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Mulan sequel makes perfect sense


The original screenwriters and the story for Mulan had enough material for 3 movies. Mulan was the first animated movie to be completly done in the Florida Disney Studios at MGM. A Trilogy movie is a bit ambitious for their first movie.

Anyhow, no one expects an extravagant, wonderful Animated Feature since it is as a friend calls it, a "cheapquel". The Disney company has been laying off animators and closing animation studios around the world all year, animators have retired, and society has influenced their thinking, so they aren't exactly what they were before.. I think they hand the job over to the television animation studios to create. (yes, it was these studios that made all those other sequels, including Beauty and the Beast: the Enchanted Christmas, Return to Neverland, Jungle Book II, all which were beautifully done)

To all those who absolutely hate sequels and how Disney does things:
Who cares if Disney "ruins" books and movies by making books into movies and sequels? It's their way of telling the story and entertaining the movie watching community. As other people have said, young children, their main demographic, will want to and enjoy more of their favorite chacters which can only be done by sequels and television series (hey the Aladdin, Little Mermaid, Hercules, and Tarzan shows were great!). Isn't that what Disney is all about? Making children and families happy?

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i Agree

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I also agree. I just read a few moments ago that there will be one more 'hand drawn' animated feature after 'Brother Bear' and Disney will concentrate on computer generated animation. It was pretty sad to hear. Don't get me wrong - their Pixar features are excellent, but they'll never have anything on the traditional Disney classics from the 1920s onward!

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If you watch the sneak peeks on disc two of the Finding Nemo DVD (which is a great movie!), you'll see the preview for the next hand-drawn animation feature Home on the Range. It looked very flat and different to me, but maybe it was just b/c I had just watched a 3D movie. But I also read that Disney is also making Chicken Little which started as a hand-drawn animation project. The rumors about Rapunzel say they will be hand-drawn animation, but then scanned and further colored and animated on the computer. Well those are just rumors. I agree with you about the traditional Disney classics. THey will be missed!

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Its not about making sequals its about making good movies w/ a plot line that makes sense. Disney is suppose to appeal to the kid in all of us not just the three yr. old kids who watch Boobah which are basically blobs jumping around. The magic of disney has been wrecked by bad sequal after sequal after sequal by t.v. producers who dont understand how to write a script for a movie.

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