10 Movie Sequels Whose Titles No Longer Made Sense

How can you be both Home Alone and Lost In New York?

There was a time when movie sequels were simply given titles that sounded good on their own, without studios having to club audiences over the head with the fact the movie was part of a franchise. From Russia With Love didn't need to say that it was the sequel to Dr. No because it was obvious from the rest of the marketing and the book it was based on that it was another James Bond adventure. If the Bond series had begun just now then it would, like Jacks Ryan and Reacher, have cumbersome titles like James Bond: On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Even book series that are quite happy to give separate titles to their separate parts gain extra title elements on their progress to film. The simple and to the point Mockingjay is now The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, in spite of the fact that there are no longer any hunger games involved in the story. The lack of any hunger games in a movie called The Hunger Games may be a little odd, but that title has nothing on these ten films whose producers' desperation to cling to franchise brand recognition resulted in sequel titles that no longer make any sense alongside the content of the film.
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