ANY Disney sequels any good?
 

I often read people complaing about the glut of Disney sequels, and I have to admit that I don't watch them, with the exception of Toy Story 2, based on all the bad press. But are there any out there that are worth checking out?

I've heard Aladdin 2 was pretty good. Haven't seen it myself, though.

The Lion King II is okay. Nowhere near as good as the original, but one of the better sequels, nonetheless. Essentially Romeo and Juliet, but with talking lions.

The santa clause 2 is great

I enjoyed Return to Neverland!

Sorry, Toy Story 2 is the only tolerable (and great) Disney sequel. I don't know about you guys but saying the Toy Story movies are Disney films is like saying Star Wars is a Fox film, when in fact all Fox and Disney did was handle the distribution.

I agree :up: There's no way it could be close to the original but I thought they did a decent job. Animation was better than I expected.

One might say the first Lion King is Animal version of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Gonna have to agree with the Lion King II being one of the few good Disney sequels. It's also the only one of the sequel films that I own. Can't wait until October next year, for the original film to be released. :)

if aladdin 2 is "return of jafar", then no it isnt that good, yes we have homer simpson as the genie but still the movie aint good at all.

I still like Rescuers Down Under okay, especially in light of the fact that Rescuers was no masterpiece. George C. Scott as the villian makes it entertaining. Otherwise, yeah Toy Story 2 is the one worth mentioning, but then everything Pixar does is gold.

No, because anything that is a sequel is an automatic crappy film. -rolleyes-


Of course some are good, and like any type of movie, some are bad. just the way it goes.

Lets see the good.

I did enjoy the rescuers down under as a kid.

then again, many kids I'm sure enjoy these films because it is seeing more of there favorite characters. Maybe we don't like them, but hey, if kids enjoy them, more power to them.

Return to Neverland was acceptable (not awful). Hardly a ringing endorsement though.
I thought Aladdin 2 was terrible, though I must confess I did fall asleep halfway through it.

I thought Little Mermaid II and Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure were okay, certainly not as good as the originals but not as bad as some.

For example, Hunchback II was absolutely horrible, IMO.

I have yet to see a sequel that was any good.

I liked both Aladdin sequels, havent gotten a chance to see most of the new ones though

Jeez! Do we really need a new thread for this topic every few days? :rolleyes:

This is basically the same topic:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=255178

Wrong. Disney has done much more than just distribute the Pixar films. For instance they had a big hand in helping design the characters and suggested many changes to the stories that undoubtably made them better.

People tend to forget this when talking of the Pixar films, and it will be interesting to see if the quality if the Pixar films does suffer if and when they finish their existing Disney contract and renew with another studio.

Godfather 2 won Best Picture, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was any good.

Yeah, I saw that. Posted in it too, did ya see? The complaints were being bantered about the sequels tho, so I thought I'd start a thread seeing if there were any that people thought were good, so actually it's a different topic. Both are about Disney sequels, but one is complaining about them and one is trying to see if anything good can be said about them.

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Originally posted by calhoun07
Both are about Disney sequels, but one is complaining about them and one is trying to see if anything good can be said about them.

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HEY!! It wasn't all complaints. I did say I liked TSII, Fantasia 2k & Return To Neverland. Jeez...:D

I can't put TS2 and Fantasia 2000 in the same category as the straight to video stuff. Both above are excellent. I also enjoyed Aladdin and the King of Theives(the triumphant return of Robin Williams as Genie). Other than that, I don't think I've seen any, unless you count Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. But I guess that wouldn't matter either since it sucked as well.

I'd kept thinking about a sequel to The Great Mouse Detective.

So you registered today and felt the need to post just about the same thing in every Disney sequel thread...? :hscratch: -screwy-

Oh, by the way, welcome to the forum :wave:

Isn't Mulan II ok? I believe the DVDTalk reviewer gave it good marks even.

At least he did a search before creating a new thread -wink- .

Ive seen a few sequels and TS2 is the only one I could come to enjoy. The rest were just okay to horrible.

Thankyou for speaking the truth, Disney have always done a backdoor claim on the movies.

I consider the TS movies Pixar, no matter who "owns" them.

toy story :brickwl:

THE HUNCHBACK OF NORTRE DAME 2 was very good, better than the original.
Except the animation is low budget.

I think the best Disney sequel is The Rescuers Down Under, the first Disney sequel.

Other Good Ones Are:

Aladdin & the King of Thieves
Toy Story 2

And Bambi 2 which comes out next year, doesn't look that bad. It actually looks entertaining.

It seems to me that Disney is just making sequel after sequel because they know they don't haev any good ideas anymore.

I thought Lion King 1.5 was entertaining, although my girlfirend wasn't crazy about it. I bought LK 2 but have yet to watch it.

I remember enjoying both Aladdin sequels when they came out years ago. My sister is younger than me & she asked for them as presents. I don't know if they would entertain me now though.

I saw Toy Story 2 in the theaters & I couldn't stand that cowgirl character. She ruined the movie for me. I can't remember why, but I just found her so annoying. I never watched that movie again.

I was curious about Santa Clause 2, so I ordered it on pay-per-view when it was on there & I thought it was pretty enjoyable.

I second Lion King 1.5. I found it entertaining and my wife even liked it.

Was anybody born before 1990??

I like Herbie 3 and 4. But not 2. Haven't bothered with the remake.
The Kurt Russell teen series was entertaining. Not exactly sequels, but sorta. They were all about the same, so not horrible as sequels. No real interest in them now, though.
Shaggy DA was decent too.

I LOVE the Strongest Man In the World. Believe it or not, i've never seen the other two..

Most of the disney films released to theaters were excellent, and some were ok. Toy Story 2, Fantasia 2000 and The Rescuers Down Under were all fantastic and stood on their own, as if they weren't sequels at all.

Return to Neverland and The Jungle Book 2 were ok, but formulaic and paled in comparison to the originals.

The direct to video sequels are mostly horrid, with a select few rising to acceptable status. First the decent: Lion King 1.5, Lion King 2, Beauty and the Beast Enchanted Christmas, Pocahontas 2 (which actually made the story more historically accurate), Aladdin 2, and Aladdin 3 (better than Aladdin 2 because Robin Williams came back as the Genie). The rest, from Little Mermaid 2, Hunchback of Notre Dame 2, Cinderella 2, Lady and the Tramp 2, and the others I can't even think of, are all horrible mockeries of the originals, and should be avoided at all costs imo.

The animation in most of these sequels is something you find on cheap saturday morning cartoons, but should never be part of a disney film. In addition, the stories are often just the original story told in its opposite form with all of the whimsy and life sucked out of it. The songs are lackluster, the stories are shamefully bad, and the magic is gone.

That being said, the excellent sequels are exactly that, excellent - Toy Story 2 is arguably better than the original, and Fantasia 2000 brings forth Walt's vision of an ever-evolving Fantasia for new generations to perfection. The Rescuers Down Under was the first sequel, and it was treated with the same respect as any new disney film, and so is filled with the same Disney magic. Like The Great Mouse Detective (based on Sherlock Holmes stories), The Rescuers are characters that actually lend themselves to sequels - they are adventurers who go where they are needed to save people, and the serial nature of the story is like the Holmes stories - sequels become something new and fresh, not a rehash. Most of the other sequels are all tacked on stories at best, and insulting mangling of the original at worst. They tell you what happens after "and they lived happily ever after" - WHY?!?!? Fairy tales should end with happily ever after.

eh, I can't think of any that are total crap...

The only direct DVD I bought was 101 Dalmations II:Patch's Adventure. It is was entertaining. No where near the original, but they did a good job in matching the animation style of the original. My problem with most of their direct to DVD movies is that they are barely 70 minutes long, mainly because most of them seem like 3 tv shows stung together. The other complaint I have of them is that they basically take the same story of the original and place it in the next generation. Its worse than baby looney tunes.

Huh?!