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Late Franchise Buffoonery is a phenomena where a series of films starts out seriously but gets sillier and sillier as later installments go for the cheap laughs.
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Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Movie stops to let Rancor's keeper weep and be consoled for his deceased charge. [1]
- Chewie swings on a vine on the Endor moon while making the "Tarzan" yell. [2]
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- Marcus Brody transforms into a buffoon, completely un-doing the character we met in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". [3]
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
- Uhura, Chekov and Scotty are transformed into bumbling idiots madly leafing through Klingon translation books. [4]
Lethal Weapon sequels (1989 to 1998)
- Adding the Leo Getz character to the sequels drove this action franchise further and further into the buffoonery zone. [5]
