The Jewel of the Nile (1985)

The Jewel of the Nile (1985)

[3] Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito return for this lackluster sequel to 1984's terrific Romancing the Stone. The Jewel of the Nile picks up six months after the end of the first movie, with adventurous Jack (Douglas) and romance novelist…
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

[6] There's a certain kind of movie that is really hard to review. This is one of those movies. It's a studio movie, formulaic in structure and unremarkable in substance, but entertaining in laughs and thrills and a great vehicle for a…
Meet the Fockers (2004)

Meet the Fockers (2004)

[7] Director Jay Roach and cast return, adding Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Steisand to the mix, for this sequel to Meet the Parents. In preparation for their big wedding, Ben Stiller and Teri Polo need for their parents to meet each other.…
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

[8] After dealing with the death and resurrection of Spock in the previous two films, director Leonard Nimoy was given free reign with the fourth entry in the Star Trek franchise. Nimoy decided it was time for the series to take a…
Class of ’44 (1973)

Class of ’44 (1973)

[5] Gary Grimes and Jerry Houser reprise their roles from the emotionally charged Summer of '42 in this lackluster, somewhat pointless follow-up. Whereas Summer of '42 was very much about a young man's sexual awakening with an older woman, Class of '44…
The Miniver Story (1950)

The Miniver Story (1950)

[5] Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon reprise their roles from the Oscar-winning Mrs. Miniver in a sequel that really isn't necessary at all. The Miniver Story picks up after World War II has ended. The Miniver family is scattered around the globe…
U.S. Marshals (1998)

U.S. Marshals (1998)

[4] Tommy Lee Jones reprises his Oscar-winning role from The Fugitive, once again tracking down a man on the run. And once again that man happens to be innocent. Jones doesn't know that, but we do. You'd think maybe this time the…
Halloween (2018)

Halloween (2018)

[7] Jamie Lee Curtis returns to the franchise that launched her career in Halloween (same title, 40 years apart). This new film ignores every single sequel in the franchise and serves as a direct follow-up to John Carpenter's original 1978 film. And…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)

[3] Kim Henkel, co-creator of the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, writes and directs this fourth film in the series, about a car of high school prom attendees who get stranded near the infamous Sawyer family's house and get picked off one…
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)

[6] The 'Nerds' return for a slightly inferior sequel centering around a fraternity conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where the adversarial Alpha Beta fraternity frames the nerds for a crime they didn't commit and tries to get them expelled from the fraternal…