25 Movie Franchises That Really Should Have Stopped After One Sequel
It can be tempting, if a movie studio keeps paying you kajillions of dollars, to keep driving an idea into the ground until you hit molten core and let the lava take you. At least, we assume it is. If any Hollywood executives out there want to pay us fuck-off money to dance like monkeys in the service of some soulless corporate garbage, please let us know.
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But whatever happened to the single sequel? Plenty of movies got a Movie Title 2 and quit while they were ahead. Gremlins. Grease. 2001: A Space Od— Wait, 2001: A Space Odyssey had a sequel? We don’t have time for that. The point is that a lot of franchises never should have happened. They should have gotten one sequel at most.
“For me, it’s Child’s Play,” user karma_hit_my_dogma told r/AskReddit. “I love the Chucky character, but the rest of them are just tropes to me and comedy, removing the spirit of it.” They then asked, “What movie franchise should have stopped at two?,” and Reddit couldn’t stop itself from providing all sorts of answers.
Jaws
The Mummy
Taken
The Fast and the Furious
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
The Addams Family
Free Willy
Beethoven
Home Alone
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Hangover
Cinderella
Poltergeist
The Expendables
The Mighty Ducks
John Wick
Tremors
RoboCop
Scary Movie
X-Men
Toy Story
Ice Age
The Terminator
Shrek
Spider-Man
