15 Great Film Franchises Ruined By Too Many Sequels And Remakes

Film Count: 4

Four movies doesn't seem like a lot, but when the you're working with a storyline that doesn't really lend itself to expansion once the only point of it is gone, then four is an overflow of silly proportions.

Once the titular shark from 1975's Jaws was blown to smithereens; that's it, there should be no more. Having an unnaturally giant shark as your antagonist means that once it's been killed off, you can't do any more with it.

The continued critical and financial downfall of the series from there on out was a testament to that.

Jaws 2 had a near-identical plot, even using the same characters and town. People are disappearing. Someone thinks it's a shark. No one believes them. Oh look, it was a shark all along. Hero kills said shark.

They just repeated the same thing, relying on audiences believing that there just happened to be another Jurassic-esque beast roaming around the same waters as the last one.

Jaws 3-D had one big shark killed at a water park after terrorising water skiers, yes you read that correctly, only to be revealed that there was an even bigger mother shark to do more damage. It was terrible.

Even the studio tried to hide it, sending out a press release for the fourth film calling it the "third film of the remarkable Jaws trilogy." Jaws: The Revenge knocked them all out of the park though, being panned as one of the worst films of the era, if not all time.