Films Franchises That Launched Means Too Many Sequels

Film studios milk their cinematic money cows to dying, pumping out sequel after sequel even for movies the place a follow-up isn’t actually warranted. In flip, these in any other case nice collection typically exit not with a bang, however with a whimper.

In lots of instances these movies are dragged out by way of a long time, normally within the identify of nostalgia, as studios try to capitalize on a film’s lasting title familiarity, popular culture impression and fan enthusiasm. Take the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, for example.

Loosely based mostly on their traditional Disneyland theme park journey of the identical identify, Disney struck pirate gold with 2003’s The Curse of the Black Pearl. Because of its all-star solid’s unbelievable chemistry, fantastic visible results, memorable music and thrilling, swashbuckling story, Gore Verbinski’s movie was an enormous hit and acquired the trilogy remedy.

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Whereas the collection in all probability ought to have acquired a respectful burial at sea after 2007’s At World’s Finish tied up the story, 4 years later Disney despatched On Stranger Tides to theaters, and whereas the movie made extra money than a buried treasure chest, followers and critics have been lukewarm. Six years after that, Useless Males Inform No Tales acquired a good worse response.

However Pirates is hardly the one hit film or franchise to overstay its welcome with manner too many sequels, spinoffs and in-universe reboots. The Indiana Jones collection and Toy Story would have been higher left alone as trilogies, whereas movies equivalent to Shrek, Die Arduous and The Quick and the Livid have additionally been stretched painfully skinny through the years, proving that simply since you can make a sequel, doesn’t imply it’s best to.