By Laura Dinsdale
Disney has done many things, with their high budgets and amazing crew to make lots of money from their movies. But that asks the question, why do they use sequels as their source of production, if their budgets are high and they’ve created so many great movies with opportunities to make more?
Sequels commonly leave disappointment to the audience because the first movies are what drew people into liking the movie, so the second movie commonly doesn’t meet the standards fans had from the first movie.
An article from Avclub says, “A reason sequels are bad is because the sequels are released after all the hype from the first movie has died down.” They state, “Eight years later, it’s not especially newsworthy that the big Disney Thanksgiving release is Moana 2”
A good thing they do bring to the table is it gives fans more of what they already know they love, which is a safe choice for creators and fans to run to. A website called Cinemadebate talks about why some people love sequels, and their reasoning is,“Everyone knows it and most feel strongly connected to the characters and story.”
People may be disappointed in sequels because they don’t like the story their favorite characters have in line for themself, continuing into the second movie. Creativescreenwriting.com talks about this topic, saying, “You’re not just telling a story in sequels — you’re inheriting a legacy, lore, audience expectations, and a set of characters who already have a history.” This leads to controversy and disappointment in sequels due to characters being changed throughout the first movie to the second.
I asked student Aaron Duah what he thought about Disney sequels. His response was,“I like them, but the first movies are always better, I’ve never liked a sequel more than a first movie.” I asked other students throughout the school, and the overall vote was that sequels never compare to the original movie.
Although Disney is the focus of the sequel issue, I also wanted to use Pixar’s sequel strategy of no new original content to show just how bad sequels are. Pixar: 2:2, or 50% original. Projects counted include Coco, Incredibles 2, Toy Story 4, and Onward. Disney: 1:2, or 33% original. Projects counted include Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, Frozen 2, and Gigantic.
These ratios prove that people think it’s Pixar making too many sequels, but they have more originals people know about than Disney and both studios have the same number of sequels,so both are just as bad and make many cheap and trash sequels.
Overall, many reasons sequels all over the world are bad and specifically Disney’s.There could be reasons why they’re good but the number of reasons they’re not out-numbers the good reasons. So all in all, sequels should end due to the lack of originality from the first movies, making the audience uninterested in the sequel.
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