45 of the worst movie sequels of all time, ranked by how awful they were

Critic score: 30%

Audience score: 27%

Sequel to: "Home Alone" (1990)

What critics said: "Twice the bad guys, half the laughs." — USA Today

Critic score: 29%

Audience score: 35%

Sequel to: "Dumb and Dumber" (1994)

What critics said: "I wish I could put as little thought into writing about 'Dumb and Dumber To' as the Farrelly brothers did in making it." — Time

Critic score: 28%

Audience score: 35%

Sequel to: "Final Destination" (2000)

What critics said: "Since not even 3-D can put your eyes out, our only hope is that this time, the title is a promise and not a tease." — The New York Times

Critic score: 28%

Audience score: 31%

Sequel to: "Rocky" (1976)

What critics said: "Whereas the first and far superior Rocky had real heart, this tries and fails to have brains." — Time Out

Critic score: 27%

Audience score: 23%

Sequel to: "The Fly" (1986)

What critics said: "It's got nothing on Cronenberg's original - or the Vincent Price classic" — Sunday Times

Critic score: 26%

Audience score: 75%

Sequel to: "Friday" (1995)

What critics said: "The jokes are sophomoric, stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious." — San Francisco Chronicle

Critic score: 26%

Audience score: 53%

Sequel to: "The Terminator" (1984)

What critics said: "It is mechanical in the worst way." — Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Critic score: 26%

Audience score: 33%

Sequel to: "The Nutty Professor" (1996)

What critics said: "Bloated by empty, unhealthy and unnecessary calories." — Houston Chronicle

Critic score: 26%

Audience score: 23%

Sequel to: "Superman" (1978)

What critics said: "Putting its emphasis on broad comedy at the expense of ingenious plotting and technical wizardry, it has virtually none of the mythic or cosmic sensibility that marked its predecessors." — Variety

Critic score: 25%

Audience score: 60%

Sequel to: "Twilight" (1975)

What critics said: "By any normal standard, this is a terrible movie, with stilted dialogue and leaden pacing." — Slate

Critic score: 23%

Audience score: 52%

Sequel to: "Bruce Almighty" (2003)

What critics said: "It's a paper-thin alleged comedy with a laugh drought of Biblical proportions." — Ebert & Roeper

Critic score: 21%

Audience score: 44%

Sequel to: "The Hangover" (2009)

What critics said: "The first movie left you with an exhilarating rush. All that Part III leaves is, well, a hangover." — Rolling Stone

Critic score: 19%

Audience score: 57%

Sequel to: "Transformers" (2007)

What critics said: "Beyond bad, it carves out its own category of godawfulness." — Rolling Stone

Critic score: 19%

Audience score: 12%

Sequel to: "The Exorcist" (1973)

What critics said: "An often astonishingly terrible and inept sequel." — Reel Film Reviews

Critic score: 18%

Audience score: 22%

Sequel to: "Poltergeist" (1982)

What critics said: "Falls right in line with its entirely underwhelming predecessor." — Reel Film Reviews

Critic score: 14%

Audience score: 40%

Sequel to: "Die Hard" (1988)

What critics said: "This is the fifth and least of the Die Hard movies." — Grantland

Critic score: 14%

Audience score: 27%

Sequel to: "Paranormal Activity" (2009)

What critics said: "Such a tepid failure that it triggers catcalls from paying audiences." — Time Out

Critic score: 14%

Audience score: 17%

Sequel to: "The Blair Witch Project" (1999)

What critics said: "A pale shadow of the diabolically clever piece of video hocus-focus that was 'The Blair Witch Project.'" — Philadelphia Inquirer

Critic score: 13%

Audience score: 41%

Sequel to: "Mannequin" (1987)

What critics said: "Insipid in the extreme." — LA Times

Critic score: 13%

Audience score: 18%

Sequel to: "Donnie Darko" (2001)

What critics said: "A thick, viscous sludge of clichés, stereotypes, and poorly written dialogue." — FilmCritic.com

Critic score: 12%

Audience score: 44%

Sequel to: "Taken" (2009)

What critics said: "Nothing gets taken here except your ticket money." — Philadelphia Inquirer

Critic score: 12%

Audience score: 15%

Sequel to: "Superman" (1978)

What critics said: "One of the cheesiest movies ever made." — The Washington Post

Critic score: 11%

Audience score: 25%

Sequel to: "Crocodile Dundee" (1986)

What critics said: "I've seen audits that were more thrilling." — Chicago Sun-Times

Critic score: 11%

Audience score: 18%

Sequel to: "American Psycho" (2000)

What critics said: "Another stale, kill-by-numbers flick, complete with blade-thin characters and terrible, pun-laden dialogue." — FilmCritic.com

Critic score: 10%

Audience score: 41%

Sequel to: "Weekend at Bernie's" (1989)

What critics said: "If the premise of the first film was mindless and repetitive, it's doubly so this second time around." — The Washington Post

Critic score: 10%

Audience score: 16%

Sequel to: "Batman" (1989)

What critics said: "A sniggering, exhausting, overproduced extravaganza that has virtually all of the humanity pounded out of it in the name of an endless parade of stunt sequences." — Chicago Tribune

Critic score: 9%

Audience score: 34%

Sequel to: "Meet the Parents" (2000)

What critics said: "It may be time to try another household for laughs." — Entertainment Weekly

Critic score: 9%

Audience score: 33%

Sequel to: "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" (1999)

What critics said: "An unimaginative, mean-spirited gross-out that forgot to bring the funny." — Village Voice

Critic score: 7%

Audience score: 53%

Sequel to: "Grown Ups" (2010)

What critics said: "This is pap, plain and simple: scattered raunch-lite devoid of emotional resonance." — The New York Times

Critic score: 7%

Audience score: 26%

Sequel to: "Basic Instinct" (1992)

What critics said: "Even the ice pick looks like it really doesn't want to be there." — Toronto Star

Critic score: 7%

Audience score: 24%

Sequel to: "The Karate Kid" (1984)

What critics said: "The franchise is still kicking -- but not very high." — Variety

Critic score: 6%

Audience score: 57%

Sequel to: "Big Momma's House" (2000)

What critics said: "The least necessary sequel this side of 'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.'" — The AV Club

Critic score: 6%

Audience score: 57%

Sequel to: "Cheaper by the Dozen" (2003)

What critics said: "There's something pernicious about a toxic mix of sitcom and snickering sex jokes getting packaged and effectively sold as wholesome fun for the family." — Rolling Stone

Critic score: 6%

Audience score: 15%

Sequel to: "The Mask" (1994)

What critics said: "No doubt extensive market research shows that there's an audience out there for movies like 'Son Of The Mask,' but it's too depressing to speculate who that might be." — The AV Club

Critic score: 4%

Audience score: 38%

Sequel to: "Scary Movie" (2000)

What critics said: "This is the sort of movie where you feel bad for Sheen and Lohan, because they hadn't actually hit rock bottom until they agreed to appear in it." — The Wrap

Critic score: 4%

Audience score: 17%

Sequel to: "Caddyshack" (1980)

What critics said: "The kind of film that sends careers spiraling downward." — The New York Times

Critic score: 3%

Audience score: 25%

Sequel to: "Mortal Kombat" (1995)

What critics said: "The video game is much more fun, of course." — Seattle Times

Critic score: 3%

Audience score: 16%

Sequel to: "Speed" (1994)

What critics said: "Frantic action, tinny dialogue, perfunctory characterization and tried-and-false plot pilferings." — The Wall Street Journal

Critic score: 1%

Audience score: 37%

Sequel to: "Daddy Day Care" (2003)

What critics said: "A generic time-waster powered by a lazy, cynical combination of scatological kiddie humor and maudlin sentiment." — The AV Club

Critic score: 0%

Audience score: 38%

Sequel to: "Saturday Night Fever" (1977)

What critics said: "A sequel with no understanding of what made its predecessor work." — The New York Times

Critic score: 0%

Audience score: 28%

Sequel to: "The Sting" (1973)

What critics said: "A clumsy counterfeit that is a real-life con game involving the ticket buyer." — People

Critic score: 0%

Audience score: 22%

Sequel to: "Highlander" (1986)

What critics said: "Leaden, laden with effects, short on imagination." — Time Out

Critic score: 0%

Audience score: 22%

Sequel to: "Police Academy" (1984)

What critics said: "Lame, sloppy, cack-handed, utterly redundant - put succinctly, the very worst of the series." — Time Out

Critic score: 0%

Audience score: 20%

Sequel to: "Baby Geniuses" (1999)

What critics said: "It is perhaps the most incompetent and least funny comic film ever made. There aren't even any good diaper jokes." — Detroit News

Critic score: 0%

Audience score: 14%

Sequel to: "Jaws" (1975)

What critics said: "Dumb beyond belief, hollow, bloody and nonsensical." — LA Times