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Disney sequels have, as a rule, been just plain awful. They are the direct-to-video, questionably canonical cash grabs made by a studio that has traditionally seen its core films as one-off endeavors.
If you don’t believe me, I would like to enter the following into evidence: Cinderella 2, Tangled 2, Mulan 2, Pocahontas 2, The Lion King 2 and (dare I speak its name?) Aladdin: The Return of Jafar.
But when Disney acquired Pixar in 2006, it brought on an animation team that knows its way around a sequel.
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