12 Movie Sequels That Prove You Should Never Go Back
10. Zoolander 2
What It Billed As
A modernised version of Ben Stiller's moronic but deeply charming comedy about an international model unwittingly thrust into the world of global corporate politics and assassinations. We'd turn to the same world, exploring how fashion has moved on and an ageing model's struggle for relevancy, with a nefarious political scheme bubbling in the background.
What It Actually Was
A load of garbage that plays like a catwalk of self-congratulatory cameos strung together by inferior versions of the same jokes as the ones we saw in the original. The script is awful, the plot lame-brained and the gags that can actually be spotted are mostly mirthless.
Quite why Stiller thought anyone needed such a belated, under-cooked sequel is anyone's guess, particularly when the original was remembered well through lashings of nostalgia and the kind of meme appropriation that only the most cult (and therefore never great) films can achieve.