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With so many horrible sequels available, picking the ten worst sequels of all time was challenging. Indeed, there have been numerous instances where sequels have fallen far short of their original counterparts, making them infamous examples of ‘how not to do a sequel.’

Thankfully, viewers on IMDb did most of the work for us, sharing their valuable insights and ratings, which we’ve used to compile this list.

What follows is a painstakingly curated breakdown of each terrible sequel. We delve into what specifically made these follow-ups lackluster and disappointing. Some of these sequels found their unfortunate place on this list despite being birthed from incredibly successful and well-received franchises.

They had every ingredient for success – a captive audience, proven characters, and established lore, yet they managed to fumble. Conversely, others continued on an already rocky path of subpar predecessor films, cementing their series as characterized by chronic cinematic failure.

“Flatliners” is the worst reviewed movie of the Fall so far, and one of the worst-reviewed movies of the year. But it’s not the worst reviewed film of all time. Check which ones are, courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes, ranked by number of reviews.

“Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever” (2002)

Average Score: 2.59

# of Reviews: 116

Tomatometer: 0

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu

“One Missed Call” (2008)

Average Score: 2.48

# of Reviews: 80

Tomatometer: 0

Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Edwards Burns

“Pinocchio” (2002)

Average Score: 2.36

# of Reviews: 55

Tomatometer: 0

Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi

“A Thousand Words” (2012)

Average Score: 3.18

# of Reviews: 54

Tomatometer: 0

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Kerry Washington, Allison Janney

“Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2” (2004)

Average Score: 2.17

# of Reviews: 45

Tomatometer: 0

Cast: Jon Voight, Scott Baio

“National Lampoon’s Gold Diggers” (2004)

Average Score: 1.8

# of Reviews: 44

Tomatometer: 0

Cast: Will Friedle, Chris Owen

“Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star” (2011)

Average Score: 1.59

# of Reviews: 35

Tomatometer: 0

Cast: Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci

“The Ridiculous 6” (2015)

Average Score: 2.36

# of Reviews: 33

Tomatometer: 0

Cast: Adam Sandler,...

“Flatliners” is the worst reviewed movie of the Fall so far, and one of the worst-reviewed movies of the year. But it’s not the worst reviewed film of all time. Check which ones are, courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes, ranked by number of reviews. “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever” (2002) Average Score: 2.59 # of Reviews: 116 Tomatometer: 0 Cast: Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu “One Missed Call” (2008) Average Score: 2.48 # of Reviews: 80 Tomatometer: 0 Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Edwards Burns “Pinocchio” (2002) Average Score: 2.36 # of Reviews: 55 Tomatometer: 0 Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi “A Thousand Words” (2012) Average Score: 3.18 # of Reviews: 54 Tomatometer: 0 Cast: Eddie Murphy, Kerry Washington, Allison Janney “Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2” (2004) Average.

Donald Trump vs. Starbucks' War on Christmas. The War on Christmas: The movies that come to mind We're still in November, but the War on Christmas – according to online buzz, a second cousin once removed of the War on Cops – has begun. Weeping and gritting of teeth has seized certain population segments in the U.S.A. (and perhaps other countries as well) after Fox News, that beacon of intellectual freedom at the end of the cable news tunnel, announced that … Starbucks' holiday season cups are a) red b) devoid of Christmas decorations. Could it be a satanic conspiracy disguised as politically correct inclusiveness? The result of a communist takeover at the Seattle-headquartered company? Cruel and unusual Christian persecution in the form of paper cups? Your guess is as good as mine. Far-right Republican icon, U.S. presidential candidate, and 2015 political circus ringmaster Donald Trump seems to think that Starbucks...

For a pop-culture obsessive, watching the kids you love morph into mini-movie hounds is a beautiful thing. At least, until those kids seize on a movie they can't get enough of, and insist on watching it again... and again... and again. Or they become cinematic aficionados, but only for the types of films that tend to make anyone over the age of 10 cringe. (Have you ever attempted to rewatch, say, Blank Check? That stuff does not hold up.) Thus this week's PopWatch Confessional question: What's the worst, most grating, or otherwise unpleasant children's movie you've been forced to sit through by an actual kid,...

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Every normal person loves a good movie, but if there’s one thing movie critics aren’t, it’s normal people. Sure, you can write a perfectly decent review extolling the virtues of the latest hit film, but that gets old after a while. Good is boring. It’s much more fun writing about bad movies. Beneath the surface of every respectable journalist who writes movie reviews lies a sadistic monster, gleefully waiting for a horrible film to come out so that they can use the power of their words against it. These are the people who root for Anton Ego, the caustic food critic, when watching Ratatouille.

While this sort of cut throat film criticism is entertaining, it starts to feel a little cruel, in a making-fun-of-the-kid-with-crutches way, when the movie they’re deriding is legitimately awful. Or at least it would, if it wasn’t absolutely hilarious.

Mark Millar, the comic book writer responsible for Wanted and the Kick Ass series, is normally associated with gooey, gory mayhem and a dash of immaturity. Watching about fifteen seconds worth of Kick Ass could tell you that. But despite arming children with lethal weapons and strings of profanities, he also has a softer side. It’s the kinder, gentler Millar that created “Kindergarten Heroes,” a superhero-themed children’s book that’s now being adapted into a feature film. Deadline, which broke the story, has Carter Blanchard (who’s written the upcoming Glimmer and Spy Hunter) on screenwriting duties for Kindergarten Heroes, with plans to turn it into the latest kids’ movie franchise. And for those worried that Millar is only capable of writing child characters with an unquenchable thirst for killing, rest assured his film adaptations may all be (until now) bursting at the seams with fake blood, but Millar has plenty of kid-friendly comics under...

With Kick Ass 2 opening this week, we take a look at some other young superheroes. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) Director: Bob Clark Stars: Jon Voight, Scott Baio, Vanessa Angel A team of creepy talking toddlers must save the world from Jon Voight. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 is currently ranked #1 on IMDb's Bottom 100 list and, while I've probably sat through more painful films, it's hard to deny it the infamous distinction. It's bafflingly bad. Or to put it...

That's right, "Disaster Movie," at least according to IMDb users who voted. The comedy, a send-up of disaster flicks, received 55,112 votes. But here's the more interesting part. Paris Hilton topped the charts with two movies appearing in the Top 10 namely "The Hottie & the Nottie" and 2006's "Pledge This."

So without further adieu, here's your Top 100 Worst Movies of All Time!

Rank Rating Title Votes

1. 1.9 Disaster Movie (2008) 55,112

2. 1.9 The Hottie & the Nottie (2008) 27,996

3. 1.9 Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) 20,247

4. 1.9 Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) 27,348

5. 1.9 Pledge This! (2006) 13,121

6. 1.9 Die Hard Dracula (1998) 2,641

7. 1.9 Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) 4,842

8. 1.9 Anne B. Real (2003) 3,325

9. 1.9 From Justin to Kelly (2003) 21,887

10. 1.9 Going Overboard (1989) 7,713

11. 1.9 Track of the Moon Beast (1976) 2,272

12. 1.9 Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1985) 2,021

13. 1.9 The Maize: The Movie (2004) 2,284

14. 1.9 The Pod People (1983) 3,089

15. 1.9 The Wild World of Batwoman (1966) 3,097

16. 1.9 Turks in Space (2006) 9,634

17. 1.9 Who's Your Caddy? (2007) 12,991

18. 1.9 The Creeping Terror (1964) 2,764

19. 1.9 Crossover (2006) 8,350

20. 1.9 Girl in Gold Boots (1968) 2,532

21. 2.0 Miss Castaway and the Island Girls (2004) 1,945

22. 2.0 Space Mutiny (1988) 4,376

23. 2.0 Daniel - Der Zauberer (2004) 12,159

24. 2.0 The Starfighters (1964) 2,726

25. 2.0 Fat Slags...

Anybody can make a movies nowadays, and that’s ultimately a good thing: without that kind of thinking we might not have low-budget classics like Reservoir Dogs or Monsters. But there’s a flipside to be considered. Because sometimes, a person who should be doing anything else but writing or directing a motion picture manages to get themselves onto a set: here, they adopt a baseball cap and a smug sense of superiority, and they start telling the other people with cameras and boom mics what to do. This is made a zillion times worse if twenty or thirty of these guys – in some unexplainable twist of fate – are miraculously brought together on a single project.

That’s the only way any of the films on the following list can be justified: they were made by large teams of people who had abandoned all sanity. Large teams of people who...

Given Hollywood.s penchant for greenlighting sequels to just about anything (hello, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2), it.s rare that you hear a studio angled for the high-profile lead in a summer blockbuster to be killed off. And yet, during a recent presentation at the Visual Effects Society Production Summit in Beverly Hills, Fox officials confirmed that they initially believed James Franco.s character should have died at the end of Rupert Wyatt.s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and that their last-minute decision to spare the scientist.s life led to late-game reshoots that tightened the film.s already intense postproduction schedule. .We shot [the alternate ending] for three hours and [Franco] was back on the plane,. said Fox.s president of postproduction Ted Gagliano, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A copy of the script confirms that Franco.s character, Will, gets caught in the crossfire between Caesar ...

Photo: Warner Bros. I was completely out of the loop when it came to Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, a film predominantly known at this point as the worst reviewed movie of the last decade by RottenTomatoes standards. So, when I decided I would follow in the footsteps of my previous look at Skyline and regularly take a look back at movies considered to be among the worst ever that I had not yet seen, there was no better place to start.

In short, yes, this is a bad film. Terrible in fact. Is it the worst? That's all relative to the discussion. Worst in what way? Plot? Characters? Execution? Entertainment? In all honesty, this is a film I would consider a perfect entry in a new age of grindhouse. All I could think of while watching the inexplicable amount of explosions, lack of story and silly predicaments was of Robert Rodriguez...

It's award season. The Razzies are preparing to announce their "winners" (or is it losers?) of the year when it comes to Worst Movies of the Year and they have a special category for Worst Movies of the Decade. I'm reminded of the ickiest of the icks when it comes to film's marketed to kids (children through teens). These are the three worst movies marketed to kids of the decade.

Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector

I'm sure you're familiar with the Blue Collar comedian for his girth and low-brow humor. So it should of been no surprise when he finally got his own movie and yeah, it was revolting. The story revolved around Larry's character being a city health inspector trying to find the cause of a string of nasty outbreaks in fancy restaurants. The first five minutes can sum up what you're in for: peeing in the shower,...

We stocked up on extra supplies of Advil at Cinema Blend headquarters last spring, when Eric gave himself a massive concussion reporting the news that Fox was developing a movie based on the E-Trade commercials featuring talking babies. It wasn't just the depressing comeback of talking babies, six years after we barely survived Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, but the fact that the whole thing was going to be based on a damn series of commercials. Come on, Hollywood, stop letting us know exactly how stupid you think we are. Sadly, the nearly year-long absence in news about the project didn't meant it had died; THR reports that the studio is now developing the movie further as a family adventure movie about babies breaking out of a daycare. Yes, it seems that Fox executives saw Toy Story 3 and decided to make their own version, but with creepy talking children instead...

So, just a heads up that AfterElton will have a very limited schedule today and tomorrow. You will get a Meme each day, though, but I'll be filling in for Ed Kennedy, so expect subliminal 80's references that will haunt your subconscious.

The reviews are in, and as of this writing Burlesque has a 32% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That's actually not as bad as I thought, and is certainly better than other holiday fare. Nutcraker 3D has a perfect 0% going, and if that holds, it'll join such illustrious company as Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 and Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Severs

Ecks Vs. Severs it's not, but the Burlesque reviews run the gamut from "The dialogue falls upon the ear like baseball bats," to "Approximately 10% of you are going to Love this movie." Roger Ebert gives it two stars, writing that Christina has "an unforced charm," and "Cher looks exactly as she always does.

As many people argue about what the best film of all-time is, there are just as many, if not more, who try and make an argument for the worst film of all-time. Is it Manos: The Hands of Fate? Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2? Any of the Friedberg/Seltzer abortions? As often as debates are held and titles introduced, there are some classics that always rank in the top five. Edward D. Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 From Outer Space is one of these films...and now we'll get to see it in 3D! Continuing the awful trend that is spreading like a virus in Hollywood, MarketSaw is reporting that the quintessential bad movie is going to be converted and sent to a theater near you. The film will tour with the title Plan 9 from Outer Space, Now in 3D! in limited release around the country, and is expected to...

Well, you probably didn't expect it and you certainly didn't ask for it, but it looks like Look Who's Talking is going to be the next '80s flick to board the remake train. I'm talking about the 1989 comedy directed by Amy Heckerling and starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley as a young couple who have their first baby together, with the baby's thoughts being spoken to the audience by none other than Bruce Willis. The movie spawned two sequels, the second of which involved talking pets instead. Pajiba [1] reports that the update is being produced by Neal Moritz (The Fast and the Furious), and that there is no director or writer assigned as of yet. On a related note, there is also a movie in development over at Fox starring the talking babies from the popular E*trade TV commercials [2]. No, seriously. It's being written by Katie Dippold (Parks and Recreation) as we speak.

When it comes to reviewing movies, I've always found that one of the most difficult things is not deciding whether a movie is good or bad, but rather, deciding whether a movie is bad or downright terrible. Make no mistake, there are many different levels of bad movies, but does anyone really care to get down to the nitty gritty of debating which ones are slightly better than others? It just seems like a colossal waste of energy. Fortunately, the good folks over at Rotten Tomatoes [1] have recently decided to sift through their vast review archives to give us the definitive Worst of the Worst list [2] for the past 10 years in film. I don't think there are too many surprises here, although the good news is that I think quite a few of these are movies that no one has seen. Maybe now they'll finally find the audience they deserve!

Ya know, it doesn't feel like we're nearing the end of another decade, does it? There's no special millennium celebration or Y2K nonsense to get excited about, so it seems people are just sorta whatever about the past decade as if it wasn't very monumental or iconic, except for the part where our African-American president said something geeky about Star Trek. But I bet all the best end-of-the-decade content is yet to come, and it looks like Rotten Tomatoes is getting things started by presenting us with the worst (reviewed) films of the decade ... which they probably should've waited a couple more months to launch since, ya know, we still haven't seen Avatar (I'm kidding Jim - I'm kidding! Calm down!).

So what's the worst reviewed film of the decade? Well, that honor goes to --drum roll please -- 2002's Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, starring the always enticing duo...

If anyone was clamoring for a follow-up to 1999's Baby Geniuses, they'll be happy to know that the sequel retains not only the same gimmicky premise as the original but its preference for cliche-ridden dialogue and flat-footed comedy as well. In this U.S.-German-U.K. co-production, once again CGI and impressive baby wrangling give us diapered heroes who speak to one another in complete sentences reflecting keen intelligence. And once again the less-than-compelling story line is a flimsy excuse for the toddlers' banter.

Director Bob Clark has corralled a bunch of flavorless, stiff performances in the service of this cause. The exceptions are the cute-but-not-cutesy kids and a dummkopf turn from Jon Voight -- stepping into the role of villain after exec-producing the first film (a negligible difference, some might argue). Anyone who derives side-splitting merriment from the sight of little kids spouting action-film jargon or using the word "elucidation" should run, not walk, to their local multiplex -- not least because it's unlikely that Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 will be in theaters long.

Leo, Myles and Gerry Fitzgerald, the triplets who starred in the earlier film, return as legendary superhero Kahuna, a perennial 7-year-old who defends children in distress. Back in 1962 East Berlin, at a state orphanage, he crossed paths with the evil Capt. Kane (Voight), whose goal was world domination. Redubbed Bill Biscane, the Teuton surfaces in the present day as -- what else? -- a media mogul.

Using mind-altering satellite signals, the goofily power-mad Biscane aims to rule the planet through his gargantuan children's television network. It takes a baby genius to see that the venture is a front; the grown-ups are too busy being dim.

Of particular dimness is Stan Bobbins (Scott Baio), proprietor of BobbinsWorld child-care center, which will serve as ground zero for Biscane Broadcasting. His wife, Jean (Vanessa Angel), is convinced that the tots in their charge are not merely gurgling but communicating. Among them is their son, Archie (Michael and Max Iles), who spends his days kibitzing with three other babies and trying to save BobbinsWorld from the no-goodniks -- while getting zero quality time with Mom and Dad.

Hot on Biscane's trail is the Kahuna, brandishing Bondian gizmos, chopsocky moves and a chartreuse energy drink that turns him into a mini-muscleman, a la Popeye's spinach. Babies and corporate thugs face off at the superkid's compound near the Hollywood sign. A sugar-hued phantasmagoria of holograms and glitter, the would-be kids' paradise comes across, in the film's flat lighting, as a cheesy set.

Voight makes the German-accented baddie far less cringe-inducing than one might expect. And whether intentional or not, the Fitzgerald triplets bring an appropriate melancholy to the role of the Kahuna. He bears the responsibility of saving the world's children and protecting his own heavy secret: A creepy Cold War back story reveals that he's an old man trapped in a child's body. Still, character and logic are beside the point in a film devoid of emotional content. It's all about the combination of adorable kids and visual f/x (by Dynamic Effects and Digital Energy).

There also are a few tacked-on, utterly unconvincing messages about family togetherness. And Gregory Poppen's script strikes a trite anti-TV stance, equating the small screen with child-rotting junk. How this questionable franchise makes a case for the movies as a superior medium is anyone's guess.

SUPERBABIES: BABY GENIUSES 2

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Credits:

Director: Bob Clark

Screenwriter: Gregory Poppen

Producer: Steven Paul

Executive producer: Frank Hubner

Director of photography: Maher Maleh

Production designer: Deren P. Abram

Music: Helmut Zerlett, Paul Zaza

Co-producers: Jan Fantl, David Marlow

Costume designer: Tina Fiorda

Editor: Stan Cole

Visual effects supervisor: Jacques Stroweis

Cast:

Bill Biscane: Jon Voight

Stan Bobbins: Scott Baio

Jean Bobbins: Vanessa Angel

Kylie: Skyler Shaye

Zack: Justin Chatwin

Crowe: Peter Wingfield

Kahuna: Leo, Myles and Gerry Fitzgerald

Archie: Michael and Max Iles

Finkleman: Jordan and Jared Scheideman

Rosita: Keana and Maia Bastidas

Alex: Joshua and Maxwell Lockhart

Tascha: Anastasia Trovato

MPAA rating: PG

Running time -- 88 minutes...

Although it was a two-year wait, the timing couldn't have been better for the release of Miramax's Hero, which truly saved the day at the boxoffice in North America this past weekend with a debut of a solid $18 million and the top spot. The Jet Li starrer, a Chinese picture with English subtitles from writer-director Zhang Yimou, had the second-biggest opening of all time for a foreign-language film, behind Newmarket's The Passion of the Christ. Hero was the lone standout during a weekend of four wide releases. The best opener among the other new arrivals was Screen Gems' Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, which arrived in the second spot with $12.8 million. The frame's other two wide releases had dismal showings at the boxoffice, arriving in the 10th and 11th slots. Paramount's Suspect Zero sleuthed $3.4 million and Sony's Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 took in $3.3 million on their debuts.

In a surprisingly strong late-summer showing, Miramax's Hero conquered audiences in North America and easily captured first place this weekend with $18 million at the boxoffice, according to Monday's final figures. The debut for the Jet Li starrer, from writer-director Zhang Yimou, was the second-biggest opening of all time for a foreign-language film after Newmarket's The Passion of the Christ. Slithering into the second spot was Screen Gems' Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid. The relatively low-budget sequel from director Dwight Little wrapped up $12.8 million in its debut, in the area expected and slightly less than the $16.6 million of the original film. The frame's only other wide releases were Paramount's Suspect Zero and Sony's Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 from Triumph -- both films opened unspectacularly to less than $4 million each. Suspect, a crime thriller starring Ben Kingsley, Aaron Eckhart and Carrie-Anne Moss and directed by E. Elias Merhige, which cost less than $10 million, was in the 10th spot with $3.4 million. While Superbabies, a family-aimed comedy helmed by Bob Clark, that also carried a low budget, placed 11th with $3.3 million.

In a surprisingly strong late-summer showing, Miramax's Hero conquered audiences in North America and easily captured first place this weekend with $18 million at the boxoffice, according to Monday's final figures. The debut for the Jet Li starrer, from writer-director Zhang Yimou, was the second-biggest opening of all time for a foreign-language film after Newmarket's The Passion of the Christ. Slithering into the second spot was Screen Gems' Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid. The relatively low-budget sequel from director Dwight Little wrapped up $12.8 million in its debut, in the area expected and slightly less than the $16.6 million of the original film. The frame's only other wide releases were Paramount's Suspect Zero and Sony's Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 from Triumph -- both films opened unspectacularly to less than $4 million each. Suspect, a crime thriller starring Ben Kingsley, Aaron Eckhart and Carrie-Anne Moss and directed by E. Elias Merhige, which cost less than $10 million, was in the 10th spot with $3.4 million. While Superbabies, a family-aimed comedy helmed by Bob Clark, that also carried a low budget, placed 11th with $3.3 million.