It lost third place to Polar Express?
Cocaine Bear I understand, but Polar Express?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BeV2lKSyXU
It's the nostalgia factor.
I'm pretty sure you had some movies you grew up with where you would love to watch again even if it's considered bad right now by most people.
Lazy writing, but it works!
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
True, but it's still ugh, cultural and a degree of fashion that the teachers are represseing.
Sometimes it's not the teacher.
It's also the students.
Here's an example of banned words in a class that's decided by the students themselves :
Not in my kid's school so I don't know why those students decided to do this.
With how much of a cash-cow the film series is, I imagine four films would be the least.
Hopefully people wouldn't become bored of it.