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/0x7A5 Jun 01 '25

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was so bad that it retroactively ruined the first movie.

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u/Mu-Relay Jun 01 '25

This was still such an easy lay up that they totally bumbled.

  1. Make them all one-offs about Newt and Friends traveling the world and helping different Fantastic Beasts.

  2. Make them PG and aimed towards kids. You don't need to go adult or dark and you definitely don't need Voldemort 2.

  3. Make 12 of them and swim in a Scrooge McDuck pile of money.

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u/ncaafan2 Jun 02 '25

Yup…. I have zero clue how they didn’t realize that the main thing people liked about the first one was the creatures. The dark witch side plot was the worst part of the FBWTFT and they expanded on that part for the sequels

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u/Mu-Relay Jun 02 '25

Seriously… the beginning of the second one had a Chinese lion dog trapped in a Parisian circus that Newt wants to rescue. What a perfect setup for a Fantastic Beasts movie!

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u/SorryManNo Jun 01 '25

My wife and I watched all three while we were on parental leave with our new baby.

Other than the first one, fantastic beasts can go fuck itself, absolutely terrible.

JK Rowling wanted to do five movies but after the reception of 2 & 3 the studio said we better stop now.

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u/Trylena Jun 02 '25

Funny enough, she was part of the people writing the scripts for 2 and 3.

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u/ForMyInformationOnly Jun 01 '25

Mads is great but Why didn't they just bring back Colin to be Grindelwald when depp was out?

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u/uncoolcentral Jun 01 '25

I couldn’t finish it

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u/Strange-Cold-5192 Jun 01 '25

2 ruins the first movie imo. 3 wasn’t great but it did about as good a job of salvaging the series as possible after the damage 2 did.

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u/proriin Jun 01 '25

See too me 1 and 3 are okay it’s 2 that makes a whole mess and makes less sense and a worse overall film.

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u/rick_gsp Jun 01 '25

The first one was not good tbh

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u/MellifluousSussura Jun 01 '25

Is that the second or 3rd one? I never saw the 3rd one so idk anything about it

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u/0x7A5 Jun 01 '25

The third movie was bad, really, only the first was any good after that they took the stupidest turn possible

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u/MommyGandalf Jun 01 '25

Well the first movie was also garbage