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Sequelitis, also called Rebootitis, is a common recurrence in media for sequels and reboots to not be as good as the original material. Often times this occurs due to running out of ideas. It is not always the second film, however, and sequelitis may occur further down the line. Many adaptions of previous works may suffer from this if the work has a poor grasp of the source material.

Examples of this

 * The Santa Clause
 * Home Alone
 * Die Hard
 * The Christmas Chronicles
 * A Christmas Story
 * Pirates of the Caribbean
 * Most Disney live action remakes
 * Artemis Fowl
 * Star Wars (prequel and sequel trilogies
 * Ghostbusters (2016 reboot)
 * Cats (the film version)
 * 100% Wolf
 * Godzilla (the 1999 movie)
 * The Giver (the film version)
 * Postman Pat: The Movie

Notable Exceptions

 * Toy Story
 * Indiana Jones
 * Star Wars (original trilogy
 * Thomas and Friends (The Adventure Begins)(sometimes)
 * How to Train Your Dragon
 * Kung Fu Panda
 * Shrek (except for Shrek the Third)
 * Captain Underpants
 * Angry Birds
 * The Hunger Games
 * Harry Potter
 * Jungle Book (2016)
 * SpongeBob SquarePants movies
 * Dora and the Lost City of Gold

Why It Sucks

 * 1) As said above, reboots and remakes (and sequels sometimes) can end up having a poor grasp of the source material, which can result in things like Flanderization.
 * 2) Sometimes lore established in previous films can be ignored, thus creating major plot holes.
 * 3) In remakes, content from the original source may be cut due to runtime, which can sometimes make the film more confusing if the content was important
 * 4) Sometimes films do not need a sequel, as the previous film wrapped up the narrative perfectly. This can often make ending scenes lose their impact.
 * 5) Additionally, if all of the films are part of a larger narrative, if one of the films is bad it can ruin the whole series.