Let’s say the same cast from the first two movies comes back for a third. What’s the plot? I’m going with teenage Kevin gets lost on a Hawaiian vacation with his family. He runs into Vincent Price and is given an idol that gives him bad luck. Next thing you know he falls off his surfboard and has amnesia. Marv and Harry are stowaways to Hawaii. Fantastic plot.
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The first movie was bad enough - it absolutely makes no sense, even as a live-action cartoon that it absolutely is. Heck, Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle makes way more sense than this movie.
The sequel this movie did get is even worse - even fewer things make sense, and even more cosmic coincidences HAVE to happen for that movie to happen. I mean, it takes the ridiculousness to a whole new level. The likelihood into bumping someone you know in New York is microscopic, even if you both live there your whole lives.
The likelihood that Kevin would just randomly and casually bump into the .. I mean, holy cow, I can't even finish writing this without getting some kind of brain cramp from the sheer stupidity of the coincidences that movie ABSOLUTELY required for anything to happen the way it does.
It also suffers from the typical sequeitis, where they didn't know what to do - should they try something completely different and new? Nah, that would throw people off and why even make a sequel, if you're going to make a very different movie. Should you just copy the first movie? Wouldn't that ALSO make a sequel pointless, because it's just the same thing again?
So they did the latter, of course. Paint-by-numbers-style, just like 'T2' did - just take the first movie, make a movie that follows its structure almost exactly, remove all that was good about it, then add something obnoxious and copy everything in 'slightly different way' - meaning, everything is otherwise the same, but the details and surroundings have been changed. Rake in the big bucks.
What the flabbergestein would be the point of a third movie, when even the second movie was already a pointless rehash of a nonsensical first movie that should never have been made? I don't get people.. I just really don't.
Do you want 'endless sequels', or do you want something new, innovative and never-before-seen-in-a-movie?
Think twice before answering.
They are a couple of fun movies which are obviously far-fetched and not based in reality. The first brick off the top of the building kills or permanently disables Marv.
Yes, I like fun sequels. These are not movies to read into that much. Same with Police Academy movies or the Naked Gun movies.
That sadly could not have happened as Vincent Price died in 1993.
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