10 Dreariest Film Sequels Released In 2016 (So Far)

It’s too bad that Roger Corman was never given the opportunity to produce The Huntsman on a budget of $1.98. Imagine the trashy fun that could’ve been had from a tale of forbidden love performed by soap opera actors on cardboard sets, speaking dialogue written by a hack screenwriter, surrounded by special effects that aren’t particularly special.

Instead, this sequel/prequel/whatever to 2012’s Snow White And The Huntsman has the best effects (and production design) that money can buy and a cast that includes two Oscar winners, yet the results are….undistinguished. Or to put it another way, if you made an adult version of Frozen with all the fun removed, you would end up with this movie.

Better a Corman movie with all its warts than a $115 million would-be blockbuster with its cheerless technical proficiency, I say. Though watchable, inoffensive and mostly coherent, this is still the kind of cinematic experience that people walk away from saying, “I didn’t hate it!”