Top 10 Movie Series That Went On Way Too Long

Movie studios have a problem of taking something successful, and milking it as long as they can, sometimes even shaming a once great series' name! Once you make it to straight-to-DVD, you know it's time to stop. And I can't stop you from adding Indiana Jones or Star Wars, but please, be gentle.
The Top Ten
1 The Land Before Time

Most of the Movies are good, except mainly for Film 13: Wisdom of Friends. That film is HORRIBLE and Littlefoot is such a bastard. What have they done to him?! That film should be Burned. Luckily 2016 brought in a good sequel. Its always a treat when of their films airs on Sprout/Universal Kids, but they air the show every day, and it's just not the same compared to the movies, if you know what I mean.

Littlefoot is always stupid! Cera is way smarter than him! Littlefoot always frames Cera for everything bad happens! Cera is better than Littlefoot! Littlefoot is always stupid by saying "BUT IT'S THE WRONG WAY! TAKE THAT BACK! TAKE IT BACK! " And Littlefoot is always stupid by attacking Cera down! Thank God Littlefoot is mean and stupid! And Littlefoot always starts all the fights and problems and wants to frame and blame them on Cera! Littlefoot always yells at Cera and gets into her face for nothing! Absolutely nothing!

You may not realize it, but there are now FOURTEEN films in The Land Before Time franchise. You remember them right? That one wonderful children's movie all those years ago? Well after that came a steady flow of animated musical direct-to-VHS sequels.

I only care about the first one, by far the best, but yes this series is now and has been for a long time now, I probably haven't watched it since I was like 10 or 11.

2 Home Alone

I loved the first 2. If they could get the same actors, they shouldve made a third one and then left it like a trilogy, but unfortunately there were different actors and there were 5 movies.

(Meanwhile at 20th Century Fox)

"Hey guys, I just got a novel idea! Let's do a third of those Home Alone movies! "

"But Boss, the kid grew up."

"Oh...we'll get another one then! "

Well 1 and 2 was great! Then they made a third one. Sure, number 3 was pretty good, but then they made 2 more! I would of kept it at 3.

Home alone 3 was trash. Home alone 4 tried to capture the original but failed but better than the 3rd. The first was a CLASSIC! 2nd wasnt as good but still good

3 Jaws

Jaws is one of my favorite movies. The second one? It's okay, a bit of a rehash of the first film, but it still stars Roy Schneider as Brody. Unfortunately, the third film is where it gets bad. The third wasn't labeled as Jaws 3, but Jaws 3D. YEAH. Plastic cyan/red glasses 3D, too! I don't even WANT to talk about the fourth film.

4 Air Bud

There's like 3 air bud movies, and 7 air buddies movies about his pups

Had a ton of movies and didn't deserve one of them.

Ugh, these are so corny!

The last film was in 2014

5 Saw

The first film was brilliant, 2 and 3 were great, 4 and 5 were bad, 6 was great, 3D was terrible, and Jigsaw was a great slight improvement.

Everyone was just fed up with it after 5. 6 was okay, but 7 (Saw 3D) was a trainwreck!

6 Police Academy

I remember one time my mom used to show me and my sister one of the movies from this franchise when it was airing on T.V. late at night. I used to legitimately laugh at it back in the day, but now it's evolved into more of a So Bad, It's Good vibe for me. But considering how many movies were made after the first one, I can see why it deserves its place on this list. The acting was subpar even for its time and most of the humor is derived from all the cops being incompetent idiots who can't do their job right until the climax of the movie, which can be more frustrating than entertaining at worst.

7 RoboCop

They couldn't even get the guy who played robocop in the first two to come back for the third one.

8 Friday the 13th

It was great up until the 4th one, then it just went all downhill from there.

They even had one where Jason ends up in space. Enough said!

9 The Terminator

When he said "I'll Be Back", I didn't think he meant it like this.

10 A Nightmare on Elm Street

The first one was great, the second and third ones aren't too bad, but it became a total joke after that.

The Contenders
11 Barbie

Why do they keep making Barbie movies? I understand they want to entertain young girls but could they just put a end to the over 9000 Barbie movies?

Just wait till the live action movie with a real actress. Don't expect her to be skinny as Barbie its just a toy who was designed that way.

Trying to make as many movies as the dolls or more movies than dolls?

12 Scooby-Doo

You thought The Land Before Time was the franchise with the most pointless direct-to-video installments? Well, I guess you forgot about the mountainous amount of DTV movies Barbie and Scooby-Doo have...

As of October of this year, this franchise will have 44 movies with most of them being direct-to-video films. So, Scooby-Doo technically has more movies than the MCU. Let that sink in...

13 Transformers

The first one was okay. It had amazing effects, but a confusing plot and bad acting toned it down. Then the 2nd movie came out, it was a disaster.

14 The Swan Princess

Whoever thought that giving this movie SIX sequels was a good idea needs to fired immediately! Especially the CGI movies where Odette doesn't even turn into a swan at all except for near the end of The Swan Princess Christmas and the main character is now Odette's and Derek's adopted daughter Elise (no not the Elise/Elize from Tales of Xillia, but an more annoying Elise).

15 Ice Age

The first couple were good. Then they made 3 more, which were alright, but I understand cause they all made heaps at the box office.

Just two much. The first one was good and I understand a sequel, but 3 more! and possibly another! Just two much.

Continental drift and the fifth one (forgot the name) were the worst two.

16 Alien
17 Alpha and Omega

This film series has to end. The first movie, wasn't even good, so how the hell did it get so many sequels?!

For every new move, comes more hate from Bobsheaux. Watch his episodes on Alpha and Omega on YouTube.

The furry equivalent to The Swan Princess

18 Open Season

The first one wasn't even that good.

They made 4 of them.

19 Die Hard
20 Pokemon

First 10 movies were good 1998-2007. But went downhill the 11th movie onward with the volcaian movie being the only good movie of the dark period. 2008-present

21 Dr. Dolittle

I liked the Eddie Murphy version.

22 Star Trek
23 The Pink Panther

Even the amazing Peter Sellers has been caught up in horrible sequels, one of them even made with unused footage after his death! As for the Steve Martin films, well, I'm not going to talk ill of Steve Martin, so I'll just keep quiet.

24 The Fast and the Furious
25 Bratz
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