10 Most Insufferable Film Sequels Since 2000

It’s said that Sam Raimi departed this franchise in a disagreement over the script for Spider-Man 4, but we know better. He walked because the wheels had come off the wagon and everyone except the studio knew it.

Spider-Man 2 left you wondering what would happen to the characters, but this sequel reduces them to pieces on a chessboard. There’s some phoney drama (Peter’s relationship with Mary Jane hits the rocks), a truly bizarre subplot about an alien fungus that turns Peter into a dead ringer for one of South Park’s emo kids and a blah villain in the form of Topher Grace’s Venom, who’s really one villain too many in an overstuffed – yet oddly boring – film.

Also, any movie that uses amnesia as a plot device is really in dire straits creatively. What next – a synthetic reboot that tells the origin story all over again? Oh right. Sorry.