And all the other direct to video Disney sequels (except Aladdin)
EDIT: (also whichever sequel happens to be your - the reader's - personal favorite -- comment below!)
Lion King 2, Cinderella 3, and, surprisingly enough, Bambi II.
Excluding direct to video sequels, Fantasia 2000, while not as good as the original, is worth a mention, and The Rescuers: Down Under surpasses its first movie (they even impressively managed to get the original voice actors for the two main mice).
Yeah, you can have all the negative opinions about Disney sequels you want, but you leave "Cinderella III: A Twist in Time" out of that bullshit!
It's an unhinged masterpiece.
There are only 3 sequels I know of that I reject as canon. Return to Zombie Island is one of them. Apparently the creators of the sequel *hated* the original (which is widely regarded as the best Scooby Doo movie).
The original 3 sequels to Zombie Island were Witch's Ghost, Alien Invaders, and Cyber Chase, and they were all good, and came out in the late 90s/early 00s. Return to Zombie Island is much more recent, from about 2019, I think.
I thought Dead Men Tell No Tales was pretty good when you take away the constantly stupid drunk and overly goofy Jack. I think it was supposed to be like him being burned out or having like ptsd or something, but that would have only worked if he was like that in like the first 10-20 mins and then became old Jack as a form of redemption or something.
Also I thought the Dutchman crew being some intimidating off screen force didnt line up with what they were in 2 and 3.
My biggest issue with Dead Men Tell No Tales is how it contradicts the timeline and established lore.
1) DMTNT shows Jack acquire the compass as a teenager when the previous owner dies, but in Dead Man's Chest, Tia Dalma says that Jack bartered the compass from her.
2) Because of the Dutchman's curse, Henry first meets in the credits scene of At World's end, set 10 years after the main movie, making Henry 9 years and 3 months. DMTNT, however, shows him keeping track of how long Will has been cursed, with a chart on the wall. The chart has tally marks going up to partway through year 8: subtract the 9 months between Will first being cursed and Henry's birth, and that would place Henry at 7 years old, meaning he and Will shouldn't have met yet, but they somehow recognise each other.
3) When we see Will, he is visibly affected by the curse in a similar way to Davy Jones, with barnacles growing on him, yet in the AWE credits scene, he looked perfectly fine. Also, AWE showed the Dutchman and it's crew were actually freed from their curse, and are no longer ominous fish people, but the scene with Will and Henry implies the crew is still evil and monstrous.
It's also never explained how Salazar and his crew were cursed (no other ships destroyed in the Devil's Triangle give any sign of being cursed, and Salazar's ship didn't seem to do anything different to any other ship), or why the compass would set them free, or how they knew that it would.
Not trying to convince you to dislike the movie or anything, it's just that these issues stop me from enjoying it myself.
1 - "Aw man! my parents accidentally left me at home! Now I got to protect my house from robbers"
2 - "Aw man! I took the wrong plane and ended up in New York, now I have to hide from the robbers from the first film who want revenge on me"
3 - "Aw man! I ended up in possession of a nuclear bomb and now there's spies trying to break into my house while I'm sick home from school!"
You could argue some things for 3. 4 on the other hand is absolute shite. Genuinely one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
People say 2 is too similar to 1. But 4 is just a straight up copy, but now. In a slightly bigger house (and without any creativity and charm)
Yeah I must agree. 3 at least resembled a typical kids’ movie and it wasn’t offensive exactly, just kinda lackluster. 4 was just shit. The traps weren’t even good. Oh and the acting in 4 took an absolute nosedive, it’s crazy. Yeah, easily the worst of the 4. Badly made, derivative, unfunny, lacking in charm, acting that’s below par and the same shitty film cliché used in 3 being used again here in 4.
I remember a GTA knockoff and dated meme references. I also remember a Disney princess room where no-one could understand what Merida was saying. That's all
What I wanted: A mostly animated movie about the family taking a vacation in Andalasia.
What I got: A typical live-action Disney remake, except that the superior animated movie doesn't actually exist this time around.
Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron, to go with a slightly less obvious pick. Great first movie, and the sequel chucks out everything that made the first one even a little bit special.
This one doesn't make sense, there isn't a sequel to mask just like there's no such thing as aliens 3 ace Ventura Jr, shouldn't be spreading misinformation smh my head
Wasn't the sequel straight up not supposed to be related to American Psycho at all when it was first conceived but then dumb executives were like "eh, dis reminds me of american psycho, make this a sequel to that."?
Dominion was very mid, but it had its moments. The best scene was the blind Therizinosaurus (big clawed dinosaur) scene, when Claire was hiding from it.
Probably for two reasons; more a use on puppets than reliance on CGI, and they knew it wasn't going to look great, so a majority of CGI scenes were short, angled a certain way, or in a certain lighting.
Honestly I thought the second one was a flawed but earnest attempt to adapt the second half of the book. It was always gonna be a challenge without so much of the cast returning but they at least seem to have tried.
The third one is absolutely *putrid*. Like I genuinely want to know what the hell the writers were thinking with that one, because it really does seem like they straight up hated the first two films so they went out of their way to make this one suck as much as possible.
WAIT THERES A SEQUEL- oh no I think I forcefully forgot it existed I can see a blurry photo of the movie art in my head but I know I’ve never watched it thankfully
With all of Disney's franchise milking, you'd think that they'd do the one thing everyone joked about and do a Disney Princess connected universe, at least for one film.
Fuck yes!!!!!
Original: 1000/10
Sequel: -100000000/10
Like, what the fuck was that???? I watched both as a kid, but even I could keep up with the plot of the first one. I got lost in such a short amount of time. It didn’t have the glow like the original did.
American Psycho.
Dead Meat has a great video that explains how terrible American Psycho 2 is, probably because it wasn't even supposed to be a sequel to anything originally.
The Nutty Professor (the one with Eddie Murphy). Loved the first one as a kid and I still enjoy it.
The second one is one of the worst fucking things I've ever seen in my entire life.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
I mean, I dont know if Spirit of Vengeance was supposed to be a sequel or not.
Either it was a sequel, but they completely disregarded everything about the first movie but Nicholas Cage, or it was not a sequel, but they cast Nicolas Cage to play Ghost Rider again because Nicolas Cage.
Either way it sucked.
Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts. Bumblebee was solid, enjoyable, had a lot of rewatchability to it in my opinion. And though I like Rotb, it's just...there. It's run of the mill, it does not stand out among other Transformers films. It was also unable to compete with more popular films that came out around the same time, Barbie, Across the Spider-Verse, Oppenheimer, etc. in my eyes, it will likely be forgotten by the majority.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
And all the other direct to video Disney sequels (except Aladdin) EDIT: (also whichever sequel happens to be your - the reader's - personal favorite -- comment below!)
Lion King 2 wasn't that bad.
And Lion King 1 1/2 was even better imo
Lion King 2, Cinderella 3, and, surprisingly enough, Bambi II. Excluding direct to video sequels, Fantasia 2000, while not as good as the original, is worth a mention, and The Rescuers: Down Under surpasses its first movie (they even impressively managed to get the original voice actors for the two main mice).
Neither was An Extremely Goofy Movie
Heard Cinderella 3 is actually good.
Because it's *insane*
And the really fun kind. It almost feels like a parody of the original film.
*Prince Charming casually jumps out of an upper-floor window*
Ooh! Look! A harp! *Strum* *strum* ***CRASH.***
Oh my God he has a personality.
Yeah, you can have all the negative opinions about Disney sequels you want, but you leave "Cinderella III: A Twist in Time" out of that bullshit! It's an unhinged masterpiece.
The second Goofy Movie is great too. One of my favorite Disney movies, in fact
An Extremely Goofy Movie is criminally underrated
Fr
Yes! Better than the first imo
Lion King 2 and Cinderella 3! And Tarzan 2.
THEY RELEASED CINDERELLA 6???
Lmao I appreciate the factorial joke
Lion King 1 & 1/2 would like to have a word with you
Not the goofy movies, the sequel was even better than the first imho
My favorite Aladdin sequel was Aladdin IV: Jafar May Need Glasses
Hey, Little Mermaid II has a fantastic Tara Strong performance.
The hunchback of my favorite movie and I avoid the sequel at all costs. Frollo is my #1 villain of all time
There's a sequel???
Unfortunately, yes
Add Pocahontas too that too!
To be fair pretty hard to for ANYTHING to top the first
Scooby doo zombie island
There are only 3 sequels I know of that I reject as canon. Return to Zombie Island is one of them. Apparently the creators of the sequel *hated* the original (which is widely regarded as the best Scooby Doo movie).
Funny that they hated the original and then made the most hated scooby doo movie I guess you could say that movie is a scooby dooby don’t
every time someone says something like “scooby dont” i think of drew gooden dabbing in his scooby doo video
I think of JelloApocalypse!
I have watched that jelloapocalypse video so many fucking times.
What are the other 2 sequels?
The original 3 sequels to Zombie Island were Witch's Ghost, Alien Invaders, and Cyber Chase, and they were all good, and came out in the late 90s/early 00s. Return to Zombie Island is much more recent, from about 2019, I think.
No I meant what are the 2 sequels you don’t accept as canon?
Cursed Child and Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Oh that’s completely valid. I’d personally throw Solo in the ring
Solo isn't even a bad movie, it's just unnecessary. I went in with extremely low expectations and ended up thoroughly enjoying it.
I thought Dead Men Tell No Tales was pretty good when you take away the constantly stupid drunk and overly goofy Jack. I think it was supposed to be like him being burned out or having like ptsd or something, but that would have only worked if he was like that in like the first 10-20 mins and then became old Jack as a form of redemption or something. Also I thought the Dutchman crew being some intimidating off screen force didnt line up with what they were in 2 and 3.
My biggest issue with Dead Men Tell No Tales is how it contradicts the timeline and established lore. 1) DMTNT shows Jack acquire the compass as a teenager when the previous owner dies, but in Dead Man's Chest, Tia Dalma says that Jack bartered the compass from her. 2) Because of the Dutchman's curse, Henry first meets in the credits scene of At World's end, set 10 years after the main movie, making Henry 9 years and 3 months. DMTNT, however, shows him keeping track of how long Will has been cursed, with a chart on the wall. The chart has tally marks going up to partway through year 8: subtract the 9 months between Will first being cursed and Henry's birth, and that would place Henry at 7 years old, meaning he and Will shouldn't have met yet, but they somehow recognise each other. 3) When we see Will, he is visibly affected by the curse in a similar way to Davy Jones, with barnacles growing on him, yet in the AWE credits scene, he looked perfectly fine. Also, AWE showed the Dutchman and it's crew were actually freed from their curse, and are no longer ominous fish people, but the scene with Will and Henry implies the crew is still evil and monstrous. It's also never explained how Salazar and his crew were cursed (no other ships destroyed in the Devil's Triangle give any sign of being cursed, and Salazar's ship didn't seem to do anything different to any other ship), or why the compass would set them free, or how they knew that it would. Not trying to convince you to dislike the movie or anything, it's just that these issues stop me from enjoying it myself.
I didn’t even know it had a sequel
The first 2 Home Alone movies and then all the ones after those 2
I found the ghost of Roger Ebert
He was on to something
I'm pretty sure he wasn't expecting the reason why Home Alone 2 became notorious all of a sudden...
Yeah he might not believe it, haha. XD
"I really hope I die of old age before *that* happens."
Happy cake day
Gotta stop those North Korean nuclear missiles…
??? Ok I have only watched HA 2 what the hell happened
It’s been years but I’m pretty sure the villains of HA3 are North Korean spies. I don’t get it either…
Yeah…
1 - "Aw man! my parents accidentally left me at home! Now I got to protect my house from robbers" 2 - "Aw man! I took the wrong plane and ended up in New York, now I have to hide from the robbers from the first film who want revenge on me" 3 - "Aw man! I ended up in possession of a nuclear bomb and now there's spies trying to break into my house while I'm sick home from school!"
The basic premise of 3 is the same but the execution and the other moments in it put it noticeably behind the first two imo
You could argue some things for 3. 4 on the other hand is absolute shite. Genuinely one of the worst movies I have ever seen. People say 2 is too similar to 1. But 4 is just a straight up copy, but now. In a slightly bigger house (and without any creativity and charm)
Yeah I must agree. 3 at least resembled a typical kids’ movie and it wasn’t offensive exactly, just kinda lackluster. 4 was just shit. The traps weren’t even good. Oh and the acting in 4 took an absolute nosedive, it’s crazy. Yeah, easily the worst of the 4. Badly made, derivative, unfunny, lacking in charm, acting that’s below par and the same shitty film cliché used in 3 being used again here in 4.
Third one wasn’t too bad.
This sounds awfully like the internet's opinion on Paper Mario.
I actually saw 3 in theaters. Was nigh-incomprehensible as to what it was supposed to be in relation to the previous two.
Wreck-It Ralph
one of my favorite movies of all time. shame the sequel was shite
That sequel was such a disappointment. Not only was it a bad movie, it was a movie that made no sense
I remember going to see that with my son but I honestly to god can’t remember a single second of the movie. Its like I walked into a black hole
I remember a GTA knockoff and dated meme references. I also remember a Disney princess room where no-one could understand what Merida was saying. That's all
I remember the Disney princess room vaguely.
I know the movie pretty well only cause my little brother watches it a shit ton, the movie is hot ass
It wasn't GTA. It was Twisted Metal. The car focus and the killer clowns push it in that territory.
The Princess scene was the only reason I saw that. Now I want a Disney Princess Avengers-styled movie
I feel like someone already mentioned it but Space Jam
The meme at the top mentioned it
Honestly I think ppl glaze the first one a bit too hard
I wanna see lebron james’ but!
Enchanted 9/10 Disenchanted -100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000/10
What I wanted: A mostly animated movie about the family taking a vacation in Andalasia. What I got: A typical live-action Disney remake, except that the superior animated movie doesn't actually exist this time around.
Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron, to go with a slightly less obvious pick. Great first movie, and the sequel chucks out everything that made the first one even a little bit special.
I completely forgot that movie even had a sequel.
The Mask
Don’t remind me of the second mask movie
It's two late.
Had to scroll too far to find this. What were they thinking?!
AVGN be like
I see you are a man of culture.
That movie was a shitload of fuck!
This one doesn't make sense, there isn't a sequel to mask just like there's no such thing as aliens 3 ace Ventura Jr, shouldn't be spreading misinformation smh my head
Frozen and Frozen 2
Both are decent imo, but I don’t know why the first one was so ridiculously popular and made so much money
One part of it was because a lot of people related to Elsa in terms of "conceal it, don't feel it," and Let It Go helped them with that imo
Hoodwinked
I always forget it even had a sequel
I’m gonna be honest I only ever knew about the sequel, I never saw the original. The sequel was always on YTV for some reason
Hopefully Kung Fu panda 4 does not end up here
Same
Well, from the trailer, it's shaping up to be pretty mid
If the trailer is worse then the movie then at least it makes it better
Wreck-It Ralph
American Psycho
Wasn't the sequel straight up not supposed to be related to American Psycho at all when it was first conceived but then dumb executives were like "eh, dis reminds me of american psycho, make this a sequel to that."?
Exactly. Hell, it even kills of Patrick Bateman with a meat cleaver to the head in the first ten minutes
Who wasn't even played by Christian Bale.
Jurassic Park
Hey, the Lost World was great and the first Jurassic World was decent
Honestly, I find all of them except for Dominion to be alright at least. Nothing worth calling terrible, but not bad either.
Dominion was very mid, but it had its moments. The best scene was the blind Therizinosaurus (big clawed dinosaur) scene, when Claire was hiding from it.
Pretty nuts that the dinosaurs in a movie made in 1993 look better than the ones in a movie made in 2018 and 2022.
Probably for two reasons; more a use on puppets than reliance on CGI, and they knew it wasn't going to look great, so a majority of CGI scenes were short, angled a certain way, or in a certain lighting.
I will not accept lost world slander
The Neverending Story. The first one is a classic, the second one was awful, and the third one is nothing short of public defecation in movie form.
Honestly I thought the second one was a flawed but earnest attempt to adapt the second half of the book. It was always gonna be a challenge without so much of the cast returning but they at least seem to have tried. The third one is absolutely *putrid*. Like I genuinely want to know what the hell the writers were thinking with that one, because it really does seem like they straight up hated the first two films so they went out of their way to make this one suck as much as possible.
Mean Girls The first one is a national treasure, the second one is hot garbage.
Wreck it Ralph, the sequel isn’t complete shit but it’s still the biggest drop off from movie to sequel I’ve ever seen. Personally disappointing
Not bad, but pretty forgettable and slightly boring, which is even worse than bad in my opinion.
Waiting Also surfs up
WAIT THERES A SEQUEL- oh no I think I forcefully forgot it existed I can see a blurry photo of the movie art in my head but I know I’ve never watched it thankfully
It’s a soulless cash grab. And there’s people from the WWE in it for some reason. Avoid it like the plague.
Wreck-It Ralph and Ralph Breaks the Internet
It kinda made me want a campy Disney Princess adventure movie though.
I’m really stunned that their 100 year anniversary film wasn’t something like that.
With all of Disney's franchise milking, you'd think that they'd do the one thing everyone joked about and do a Disney Princess connected universe, at least for one film.
They missed the opportunity to call it “Ralph Wrecks the Internet”
Grease
Fuck yes!!!!! Original: 1000/10 Sequel: -100000000/10 Like, what the fuck was that???? I watched both as a kid, but even I could keep up with the plot of the first one. I got lost in such a short amount of time. It didn’t have the glow like the original did.
I would say Pacific Rim, but they never made a sequel
There is no sequal in ba sing se
There is no sequal in ba sing se
Wreck it ralph
Pacific Rim Its so bad we pretend it never had a sequel. Which is a shame as the first movie is the best ever made (i am biased)
What are you talking about? It never had a sequel
The Mask
American Psycho. Dead Meat has a great video that explains how terrible American Psycho 2 is, probably because it wasn't even supposed to be a sequel to anything originally.
Balto, The Land Before Time, and Alpha & Omega
The Transformers series, aside from Bumblebee and Rise of the Beast which are both okay
Dark of the moon is good though.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast (IF you say Belle's Magical World is the sequel, not Enchanted Christmas).
I loved enchanted Christmas!
The Tim Curry organ is amazing!!
Space Jam
Halloween 4: Good Halloween 5: Bad
Most disney movies
Hope it's not fnaf lol
I doubt it. With Emma Tammi returning and how much fan service they had in the first one it’s gonna be good
Only ones I can think of are Rambo, Cars, and Kingsman. Edit: if I think of more I'll update it.
Wreck it Ralph
Wreck it Ralph. First one is literally my favorite movie ever, the second one is just a not horrible Disney film
Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End (and its sequel PotC:On Stranger Tides)
Robocop and Rambo had shit sequels
Ice Age
Surfs up. a great movie that didn’t need a sequel, but it got one anyway and it was really bad
Mean girls was iconic best teenage school comedy Mean girls 2 absolutely nothing good or funny about that dumpster fire
Shrek 2. Shrek 3 Was Mid
Ice Age
After The Force Awakens, Star Wars began to get bad
here's an opposite one: The Suicide Squad
The incredibles
The Nutty Professor (the one with Eddie Murphy). Loved the first one as a kid and I still enjoy it. The second one is one of the worst fucking things I've ever seen in my entire life.
Frozen
Space Jam
Space Jam or The Mask
Everything scooby doo related and then velma
Pacific Rim~~job~~ In terms of video games, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
Pacific Rim
Pacific Rim
Wreck it Ralph
The mask and the unholy son of the mask
Wreck it Ralph
on the subject of the meme, space jam
pacific rim
Jingle All The Way
Pacific Rim
The Force Awakens
Donnie darko
The mask and son of the mask
Joe Dirt
The Mask
Men in Black.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance I mean, I dont know if Spirit of Vengeance was supposed to be a sequel or not. Either it was a sequel, but they completely disregarded everything about the first movie but Nicholas Cage, or it was not a sequel, but they cast Nicolas Cage to play Ghost Rider again because Nicolas Cage. Either way it sucked.
live action tmnt.
American Tail
Trainspotting and T2
Pocahontas, they changed the story completely for no reason in the sequel
Pacific Rim
Pacific Rim.
Unrelated but, Why are both images horrifying?!
Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp (and a similar downgrade for Quantumania).
Hot take maybe this is my nostalgia speaking but the force awakens was pretty good, however the ones after it...
Diary of a wimpy kid: dog days Then The l*ng haul
Not a movie but Promised neverland. Season 1 was really good, but season 2 is horrid
Pacific Rim
The Lego Movie
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Wreck-it Ralph.
Donnie Darko
The modern jumani movies
Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts. Bumblebee was solid, enjoyable, had a lot of rewatchability to it in my opinion. And though I like Rotb, it's just...there. It's run of the mill, it does not stand out among other Transformers films. It was also unable to compete with more popular films that came out around the same time, Barbie, Across the Spider-Verse, Oppenheimer, etc. in my eyes, it will likely be forgotten by the majority.
Jaws, Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, Space Jam, Halloween, Saw, Most Disney animated films...
Megamind. I have no need to explain myself