Hollywood’s disastrous love affair with sequels is continuing once again with an Indepenedence Day 2 nearly 20 years after the fact.
On that note, check out 20 other movie sequels that were unnecessary and will have you kicking yourself for watching them in the first place.
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Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
Because terrorists only know how to rig moving vehicles in this universe. GTFOH.
Dumb & Dumber To (2014)
This movie desperately reeked of…well…desparation.
Photo: Warner Bros.
A Christmas Story 2 (2012)
They just couldn’t leave well enough classic alone. Don’t waste your holiday watching this one.
Photo: Zade Rosenthal/Columbia Pictures
xXx: State Of The Union (2005)
Replacing Vin Diesel for Ice Cube in a comedy makes sense. For an action blockbuster, you’re asking for struggle.
Photo: WENN
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Nobody at the top of the decade was wondering what Gordon Gecko would do when he got out of prison. Nobody.
Photo: WENN
Evan Almighty (2007)
An obvious attempt of interjecting the now more popular Steve Carrell in a Jim Carrey movie that worked. This one didn’t, however.
Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction (2006)
That leg cross scene no longer holds any power, seeing that there is an entire cyberspace of smut these days.
Photo: Atlantic Releasing Corporation
Teen Wolf Too (1987)
Where’s Michael J. Fox? Unavailable you say? Why was this made then?
Conventional wisdom would tell us to bomb the dinosaur area after the first fiasco, no?
