20 Movie Sequels Everyone Knew Were A Huge Mistake (But Still Got Made)

6. Son of the Mask

The Mask is undeniably one of the most iconic films of the 1990s, and so the hunger for a sequel was absolutely there - albeit one produced within a sensible timeframe and with the involvement of the man who made it iconic, Jim Carrey.

But Son of the Mask took more than a decade to come to fruition, releasing in 2005 without Carrey, who declined due to his negative experience working on another sequel to one of his hit comedies, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.

And so, Son of the Mask was reimagined as a standalone sequel starring Jamie Kennedy (!) as a man whose son is born with the powers of the Mask.

This movie was quite literally a red flag treadmill from the beginning - nothing about this suggested a worthy follow-up, without even mentioning its obscene $100 million budget.

Kennedy has himself since spoken about the film's chaotic production, noting that the studio panicked once they saw a rough cut and insisted upon hasty reshoots to make the film more broadly comedic.

Surprising not a single living soul, Son of the Mask was a colossal box office flop and one of the most critically panned films of the 2000s.