It wasn't a bad sequel at all, especially considering that it was sandwiched by two borderline-unwatchable movies. Yes, technically, that's Indiana Jones cracking wise and cracking his whip ...
After all, it's tough not to see a bad sequel as a waste of the artistic time and energy of those involved, especially if it's clearly produced for purely cynical reasons rather than because ...
2021’s Candyman reboot/sequel was preemptively viewed by many as another inevitably bad sequel without a discernable target demographic. All of that changed when it hit theaters, though ...