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Non Sequitur Scene: In III, the dancing carjackers, dancing to Diana Ross and the Supremes' "Come see about me".
Complete Monster: Ellis DeWald, along with his Mooks, in part III are the most despicable villains in the Beverly Hills trilogy. While the villians of the previous films were simply Magnicifent Bastards who still had standards, these guys have no empathy whatsoever.
Their crime? They gun down an entire chop shop with some corrupt mechanics (who were not even dangerous) simply for not being useful no more (and also being witness). DeWald's Mooks (the Wonderworld security guards) have no problem endangering a lot of lives of innocent children and other park visitors, their stupidity caused a ferris wheel to malfunction, almost killing two kids if Axel didn't save them. Yet, no one calls the security guards on it and Axel gets the blame.
DeWald finally kicks the dog by shooting the much beloved Uncle Dave (don't worry, he survives) and frames Axel for the crime.
Or, if you live in Europe, WORSE. There was the time when a certain ringtone company decided to use the song to promote a certain Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal (Alright, THIS ONE, if you must), thus ruining the original version and making it virtually impossible for fans of the original song to hum the original in public without some cretin blathering "DING! DING!" between the melody lines. Be THANKFUL it was hardly a success in the US.
Special Effects Failure: In III when Axel runs over Taddeo (the henchman DeWald shoves out), Taddeo turns into the world's fakest-looking dummy.
What an Idiot!: In II, getting into a pitched firefight in the middle of an arms depot. Good guys and bad guys alike are lucky to be alive after that one.
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