reyquila wrote:
Is it trendy to hate sequels?
Not at all. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" is the most successful Disney film in history. "Toy Story 2" did better at the box office than "Toy Story." However, those sequels remained true to their original films, had a good solid story, and were wonderful films on their own merits. The problem alot of people have with Disney's direct to video animated sequels is that in most (or all) cases, they are not made by anybody who worked on the original film and are not what the original creators would have wanted. For example, I doubt Walt would have approved of "Bambi 2." That's not to say "Bambi 2" is bad, but it just didn't need to be made and was very slow paced. If that subplot had been part of the original film, it probably would have taken 5-10 minutes of screen time. They stretched it to 70 minutes. Another reason many Disney fans don't like the sequels is because the quality of animation can be so poor in some cases and they can also ruin the original film if you watch them back to back. My great example of that would be "Pocahontas 2." The animation was really cheap and nowhere near as fulid as the original. The music wasn't very good except for the song "Where Do I Go From Here." And why doesn't Pocahontas end up with John Smith? I know the creators were going for historical accuracy, but they weren't historically accurate with the first film and I think everyone wanted to see them end up with eachother. I would just assume leave it at the heart breaking finale of the first film with them seperating for what was supposed to be forever instead of having Pocahontas go to England and meet up with him, but marry someone else.
It is simple economics, if the poeple don't buy the sequels they'll stop making them.
Well, that's hard to do when you buy 50 copies of each movie.

Just kidding. The sales for this films is really a mixed bag and depends on the popularity of the first film. I predict that "The Little Mermaid 3" and "Cinderella 3" will sell like hot cakes, wheras I think "The Fox and the Hound 2" will undersell Disney's estimates.