Blog:My Top 20 Unnecessary sequels

When sequels come out following the high note endings from the previous films, certain sequels decide not to listen to the high note endings and most of them will never be as good as what you expect whether the sequel is a good follow up or not. Here are my top 20 Unnecessary sequels.

Number #20
Independence Day: Resurgence



This movie is very unnecessary for multiple reasons. The primary reasons it didn't need a sequel are because the previous film feels like a perfect ending where it didn't need a sequel since the two main characters destroyed the mothership thus defeating the aliens and ending the first movie on a very high note. But, the movie came out twenty years after the first film, so the idea for a sequel was basically stale by the time it was released.

Why? ID4 is a great action disaster movie that it's one of the best Roland Emmerich films! Will Smith is killed off, so sad. Some of the characters from the original are forgotten (Russell Casse's family, Jeff Goldblum's ex-wife) or brought back just to die (Will Smith's widow).

Lazy and contrived ending: it turns out the colossal giga-ship, which realistically would have ended life on Earth by simply landing on it, is set up so that if the alien Queen dies, it simply leaves. Literally everything the Queen did after her ship arrived was unnecessary and did nothing but give the humans chances to beat her, and there is a sequel baiting, the sphere convinces the humans to join her resistance so they can launch a counter-attack on the harvester's planet. However, since the film was a box office disappointment the resistance was never resolved.

It's the worst thing that Fox has ever done to the first film.

Number #19
Backdraft 2



Another sequel that is very unnecessary due to the fact that the first film ended on a high note with Brian McCaffrey moving on with his career in the fire service despite the loss of his brother, Stephen and his father, Dennis. Yet, the sequel ignores the ending of the original film with no purpose whatsoever. In addition, releasing the sequel to the first film just twenty-eight years after the original was stale beyond recognition. Worst of all, the ending is like The Last Jedi where Brian dies in a pointless way near the end of the film.

Number #18
Caddyshack II

Yet another unnecessary sequel to another popular film. In this case, it is the nonsensical sequel to the 1980 classic comedy Caddyshack, where it ignores the events of the first movie like it didn't happen AT ALL, and the new characters are cardboard cutouts of the characters from the original film and aren't likable in any way, shape or form (eg. Captain Tom Everett (Dan Aykroyd) is Carl Spackler (Bill Murray), and Jack Hartounian (Jackie Mason) is Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield).

Number #17
Rambo: Last Blood



Rambo: Last Blood is an unnecessary sequel of the beloved Rambo franchise directed by Adrien Grunberg and written by Sylvester Stallone, Dan Gordon, and Matthew Cirulnick. It stars Stallone, Paz Vegas, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Adrianna Barraza, Yvette Monreal, Joaquin Cosio, and Oscar Jaenada. Although there are positive reviews from the audiences, some fans claim that the movie was another great installment in the franchise. Most people dismiss it as an unwanted and disappointing installment.