12 Movie Sequels That Prove You Should Never Go Back
1. Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
What It Billed As
The return of Indiana Jones, still fighting ninjas and obsessing over artefacts that he would probably only smash if he got his hands on them. This time though, aliens are involved, and Shia LaBeouf. This was before he was quite so... notorious.
What It Actually Was
Look, it isn't quite as worthy of hatred as some of its more vocal critics would have you believe, but equally, the fourth Indy movie is a stain on the legacy of the character. It has some entertainment, but it goes too quickly to the realms of silliness to achieve that: like putting Jones in a fridge and allowing him to survive a nuclear blast, or the whole gopher thing.
It aims too heartily for nostalgia without realising that the aged Harrison Ford isn't the same Ford or that putting in Shia Labeouf to make cover up his action limitations would be like replacing champagne with ditch water. There's nothing new here and frustratingly the obsession with the old made it look like a dusty, cartoonish relic alongside the other action movies coming out at the time.
Hopefully the next film will work more and we aren't looking at another Die Hard 5.
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