Bill Goldberg, Dolph Lundgren is Laurence Olivier.

  • Back To The Future II was simply ghastly in comparison to BTF I. However, I found the third one to be a dramatic improvement.

  • Matrix.

  • No question: Blues Brothers. All I needed to see of the sequel was a brief plot summary of Blues Brothers 2000, and that was horrible enough to make me cry. I haven't actually seen the sequel, because I might do something violent.

  • Blade (but when Jessica Biel got to be in Blade Trinity, that was a good recovery)

  • The Matrix, though it might have been a dropoff in potential rather than a dropoff in actual quality.

  • Dumb and Dumber. The first was pretty good, if you like Jim Carey. The second shouldn't have been made.

  • The Matrix. Though I'm not sure whether it was actually that the sequel was worse, or just that it didn't feel so new and cool anymore.

  • Ghostbusters

  • I found the drop between Naked Gun and Naked Gun 2 1/2 to be fairly precipitous. Naked Gun 33 1/3 was better than 2 1/2 in my opinion. There are worse drop off that I can think of, but those are between sequel and subsequent sequel rather than between movie and sequel.

  • Interesting question - I would say either Star Trek or Die Hard.... But you know - I just thought of it ...... Rocky. Yes those have been dropping steadily - but wait - did we expect anything less?

  • Highlander --> Highlander 2: The Suckening

  • Either Land Before Time or Mighty Ducks

  • Matrix

  • Has to be Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000.

  • the mask and son of the mask

  • The Lion King and the Lion King 2 - really think about it - as for animation sake that one really rose to the top of the ol heap.

  • Jurassic Park was amazing, and then The Lost World came out and reminded me of Godzilla - where the dino changed size ratio every scene. Terrible ending too.

  • hm..i would have to say..off the top of my head..dumb and dumber and its next movie (dumb and dumberer) which was a prequel but none the less made later. because dumb and dumber was a classic and dumb and dumberer sucked and should never have been made and totally degraded the original.a

  • dont REALLY know but im guessing starwars. ya, they just keep getting worse. well the scripts that is... the effects keep geting better... ya, i dont know!!!

  • Speed

  • Heh, I was thinking and thinking about this (and wondering if I could possibly weasel the Star Warsian travesty in there) and then! Then I came up with THE ANSWER: Highlander. I even forgot that there *was* a Highlander 2.

  • STAR WARS.

  • Matrix

    My answer:

    I picked the question having just watched Bridget Jones's Diary 2. The first one was actually kind of quirky and clever. The second was absolutely awful - there was not a single sympathetic character in the entire movie. I think I cede to the Matrix though - I had forgotten how bad the second one was.
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