worst Disney sequel

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EEEEEEK! Just seeing it for the forst time now! Im am so freaking livid its unbelievable! I mean, seriously, WTF?! This poor excuse for a 'movie' raped the original! TLM really put Disney back up there as the no.1, it brought it out of a diabolicle slump in its popularity. This movie is treasured by millions across the globe, you'd think Disney would have at least put the tiniest amount of effort into the storyline.

And the animation? Is that some kind of beep joke? The garish, luminous colours and the plain crappy drawings- what did they do to Ariel? And Triton looks weird as well!

And Melody? *Beep* annoying! And friggin ugly too! I cant believe Disney actually put this out there. Even the tv series that used to be on saturday mornings was done with a little bit of effort! Bad Disney!

If God wanted me to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor

You sure seem to know your Disney! I thought I was the only one that cared this much. What are you? A fellow animator? :c) However, i believe you are incorrect about a couple of points.

Return of Jafar was indeed made as a full length feature film. It was produced so that the inclusion of Iago and the exclusion of Jafar would be explained PRIOR to the release of the series. Unless I'm mistaken this backfired as the movie was released AFTER the series began to air on the Disney channel. However, this film was always intended (or, at least was changes very early in the production) as a direct to video movie. I know I read this in interviews with the director (and series director Tad Stones) but just look at the production: for starters there were songs written for the movie where there were no songs for the series. Secondly there were no "act breaks" which happen in the series every 7 minutes or so to compensate for commercials (I haven't seen the film in a while so there might have been one or two, but this movie did not feel like there needed to be a commercial break every 7 minutes). It was not made with that intention.) Thirdly, and most importantly, the animation. When an episode of the series is made one production company animated it. Be it the australlian studio, the japanese studio, the french studio, Wang films, etc. In the early days when Disney produced a two part episode of a series, generally the Australlian studio would animate the first half, and the Japanese studio the second half (granted, I can only think of one example- the series debut of Darkwing Duck "Darkly Dawns the Duck"). In this film they did the same thing- however, the movie is longer than a two part episode of the series, runnin 67 minutes. Australlia animated 35 or so minutes, Japan animted the remaining 32 minutes. As long as you realize that animated series run 22 minutes and not "half an hour" you know that this equals more intended work for each studio. Is it a cheap way to make a movie (especially when the animation style suddenly changes), yeah. It is. It was a bad idea to start their direct to DVD movie division, and it has tainted the public's views of sequels ever since. However, it was officially their start into this realm. Not "Beauty and the Beast 2" or "Aladdin and the King of Thieves." Shame too. Had they begun thier direct to video production with something as polished as "The Lion King 2" or better yet something ORIGINAL, perhaps the public wouldn't hav ethis bad taste in their mouths concerning the Disney sequels.

Regarding Pocahontas 2, I just want to say on a personal note that the animation of the first half of the movie was spectacular. Right up until Pocahontas goes into the dinner with Rtcliffe and the king, and another studio (Character Builders I believe) takes over from the Japanese animators. At that point the animation AND the story fell apart. It was as though the movie was being written and animated at the same time and at that point they just gave up. HORRIBLE writing after that (why couldn't they just let John Smith die!? Pocahontas' line at the end "We walked the same path once. I have found where I belong" BETRAYED the first film. I would have been okay with her and Rolfe being a couple if John Smith were dead. She just comes off as a tramp in this situation.). The scene where Nakoma is saying goodbye and tries to be strong, but breaks into tears is some BEAUTIFUL animation that rivals many many scenes in the first movie.

Pooh's Grand Adventure was not made based on the TV series. It was intended to be a sequel to "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" (ironically itself a feature made up of compiling the short films released at that point).

Also, as a side note to your very thourough (and mostly accurate) descriptions of these films: Atlantis was originally going to have a sequel produced by the Movietoons (DTV) devision. Like "Return of Jafar" it was intended to be a bridge between the first movie and the TV series. However, when Atlantis tanked at the box office, this film and the series that was to follow were cancelled. At that point a lot of work had been done on the series and so rather than waste all of it, it was decided to release them as the move "Milo's Return" or whatever it's called. Since the series had a different premise than the first film, they had to re-animate some scenes and do some new animation, otherwise the three stories (not originally intended to be directly connected) wouldn't have made ANY sense.