Topic: Passing the Torch
This trend the studios/filmmakers sometimes try to squeeze more money out their properties by "passing the torch" to a younger actors like what they tried to do with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Dumb and Dumber comes to mind (Dumb and Dumberer) plus a some of other Jim Carrey movies that failed a well (Mask, Ace Ventura)
The Ghostbusters 3 was/is supposed to be handing the torch over to a younger generation. Now this sounds terrible to me. But my question is. Why do the studios keep on trying this? Has there ever been a successful "Passing of the Torch" in cinema? TV seems to be a bit better suited for it but has any movie franchise ever successfully pulled it off?
The only example I kind of liked was a tongue in cheek meta "Have fun" scene early in The Rundown.
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