In a year when making a straight-to-DVD sequel of a 24-year-old comedy (replacing Tom Hanks with OH-Face from “Office Space”) and a 2008 version of the eightiesest movie that ever eightiesed are both somehow acceptable, I feel it is more prescient now than ever to examine a list of Ten Sequels That Came Out Way Too Late in the hopes that history stops repeating itself again and again:
10. Caddyshack 2
Original: 1980
Sequel: 1988
All right, who do we have back? Only Chevy Chase? No problem. We can replace Rodney Dangerfield with any Jewish one-liner comedian. Jackie Mason? Great. Who can we get to replace Ted Knight’s legendary blue-blooded straight-man performance? The host of “Unsolved Mysteries”? Perfect. Finally, no Bill Murray? Just get anyone from SNL in the 70s. Is Garrett Morris not available? Fine, just throw in Dan Akyroyd and have him do a stupid voice. Wait a minute — this movie sucks! What the hell went wrong?
9. Son of the Mask
Original: 1994
Sequel: 2005
“The Mask” may have spawned an Oscar-winning soundtrack and a series of never-tedious catchphrases, but a sequel wouldn’t have been an act of sacrilege, except for the fact that “Son of the Mask” is the worst movie of all time. Not “one of the worst” — THE worst. I used to doubt it too, refusing to believe a movie could even be on par with “Master of Disguise” or “Rollerball,” until I finally watched it at a friend’s insistence, and immediately recanted.
