Ten movie trilogies judged the weakest in a recent ranking

Collider published on Jan 25, 2026 a ranking of the 10 worst movie trilogies, noting that while a good trilogy can be a rare cinematic achievement, the series on its list each suffered from at least one major failing.

The roundup ranges from milder disappointments—such as Blade (1998–2004), where Blade: Trinity is singled out as especially poor—to bigger misfires like the Star Wars sequel trilogy (The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker) and the Ant-Man set, with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania described as "genuinely pretty bad" and tied to plans for Kang that failed to land. Other entries include Tron (mixed reviews and a weak box office for Tron: Ares), the unsettling Hanzo the Razor films, The Hangover sequels, Meet the Parents, and The Hobbit films, which the piece says stretched thin a source novel that didn’t suit a three-film treatment.

At the bottom of the list sits the Godzilla anime trilogy (2017–2018), ranked worst for trading an intriguing premise—humanity returning from space to reclaim an Earth dominated by monsters—for boring characters, cheap-looking animation, anticlimactic action and repetitiveness. The article also notes that Meet the Parents may cease being a trilogy by the end of 2026 with a planned fourth film, and that, "at the time of writing," it had been 22 years since the last solo Blade movie.

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Culture, Blade Trilogy, Star Wars, Ant-man Trilogy, Tron: Ares, Godzilla Anime Trilogy