15 Great Film Franchises Ruined By Too Many Sequels And Remakes

Film count: 8

Never has a single scene instigated so much pie-related curiosity, and perversion, in the history of time and space than Jim Levenstein having his way with a hapless warm apple pie. American Pie turned into an instant classic and a standout among the stacked 90s and 00s teen-comedy genre.

Despite the whole pie thing really only being a one-and-done kind of gag, lead writer Adam Herz was able to stretch the series out into a trilogy with reasonable, if not varied, success over a four-year period. Then the spin-off series happened.

While they had their moments, the four films separate from the original franchise were basically Jim's d**k and the audience was the warm apple pie. Loosely following the Stifler family and whatever distant relative they could throw the name onto, the series just kept falling and falling with each instalment as they pumped out four movies in five years, all direct-to-DVD.

They ranged from a guy getting sexual with a trumpet, to guys getting sexual with sheep and a moose, those two incidents actually being from two different films... which says enough about the creativity involved.

By the time Book of Love was pummelled to pieces by any critic, or movie-goer for that matter, that could actually be bothered to see it, not even a 2012 reboot of the first series with the original cast could save the saga.