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If a movie is successful, then it is almost certain that the movie creators will want to make a sequel. But sometimes the creators don’t really know where to stop and keep making more parts if there’s no story left to tell. People often say that the sequels are never as good as the first movie, but Reddit user u/karma_hit_my_dogma wanted to know what movies actually had a good second part but should have stopped there.

The thread was upvoted 47k times and 29k people came to share their opinions. Redditors came to a consensus that Home Alone is the franchise that shouldn’t have been continued after the second movie with 28k people upvoting this comment.

What movies do you think were best left with two parts and do you agree with any of the submissions in this list? Tell us your opinions in the comments and if you find a submission you agree with, don’t forget to upvote it!

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers The Mummy. The first two focused on ancient Egyptian history & mythology; number 3 suddenly takes place in Asia? Huh?!

You could tell they had to work too hard to make it work from how long it took to introduce us to the new setting.

The cherry on top of that s*** cake was the absence of one Rachel Weiss. Her absence was felt. Don't get me wrong, Brendon Frasier did great; I blame the writers/ producers/ director. I loved them in the first two! They were so good, spooky, & full of great classic action & comedy; my fav Brandon Frasier movies.

I think Rachel had a scheduling conflict with another movie?

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Unpopular opinion: The Matrix. Honestly maybe even after 1.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think they could have taken the 2nd and 3rd movie and made them into one movie. Theres several moments like the zion scene where nothing happens and it drags on.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Shrek. There was just no way to beat Shrek 2.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Preemptively adding Frozen to this list, because I know Disney too well.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hold up! Frozen 2 was amazing! Just as good if not better than the first. This doesn't belong here! Right, Samantha?

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers The Fast and the Furious franchise.

I mean three was technically a spin off that was alright and then it got even more silly with 4 and so on.

But those first ones were great fun in there time and the first is actually quite a good movie and plot.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers The Addams Family. Family Values was great. The third one with almost none of the original cast? We don't talk about that one...

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers The Hangover

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As Barak Obama said in Between Two Ferns, running for a third term just doesn't make sense, like Hangover 3.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Taken.

Taken - Decent enough movie. Reminds me of a simpler time when action movies were pretty strait forward and don't need to be rewatched to be fully understood. That infamous phone scene is pretty iconic.

Taken II - Ok, not bad. Same recipe, different movie. Fine. Good enough. Good Friday night movie when you don't want to spend to much effort following.

Taken 3 - Why? Why would anyone do this?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

taken imo is a good movie but seriously taken 3? head out of the exit or go on another trip to find ur daughter

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers The Night at the Museum.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, the second one wasn't as bad as other movies mentioned on this list, but was still very forgettable

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Beethoven, replacing the entire cast for films 3-5 really didn't work. Even the premise - that Beethoven's family would have ever left him with another family - didn't make any sense.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Robocop. I loved the first 2, but the third was garbage.

I also didn't like the remake.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The remake was pointless, almost exactly the same movie, just with less tongue in cheek humour.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers The Land Before Time!

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Ice Age, probably could have stopped at 1.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was only bits of the others that was good...for example, Buck...other than that...the first was enough.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Ninja turtles. Secret of the ooze was fun then they got too serious in 3

I tried to watch the reboots but Megan fox has the acting ability of a potato and I had to literally turn it off after 15 minutes

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The lion king!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't like the live one, it's just not the same, sorry Beyoncé

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I enjoyed lion king 1.5 a lot more than I thought I would. All the funny reasons why things happened like the animals bowing XD a good watch with my kid

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like the second one, it's a story of it's own and has some memorable songs in it

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Marlowe Fitzpatrik
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, I liked it, too. It wasn't as well-done, sadly, as the first, but I liked the story overall.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Couldn't agree more. I only saw one of the sequels Lion King 1and a half. Absolutely dreadful. I should have known better than to watch it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Welllll yes the first one is a masterpiece the others could just be a series like they did with Aladdin or the little mermaid

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Lion King 2 was the best Disney sequel, in my opinion. Lion King 1 1/2 was cute, but kinda unnecessary.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think Disney should get out of the Movie business and concentrate on soaking tourists for $100+ a piece at their theme parks.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers POV: You are looking for people saying "Sam Raimi's Spider-man"

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers The sequel is not even out but Boss Baby.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw the trailer and my first thought was.....why? Was Alec Baldwin broke or something?

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Pitch perfect

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The first one was cute. I loved Kendrick and the acapella arrangements. The second started relying way too much on low brow and often borderline offensive humor. By the time the third one came out, I really had no desire to watch it.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers The Mighty Ducks.

D2 was sooo good, but 3 was just nowhere near the same level.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How bout the show on Disney plus. Mighty ducks game changers

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Poltergeist

Sure probably after 1, the second had moments, but after that it became a giant mess and Heather O' Rourke died.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She's got a Speak n Spell! Reminds me of my childhood in the '80s. The first movie traumatized me as a child - didn't make it all the way through. I don't know about the rest.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Expendables cause they made 3 PG 13 and not rated R which really affected it all.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do agree that the change in rating affects the franchise. However, there are some other commonly contested opinions on this film series, such as the repetitive pattern of the plot which seems to be present in all 3 movies. But, let's not forget that movies like these are built for a selective audience. The whole gist of the film series is to watch muscle men fire guns and blow things up, rather than the plot, which is the true essence of this film franchise. It's a classic example of taking something for what it is, and not getting caught up in the details, and the hidden 'deeper meaning'.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Tyler Perry's Madea franchise.

There are currently 11 movies, with another one coming out next year.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't stand the socially accepted sexism and blatant racism of Tyler Perry. So even the first was too much for me.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Psycho. I think 2 was a bad idea myself, but it happened and having “what happens to Norman later on” was a fun thing to explore, but 3 and 4 were totally unnecessary and I’m surprised Anthony Perkins signed on.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just saw the original one last week and also felt that nothing else was needed afterwards.

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Someone Asked Folks On The Internet To Share What Movie Franchises, In Their Opinion, Should’ve Stopped At The 2nd Part And These Are 30 Of Their Best Answers Superman with Christopher R

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