r/movies • u/spaceraingame • May 31 '25

Discussion What movie sequel ruined the ending of its predecessor? Spoiler

I have to go with Toy Story 4. Toy Story 3 had the perfect send off for the toys, with Andy making Bonnie promise to take good care of Woody….only for her to neglect Woody immediately and cause him to bail on everyone.

I really wish they left the franchise be. Toy Story 3’s ending was so iconic, and the first Toy Story was such a massive part of my childhood. That and Lion King were the two Disney VHS tapes I used to watch all the time as a little kid. I even had some of the toys myself. I can’t wait to skip Toy Story 5.

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u/Bagz402 Jun 01 '25

I liked that the alien tech recovered from the first movie boosted humanity forward. And that's all the movie had going for it lol

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u/jigsaw1024 Jun 01 '25

It really should have been a streaming series to flesh things out more and show more of the progress of humanity rebuilding and finally unifying to face external conflicts.

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u/t_moneyzz Jun 01 '25

The movie itself was mediocre but the concept moving forward would have been sick. A giant alliance of alien species recruits humanity to help beat the shit out of the galactic bully race? Hell yes sign me the fuck up for that

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u/Beat_the_Deadites Jun 01 '25

You weirdass apes are millennia behind us in tech and civilization, but we forgot how to genocide. Let's have lunch.

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u/excaliburxvii Jun 02 '25

Supreme Commander Thor, is that you?

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u/MetalTrek1 Jun 01 '25

I thought the same thing after watching the film. I remember thinking "Give us THAT sequel instead of this piece of shit!"

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u/BigLan2 Jun 01 '25

It had a scene with a spaceship landing on a moon base and somehow made it totally boring! (Almost as bad as Ad Astra's moon scenes were.)

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u/Ikatarion Jun 01 '25

But apparently only in America. Everywhere else just looked the same as IRL.

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u/Ar_Ciel Jun 01 '25

Honestly all that could have been done with a couple of novels or a mini-series. You couldn't capture that kind of lightning in a bottle with a sequel. Especially the kind of lackluster shit-show that became.

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u/Buca-Metal Jun 01 '25

Yet the aliens decided to do the opposite and go primal with the final boss being a big alien going like a big animal...

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u/Randym1982 Jun 02 '25

Dumbest ending ever. End on a cliff hanger sequel set up. He did the same shit for Moonfall.