Disney ne fera plus que des DAUBES

Des nouveau trucs comme wish ????

Les mecs bident, leurs films font scandale mais ils continuent de s'enfoncer dans leur connerie.

Même pixar ne sort plus rien de bon...

C'est dommage

Aussi visuellement je préfère leur animations 2D

Dire que Walt Disney était un nazi.

Beau pied de nez à la haine de la part de Bob

ils meurt doucement mais surement

tant pis pour eux, tant pis pour nous

voir les topax de tf6 et les parcourir uniquement pour farmer des nouveaux eheh

En même temps, ils avaient déjà commencé à faire des daubes avant.

Every Disney Direct-to-DVD Sequel Ranked

he Hunchback of Notre Dame II is one of the biggest atrocities ever committed by mankind.

Not once in my life have I ever asked myself, “Hey, I wonder what happens to Quasimodo next after the end of the first movie?” Because it doesn’t matter! He got what he wanted. He’s accepted by everyone. The story is over. Watching this you can feel. creative team squirming around in the background, getting the sense that they absolutely did not want to make this whatsoever. There was nothing to work with the a Hunchback sequel. Quasimodo is the only character from the original who’s given anything to do. Esmeralda is prettu much useless in this sequel. The gargoyles are less funny and revelant with worse comedic timing. Quasimodo's only plot is that he gets a girlfriend. He even sings the song about how nice it would be to have one which is is the same thing he did in the first movie but then didn't get the girl. He didn't get Esmeralda. But it was ok because what he turlly wanted was to get acceptance by the community. The entire point of his storyline in the first movie is undone. The girl, Madellaine, is a boring character working for a circus guy played by Chuck McGill. He wants the Bell that has gems inside because writers don't know how bells work. So he steals it and there is a drama between Quasimodo and Madellaine when Quasimodo says that she was using him. Phoebus and Esmaralda's kid, played by Haley Joel Osment, is only here to be kidnapped in the third act. They couldn't even put an ounce of artistry and majesty that went into the original.


Beauty and Beast 2 looks like a fan made animation. Animation is not as good as in the first movie. This is the proof that Beauty and Beast would never work as a TV show. The pacing of the original film is perfect but this gets thrown out of window in the sequel. They couldn't make a story about what happened after the first one, instead doing a midquel, because then none of the characters would be in their marketable furniture. In the first movie, Belle isn't even technically s prisonner. She can leave at any time but stays because of Beast's compassion. But in this sequel, Beast just looks like a lunatic. He has a meltdown because she’s taking care of this bird who can’t fly and he hates birds for some reason, except then he realizes that birds can sing and he’s like “This bird is my prisoner, forever!” Obviously he learns afterwards that the bird should be set free, but that doesn’t really change how legitimately sociopathic he acted earlier. Plus the other shorts where he acts like a maniac and doesn't apologize for it. Then Belle thinks to herself “Well maybe I should apologize for calling him rude!” This is a terrible message and it basically ruins the entire first movie, Then there is that feather duster called Fifi who jealous because Lumiere seems to be doing all this romantic stuff with Belle. Because apparently Fifi forgot that the whole point of Belle being here is to fall in love with Mr. Beast because she’s really dumb, but it’s just a misunderstanding ‘cause Lumiere is preparing for his date with Fifi tonight, but she is super jealous, then he invites her to the date and she forgets all about the stuff she thought she saw between him and Belle. From her perspective, Lumiere is still cheating on her with Belle when she’s not looking since he never explains what was going on, so shouldn’t she still be mad at him? The movie itself doesn’t even have an ending, it just kinda stops.
25 : Tarzan & Jane They decided to structure this backdoor pilot like a Family Guy episode. The ensuing story being about a spy who's trying to betray the British Empire and Tarzan needs to stop him. All of these stories are not good. Jane is visited by her three friends from Britain. Then, Elaine's boss from Seinfeld wants to mine for diamonds, so he invites Tarzan and it turns out he was evil the whole time. It was obvious... Then we get into the spy story and it sucks. They didn't know how to use the characters they had so they kept inventing new dumb humans who stumble their way into the jungle. We got Jane's childhood friends, an evil guy with nefarious goals, and Jane's childhood friend who turns out to be an evil guy with nefarious goals. No real variety. One of the best aspect of Tarzan was his incredible animation. And that makes this weird sequel worse.

Atlantis: Milo's Return Atlantis: Milo's Return is one of those movies that's so dull and boring that it makes you question if you even liked the first film or not. The characters are ok but this movie is just boring and stupid. 3 unrelated adventures that look like 3 TV show episodes stitched together. None of these stories were given the time to make it compelling. Johnny Test's voice was maybe one of the few things that was not bad in the movie. For some reason the movie ends with Atlantis rising to the surface for the first time in 8000 years. Nothing in this movie built up to that. Atlantis iteslf isn't a factor in any of these three plotlines.

Brother Bear 2 Joaquin Phoenix obviously didn't return for the sequel. The guy they recasted him with sounds so off Apart from bad the movie is bad on some other ways. The plot is Shrek again. , “Oh, we gotta go on this journey that’ll allow this girl to get married to her true love, except oh no, maybe she’s gonna fall in love with the bear along the way. Will they fall in love?” Predictable and stupid. At various points in the journey, Brother Bear is like, "Yeah, I know we need to burn the amulet so you can get on with your life and marry the guy who has no dialogue in the first two thirds in this movie, but first, I need to set up my moose friends with some hot lady mooses" and then unfunny shenanigans ensue that pad out the runtime. Of course as you guessed it she was not going to marry that dude who has less personality than the original love interest from Pocahontas. Even the first film was not good but they managed to make it worse.

Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure In a sense, Lady and Tramp is a faithful sequel. But for some reasons it's not memorable. In the sequal, Lady is here for 4 minutes and Tramp doesn't fare much better. Instead we follow their son Scamp on his stupid adventure where he meets a bunch of junkyard dogs and then a nefarious leader dog. Only advantage of this movie is that it does introduce its main villain earlier than in the last 10 minutes. Other than that it's worse than the original who was actually more than decent. At one point in the middle, the leader dog who has history with Tramp realizes that Scamp might be Tramp's son as if he couldn't realize that Scamp looked exactly like Tramp but smaller.

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Mulan II In this movie, Mushu, the main antagonist, is obsessed with keeping his status as a guardian spirit so much that he actively sabotages Mulan and Shang's relationship, just so he doesn't lose his position where he can boss all these other ghosts around and have them cater to his every whim. The cricket tries to stop him at every turn, almost like he's his conscience or something... looks like Pinocchio. The best scene in the movie is where he finally confesses after the guilt gets to him, and Mulan just tears into him, saying how shitty this was of him to do. Nice to hear but it doesn't really excuse how miserable it is watching this self-righteous prick ruin a relationship for completely self-centered reasons. On top of that, no real cool actions. Instead, they just gotta escort these three princesses to be arranged married in this completely made up place called Qui Gong. It doesn't exist in real life, so I have no idea where the writers got the idea for this name from. Anyway, the three princesses fall in love with the three comic relief guys from the original, and while it's predictable, it was kinda sweet seeing them all connect. Even if Mushu tried to sabotage Mulan and Shang's relationship, the romance in the first movie is not the focus of the story. So it was hard to focus on that. This was one of the most boring Disney's couple. And this sequel was not really bad by itself but more like mediocre. Anyway, this whole movie is relationship drama mixed in with some fine but forgettable slice of life escapades with the side characters and their new girlfriends. That's kinda mid as a sequel to a movie where a women saves all of China. The animation and the songs are still ok while the side characters can sometimes be funny. But they don't even solve the overarching war conflict at the end because nobody gets married, therefore there's no alliance and the Mongols are free to kill everyone. It's still better than the live-action remake.

The Fox and the Hound 2 Notice when when Disney makes sequels about dog movies, their sequel doesn't focus on the main protagonists but rather focus on their kids, whatever it's Lady and Tramp, the 101 dalmatians and the Fox and the Hound. They introduced new dogs characters to either the kids or the original protagonists to interact with Lady and Tramp 2 might be technically worse than the Fox and the Hound 2, The Fox and the Hound 2 is still more of an downgrade considering how highly rated the first movie was. THe first movie was a bettersweet and engaging story about a friendship being tragically torn apart. But then this misquel is tonally in congruent with the original film. Characters were singing stray dogs wants to be a part of their band. But he spent 1 day apart from Todd who thinks their friendship is now over. The pretty animation, funny jokes and charming fleeting moments that captures the spirit of the original but that's it. This sequel didn't even mainly focus on the 2 m ain characters but rather the singing dogs...

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning has one of the dumbest concepts for any of these Disney sequels. It's a prequel about how King Triton hates music because his wife got hit by a boat since she was trying to retrieve a music box. So Triton assumes the problem is music and bans all music from the kingdom, which is stupid, considering it's her fault and not music's. At least in Coco, music getting banned sorta makes sense, like, I can see why that would be a sore spot for the family. Ariel needs to convince her sisters and her dad that music is good again. But there's this evil villain who works at the palace. Probably someone hating music? In fact no, she gets 2 songs. She barely has any personnal grief with Ariel. Her archenemy is, of all characters, Sebastian. She is constantly obsessed with getting rid of this little crab and taking his job. That's just her motivation : having beef with a crab. She gets Sebastian and friends arrested because she follows him to this music speakeasy and now she got his job. There's also this actually funny gag where she replicates Ariel's iconic shot in the rock from the first Little Mermaid, but she falls over. That's actually pretty good. It turns out that she has secretly been keeping these murder eels in the palace. So she sends the murder eels to kill Ariel and Sebastian before they can come back with the music box that Sebastian wanted Ariel to show to Triton because he knew exactly where the music box landed and now they need to give it to him so he can remember how much he loves music because he won't just do the exact same thing as last time where he threw it away, because this time... Ariel died... or more like almost died. Also a film centered so much on music is supposed to have good music in it but not even... The songs are serviceable but forgettable. Bad movie with bad premise and no reason to really exist.

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas It's actually a decent sequel. Clearly less worse than the other Beauty and Beast sequel : " Belle's magical world ". It has Tim Curry as a weird CGI organ. who has this bizarre infatuation with the Beast and who constantly gets jealous of him spending time with Belle. This guy was also an adult when Beast was like 11 years old so that's kinda sus. Jus like Belle's magical world, this sequel tends to make Beast unlikable to justify the original movie's romance though not really to the same extent. There is this new character named Angelique who doesn't really bring anything to the story or universe. There’s this ridiculously misplaced buddy duet between Lumiere and Cogsworth that comes right after Belle has been imprisoned by the Beast. They show a flashback of when the Enchantress put a curse on the Beast and the castle. It looks cool to be honest. But it still contradicts the narration in the first movie. The Enchantress doesn’t warn him not to be deceived by appearances and he doesn’t reject her a second time. Tim Curry has some fun moments, but for the most part, that's boring slog that actively cheapens the romance in the first movie through its very existence. Problem is that was andomly cuts between different levels of animation quality and loses any momentum of the plot for hours while we’re at the castle. Overall this sequel falls into the mid sequel category.

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea The movie sets itself up as a role reversal of the first film with Ariel's daughter wanting to go from dry lands to the sea. But then it takes that premise and just makes it lead to the exact same climax as the original, with basically the exact same villain. Morgana, Ursula's crazy sister, had the same voice actress, being Pat Carroll. Before the character was introduced, no one mentionned her before but when she appeared it looks like most of people know her, especially Triton and Sebastian. The characters tend to be kinda dumb, Ariel's daughter was dumb to trust that evil witch named Morgana but Ariel and Eirc were just as dumb to not explain her that Ariel used to be a mermaid before and that she can't because if she does, Morgana is going to get her. It's also worth noticing that most of the movie happens over 12 years after the original movie and yet every character look exactly the same. Only Flouder was allowed to age. Ariel looks and sounds the exact same was as 18 than she looks and sounded as 16. They also adds thie new comic relief duo that didn't add much except sainvg Ariel's daughter, Melody, from dorwning, and accidentally. Sebastien is still his charming funny self from the original luckily. And chef Louis, but he appears only in 1 scene. It's also weird how a tiny crab would destroy en entire cake to that extent. This movie has some good moments but also bad moments. It's a mid sequel, still better than the little mermaid 3.

Kronk's New Groove It's painfully obvious that Kronk is a character that only really works in small doses. I wouldn't say he's annoying in this movie, but, he's not really interesting either. He's a simple man with very little going on in terms of compelling drama. I don't care if Papi gives him the thumbs up or not. Who cares? It's literally just 3 uninteresting stories stitched together with decent songs and a couple good jokes, but not nearly enough to hold anyone's interest.

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True This sequel is not good but not necessarly bad. It's passable. Much like Tarzan & Jane, it's structured like a Family Guy episode, where there's three stories, and we get into them by having one of the mice say, "Hey Lois, remember the time I turned into a human and the cat at the palace still tried to eat me for some reason? Like, why the hell was he doing that?" About the 3 stories, the first one is about Cinderella trying to adjust to the palace life, and it's ok. Kinda predictable and standard. The second one is about this dumbass mouse becoming a human and then everyone think he's this other guy through some wacky misunderstanding, and it's kinda stupid although not awful either. Then there's the third story, which is clearly what the entire movie should've been about, where one of the evil stepsisters, Anastasia, gets redeemed, and Cinderella helps her when she gets a crush on this baker guy. It's actually cute and wholesome. This story almost single handedly carried the movie. The subplot where the mice helped Lucifer get with this lady cat at the palace, before the two cats betray the mice that got them together and try to eat them, is also kinda decent and fun. Also, one strength this movie has over the original might be Cinderella herself. I find her a much more engaging character. I'm kinda rooting for her to just stick it to this snoody palace lady. And her unwavering compassion when she helps Anastasia in spite of everything Anastasia put her through is kinda sweet. It's a collection of three shorts that vary wildly in quality. Not really great overall but not bad at all either.

Tarzan II This might be kinda mid, it had some character and I got invested in. The old ape monkey named Zugor is cool. He's kind of a strange old hermit who pranks people by pretending he's a monster in order to scare them, but he ends up bonding with Tarzan. It's both cliché and predictable but still cool. It's a character you could invest in and wonder if he would die or not since he was not in the first movie. Plus, he's voiced by George Carlin who did a good job. The story, the actions and the animation were the main strenghts of the first movie rather than the characters ( who were still pretty good ). Maybe in the second movie, the actions and story weren't exactly as good as in the first movie, the characters, especially Zuga, were still enjoyable. That doesn't mean the movie is very good. It has a decent premise and setup. But it's also a movie where little happens. It can kinda feel meandering and overly drawn out when it's not focused on Zugor and Tarzan. As for the 3 villains, they don't even have any nefarious roles. They just want to stop living in this ravine out of fear of the Zugor monster getting them. But then they find out it's just this old guy pulling pranks on them, and it's like, "Oh no, are they gonna kill him?!" No, they just kinda trash his home and then they let him go. They are ok characters but they don't drive the film's conflict. Overall the movie might be a bit boring and overly drawn out, it's still decent. Not the best, not the worst kind of movie.

The Return of Jafar This is the very first direct-to-DVD sequel. It was more than tolerable. Lago is the main character in this movie for some reason. The central character arc is about him becoming a good guy. And he also gets two songs, which a lot of people have complained about, but honestly, I don't mind hearing Gilbert Gottfried sing too much. After Iago goes to Aladdin to try and convince him he's a good guy, Aladdin decides to keep this a secret from Jasmine and the Sultan, which is dumb. Why not just tell them "Hey, Iago's back. I don't know if I can trust him, but he did save me from some thieves, so that's cool I guess"? But instead, he keeps that a secret from them for no reason. And when they find out, this is used as a source of conflict. This is kinda stupid. But there's some other decent stuff. Like, George Costanza's in this, and he's actually kind of funny. It's weird how he is funny in this but not in a real Disney movie. Robin Williams doesn't voice the Genie in this one, and instead he's voiced by Dan Castellaneta, who isn't the worst replacement, but it's pretty clear that it's just not the same. The guy had some funny moments although not near the same energy or charm. At least they do creative things with Jafar's Genie powers and the musical numbers might not be on the same level as on the first movie, it's still decent. This movie didn't have a bad animation nor a bad writing overall. Not a very good film but still a decent one.

Stitch! The Movie Of all the Disney properties shoved into the sequel machine, Lilo & Stitch has generally come out the most unscathed in this one. The characters are still likable, the alien world is still inventive, there's still some funny moments, it's still mildly enjoyable. But it seems to take forever for the movie to go anywhere. It's only 63 minutes, but it just feels like nothing is happening for the majority of the runtime. Jumba gets kidnapped by Gantu, who in this movie, proves to be horrendously incompetent. At one point, he's holding Jumba hostage unless Lilo and Stitch give him this alien, and when Lilo and Stitch don't do that and try to attack him, he starts firing at Stitch instead of just shooting Jumba. He doesn't understand basic hostage situations. Anyway, Lilo and Stitch need to try and save him. They free Sparky (X-221) , and it escapes, and they try and track it down, and that's most of the movie. . It is one continuous story that sets up the premise of needing to catch all the experiments but it still does take forever to get to the point. There's a new experiment who likes sandwiches, and that's his whole character. That's kinda cute but mostly forgettable.

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World Pocahontas II is actually better than the first one, not because it's very good but it's more engaging and entertaining than the boring-ass, racist-ass original. It actually tells an interesting story about Pocahontas journeying into England and trying to convince the British that committing mass genocide on the Native Americans isn't good. While the first movie is kinda boring, cliche and predictable while the second movie actually tries a bit more. It shows us Pocahontas out of her elements and reacting to his new world, and having this conflict regarding her heritage and whether to give parts of it up in order to fit in with this new world. The film is also more cartoony and unafraid to have side characters with actual personality and a ton more funny moments. Radcliffe is back, and he's still not a very good villain, but at least here, he actually meets Pocahontas, and there's some scenes with him that are way more sinister than anything he ever did in the original. The way the King so easily flips from being pro-genocide to then being like, "Actually, genocide is bad" once Pocahontas talks to him for 3 minutes is still funnily dumb. And then there's the awkward way the movie fake kills off John Smith from the original. I'm glad the romance that was crucial to the first movie meant very little to both of these characters. I also can't believe the movie missed the obvious solution of just having the three of them in a polyamorous relationship. I mean, the two John's have better chemistry with each other than either of them do with Pocahontas, so, that's another option right there. They should have just kissed and then Pocahontas goes back home to her people and then the British never come to the Americas again. Although not a very good movie it's still an improvement.

Bambi II Bambi II has some strenghts, even over the first movie, but also weaknesses that tend to outbalance it. This is a midquel focusing on the events between when Bambi's mother died and him growing up meaning that unlike the original film we actually see Bambi coping with the loss of its mother. It's emotionally pretty effective. The tragic event had the weight it deserved. I also liked how they made Bambi's dad into an actual character and how he ends up taking care of Bambi. We see some real care and concern for his son. They got Patrick Stewart to voice the dad. The animation is also pretty with a lot of great shots and vibrant colors. Overall it fits nicely into the story of Bambi. There are scenes of side characters trying hard to be cutesy even more so than the original film. That being said some of the humor doesn't getl with the original story. I feel like the addition of his rival deer was relatively lame and uniteresting. Overall I liked the bond between Bambi and his dad, as well as both of them coping with their tragic loss. Despite the risky bet ( the sequel is 64 years after the original after all ), It worked pretty well.

The Jungle Book 2 I think the movie's quality is on the same level than the first. Among the strenght it has over the original : the voice actors. Not to say the original voices were bad. In the second movie, John Goodman as Baloo. I like the energy he brings to this part. And Shere Khan was played by Tony Jay, the voice of Claude Frollo. This movie also has the merit to give us an emotionnal goodbye between Mowgli and Ballo, something the first movie forgot to do. Just like in the first movie, Mowgli is torn between the jungle and the man's village. Him and Baloo wander through the jungle, new characters appear and Shere Khan also wants to kill him, except now the girl in the village is looking for him because she thought she could find hi by herself in the dark jungle instead of alerting the adults. There are some misunderstanding and conglicts when they find each other. And there is an action climax with Shere Khan where for a second it looks like he dies. But he survives this statue falling on him somehow and his fate is just having this one vulture cracks joke

A partir de ce moment là, pas étonnant qu'ils continuent de faire encore pie.



8 : Peter Pan 2 : Return to Neverland Return to Neverland is a movie that sets up an interesting premise taking place during WW2 and having a grown up Wendy's daughter, Jane wanting to grow up herself and put her childhood behind her in order to take care of her family. It made for an engaging conflict for 10 minutes. Then Jane gets captured and abducted by Captain Hook and it becomes a rehash of the first movie. Captain Hook and Smear are decent, Peter Pan and the lost boys have more personnalities than in the first movie and Tinkerbell is once again dramatic solely because Jane says she doesn't believe in fairies. They keep TInkerbell the same consistency extra diva as she was before. It's also funny how the lost boys start looking for Jane because Tinkerbell starts dying and they need Jane to believe in fairies but when they find Jane they seem to completly forget about TInkerbell and do a treasure hunt instead. Then when Captain Hook shows up and kidnaps them all, Peter is yelling at Jane to says that Tinkerbell is literally dying because she doesn't believe in fairies. It also got some fun and same charm as the original. At the same time it feels like there is not much going on in this one. By focusing the story on the lost boys and captain Hook's crew, this kind of narrows the scope of the original rather than expanding it, which is not really what you want out of a sequel. Neverland should be filled with endless wonder, yet this movie makes it seem like we already reached the end of the Wonerland in the first film since this one is more of the same. That being said it's the only major default. It's pretty tonally consistent with the original.

The Lion King 2 : Simba's pride. Tons of people swear by it and say it's an underrated classic and other people hate it and think it's a bastardization of the original film. I think it's pretty good. Not as good as the first one obviously considering how high the bar got raised. But compared to the majority of Disney's directed DVD sequels, it's very good. It's pretty clear that they put some actual effort into the animation and the characters and the songs. It's obviously not on par on with the first movie. Like, remember how impactful the opening shot of the original was, as well as the dramatic thud of the title drop right after the music swelled? Well, in this movie, it just kinda opens. Just a casual fade into some random giraffes. But t would be stupid and disingenuous to try and hold this to the same standard as the original. For what it is, it's solid. The new characters are decent. I think it's a fun idea how the sequel to Lion Hamlet is just Lion Romeo & Juliet. Timon and Pumba are honestly just as funny as ever and they steal any scene they're in. A lot of the new songs are surprisingly pretty solid. I thought Rafiki's love ballad was pretty catchy, "My Lullaby" isn't a half bad villain song, and "Not One of Us" goes really hard. The movie really should've opened with a flashback scene with Scar that took place during the first movie in order to better establish that these characters existed at all, but whatever. Once you accept that they were apparently here the whole time, the story is mildly interesting, if a bit slow and incredibly predictable. ven so, it held my attention the whole way through, and I had a pretty decent time with it.

Cinderella III: A Twist in Time The promise is really creative and fun and there’s actual stakes. When the Fairy Godmother gets turned to stone in the first 10 minutes, I’m like, “Okay. Shit’s actually going down in this one. That’s pretty cool.” There’s a ton of funny moments here, not just the scene where the Prince jumps out the window. That’s gold obviously, but there’s also a ton of other great funny lines. Prince Charming is actually a character for the first time. Remember when Anastasia had a character arc and fell in love with this baker guy? Yeah, that never happens. Now instead, she is the one who Lady Tremaine is pushing to marry the Prince and she has an entirely new character arc where she learns to be unselfish and let Cinderella have her happiness and it's pretty good. It’s not like they forgot about the baker either. He shows up in a photo in the credits. It's a good different continuity from the second film. The beginning and the third act is where all the cool magic shit is, but Lady Tremaine doesn’t really use the wand for anything in the middle, even when it was legitimately be helpful like magically making Anastasia learn how to dance. She just doesn’t make use of the limitless potential of this premise for a while. Instead, the middle is mostly about Cinderella sneaking around the palace to get the wand and Anastasia going through a character arc again. But that's still nice. It’s nice to see Cinderella be even more proactive, and I’m definitely invested in her quest. Plus, there’s sort of this nice connection between Anastasia and the King. Overall, solid stuff, althought it looks like the beginning and the ending are the parts that seem to carry this movie. It’s leaps and bounds ahead of most of the other Disney sequels, doing something far more interesting than the previous Cinderella installments and and ultimately being my favorite of the trilogy.

Aladdin and the King of Thieves Aladdin and the King of Thieves is neat because it's one of the few Disney sequels that actually dares to expand the universe, and introduce new themes, and continue the story without just rehashing the original. For what it is, it's also very good. I think its most notable attribute is the fact that Robin Williams is back as the Genie ( after he was not voicing him in the second Aladdin movie ). He provides a lot of funny moments. The only issue is that I just feel like the filmmakers were a little too excited to have Robin Williams back, and maybe gave him too much screen time. He'll just go off on these joke tangents that go on forever and kinda distract from the actual plot. It's crazy how much the Genie doesn't really affect this movie's story, even though he could probably solve like, 90% of the conflicts in it. But to be honest it's a pretty good writing. Plus, one thing they leaned way too heavilty into with the Genie's comedy in this one is references to other Disney films. A couple here and there are cute. The character's a bit of a mixed bag in this film, but comparing him to how he was in the second movie, it's night and day, and it's pretty clear that Robin Williams absolutely was the character. Anyway, there are other characters in this movie like Aladdin's dad who is the King of Thieves and he's a cool character. I like the connection he has with his son and how he's kind of this deadbeat dad who can't give up his life of crime no matter what. But then at the end they get the treasure they're after, and he's like, "I don't need this treasure! The real treasure was family!"

We can wonder why did he then go all this effort to get the hand of Midas. Anyway, back to the film, the villain was also good.. One other thing I wanted to mention about him is that he's voiced by Jerry Orbach, ( who also voiced Lumiere )without the French accent, and it just sounds really cursed. A lot of the new concepts the movie introduces to the Aladdin universe, like the giant turtle that houses the Hand of Midas and this underground group of thieves, that's some really neat stuff. I honestly really enjoyed the songs in this one. And the animation, while obviously inferior to the first film, still does a pretty solid job of matching Robin Williams' manic energy. It's a pretty solid time all things considered, and a more than welcome addition to the Aladdin canon.

Leroy & Stitch Leroy & Stitch is a solid sendoff too the TV show. The pacing is a lot snappier than Stitch! The Movie, there's some solid emotion with the aliens wanting to say goodbye, Gantu has a solid redemption arc, and that climax with all the experiments fighting all the Leroys. Definitely an engaging watch. By Direct-to-DVD sequel standards, it's definitely one of the best ones.

Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch You got the first movie, Lilo & Stitch. Then after that, Stitch! The Movie came out. Now this wasn't technically a direct sequel to the original film despite taking place after the original film's events. This was more so a pilot for the Lilo & Stitch TV show which came out shortly after. But then, after that, we got the third Lilo & Stitch movie entitled Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch. So basically, Stitch! The Movie was the Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories of the series, except not actually because Chain of Memories actually does take place between Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2. But Lilo & Stitch 2, despite coming out after Stitch! The Movie, takes place before it. It's the true direct sequel to the original film. You just need to ignore the fact that it came out as the TV series was airing. And then, Leroy & Stitch came out last. It was the finale to the TV Show, and chronologically, it's the last point in the Lilo & Stitch timeline. This, of course, does not include the Stitch anime series, the Chinese Lilo & Stitch spinoff, or the manga series Stitch & The Samurai, where Stitch lands in Sangoku-era Japan and be friends with samurai. Anyway, this movie maintains maintains the same animation quality, the same tone, the same humor, and the same heart.

Basically, the film is about Stitch having a glitch that dates back to when Jumba first created him. So Jumba needs to work on a solution that'll stop Stitch from violently losing control and wreaking havoc. And he keeps this information a secret from everyone else, which is pretty much where the entire conflict comes from. I also find it ridiculous that Pleakley doesn't reveal that this is what's going on, either because he feels bad, or on accident because he's a cookie blabber mouth. And there's also this subplot with Pleakley trying to help David to impress Nani, and it doesn't really go anywhere. It was occasionally funny but not really usefull. Aside from these, everything in the movie is good. The film uses this Hawaiian legend as a basis for a hula dance Lilo wants to perform with Stitch. But it also serves as a metaphor for the situation they go through in this movie, and I think that's really clever and a great way to maintain the respect for Hawaiian culture that the first film had. I find the scenes where she gets mad at him for the destructive behavior he can't help to be really sad and moving! And the scenes where they're fighting feels super realistic to how siblings bicker. I love how they continue to make Mertle more of a little shit. Like, her hula performance is just a tacky advertisement for her family's business. Incredible. I love how they continue to make Mertle more of a little shit. Like, her hula performance is just a tacky advertisement for her family's business. Incredible. It's definitly a worthwhile sequel.

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure Unlike the other dog's sequels, this one is actually genuilly good. This movie manages to be somehow funny, entertaining and on par on with the original. It's kind of different of the first movie from a story and tonal perspective but it drives a similar level of enjoyment from both of these movies. This movie does the whole dog thinking he is a superhero concept a lot better mainly because it plays up the natural comedy you can get out of that premise. The movie is about one of the 101 dalmatians feeling pretty out of place in his family since most of his siblings don't really like him. After getting accidentally being left behind in the home alone when the family changes home, he comes across Ouragan, a dog actor playing a superhero on a TV show that he particularly likes. And this dog is worried because his side kick, Lil' Lightning, told him they are going to replace him. So he tries to perform an act of heroism in real life all as the dalmatian Patch helps him since he is an expert on the show. All the shenanigans they get into are funny and there is ton of great jokes from other characters and the bond they start to form is pretty charming and sweet. It's a simple but effective story. As for Cruella Devil, is getting interested by the eccentric artist Lars who is one of the best Disney's sequels characters. At first they just kind of make art together and it's weirdly funny and charming, until she tells him that she wants to use the puppy's coats as canvas and he is immediatly angered by this. Then she kidnaps him and reverts back to her old ways leading to a batshit fun climax. Having a villain as iconic and despicable as Cruella is a massive boost as well as the washed up superhero dog actor plotline. Both stories have such manic energy and they intersect in a fun and believable way. It's an absolute delight of a time. This can be considered as a masterpiece of a sequel.

The Lion King 1 1/2 I just feel like this is a movie that pretty much accomplishes everything it sets out to do. It's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, but with Simba's gay dads. It integrates Timon and Pumbaa into the existing Lion King film pretty seamlessly. Timon not knowing who Rafiki was in the original doesn't really make sense since he meets him earlier in this movie. But like, otherwise, I weirdly have no trouble believing this is part of the story. Even more so than Lion King II, which invented a whole new pride of Scar-loving lions that came out of nowhere. It's the Snyder Cut of The Lion King Cinematic Universe. I feel like this movie does legitimately give me more of an appreciation for Timon and Pumbaa raising Simba. Snail slurping is kind of gross, sure, but there's something so novel and heartfelt about the extent these two went through to keep him out of danger during his youth, as well as that random ass sunrise, sunset scene. When Pumbaa sits on the remote and changes the movie to the shopping network. When Timon tries to distract Shenzi by proposing to her. The hilarious way Timon was responsible for ruining the "I Can't Wait to Be King" song. Pretty much Uncle Max's entire character. They got Jerry Stiller for this. Plus, Julie Kavner, Marge Simpson herself, as Timon's Mom. She's really funny and kinda heartfelt in this role! I genuinely believe the connection Timon and his mom have, and their reconciliation towards the end is honestly really sweet. I like the montage where Timon and Pumbaa try to break up Simba and Nala but ultimately fail. They're literally doing the exact same thing as Mushu in Mulan II, except here it's played entirely for comedy and not the crux of the story.