It is not a small world of Disney films after all. That mouse-related juggernaut keeps right on rolling along year after year after year. When they stumble upon a hit, which they do with great regularity — they have both of the two biggest box-office hits of the year right now, for example — nobody is better than Disney at finding ways to turn that one-time hit into a perpetual multimedia franchise.
Sometimes that means live-action remakes. Often that means video games, TV spinoffs, and truckloads of merchandise. And a lot of times that means sequels. So many sequels.
Disney didn’t become the massive Hollywood juggernaut they are by churning out bad movies. They have produced had plenty of sequels people love. (Remember the two biggest box-office hits of the year I mentioned? They are both sequels.) Their track record ain’t perfect, though. And today, we’re rounding up ten of their worst sequels ever.
Note that the list does not contain any of Disney’s direct-to-video sequels. It didn’t seem fair to compare big-screen titles — made with large budgets, A-list stars, and top talent — with movies that were made on the cheap by lesser-known actors and creators. So we’ll have to discuss whether Cinderella II: Dreams Come True is worse than Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (or whether Cinderella III: A Twist in Time is kind of underrated) another time.
We also left out any and all bad Marvel and Star Wars sequels, which might technically qualify for a list like this, but are really their own separate thing deserving of their own piece. For now, let’s just rank the worst (big-screen) Disney sequels. Starting with…
The Worst Disney Sequels
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