10 Terrible Movie Sequels That Prove Bigger Definitely Doesn't Mean Better

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is still as re-watchable today as it was back in 2003, and holds up as one of the most purely enjoyable and endlessly entertaining blockbusters of the 21st Century.

Dead Man's Chest and At World's End had already shown that bigger doesn't mean better, piling mythology on top of mythology and almost swallowing themselves whole as a result. They both did big business at the box office, but most people were in agreement that a fresh coat of paint was sorely required.

With the lavishly-spending Gore Verbinski out of the picture, Rob Marshall took over behind the camera for On Stranger Tides in what was supposed to be a soft reboot of sorts, but ended up becoming the most expensive movie ever made, a title that it still holds to this day.

Jack Sparrow's fourth outing set Disney back $410m, which was brought down to a mere $378.5m following some fortunate tax breaks. On Stranger Tides' box office haul may have seen Pirates of the Caribbean become the first franchise to produce two billion dollar hits, but all the money in the world would have still failed to arrest the law of diminishing returns that saw each new entry in the series become worse than the last.