The 40-plus other films all belong under the purview of Disneytoon Studios (formerly known as Disney MovieToons), which existed from 1990 until it was shuttered in 2018. To date, Walt Disney Animation Studios has made only three officially sanctioned sequels: The Rescuers Down Under, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and the forthcoming Frozen II. And yet, there were so many of them being churned out until as recently as 2015.ĭespite the DTV sequels’ (or, in the case of The Lion King 1 ½ and Bambi II, midquels’) prevalence, you might be surprised to learn that not a single one is technically part of Disney canon. These follow-ups to Disney classics fell far short of Empire Strikes Back status, with nearly universal weak plotting and off-putting animation, and seemed proof that in the cases of little mermaids and street rats with magic lamps, it was impossible to make lightning strike twice. If you’re a millennial-or perhaps a parent or babysitter of a millennial in the 1990s-you might remember the weird fever dream of Walt Disney direct-to-video sequels: Ariel and Eric’s daughter Melody rebelling against her parents to get a tail and be part of that oceanic world Pocahontas’ awkward love triangle with John Smith and John Rolfe Cinderella and her evil stepmother going all Avengers: Endgame to change the past.
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