No More Direct-To-Video Disney Sequels
 

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The only one of those direct-to-video sequels I liked was Kronk's New Groove, so this is good news to me. I mean really, is Little Mermaid 3 necessary?

Seems like good news even though I don't much care for Disney movies anyway. But it should be good for the younger generation that can just watch the classics.

Cinderella III was a tremendous film, and arguably the best Disney movie of the past few years (that includes those overrated PIXTARD movies)

I don't think the problem was the sequels, but more the fact that they were going to the same well far too many times. Two Cinderella sequels, two Aladdin sequels and a TV series, 2 Lion King sequels and a TV series, two Little Mermaid sequels and a TV series, a Jungle Book sequel and two TV series.

Meanwhile, where are sequels to flicks like Sword in the Stone, Great Mouse Detective or the Black Cauldren?

Disney seemed more pleased togive us Little Mermaid 5 than a sequel to one of their "lesser" films.

Still, not all the sequels were bad. The expanded Aladdin stuff was wonderful and Rescuers Down Under was their first and arguably best sequel. I don't think the sequels should be stoped entirely, just decrease the volume, increase the quality and aim for some other franchises that received the sequel treatment yet.

Which, from the sound of the article, is what Disney is planning to do.

Yeah, both Aladdin sequels were awesome like the original:P :P

And they are all on DVD:P :P

Why don't you like the Pixar movies? They're all really funny.

Are you being serious? I haven't seen it, but if it's good, I really want to.. though I can't tell if this is sarcasm -_-

Also, I really enjoyed the Aladdin sequels! I'd watch all of them over and over! (and have recently XP)

Is still love Disney movies (I have to, my parents used money from Disney stock for my college funds :lol: ) but i am glad these are coming to an end. Disney needs to focus on another batch of classics, not the same ones over and over.

Very, very good point.

Exactly! Great Mouse Detective is one of my favs! Same with the Black Cauldren.

Agreed.

Walt was becoming a revolving door in his own grave for a while there. Though the real problem wasn't that Disney wanted to make sequel really, but just that most were of such poor quality. And yeah, they never seemed to want to make sequels to my favorite Disney movies either like Robin Hood or GMD, though given the sequels' general bad quality again, I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

I agree completely! I'm a disney freak and was at Wal-Mart the night before Cinderella 3 was released to get it. I loved it. I always liked Lady Tremaine and enjoyed seeing more of her personality. I can't wait for Little Mermaid 3. I've read that it's going to be about Ariel's mother and Sally Field is voicing her. Steven

Funny to you and any other pundent maybe who can't see through their shoddy humour, unrelatable, and at times typically cliched characters, and the usual line of Disney-enforced junk for plots (Incredibles is an exception, but I'm not fond of that film too much either), but I don't. There one positive is the animation, which is undeniably defining

I have to agree with Zarius. Pixar movies are hella overrated. Toy Story had some real charm, but beyond that? I remember everyone telling me how hilarious Finding Nemo was...and then I saw it, and I wondered what the hell people were laughing about it. Which is actually how I feel when watching any Pixar movie.

I don't know I've always found warner bros. cartoons much more funny that anything Disney ever did I always thought Disney was just about good animation and doing old storys from books as toons and thats pretty much it.
So I really don't see how anything the new Pixar movies are doing is any differnt and yeah if you're wondering I'm sort of agreeing I do want to see the new one thats coming out though.

Pixar I feel is the best CGI studio out there.... I mean, unlike most of Dreamwork's output, they don't just rehash old movie lines and call it "Humor." I like Shrek, but Pixar can do much much better than any of them.

That said, The sequals tend to vary. Lion king 2 held up to the original film, and they actually got the original voices. Both Tarzan sequals were crap, only because I was disappointed by the first one anyway. In the movie, 2 sequals, and cartoon series they didn't even say he was a lost duke or whatever he was. In all honesty, Disney did the Tarzan legend much better in the Ducktales episode "Jungle Duck." and in less time too.

the Beauty and the Beast Christmas film was an embarassment, and Atlantis 2 was just 3 of the only episodes of the Atlantis series they didn't do. And hearing of an episode with a Gargoyls cross over shows that the show was a great concept they didn't pursue.

Goofy Movie 2 was entertaining, even though it was a blatant advertisement for ESPN and the Xgames.

Jungle Book 2 was a nightmarish embarassment. John Goodman did a good job with Balloo and all, but that was it. They didn't need those 2 annoying other kids who Molgli made friends with, and due to some cokamamy copywrite dispute or something, Louie wasn't even there to save the film. Jim Cummings acted the hell out of Louie in Talespin, even expanding on Louis Prima.

Aladdin 2 had a good plot, but didn't work, Aladdin 3 proved the movie borrowed waaaay too much from indiana Jones, but Robin Williams saved the film for me. I wonder why Disney didn't consider Maurice LaMarche as the surrogate Genie in the second one and the cartoon series?

"Return of Jafar" and "King of Theives" are largely considered how to do a Disney sequel right. You won't hear many bad things about either because they paid special attention to the original film and even expanded on the characters. My only regret is they finished off Jafar in the second film

Indeed, the Aladdin franchise is one of the few that retained quality through its expanded media. The TV series was also pretty good, though every episode I was anxiously hoping Jafar would make a comeback. Then when he finally DID come back for the Hercules crossover it was, I dunno, a letdown. Kind of hard to top his last appearance where he had the God-like powers of a genie.

what about the two Lion king sequels? Actually the 3rd one isnt considered a sequel at all. The 3rd movie took place before and between the first movie actually.

I agree. Both Aladdin films were great. i'm just saying Aladdin's lost father having a Scottish accent was too much like Indie's dad being Sean Connery. I really did enjoy both of them.

And yes, Lion King 1 1/2 was a midqual... Still need to see that...

so, by the numbers

Lion King- 3 films, cartoon series
Aladdin-3 films, cartoon series
Hercules- 1 Film, cartoon series, compilation video (that's what it was)
Tarzan- 2 Films, cartoon series, compilation video
Beauty and the Beast-2 Films, compilation video of incomplete series
Atlantis- 1 film, compilation video of incomplete series
Pocahauntus-2 films
Goofy movie-2 films based off cartoon series
Emperor's New groove- 2 films, cartoon series
Cinderella-2 films, compilation video of incomplete series
Bambi- 2 films
Toy Story-3 films (including Buzz Lightyear) cartoon series, featuring Buzz movie as three parts.

Don't forget Jungle Book, with 2 movies and 2 TV shows.