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Pocahontas 212/8/2022 Lion King 1 ½: As a sequel it busts the original’s continuity straight to hyena infested hell buuuuut…great cast, really nice animation, some genuinely funny gags and Diggah Tunnah is honestly a good enough song that it could have been in the original movie (and a good song in a Disney sequel is a rare, precious thing indeed).īambi 2: Patrick Stewart as the Prince of the Forest. King of Thieves: Robin Williams back as the genie, some much needed delving into Aladdin’s backstory and a fairly satisfying conclusion to the story of the Agrabah gang. Maybe not a great movie but a very decent pilot for a better than decent TV show. Return of Jafar: Obviously (OBVIOUSLY) not as good as Aladdin but it actually did some interesting stuff plot wise by giving Iago a character arc and actually leaving a real, lasting change to the status quo by having him become a hero. In fact, let’s play the game that’s taking the globe by storm, Mouse Says Nice Things About Disney Sequels For As Long As He Can! And while all of the Disney cheapquels are objectively worse than the movies they were based on, that doesn’t mean that they were entirely without merit. “Oh yeah, sure, I understand, I just dedicated FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE to this, no biggie.”īut, y’know. If Disney Toons had somehow made a sequel to The Little Mermaidthat was even better, they wouldn’t have released it straight to video, right? They’d have given it a full theatrical release and made it an official entry in the canon like The Rescuers Down Underor Winnie the Pooh (is Winnie the Pooh still in the canon? Disney?) None of the direct to video sequels made for the canon movies are as good as or better than the movies they are based on. Are they really as bad as all that? Well… Today, I review a direct to video Disney sequel, the cinematic equivalent of hiring a prostitute to dress up like your high school sweetheart, something beautiful and pure rendered tawdry and mercenary. Come and witness as my last scrap of virtue is torn away. ![]() My very first post on this blog, half a goddamn decade ago, set out some rules that I swore I’d follow come hell or high water:
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