5 Movie Spin-Offs That Suck

So here's the thing: when I saw that Pixar were going to be working on a new project after the, well incredible Incredibles, my hopes were soaring high. When I saw that the project was called "Cars" and would be centred around Nascar racing aka a racing event that can be boiled down to "turn a bit" my enthusiasm died quicker than the previous Nascar comment likely enraged fans of the sport. It was, after all, a vanity project designed to let John Lasseter transfer his love of cars to the big screen.

Three. Times.

Anyway. Even I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by the outcome; it wasn't great but it wasn't terrible. Just like Doc Hollywood, the Michael J Fox film it so shamelessly ripped off. It did absolutely reek of trying to sell merchandise (and it worked incredibly well) but what Disney Pixar film doesn't?

What followed was some less than average sequels and thankfully all now seems to be quiet on that front, however soaring silently overhead like a stealth bomber packed with pure faeces was Planes, the absolute stinker of a spin-off that dropped in 2013 whose critical obliteration made the Hindenburg disaster look like smooth sailing in comparison.

And yes, I know that joke was harsh but so is watching this pissing film.

This disasterpiece was created by a spin-off animation company called Disneytoon Studios but held a script approved by Pixar and Disney, meaning they gave this bird the green like and in doing so flipped the bird to the audience. It is a plane wreck of a movie, with a plot you could guess just by looking at the poster, voice acting that sounds more phoned in than a tape recording of Marlon Brando in his later years, and a sense of comedy that seems to be the leftovers from every corporate pitch meeting on "what da youth finds funny."

This was an embarrassment of a film and a blatant cash grab by Disney which thankfully crashed so hard that not even the black box survived.

AND GUESS WHAT? It made around four times its costs back so we were treated to ANOTHER sequel - titled Fire & Rescue that was horribly bland and thankfully didn't do well enough at the box office for the planned third movie - yes that's right THIRD - which would have been set in space and sounds way cooler than either of the ones we were forced to actually watch.