Mar 8, 2006

Worst. Sequels. Ever.

From Entertainment Weekly:
1. Staying Alive
2. Caddyshack II
3. Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha' Hood
4. Blues Brothers 2000
5. Batman & Robin
6. Weekend at Bernie's II
7. The Fly II
8. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
9. Speed 2: Cruise Control
10. Jaws: The Revenge
11. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
12. Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace
13. The Sting II
14. Conan the Destroyer
15. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
16. Ocean's Twelve
17. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
18. Battle for the Planet of the Apes
19. Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
20. The Godfather Part III
21. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
22. Teen Wolf Too
23. Porky's II: The Next Day
24. The Next Karate Kid
25. The Matrix Reloaded


Personally, I think they didn't give Godfather III enough credit for craptacularity.
Francis Ford Coppola mortgaged the Corleone legacy in this ridiculous postscript about La Cosa Nostra getting into bed with the Vatican, death by poison cannoli, and hotheaded nephew Andy Garcia rolling gnocchi with Sofia Coppola as they interlace fingers (it's like a mobster version of the Ghost pottery-wheel scene). Critics dogpiled on 19-year-old Sofia. And she is terrible. But she's the least offensive thing in this act of cinematic grave-defiling.
No, Sofia was by no means the worst offender: This is the movie in which Al Pacino jumped the shark; never in the course of cinematic history has man been exposed to such egregious overacting.

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