thats is about as pathetic as dreamworks doing shreks four and five. non necessary sequels will continue to be made as long as they make money count on it.
thank god miyazaki came out of retirement, i'm looking forward to his next films.
Do we really need a cars 2 either, pitiful.
I hate all american kiddie animation crap form pixar and disney as much as i hate pokemon. with the possible exceptions of the first toy story,and the incredibles. or films like wallace and gromit, or chicken run, or iron giant.
not only has 3D graphics and Cgi all but killed films, it is the death of traditional animation as we know it.
and while certain films like those i listed above can be done well with cgi it is not art in the same way traditional animation and film was, and really should be used as a tool to enhance traditional animation rather than replace it.
By the way his name is John Lasseter, and if it was not for him we probably would not be enjoying the genius of studio ghibli in the unites states on dvd.
And other than chicken little, all other disney films have been failures in terms of box office except for pirates of the caribbean amd that is live action. Disney made all there money in recent years off of the right to license ghibli films here in the states, as well as being the release studio on several of pixars films until steve jobs sold pixar to disney.
I think the direct to video market sequels was a thing possibly spurred forward by axed former ceo michael eisner. I think the direct to video sequels since the quality of the animation was not as good and were cheaply made, but still made money allowed disney to stay in business for several years. while they were losing in competition to studios such as dreamworks, and pixar. many of the empolyees of both pixar and dreamworks animation formerly worked for disney. Some of the animators even were appropriated for Lucasfilm projects.
It gets even stranger because Lasseter was formerly an employee of disney who left to make the brave little toaster and ended up working for ilm and eventually became of member of lucas pixar computer division. He then along with his entire creative team was a part of the deal to sell pixar to steve jobs, and now he and all his guys working under him have been sold off to disney. so he returns to his roots.