I recently heard someone say that a movie spin-off or continuation of a TV show never works. It works as a bit of nostalgia maybe, but it's usually a bad film. So, is it true?

Specifically I'm thinking movies that are set in the same universe or canon as the TV series that came before it. So something like Mission Impossible wouldn't count since the show and the films are different universes.

Also sometimes a film comes out during a TV series run, that's fine, it doesn't need to be after the series is over. I can also think of at least one example of a film kicking off a TV series, so that counts too.

(Also if there are absolutely terrible ones, let's talk about those too.)

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[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Here is my list of terrible movie adaptations:

Chips. I loved the show as a kid. The movie was an utter mess. None of the gags worked, there was a joke about eating ass that the movie kept doing call backs too that just got more and more cringey.

On a side note, I have checked out some Chips episodes as an adult and OOOF nostalgia really has rose colored glasses.

The Mod Squad: The show was a precurser to 21 Jump Street and very much a counter culture cop show. It was just so so cool. The movie adaptation was a flaming bag of shit that just made no sense. The casting was spot on, but there just nothing for them to do other than look cool.
The Avengers. No, not the Vanilla ice cream that is the Marvel stuff. The Avengers was a show about British spy Duo John Steed and Emma Peel. It had cool spy gadgets, stiff suits, Diana Rigg (Peel) in sexy outfits and was a ton of fun. The movie had none of the above. The movie was devoid of charm, fun, laughs in fact it is fair to say the movie failed in everyway a movie can.
Aeon Flux: In the early days of Adult Swim, it had a really cool bunch of shorts about a superspy infiltrating various “fortresses of solitude” and having shootouts with loads of bad guys. It was great for the five minute shorts. It absolutely was a dull boring train wreck as a movie. The most impressive thing the movie did was make Charlize Theron look dumpy in skin tight clothing.