… and a bunch that suck really bad.
This weekend sees the release of American Reunion, the fourth movie in the American Pie series — as long as you don’t count the four straight-to-video movies released with a similar logo and the American Pie Presents “stamp of quality.”
Does anyone remember American Pie Presents: Band Camp, American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile, American Pie Presents: Beta House, or American Pie Presents: The Book of Love? No?
Let’s be frank. The track record of good fourth movies in a franchise isn’t good.
To prove this point, we have two Top 10s on this subject and over 50% of each of them (which rank the best, or at least the ones that didn’t suck too terribly bad), are not movies anyone can really truly stand behind.
For your pleasure:
2009’s Top 10 Best Fourth Movies in Franchise
2011’s Top 10 Best Fourth Movies in a Franchise.
Here’s a brief list of the ones that suck really bad:
The Next Karate Kid
Superman 4: The Quest for Peace
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Alien Resurrection
Paranormal Activity 4 (wait, this isn’t out til October…sorry.)
Shrek Forever After
Underworld Awakening
Lethal Weapon 4
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Terminator Salvation
Batman and Robin
Jaws: The Revenge
Fast & Furious
The Exorcist: The Beginning
Madea Goes to Jail
Hannibal Rising
What did we miss that’s not already on one of those other two lists?
2009′s Top 10 Best Fourth Movies in Franchise
2011′s Top 10 Best Fourth Movies in a Franchise
Eric is the Editor-in-Chief of Scene-Stealers.com, a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, and contributor for The Pitch. He’s former President of the KCFCC, and drummer for The Dead Girls, Ultimate Fakebook, and Truck Stop Love . He is also the 2013 Air Guitar World Champion Mean Melin, ranked 4th best of all-time. Eric goes to 11. Follow him at:
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I dunno, does Alien Resurrection really “suck really bad?” I’d argue it’s got some charm here and there. Maybe it only “sucks.”
OK, I’d have to agree with you there…both Alien 3 and 4 were directed by capable dudes working with next to nothing…
I dunno if I’d consider Terminator Salvation as suck really bad…I mean compare it to the 3rd one…ugh…
I thought “Rise of the Machines” was laughable, but “Terminator Salvation” was so bad it wasn’t even laughable…total self-serious, self-important slog. I really hated it. Here’s a link to our video review of it …
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