Opinion Battles Year 4 Round
Worst Animated Sequel
With the final round we are returning to the worst of, this time in animated movies, we seem to get a lot of sequels that just don’t work, this is going to give us a chance to vent about the animated cash ins we didn’t want to see.
Next Round – This is going to be the final Opinion Battles in its current form, I would like to thank everyone for playing and voting along.
Darren – Movie Reviews 101
Atlantis: Milo’s Return
I wasn’t a fan of the first Atlantis, this sequel brings the character back in three separate stories as it was meant to be a pilot for a television series, which only make things worse. The mysterious are not interesting and by the end of the mini adventure we are left wondering just what was the point.
Milo – Stuff and That
Alvin & The Chipmunks 3: Chip-Wrecked
Do I really need to explain this one? CHIP-WRECKED. CHIP. WRECKED.
Emma – Emma Explains It All
The Little Mermaid 2: Back to the Sea
To be honest, it’s pretty bloody hard to sequel-ize ANY Disney classic. That’s definitely one thing that sets the Classics aside from Pixar – Pixar do seem able to make pretty good sequels. Perhaps because they don’t generally have the ‘big’ happy ending and are more comical, who knows. I don’t know. I’m wittering. But yeah, The Little Mermaid is my all time favorite animated film and this ridiculous sequel was NEVER needed. If it had been brought out as a cut-price, cheap kids film maybe it would have been excusable but putting it up with, arguably, one of the best kids movies OF ALL TIME………well, it never had a hope. And if that wasn’t enough argument, in 2011,Total Film ranked it 27th of the 50 worst children’s films ever made. So vote for me. It’s my birthday this month!
Kim – Tranquil Dreams
Cars 2
I’m sure there can be a ton of direct to video Disney movie to choose but for the mainstream Pixar delivered quite a stinker with Cars 2. It was boring and not fun. There was nothing new and seemed like an obvious cash grab. It was a letdown from the first one.
Cars 2
Worst animated sequel is difficult as there have been so many bad ones. Disney alone has loads of straight-to-video ones that I haven’t even seen. I’m sure a lot of those are actually the “worst” but I’ll go with a cinema release and say Cars 2. That’s mainly because it’s the worst Pixar film yet they couldn’t just let it die. I say this as a huge Pixar fan, too. Before Cars, they could do no wrong. Cars was the first disappointing Pixar film. And yet they made more..
Tom – Plain Simple Tom Reviews
The Jungle Book 2
This is a bit of a hard one since no obvious candidates immediately come to mind. I’m guessing that something like Cars 2 will be the favorite but I haven’t seen that one – not having enjoyed the first one enough.
For some reason, there are plenty of direct-to-video sequels to amazing Disney films (The Little Mermaid 2, Lady & The Tramp 2 – WHY?!) but I’ve avoided many of them on principal.
But I have seen this particular one (plus the sequel to The Lion King and the Aladdin follow ups, which I actually liked) and it’s just another example of an unnecessary and inferior sequel to a beloved classic. It’s unremarkable, the story’s dull, the cast isn’t as good and the animation looks cheap.
A vote for this is a vote against direct-to-video Disney sequels!!
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