Ampris
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All these quickly made-poorly thought out and executed sequels are sacrilege that only exist for marketing purposes, and it's starting to make me EXTREMELY angry. 
The vast majority of these movies are churned out quickly and cheaply purely to make more money off the younglings who eagerly flock to anything with Disney's beloved characters in it and whose parents are glad to buy them. They're almost always soulless and poorly animated, just a bunch of cliche tripe thrown together with a plot pertaining barely enough to the original characters to pass as a new movie, but are nothing but leeches taking the integrity out of the originals to make a quick buck.
True, some of them are actually pretty good thanks to an honest effort being put into them and can stand on their own as real movies, but that's not the case with most of them. Cinderella III is nothing but a very basic fanfiction turned into a movie because princess merchandise is selling quite well recently and they know that little girls would love to see more of them, no matter what the quality is like. But they're just kids! Who can blame them? But that's no excuse for Disney to lower it's standards so drastically just to advertise to them, and I, for one, am sorely disapointed in them.
If they are going to make any sequels at all, they should at least take some time and put care into the making of them. Toy Story 2 is considered a good sequel for the same reason Pixar is considered to be superior to Disney in the animated movie department lately: a decent story. Sure, the animation plays a huge role, too, but the story is really what decides whether an animated movie is revered as an instant classic or scorned as a pathetic abomination. hence why no one even remembers 'Home On the Range', but EVERYONE knows 'Finding Nemo'. HOtR was horrible in aspects of both story and animation, while 'Nemo' shined in both respects. Consumers aren't all completely stupid. It would be hard to make a seqeul for 'Nemo' because the heart and inspiration behind the story just wouldn't be there, and that's really important. A continuation of the story would be nice, but unneccesary. Well written fanfiction is the best solution for this problem, but it's also really nice to see your favorite characters in their original animated glory. Unfortunately, the sequels rarely even manage that, because the designs they use are often simplified to make animating faster and the frame rate is way slower, so it doesn't flow well at all.
Poor animation, poor story, high marketability. That about sums up the legacy of Disney straigh-to-video sequels.
(I should also like to say that the voice talent hired for Disney sequels, more often than not, fails HARD. For one thing I hate sound alikes, and for another, sound alikes are supposed to, y'know sound alike'. Don't try to tell me Cinderella's actress in Cinderella II sounded even remotely similar to Ilene Woods:\ )
End rant.
The vast majority of these movies are churned out quickly and cheaply purely to make more money off the younglings who eagerly flock to anything with Disney's beloved characters in it and whose parents are glad to buy them. They're almost always soulless and poorly animated, just a bunch of cliche tripe thrown together with a plot pertaining barely enough to the original characters to pass as a new movie, but are nothing but leeches taking the integrity out of the originals to make a quick buck.
True, some of them are actually pretty good thanks to an honest effort being put into them and can stand on their own as real movies, but that's not the case with most of them. Cinderella III is nothing but a very basic fanfiction turned into a movie because princess merchandise is selling quite well recently and they know that little girls would love to see more of them, no matter what the quality is like. But they're just kids! Who can blame them? But that's no excuse for Disney to lower it's standards so drastically just to advertise to them, and I, for one, am sorely disapointed in them.
If they are going to make any sequels at all, they should at least take some time and put care into the making of them. Toy Story 2 is considered a good sequel for the same reason Pixar is considered to be superior to Disney in the animated movie department lately: a decent story. Sure, the animation plays a huge role, too, but the story is really what decides whether an animated movie is revered as an instant classic or scorned as a pathetic abomination. hence why no one even remembers 'Home On the Range', but EVERYONE knows 'Finding Nemo'. HOtR was horrible in aspects of both story and animation, while 'Nemo' shined in both respects. Consumers aren't all completely stupid. It would be hard to make a seqeul for 'Nemo' because the heart and inspiration behind the story just wouldn't be there, and that's really important. A continuation of the story would be nice, but unneccesary. Well written fanfiction is the best solution for this problem, but it's also really nice to see your favorite characters in their original animated glory. Unfortunately, the sequels rarely even manage that, because the designs they use are often simplified to make animating faster and the frame rate is way slower, so it doesn't flow well at all.
Poor animation, poor story, high marketability. That about sums up the legacy of Disney straigh-to-video sequels.
(I should also like to say that the voice talent hired for Disney sequels, more often than not, fails HARD. For one thing I hate sound alikes, and for another, sound alikes are supposed to, y'know sound alike'. Don't try to tell me Cinderella's actress in Cinderella II sounded even remotely similar to Ilene Woods:\ )
End rant.
