THE FIVE WORST MOVIE SEQUELS EVER MADE

The sequel to the 2008 hit movie Iron Man, Iron Man II starring Robert Downey Jr. comes out today it has a better chance of failing than it does succeeding. Stars generally skip the sequels because sequels, as a general rule, suck. Entertainment Weekly made a list of the worst sequels every made. Here are their 5 Worst Sequels Ever Made:

1. Staying Alive (1983) - A disaster of such epic proportions that they should have handed out HazMat suits and Cipro when you entered the theater. Picking up several years after Saturday Night Live, Travolta’s Brooklyn disco Casanova Tony Manero is now a struggling Broadway dancer. He lands a part in Satan’s Alley – a show so cheesy it looks like Bob Mackie throwing up on the Starlight Express. Staying Alive is a sequel that ignores everything that made the original great, which of course may be the biggest insult of all.

2. Caddyshack II (1988) - Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield and the late Ted Knight were not in this sequel. Chevy Chase barely makes a cameo. Instead how about a heapin’ helpin’ of Jack Mason doing Catskills jokes that weren’t funny the first time around?

3. Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha’ Hood (2003) – Leprechaun 1 featured Jennifer Aniston. This 6th chapter mixed Irish stereotypes with African-American ones and has America’s favorite troll smoking weed while hunting home boys who stole his pot ‘o gold. If a movie could spark a race riot, this is it.

4. Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) – In this sequel Dan Aykroyd’s ex-con Elwood is joined by John Goodman and an orphan named Buster. The plot involves a voodoo queen who turns Aykroyd and Goodman into zombies.

5. Batman & Robin (1997) – Although George Clooney is currently riding high, this makes his work in Return of the Killer Tomatoes look like Laurence Olivier. The real sin here is the screenplay. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a character called Mr. Freeze who says cornball lines like “The Iceman cometh!”

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