Forgotten Movie Sequels

[minlokwat]

Ron Howard mentioned in an interview his sequel to American Grafiti. I had completely forgotten about this movie. I may have seen bits and pieces of it but had Howard not mentioned it would have been completely erased from the memory banks.

So, the question is, are there other movies that spawned a sequel that in the mists of time, have been largely ignored by the viewing public?

I submit that Grease 2 would have and should have remained in the vast wasteland of forgotten, horrible films. Then VH1, TNT and the like decided to periodically air it thus re-affirming its status as the absolutely most worthless sequel ever made.

What can I say.

[Mystery Dog]

How about The Sting II (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086370), with Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis playing the roles originated by Paul Newman and Robert Redford? I actually saw it once, and I can't remember anything about it. My brain seems to have completely blocked the painful memories.

[Wendell Wagner]

There's a sequel to _Splash_ called _Splash, Too_.

[Czarcasm]

Rocky Horror Picture Show had a semisequel called Shock Treatment which, IMHO, had better music.

[Drastic]

There were sequels to Psycho, and even more bizarrely, that remake of it.

A few years back, while avoiding studying, I stumbled across a sequel to Rosemary's Baby. I'd no idea.

[Little Nemo]

How about The Sting II, with Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis playing the roles originated by Paul Newman and Robert Redford?

And Hollywood, proving that it learns nothing from failure, tried the same trick with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Butch and Sundance:The Early Years was another sequel to a successful Newman-Redford movie without Newman or Redford.

[Bryan Ekers]

Straight to video:

Darkman II: The Return of Durant

Darkman III: Die, Darkman, Die

The last one is obviously the German version of "The Darkman, The".

Butch and Sundance: The Eary Years was actually a prequel, not a sequel.

[Jello]

[random Simpsons reference]

No one who speaks German could ever be a killer!

[/random Simpsons reference]

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Originally posted by minlokwat
...I submit that Grease 2 would have and should have remained in the vast wasteland of forgotten, horrible films...


What!? And deprive mill..uh thous...uh hundreds of people the joy that IS Adrian Zmed?

Not to mention, bowling!

[minlokwat]

Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky



What!? And deprive mill..uh thous...uh hundreds of people the joy that IS Adrian Zmed?

Not to mention, bowling!


Or watch Michelle Pfeiffer perform the most retarded dance-into-the-sunset scene that remains almost painful to watch. Uggh...

Another film that might fit the bill is Fierce Creatures. Not a sequel but a second-offering-reprise of the cast from A Fish Called Wanda.

Wanda is arguably one of the best American-Brit comic collaborations ever. Creatures was such a profound dud that I'm pretty sure none of the involved players even acknowledges its existence.

[Lumpy]

I saw Son of Kong on TV once. It shows that the tradition of bad sequels goes back to the 1930s.

[Philosophocles]

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan was simultaneously very boring and very confusing. It has not been on TV nearly as much as the original (the best of the three) or the first sequel "Bad News Bears in Breaking Training".

[AWB]

The second and third Highlander movies are completely ignored by the fourth movie, which ignores part of the first movie too.

[Otto]

Originally posted by Drastic
A few years back, while avoiding studying, I stumbled across a sequel to Rosemary's Baby. I'd no idea.
Was this a film or was it the book, "Son of Rosemary"? Which, by the way, don't bother reading. I found it last year in a dollar store and I still feel like I overpaid.

John Waters wrote the script for a Pink Flamingos sequel to be called Flamingos Forever, but the deaths of Edith Massey and Divine permanently shelved it. The script is published in the book "Trash Trio."

Another random Simpsons reference: "This scam was in The Sting II, so nobody knows about it!"

[GIGObuster]

I actually remembered that there was a sequel to the “repeat forever thru a loop” cable perennial The Beastmaster (1982) called: Beastmaster II: Through the Portal
of Time (1991)

Going to the video store today, I was hit in the gut by the discovery of Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1995)

[tetsusaru]

I always wanted the innumerable sequels to Friday the 13th to be called Saturday the 14th, Sunday the 15th...

[Drastic]

Was this a film or was it the book, "Son of Rosemary"? Which, by the way, don't bother reading. I found it last year in a dollar store and I still feel like I overpaid.

It was a movie. "Whatever Happened to Rosemary's Baby?" if my memory's working correctly--and with a title like that, you know it was, er, something. I seem to recall that it had something to do with the Antichrist all growed up, but somehow he'd forgotten who he really was (he'd lost "his father's eyes" for one thing, unless Rosemary had freaked out at completely normal eyes before), and then he started to learn and decided to rebel against the satanist conspiracy, or somesuch. It didn't do a very good job of engaging my attention span. :)

[Why A Duck]

Originally posted by AWB
The second and third Highlander movies are completely ignored by the fourth movie, which ignores part of the first movie too.

The second Highlander movie does not exist. Are we clear on that? If we mass-believe in it's non-existence, maybe it will go away.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Originally posted by Why A Duck


The second Highlander movie does not exist. Are we clear on that? If we mass-believe in it's non-existence, maybe it will go away.

Oh, you mean Highlander II: The Quickening? :D


There should be some sort of ritual anti-H2:TQ fans could do to ward off its evilness. Kinda like that episode of Black Adder where Edmund speaks the name Hamlet to the foppish actors.

[Silentgoldfish]

Macbeth.

Howsabout the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The first one is affectionatly remembered in my circle as pretty good. Heck even Ebert called it the best that could have been done, given the source material. The sequels on the other hand...

[RealityChuck]

Originally posted by tetsusaru
I always wanted the innumerable sequels to Friday the 13th to be called Saturday the 14th, Sunday the 15th...
There was a Saturday the 14th, supposedly a spoof of slasher films, but the writers evidently never saw any, so they tried to spoof old time monster movies. It was incredibly bad and less funny than wearing a lampshade on your head.

[Little Nemo]

Butch and Sundance: The Eary Years was actually a prequel, not a sequel.

Considering the two main characters died at the end of the original, a true sequel would have been difficult. Of course, they could have crossed genres and brought them back as vampires. If nothing else, Butch and Sundance: The Eerie Years would have been a different kind of movie.

But in my opinion, the term 'sequel' can be applied to any work that is created after the original, regardless of whether the plot takes place before or after the plot of the original. For me, The Phantom Menace will always be a lame sequel to the original Star Wars.

[ArturoBandini]

Let's see..."Cruel Intentions 2," a straight-to-video prequel to the Sarah Michelle Gellar quasi-incestual festival..."Devil in the Flesh 2," sequel to the Rose McGowan vehical about a murderous teen (sequal lacks McGowan, I believe)...um, let's not forget "After MASH," a sequel to the TV show that aired, I think, the season following MASH's final episode(a little off subject, but, jesus, I bet you didn't even remember that show, didja?)

"Saturday the 14th" had a sequel titled "Saturday the 14th Strikes Back," I seem to recall...I wish I could forget "Caddyshack 2"...

um...anyway...I got's the digital cable and ever since HBO made it excrutiatingly difficult to find reruns of "Mr. Show," I've seen quite a few pre/sequels I never knew of. I'm sure I'll see at least 2 or 3 more before I go to bed tonight.

[ArturoBandini]

Oops, almost forgot "The Stepfather" nos. 2 & 3. Also "Jack Frost 2," the sequel to the holiday slasher flick, not the sappy Mike Keaton hug-fest "Jack Frost" (Featuring Batman as a Snowman...I swear I only watched it for the "Mr. Show" alumni appearances!)

[CalMeacham]

Did you know there's a sequel to Forbiden Planet?

The Invisible Boy came out a couple of years later, starring Richard Eyer (the Genie from The Sevnth Voyage of Sinbad) in the title role, and with Robbie the Robot (the most interestin characer from FP). Pay attention in the opening section, and it's clear that this really is a sequel to FP. Much more badly written (it's MST3K-fodder), filmed with a much smaller budget, and in black and white. It is in the tradition of bad sequels -- although I submit it's not the fault of the film-makers. In the case of Son of Kong the filmmakers were given a tiny budget and very little time (much less time and money than for King Kong) by a studio anxious to cash in ASAP on the succes of the frst movie.