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Started by Sir Perceval of Daventry, June 29, 2012, 09:02:34 AM

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Sir Perceval of Daventry

I'm not usually a fan of Disney sequels--In many or most cases they're pointless, IMO--But I do think the Aladdin trilogy is probably one of the best sets of Disney movies ever. While Return of Jafar (1994) is a bit of a letdown in terms of it's animation, the story is great and the idea of a villain returning is awesome, as Jafar is one of my favorite Disney villains. Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996) is an epic movie, on par with the original, IMO. It's a great film with heart.

Anyone else love the Aladdin sequels?

GrahamRocks!

I remembering liking them, but, it's been years...

Me, I like most Disney sequels personally.

Lambonius

Yeah, King of Thieves is great.  Return of Jafar, so so.  I watched the crap out of all of them when I was younger.

Haids1987

I don't like the Return of Jafar, but I absolutely adore King of Thieves. It's a fitting ending to the series.
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I really loved all three of them when I was younger -- Return of Jafar was the weakest link overall, but I think it had better songs in it than King of Thieves.
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I loved Aladdin. Although, I considered the movies continually worse as they went on, with King of Thieves being the worst. But they're all good. The sequels don't have the same feeling as the original at all, but that makes sense because they were made by Disney Television so it's more like the TV show, which makes sense. The original is the best ever, though. I used to think the sound effects in Return of Jafar were amazing. Didn't like how they reused all the music from the Aladdin score for Return of Jafar. But it's good music so it's all good.

Aladdin. Best Disney movie evar.

Enchantermon

Aladdin is easily one of my favorite Disney movies. I'm hoping they give it the 3D treatment; I would love the opportunity to see it in the theater again, and The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast in 3D were sweet.
I don't remember much about the following two movies; I've seen them both, though. I do recall that they were enjoyable, just not as good as the original. But I need to see them again. I do remember specifically not liking the fact that Robin Williams was not in Return of Jafar.
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Quote from: Enchantermon on July 28, 2012, 02:47:19 PM
I do remember specifically not liking the fact that Robin Williams was not in Return of Jafar.
Perhaps that's why I felt like this movie wasn't as good as the other two. Not having Robin Williams just made it seems tainted somehow.
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Remember that I used to love Return of Jafar when I was a kid. He was such a great villain, and it was a lot of fun to see him make use of his new genie powers. Plus, you get to see Iago get some character development.

King of Thieves I didn't own, so I only watched it a few times growing up, but seem to remember it being pretty good.

As for the first Aladdin...do you even need to ask?
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Let's talk about Disney sequels. :P I think they're contrived and terrible and inevitably involve time travel and trying to undo the first film so the antagonist never fell in the first place. :P WHY?!
 
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...Well, I like them. Every one that I've seen I'ved liked.

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Quote from: Deloria on August 05, 2012, 02:40:53 AM
Let's talk about Disney sequels. :P I think they're contrived and terrible and inevitably involve time travel and trying to undo the first film so the antagonist never fell in the first place. :P WHY?!

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Pixar doesn't count, Haids. Pixar is ALWAYS awesome, atleast in my eyes.

Deloria

I haven't to both of those. :( Maybe they've improved since the first sequels came out.
 
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Actually, Rescuers Down Under came out in the 90s.  I highly recommend it, and you don't need to see the first movie.  The animation is beautiful, and the story is good.
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I had the misfortune of seeing Cinderella II on TV once. *shudder*
It's probably the worst Disney Sequel of them all...it basically feels like a bunch of cheesy rejected scripts from a potential Cinderella TV series. :P

And Cinderella III... (Yes, they made a third one.) what the meatloaf?? It's like they got tired of hearing people complain about things in the original movie (The Prince having no personality, Cinderella having mice and fairies do all the hard work for her, etc.), and decided to make a screwy time travel plot where Cinderella gets to be an action heroine and the evil stepmother gets god-modding magic powers to rewrite reality with. :P

It's one of the most ridiculous things Disney's ever made in my opinion. (The stepmother thing is a pet peeve of mine, really...she didn't need magic to be a good villain, she had sheer cruelty instead. Suddenly making her more powerful than Maleficent and the Queen from Snow White combined really messes up her character.)
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I only saw the Beauty & the Beast Christmas sequel.

Uhm.
Sequel isn't really the right word for it.
It's a flashback that takes place during that "snowball fight" montage in the original movie.

.....that's right, that montage skipped over and entire adventure involving an evil organ and whatever his evil plot was, I don't really remember.

Are you kidding me right now?!?!?! I mean.... no, just no.
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KatieHal

They are usually terrible--at least the straight to video ones. I try to avoid them!

The reason they use time travel or flashbacks so often, though, is because the alpha couple has reached their "happily ever after", which apparently puts a hard stop to all conflict and evil and hardship in their lives. So to have an actual plot, they need to go back to pre-happily ever after.

At least Lion King & Little Mermaid just jumped ahead to the next generation instead. No idea how good those were, but it shows a little more effort.

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Quote from: KatieHal on August 10, 2012, 01:52:38 PM

At least Lion King & Little Mermaid just jumped ahead to the next generation instead. No idea how good those were, but it shows a little more effort.

Lion King 2 is okay, but...I think it would have been better if they somehow came up with a better back story for the villains.  It just seemed like we were supposed to assume that Zira and her followers were around the whole time of the movie.

Lion King 1 1/2 is kinda funny in a way.  Plus it adds to the back stories of Timon and Pumbaa.  It's basically the Lion King as told by them and it sorta works.

Little Mermaid 2...ug.  It's the original movie in reverse almost.  Instead of mermaid wanting to be human, you have a human that wants to be a mermaid.

And the 3rd Mermaid movie was just awful.  It's a flashback story where the kingdom was forbidden to have music.  Really?  Just...no.

For Aladdin - I did not like Return of Jafar but remember liking King of Thieves.  It's been ages since I've seen either of them though.   But I remember liking Aladdin's Dad as character.

The best of the Disney (non-Pixar) sequels is probably Rescuers Down Under.  But then again, that was the only sequel (I think) animated by the movie studio.  So the animation is wonderful and the story is pretty good too.

If you count Tangled Ever After, then that one too is a lot of fun.  (It's only a short instead of a full movie though.)

Edit:  Just corrected some typos.