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.
How about The Sting II, 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.
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.
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.
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”.
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!”
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)
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.
Oh, you mean Highlander II: The Quickening?
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.
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…
