# Worst sequel title? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [March 5, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sequel-title/998504 "2024-03-05T20:04:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sequel-title/998504/21 "2024-03-06T02:46:05Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > [@Mahaloth](#): > > > > Did you watch History of the World Part 2? > > I did not! How did I miss that? > > Now I have to go find that and watch it. It wasn’t a movie but instead a sketch comedy series on Hulu last year. I didn’t think it was very good. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sequel-title/998504/22 "2024-03-06T03:44:11Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Ya gotta give the Sharknado franchise credit for steering into the skid with bad sequel titles. How did they miss… Sharkando 17: Sunday in the Shark with George ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sequel-title/998504/23 "2024-03-06T06:09:12Z")
_Sicario: Day of the Soldado_ because it’s not a sequel, although you might watch it wondering how the timeline connects. It’s a Groundhog Day movie. The first Sicario movie never happened: this is as if a different strategy was used to disrupt the cartels’ balance of power. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sequel-title/998504/24 "2024-03-06T07:11:44Z")
On a similar note to OP, when Revelations or Retribution is used as a movie title. Hell every single Resident Evil movie has a terrible sequel title especially since they’re not numbered so I have no idea what order Retribution, Revelations, Extinction, Apocalypse, or Afterlife or afterlife are in. At the very least they gave us the common decency of naming the last one “The Final Chapter”. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sequel-title/998504/25 "2024-03-06T07:43:22Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Is it a phantom-y menace, or a literal menacing phantom, or an illusionary menace? Even after having watched the film (many years on now) I still have no idea. The phantom menace is the illusory political crisis between Naboo and the Trade Federation that Palpatine engineered in order to make Chancellor Valorum’s government collapse so that he could take power himself. It is admittedly rather cryptic and only really makes sense after you watch the entire trilogy. I didn’t figure it out myself until I heard some pundit or another refer to one of Fox News’ panics du jour as a phantom menace. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sequel-title/998504.md?page=1)