Robert Lee is a writer at Collider who focuses on modern movie releases and animation, as well as both the best and worst films in a genre.
One of the most prominent and notable aspects of modern film has been the franchise, with seemingly every other film being a part of an ongoing series or extended universe of characters. Nearly all the largest blockbusters and most popular movies of all time have become franchises in their own right, with IPs like Star Wars and Jurassic Park continuing to be massive successes.
Comedy has always been subjective, with each individual having differing tastes on what is and isn't funny. With that in mind, it isn't exactly surprising that the Scary Movie franchise became so successful. Admittedly, these films have a selection of great moments, and the first three are enjoyable. However, at their worst, these films are some of the most offensive and problematic comedy experiences out there.
After is far from the only modern teen romance franchise to be the target of vitriol and mass critical backlash, with The Kissing Booth and Tall Girl also receiving similar levels of widespread hatred. However, what has made After stand out as the worst of the worst from a franchise sense is its unrelenting commitment and doubling down on its absurd and chaotic style of filmmaking and storytelling.
The Alvin and the Chipmunks films are the perfect examples of just how little care needs to be placed on kids' entertainment in the eyes of some executives, with enough modern pop songs and toilet humor to carry a franchise through four major installments. On top of these pop song remixes with high-pitched singing always sounding worse than the original song, these films are formulaic and basic at best and outright painful to sit through at worst.
It's this multitude of sequels and spinoffs where the true dropoff in quality takes place, as they each attempt to recapture the raunchy magic of the original but fail spectacularly. Never finding the right mixture of genuine character and charm to make the original work, the American Pie sequels overdo the immature comedy, becoming nothing more than perverse gross-out films.
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