Franchises are the lifeblood of modern Hollywood. Studios now exist mostly to extended, prolong, and occasionally create film series that can continue into the future, pumping out sequels and reboots and spinoffs forever and ever.
Some franchises have gotten so large with such loyal fanbases that they can crank out mediocre to awful movies and still draw hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, at least for a while. Eventually, though, the chickens do come home to roost. Below, I’ve assembled a list of the most consistently disappointing franchise over the last ten years.
In order to qualify, a series had to release at least two films over that time period; if a franchise released only one movie in that stretch, it didn’t matter how bad that one movie was, I ruled it out. (You got lucky, Jason Bourne!) Likewise, if a film series cranked out a ton of horrible sequels in the past, but mostly did okay in the last ten years, that didn’t count either. In other words: Don’t expect to find Transformers on this list. While that IP had one very bad movie in the previous decade (Transformers: The Last Knight), it also had Bumblebee, which was actually pretty good, and Rise of the Beasts, which was fine. A list of the worst franchises ever? Transformers is probably still in the conversation. But the worst franchises recently? It sneaks by.
Here are the franchises that didn’t. May they all turn a creative corner in the future.
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