10 Upcoming Movies Destined To Piss Off Fans

There are some movies that absolutely everybody looks forward to, and while that can be a great thing, it can lead to disappointment too.

Take Avengers for example: without even including the wider MCU or Captain America: Civil War which was essentially Avengers-lite, they’ve had four movies. While The Avengers, Infinity War and Endgame delivered on their hype, Age Of Ultron was looked upon as a bit of a let down, despite being a pretty decent movie in its own right.

There are several more movies slated for release this year which could fall into the same trap. Either because of uninspiring marketing, fading interest in their franchise or just the fact that they’re a sequel nobody particularly asked for, these movies seem destined to piss off their fanbase.

Some of these are full sequels, while others are more reskins, reboots or adaptions of existing work which everyone agreed was fine to begin with.

No hypothetical movies like ‘the next X’ are included here: these are all movies which, if everything goes to plan, should be released in 2019 (apart from one which has a 2020 release).

Whether their franchise will survive beyond them though is anybody’s guess.

Perhaps piss off fans is going too far, but Dora is definitely going to be under closer scrutiny than most other films in its demographic, and could easily pick up an Emoji Movie-like reputation that it might not deserve.

Dora has been on for so long that many people who grew up watching it are in their 20s now. In what seems like a cynical, money grabbing move, the filmmakers are appealing to these fans as well as the current youngsters watching, which risks alienating them both.

Dora is a cutesy cartoon show which helps kids learn Spanish, that’s all it needs to be. The movie though has made her into a live action, Diet Lara Croft and given her a nonsensical plot to follow. It doesn’t help that the trailer is crammed with unfunny banter from Dora’s classmates either.

What’s most telling is that when the first trailer was released, an old Dora parody from Saturday Night Live resurfaced. Starring a then 12 year old Ariel Winter as Dora, the mock trailer was better received than the real one, which isn’t a great sign.