From IMDB

'Phantom Menace' Is "Worst Sequel Ever"

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace has been voted the worst movie sequel of all time in a poll by American TV network E!. The highly anticipated 1999 prequel beat off fierce competition from the likes of Batman & Robin, Speed 2: Cruise Control and Jaws: The Revenge, to be crowned king of disappointing follow-ups. The Phantom Menace - made over 15 years after George Lucas' original Star Wars trilogy - starred Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor alongside a cast of computer-generated creatures. Jeff Reid of E! says, "Liam Neeson gave the old Jedi a try, but Ewan McGregor looked like he was still in Trainspotting. And the convoluted storyline didn't help. If there's one sure thing about Hollywood and sequels, it's that no matter how bad a movie is, it can always be re-made worse. In Tinseltown, imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery - it's an established path to commercial success. But all-too-often, part deux is really part doo-doo."

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Such a lack of knowledge these people have...has no one seen Halloween:H2O? or how about Jason X? Or perhaps the vintage works of Roger Corman or "It came from outerspace II"? :D I think they are way off base. :D </font>

<font color=skyblue>Maybe they are categorizing it by popularity or price range or fan expecatncy. Gotta admit, Star Wars should receive more hype than most other movies, and if it flopped, the fall would be from a higher ground than the others</font>

I think they were more than kind, Attack of the Clones should get worst movie title, as well as worst sequel (although Ewan McGreggor did much better, and I didn't hate JarJar as much, and Yoda... well his fight scene says enough)

That's rough. Phantom was bad, but worse than speed 2? That's hitting them where it hurts.

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I'm sorry, but I don't understand how Attack of the Clones is worse than the Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi? They're all corny and obvious! And frankly I think it's better than Attack of the Killer Tomatoes :D

I think they're forgetting Weekend at Bernie's 2 [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]

My personal pick for worst sequel would be Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

The only saving grace of that movie was Christopher Lloyd.

Batman & Robin... I actually paid to see that "Movie", if you can call it that. I almost demanded my money back, but then realized it wasnt the poor ticket guys fault, it was George Clooney's. (Although he did an acceptable job in The Perfect Storm) Ug, I hated Batman & Robin, hated it with a PASSION!

Exactly. They are probably rating it based upon hype/expectation versus actual movie experience. There are many critics out there that have panned "The Swarm" as the worst movie of all time. Is that to say it is worse than "Plan 9 from Outer Space"? Not hardly. But Plan 9 was done on a shoestring budget with no stars other than Bela Legosi (who was out of the spotlight a long time before this film, and died 2 days into shooting). No one expected it to be good. The Swarm, on the other hand, had an all-star cast (Michael Caine in his prime, etc.), a huge budget, and a ton of hype. It is definitely a bad film. The special effects were garbage even by 1979 standards, the acting was horrible (a highlight was a female doctor walking into a room and noticing that a patient has died. Does she signal the emergency and try to resuscitate the patient? No. She simply yells flatly, "Carl, we have a problem."), and the script was a completely unbelievable pile of rotting horse dung. However, despite all of that, Plan 9 is a worse film than The Swarm. It just was not as huge of a letdown as The Swarm was.

Everyone was hyping The Phantom Menace like crazy. Everyone was waiting for George Lucas to recreate the magic, and many (including myself) were highly disappointed at the results. Did anyone expect Attack of the Clones to be better than Phantom Menace? The only reason I saw it in theatres was that the rest of my friends wanted to see it, and then I convinced them to go during a matinee.

Jason X, Halloween H2O, and Weekend at Bernies 2 were hardly hyped as huge blockbuster movies, nor did most people expect them to be very good. Now Star Trek III and Batman & Robin did get quite a bit of hype, but neither were considered to be as huge a blockbuster as The Swarm was supposed to be.

Anyway, I think that is the logic behind their thinking...

Oh god, You HAD to remind me of Jason X? :D I actually laughed at that one! it was more comedy that anything!!!!

And.... Jason vs Freddy is coming. lol. Anyone gonna see THAT? Just to see how silly, silly can be?