The thing that I could never get over, even as a young kid who LOVED the first movie, was how ridiculous and stupid the whole "hamster ball through the center of the earth" thing was. I mean... what was the point? Who thinks of this kind of stuff?

Also, the Animalities at the end had some of the worst CG ever. Just... ugh.

I still like the first one a lot though. If you want to dispute that it's awesome, just remember: Johnny Cage kills Goro by punching him in the balls.