10 Film Franchises You Really Should Stop Watching After The First Movie

2. The Hangover

The Hangover
Warner Bros.

2009's The Hangover was certainly not the decade's first R-rated raunch-filled comedy, but it was arguably its best. The movie made Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis household names as the "Wolfpack", a group of mismatched friends looking to take their buddy Doug out for one last night of debauchery in Las Vegas for his bachelor party. Unfortunately, they accidentally lost him hours before his actual wedding.

The movie was immensely quotable, and featured a memorable cameo from "Iron" Mike Tyson. It also made a star of Ken Jeong, for better or worse.

As the third highest grossing R-rated movie of all-time, a sequel was inevitable. Unfortunately, 2011's The Hangover 2 recycles almost every single gag from the first. The one difference was it took place in Thailand and was centred on Helms' Stu's bachelor party/wedding. The repetition of all these jokes robbed the franchise of its shock and bite.

Then the franchise sunk even deeper with The Hangover 3, which featured Galifianakis' Alan losing all of his marbles and none of the clever fun, debauchery (or hangovers) of the original.

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Mark is a professional writer living in Brooklyn and is the founder of the Chasing Amazing Blog, which documents his quest to collect every issue of Amazing Spider-Man, and the Superior Spider-Talk podcast. He also pens the "Gimmick or Good?" column at Comics Should Be Good blog.