X-Men , and was so bad that it's considered directly responsible for a huge Dork Age that took two years to end.
The original Marvel Zombies was a major success, and it's generally regarded as a lot of fun and surprisingly well-written. Marvel Zombies 2 , on the other hand, is mostly considered boring, due to trying to eke character growth out of a premise meant for gonzo absurdity and an extensive further story out of a plot where all the most interesting things already happened.
Then 4 tried to continue on from 3 and was largely okay, but by that point, the premise was starting to run pretty thin. Return tried to give the franchise a finale, and had its moments, but suffered from very weird pacing and attempts at tying up plot points from 2.
It didn't work, because Marvel Zombies 5 came out, and was mostly a big joke on how much the premise had been milked dry, with the heroes, having exhausted the zombies on Earth, traveling to other universes to fight variant zombie plagues with new rules. There have been five non-numbered miniseries since then , and most of them have been less about trying to write a good story and more about trying to write a story that does anything with the idea - not helped by the zombie craze being largely dead.
Several fans think of Pk2 as this for the excellent Paperinik New Adventures. Many more consider "Pikappa" a definite case. The Punisher suffered from this. He did fine when he started out as an occasional guest star in Spider-Man 's comics and did okay when he debuted in his own limited series, and then ongoing series. Unfortunately, when he became more popular and Marvel started to star him in Punisher War Journal and Punisher War Zone , fans started to see what a one-dimensional character he was.
In , all three of his comics were canceled due to poor sales; he did gain some popularity back in as part of the Marvel Knights line, and then much more popularity from the MAX line. Secret Wars was, and is, widely regarded as the classic Marvel Crisis Crossover , and one that's held up very well since. Secret Wars II , on the other hand, usually gets the response of "There was a second one? The biggest weakness was that it tried to make the story about the Beyonder, whom most readers didn't find very interesting the first time around, and assumed that readers cared about seeing his story resolved when they mostly saw him as a plot device.
It ended up causing the deaths of all the series involved. The Ultimates first two arcs, written by Mark Millar , were very well received, for its reinvention of The Avengers and its deconstruction of the superhero genre. Both stories neatly resolve all the subplots in them.
While A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies is still good, it lacks the humor of the original story , and while the story is more complex, it is much more obviously a fanfiction-style plot compared to the original's simpler, more faithful story.
The fic is currently being rebooted to bring it much closer to the original, without any of the extra necessities. So far almost twice as many words as the original i.
Better Living have been written. Beats0me, a DeviantArt member who draws parody comics of the fic, noted that the beginning of the series is So Bad, It's Good , reminiscent of watching a corny old kids' action cartoon.
However, the further it goes on, the more racism, sexism, and other disturbing content start cropping up. Besides the Will of Evil , while it has its fans, has received a lot more negative reaction than its well-liked predecessor. The main reasons for this are the Invincible Villain Big Bad and the much darker tone that has gotten to the point an unrealistically bleak vibe has kicked in, especially compared to the adventure focused Find the Cure!
In addition, due to how the villain escaped his prison, it makes the original story All for Nothing at best and a massive Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Films — Animation. The Land Before Time 's thirteen sequels are exceptionally infamous. It's a bad sign when there are more sequels than even horror movie franchises like Halloween , Saw , Paranormal Activity , or Friday the 13th.
And in-between all of these movies, it got a TV show to boot. It must be said though the quality of the series is up and down from movie to movie , some are indeed mediocre to poor, but others are surprisingly solid. In the end, though most agree that none are a match for Bluth's original film, some of the sequels got close.
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West , though Lighter and Softer than the original, is actually considered a quality follow-up due to a higher budget theatrical release. In all of those cases, Bluth was not involved with any of the sequels.
The only sequels he was ever actually involved with making were the video game Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp and the Anastasia direct-to-DVD sequel Bartok the Magnificent , which although not hugely popular, has fared better than some of the other sequels to his films.
Incidentally, Bluth was originally to have been involved in the other aforementioned sequels, but had to turn it down to due heavy development on his own projects at the time. From there, they changed to computer-traditional mix, resulting in a more vivid color scheme, but considerably better quality animation. The first Shrek movie was a hit. Shrek 2 grossed almost twice as highly and is considered by many to be even better.
Shrek the Third is more polarizing in comparison and muddied up DreamWorks Animation 's plans for a 5-film series though they're still hoping for the 5th one. Consensus on Shrek Forever After is that it's at least far better than the third. The irony of all this is that it was always intended to mock Disney for churning out sequels to their tired old proprieties and making everything more saccharine with each installment.
The only people involved with the first film who returned for the sequel are producer Steve Krantz and voice actor Skip Hinnant. Even Duke, one of the characters from the first film, is voiced by a different actor. The Swan Princess , despite being a minor bomb critically and financially, got four sequels. Being made with fairly low budgets and based on films that weren't very good to begin with, they were very poorly received. The Big Damn Movie of Futurama , Bender's Big Score , is pretty well-regarded in the fanbase, and places well in appraisals of the series.
The succeeding three films vary in reception but are generally seen as being much worse. The general consensus is that Bender's Big Score feels like a movie, while the other three feel like overstretched episodes of the TV show that probably wouldn't have made for very good episodes to begin with. While not reprehensible, Rio 2 is agreed on by both critics and audiences to be much weaker than the original Rio.
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island was a Darker and Edgier revival of the Scooby-Doo franchise and is widely considered to be the best of the DTV movies, while the ones that came after it are more polarizing.
The rest are despised, mocked within an inch of their lives, or both. Each successive movie consists of any Public Domain Character or movie within the writers' reach being given a shot for shot animated remake, occasionally interrupted by Tom and Jerry engaging in their usual antics to pad the runtime.
Didn't work—the movie was such a critical and commercial flop that the Roald Dahl estate yanked the rights away from them. The Despicable Me films exhibit a downplayed example. All three four counting Minions were box-office successes, but it's generally agreed that the first one is the best and that the sequels, although entertaining in their own right, don't really bring anything new to the table. It's probably not a coincidence that this dip in quality coincides with the Minions' rise in popularity, moving from amusing side characters to having their own subplot to receiving more attention and focus than the actual main character of the series , especially in advertising.
The Rotten Tomatoes scores for the films corroborate this—although all of the movies except for Minions have Fresh ratings, the score dips lower for each successive installment. Dragon Hill , as a Spanish animated movie franchise, is already obscure enough as it is.
The sequels, so cheaply made that they discard the 2D animation for CGI and utterly devoid of what little charm the first had, continuously plummet on the IMDb scores which were already low for the first installment.
While Surf's Up never managed to find much of a wide audience, its unique mockumentary-style storyline earned it cult classic status. I believe this is because people tend to give reboots less of a shot in the first place after so many years.
A recent study on innovation carried out by professors from the Universities of South Florida, Binghamton, Texas San Antonio, Munster, and Lausanne explains why we tend to like the continuing storylines of sagas better than repeats.
The researchers concluded that people prefer ongoing storylines that mix both safety and excitement. In other words, we want novelty, but we need familiarity. The best stories, according to the research, move forward with that dynamic over time. When things change too much, the audience revolts, but when things stay the same, the audience gets bored. Most sagas tend to come from popular source material that exists before the first installment hits the silver screen.
In fact, most saga movie series are adapted from previously successful books or television shows. Notice that adaptations from familiar material—comics, fairy tales, existing characters spinoffs —outperform original screenplays.
This data lumps repeat sequels in with original screenplays. The movie business is hungry for sure bets, but people are simply hungry for great stories, which keeps the industry investing in original screenplays in hopes of making the next surprise hit and then hopefully generating many sequels from it.
Interestingly, this is where indie studios may be able to seize opportunity and try more daring original films with the hopes of Internet buzz carrying them to big audiences.
That said, most of the movie marketing dollars still come from the big studios, which means the gap between revenue from sequels and originals will likely widen. Bond keeps its steez by rebooting with new actors and new paradigms every few movies, thereby bringing back the novelty factor to the series.
Based on our data and the conclusions from the academic study I mentioned above, it makes sense that each new Bond reboot will continue to do well with this strategy. In a remake, the story of the film is taken from the story of a film that has been previously created. Disney has taken action in remaking plenty of the best animated films into live-action movies. But despite the alteration in visual form, they are still remakes. A sequel has a withstanding reputation for a being an automatically bad movie.
As mentioned in the video, thinking of these movies as continuations rather than cheaply made remakes with slight alterations is what makes them great. Focusing on how a sequel can continue a story rather than recreate the success of a story is what makes or breaks them.
One of the most common ways great sequels achieve this is through character. Characters within a single feature length film might be limited in development. However, a "Part 2" poses an opportunity for characters to continue to grow and for audiences to develop an even greater connection to these characters. Throughout the Toy Story films, we see characters like Woody and Buzz grow and develop in new ways that the original couldn't have done.
Sometimes, it makes you think that there are no good ones out there. In fact, some sequels have grown to be just as good if not even better than the original films.
Here is a video by Cinefix that covers some of the best sequels in cinema history to help you understand the term a bit better. Sequels often get a bad rap and it's no surprise why. There have been countless sequels that have flopped and failed when trying to ride the coattails of its predecessor. Especially in the last 30 years of blockbuster filmmaking, cinema history has become strewn with miserable follow-ups to brilliant originals.
Exactly why sequels tend to be so bad is a difficult question, since every bad sequel is its own beautiful idiot snowflake. Now, some scientific proof has arrived: Box Office Quant has posted a nifty Sequel Map that graphs the Rotten Tomatoes critical score of the original movie against the score of the sequel. Check out the result here.
The first thing you notice: The vast majority of sequels scored less well than the original movie although kudos to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan for being the most improved sequel.
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