27 Movie Sequels Where The Tone Radically Changed From The First Film — For Better Or Worse

So with that successful mind, present are conscionable a fewer of the astir fashionable responses shared:

"Somehow I don't ideate Kenneth Branagh and Taika Waititi would hold overmuch connected the benignant of quality Thor is expected to be."

—u/ChanceVance

2. The Santa Clause 2 (2002)

"I person been watching the Santa Clause movies (and caller show) with my kids. The Santa Clause was 1 of my favourite Christmas movies arsenic a kid. There was a restrained consciousness of realism and play to the full story. The Santa Clause 2 comes around, and the full happening becomes cartoony and over-the-top. Even the caput elf, Bernard, who was a grumpy no-nonsense quality successful the archetypal film, became a flailing clown successful the 2nd one."

—u/trolley_dodgers

"I retrieve watching this arsenic a kid and it feeling similar immoderate creepy arsenic fuck fever dream. I’d speech astir the movie randomly and for years radical thought I was making it up."

—u/casual_creator

"They went from contention movies to spy cars, and past — successful the 3rd movie — they went backmost to racing with nary acknowledgment of what happened successful the 2nd film?"

—u/basic_cinephile

5. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2 (1986)

"I emotion some the archetypal 1 and Tobe Hooper’s wholly nuts sequel!"

—u/mindpieces

6. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

"Rambo is an fantabulous illustration of this. The sequel wholly altered the code and meaning of the archetypal successful a mode that feels disrespectful of the original."

—u/eastdeanshire

7. The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

"Pitch Black was gritty action, whereas the Chronicles was ludicrous and batshit (still a amusive movie, but a large tonal shift)."

—u/InteriorEmotion

8. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

"The archetypal Mad Max was a gritty, debased fund bull thriller. Road Warrior was a post-apocalyptic Western that kept the grit and the brutality, portion adding successful immoderate flimsy fantastical flourishes and much action. Beyond Thunderdome is absurd phantasy and bizarre decisions, intelligibly made nether the power of galore kilos worthy of coke."

—u/sweetpapisanchez

9. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

"I emotion that they play Halloween (1978) connected the TV portion he's making his flight conscionable truthful that they tin usage the people from Halloween successful this movie."

—u/ColdCruise

10. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

"Lethal Weapon was an enactment bull play with a suicidal protagonist. Lethal Weapon 2 was a bull movie with immoderate comedy. Then 3 and 4 were full-on buddy bull comedies."

—u/Eroe777

12. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

"It's a implicit redesign from the archetypal 2 movies arsenic acold arsenic code and aesthetic goes."

—u/Breeeezy413

13. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

"It was specified a darker crook from Raiders of the Lost Ark that parents complained and it led to Steven Spielberg proposing the instauration of the PG-13 rating."

—u/AdamFiction

"Predator: suspense successful the jungle portion characters are killed disconnected 1 by one. Predator 2: mayhem successful the city, starting disconnected with constabulary discovering a country afloat of slaughtered Colombian drug-runners."

—u/lucky_ducker

15. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

"Wonder Woman: legitimately riveting, emotional, charming, but fto down by a wonky climax. Wonder Woman 1984: everything’s a cartoon wherever neither logic nor fund apply."

—u/ithinkther41am

16. Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

"It's the azygous worst sequel ever made. It's truthful atrocious that each sequel aft it consecutive up pretends it doesn’t exist."

—u/JesterSooner

17. Home Alone 2: Lost successful New York (1992)

"In the archetypal movie the Wet Bandits look similar a mates of semi-competent criminals stealing from affluent homes that don't truly privation to wounded Kevin, and astir of the traps are beauteous lighthearted. His parents consciousness atrocious astir leaving him down and bash everything they tin to get back. In the 2nd movie, some of his parents laughter astir leaving him down and marque sarcastic remarks astir the situation, the Sticky Bandits consecutive up effort to sprout Kevin successful the face, and Kevin's traps could termination radical 10 times over. It is simply a acold much sinister movie erstwhile you truly deliberation astir it."

—u/Geistwhite

18. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

"It's a darker and much superior movie than A New Hope."

—u/Sutech2301

19. 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

"The bid successful wide gets much implicit the apical with each movie. 5 is wherever it jumped the shark, but it was besides inactive benignant of enjoyable successful a mindless benignant of way."

—u/txman91

"Both are large films that I love, but the archetypal is much of a horror/suspense-driven 'monster' movie portion the sequels are overmuch much hectic enactment films."

—u/BadBassist

21. Batman Forever (1995)

"There is an water of code that separates Batman Returns and Batman Forever."

—u/Icosotc

22. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)

"Nightmare connected Elm Street was a axenic fearfulness film, and, adjacent though Freddy had a fewer 'gags,' helium was mostly superior and sinister. Nightmare connected Elm Street 2, for each its faults, kept with a mostly superior Freddy arsenic well. Then 3 done 6 were consecutive drama horrors. When Wes Craven did New Nightmare, helium wanted to marque Freddy scary again. The tones of those mediate ones and New Nightmare are connected other sides of the spectrum."

—u/MRF1982

23. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

"This is 1 illustration of a movie franchise with a large displacement successful code betwixt the archetypal and 2nd installments. The archetypal movie is known for its dark, dystopian mounting and philosophical themes, portion the 2nd takes connected a much action-oriented attack and features much outlandish peculiar effects. This displacement successful code and benignant was divisive among fans and critics alike."

—u/cuteguy311

"The archetypal movie is simply a beauteous shocking video nasty, and beauteous scary to boot, portion Evil Dead 2 is much similar a Three Stooges movie afloat of slapstick drama and immoderate horror. Still an astonishing movie, but not arsenic acheronian oregon scary arsenic the first."

—u/Sea-Forever-Rabbit

"I wasn't expecting to ticker a moving and genuinely shocking quality survey of a severely troubled (and dangerous) young pistillate due to the fact that X decidedly wasn't a movie with the aforesaid tone. I was pleasantly surprised."

—u/LondonVista9297

26. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

"I deliberation the archetypal was a large sci-fi fearfulness flick that had genuinely scary moments. Judgement Day is simply a large enactment flick, but isn’t particularly scary."

—u/KCMmmmm

27. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story (2022)

"It was vastly antithetic from Knives Out. Like, sure, there’s inactive a enigma astatine its core, but everything other astir the movie tone, story, themes, etc. are each antithetic and it's inactive a large movie."

—u/QuarterGrouchy1540

You've work their picks, but present it's your turn! What's a movie that you deliberation had a large displacement successful code and/or prime aft the archetypal one? Share your pick(s) successful the comments below!

Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity. H/T Reddit.