SALLY FIELD/BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

Sally Field had done SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT two years earlier and proved for audiences she could join a leading man in being a free-spirited smarty-pants, so perhaps that was the reason she was hired for what's considered one of the very worst sequels of all time, BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE...

As she joins crooked good guy Michael Caine and his more friendly cohort Karl Malden in salvaging the cinema-famous (or infamous) sunken ship, taking place minutes after the rescue helicopter at the end of the original as it flies off in the beginning of the followup. But here, nicknamed "Monkey" wherein her BANDIT moniker was "Frog," Sally is totally misplaced. While her spunky zingers hurled at Burt Reynolds sort of worked, she has no chemistry with Michael Caine, and seems only meant for comic relief. But, other than her famous 1960's sitcoms, GIDGET and THE FLYING NUN, she wasn't... funny. Making this a stinker and a sinker both, while her perpetual goofiness is worse than a ship-turning storm, or, for that matter, an iceberg.