I figure, most everyone would agree that 迪士尼 sequels are bad. They're bad 由 their very nature and with the exception of Rescuers Down Under, they will never live up to their predecessors. So when it comes to these princess films, from an objective standpoint they can be judged and rated 由 their quality. This includes animation, character continuity, new characters and villains, voice-over work, plot, relevance to the original, music, etc. Now while I may not agree with the following 列表 which you’ll probably gather from my reviews, here is the countdown to the Best/Worst 迪士尼 Princess Sequels.


#11) Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World ____________________________________
This sequel is just as much of a watered down bastardization of historical events as the first film. Pocahontas travels to England with new 爱情 interest John Rolfe to negotiate for peace between the nations and just like every other goshdarn 迪士尼 Princess sequel ever made, she has a hard time fitting in. The villain is once again General Ratcliff who actually is probably a 更多 potent villain here than in the first movie. With some weaseling shenanigans he gets Pocahontas nearly beheaded 由 King James. This leads to a reunion between Pocahontas and John Smith. I was shocked with how poorly written their scenes were, lacking any honesty to their prior romance making John Smith nothing but a third wheel in this story. To spoil the ending, Pocahontas ends up with John Rolfe. I know it’s historically accurate but I can’t help but feel one of Disney’s most passionate romances was so easily tossed aside, forgotten and treated as trivially as yesterday’s bubblegum. C’mon Disney, if you’re going to rewrite our American history anyway, why not give us the fictional ending 你 KNOW everybody wants?! History is rarely happy and 迪士尼 电影院 are supposed to be. So please Disney, don't start pretending that 你 care about historical accuracy all of a sudden. It took me three tries to get all the way through this movie and still I skipped a bit out of the impatience brought on 由 sheer boredom.


#10) 灰姑娘 II: Dreams Come True _________________________________________
This film really pissed me off and should do so to anyone who has even a shred of respect for the 1950 film. Consisting of three separate stories, we're tortured with the concept of 灰姑娘 (of all 迪士尼 characters) finding it hard to fit in as a princess where her biggest challenge is planning a party! Another useless segment is of Jaques becoming human. The final story is the only one with any amount of substance whatsoever but I wouldn't blame anyone who couldn’t 熊 to make it this far. Stepsister 真假公主 meets a guy, likes him but Uh-Oh...mother disapproves. With some 'follow-your-heart' bullshit pep talk from Cindy, all ends well. Though I must give 支持 where 支持 are due and say that the concept of 展示 how the stepsisters' "evilness" was a product of their upbringing and not necessarily in their nature is a good one. What’s 更多 is that this is one of the very few 迪士尼 films I can think of where the less attractive people find love. All in all it’s still a crumby film with cheap animation, awkward pop-music, bad story-telling, shameless 流行文化 references and no real conflict 或者 villain to speak of. If I were Walt Disney, I would be rolling in my grave desperately trying to dig my way out so I could personally strangle the bastards responsible for this grandiose piece of sacrilege.


#9) 迪士尼 Princess 着魔 Tales: Follow Your Dreams ________________________ 着魔 Tales deals with not just one princess but two; the writers clearly couldn’t come up with anything interesting enough for a full-length film. The first deals with Aurora in her first appearance since 1959. What is her conflict? To run the country for two days. Needless to say, Aurora fucks things up. 给 Merryweather’s wand which is excessively particular to details, Aurora ends up with dozens of cows in the royal hall. In a last ditch effort she gives them all away to the people and hawks it all to perseverance. This film depicts Aurora as a giggling, girly, airheaded, incompetent boob who no longer has that powerful operatic voice and now has an off-putting bias towards the color pink. 秒 half of the film in a nutshell: 茉莉, 茉莉花 can’t control a class of brats, she tames a horse and now she can. That is just how boring and indescribably pointless the story is. It’s dumb. DUMB! The 动画片 was unforgivably horrendous as well as the music. The whole underlining word this film tries shoving down our throats is “perseverance”. Well I can tell you, well should all take a lesson from this and indeed persevere. That is persevere to avoid this film 或者 convince ourselves it never existed.


#8) Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World _________________________________
Have 你 ever had a 秒 degree burn? 柠檬 果汁 in your eye? A good 迅速, 斯威夫特 kick to the balls? Well I have. That pain throbs throughout your entire body only to last several minutes, even hours after the fact. This movie is quite similar in that regard. It’s that bad. Another collection of four pointless stories, this film takes Beauty and the Beast, one of the greatest animated films of all time, and makes it one of the most unbearable. Belle is now an 不可思议的 feel-good pushover, the Beast would be clinically diagnosed as psychotically sociopathic (not even joking), and all the secondary characters are just annoying. The stories add nothing! In fact it only creates 更多 plot holes 由 adding new characters 或者 nuances that are never addressed in the original film. First, Belle and the Beast have a fight and attempts to patch it up get fucked up, Lumiere and Fifi celebrate their anniversary and fuck it up, people try to cheer Mrs. Potts up with a party only to fuck it up and... well 你 get the picture. But of course, all is resolved with a cheesy moral wrought speech from Belle. For a number of people this film actually makes them sincerely angry and with good reason. Be it emotional 或者 physical, Belle’s Magical World is so painful to watch, there should be a warning label to not have any sharp objects nearby when watching this movie.


#7) The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea ___________________________________ The problem with this sequel is that it’s only good in theory. The idea of making Ariel’s daughter a carbon copy of her only in an inverse plot sounds clever (as well as the morbidly-obese Ursula having an anorexic sister). Unfortunately it only makes for a boring and painfully predicable plot...and it villainizes people with eating disorders. In an attempt to protect her daughter from Morgana, Ariel raises Melody without ever telling her about her past, merpeople 或者 Atlantica which is just the dumbest concept EVER! What does it accomplish not to tell your child why you’re neurotically protective?! 你 only make them resent 你 and they act stupidly because they don’t know the risks. Seriously, a well-informed child is less likely to make stupid decisions. So in a sick way this movie is a perfect example of why parents should inform their children about sex. Ironically, this film puts Melody in a number of purposeless scenes that sexualize and romanticize boys at an age when the girls don’t even have boobs yet. It’s no wonder the number of American teen pregnancies has skyrocketed. I blame 电影院 like this!! Anyhoo, Melody gets all rebellious, makes a deal with Morgana to become a mermaid and shit hits the fan. 你 know the framework. Athough cute, there’s nothing really clever 或者 profound about this film.


#6) Beauty and the Beast: The 着魔 Christmas _____________________________ Yet another story set somewhere in the midst of Beauty and the Beast, this film deals with Belle’s stay at the 城堡 during 圣诞节 time. She and everyone else want to celebrate it but, unsurprisingly, the Beast puts up resistance. Apparently the ‘one winter’s night’ on which the beast was cursed was in fact Christmas. I don’t need to tell 你 that all ends well after some pointless crap happens. This film sucks. It adds a new villain and characters never to be seen in the original and it entirely changes Belle and the Beast’s characters. Belle goes from being a strong well-rounded heroine to a slap-happy girl just randomly wondering the 城堡 with a mission to become best 老友记 with the beast. The beast goes from being a tortured soul to just a whiney 婊子, 子 throwing 随意 temper tantrums. One finds it hard to believe the Beast is even capable of change. Not only does this story promote the text-book unhealthy relationship but it also glorifies Belle as the Savior of Christmas. We see 天使 and bright stars but never once is there a mention of God 或者 Jesus. It’s described as a time of trees, tinsel, stockings, presents but neither is there a mention of Santa Claus making this film as non-denominational as it gets. I’m not even sure if there was a solid point to this film. If 你 want a good laugh I would highly recommend watching a video review of this movie 由 the Nostalgia Chick at this link: link


#5) The Return of Jafar ___________________________________________________ I can’t say this film came as any great surprise to me. The first movie’s ending was set open for such a sequel. But the 标题 is a bit misleading as the story centers around Iago 更多 than anyone and while he may be funny in small does, he gets annoying real quickly. Another character introduced, Abis Mal, easily one of the most obnoxious characters ever created only serves as a means to get Jafar into the story. So Jafar (now a genie) wants to sack revenge upon 阿拉丁 and Iago must decide where his allegiances lie. For the most part, the 动画片 is abysmal and the story is flat with a bad script that seems to repeat certain lines several times and possesses a number of blatant inconsistencies. Like, why aren’t 阿拉丁 and 茉莉, 茉莉花 married yet? Why does 阿拉丁 still wear his peasant clothing at 随意 points in the film? When did the Genie become so frickan lame? Another vital element that’s missing is Robin Williams. Genie who is voiced 由 Dan Castellaneta [Homer Simpson] lacks the humor and adlibbing skills that made 阿拉丁 so successful making his character seem exactly what it is: someone trying to imitate a great standup comedian but awkwardly failing to get any laughs. 你 feel bad watching him. Executed without any finesse, this film has very few redeeming qualities. When watching the 阿拉丁 trilogy, you’d be better off just skipping this one.


#4) 阿拉丁 and the King of Thieves __________________________________________ The 动画片 in this film is definately sub-par (most 迪士尼 sequels are) but that’s the only bad thing I can say about it. The songs are good, the dialogue is great, there is character development and the plot not only ties into the original but its capable of standing on its own. Even though they should technically have been married 由 now the story starts off with 阿拉丁 and Jasmine’s wedding which is crashed 由 the infamous 40 Thieves. As it turns out Aladdin’s father IS the king of thieves. They are reunited only to embark on an adventure to find the “ultimate treasure” aka the Hand of King Midas. This film is incredibly funny thanks to the return of Robin Williams and his adlibbing skills. Atop of the usual 流行文化 references, this film easily has as many, if not 更多 迪士尼 references than Enchanted. And if 你 recall, the first Aladdin film is actually told 由 a traveling merchant who now owns the lamp. Well this film addresses him in the end and while it may be a bit 随意 it actually ends the 阿拉丁 series coming full circle, starting and ending with the narrator. Aside from a slightly sappy moral that “family is the ultimate treasure” this film played out very much like an Indiana Jones film and I would dare say I even enjoyed this movie 更多 than The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which may not be saying a whole lot. Nonetheless it’s definitely worth giving a watch.


#3) The Little Mermaid III: Ariel's Beginning ___________________________________ This movie was interesting in that we got to see 更多 of Ariel’s relationship with her sisters and how Ariel’s dead mother ties into the family’s 爱情 of music. However, it only leaves us still begging how/why Ariel became so enamored with the world that killed her mother and why she so easily left her beloved sisters making her seem even 更多 naïve and selfish in the 1989 film. If anything, it does an excellent job of adding depth to King Triton as we now understand why he’s a widower, why he loathes humans and why he’s so protective of his daughters. Essentially, Ariel’s mother was killed in a pirate raid and from then on King Triton banned 音乐 from Atlantica as it reminds him of his grief. Ten years later, Ariel and her sisters rediscover 音乐 and Ariel tries to get her father to lift the ban. The story is definately stretched a bit thin but the emotions are very honest and poignant. The villain, who is 更多 或者 less a parody of a fallen Broadway 星, 星级 going through a midlife crisis sparked 由 her unfulfilling fallback job, is still underdeveloped and deficient in an objective befitting a good villain. In fact all the secondary characters are what bring the story down with their pop 音乐 and beatboxing and useless subplots. Among other small details that irked me: we have a gay manatee who serves no purpose, the Harry Belafonte song Jump in the line (Shake Senora), and a merboy with a faux hawk. All that aside, the 动画片 is frankly amazing for a sequel, the dialogue is cute, the voices sound the same the relationships are realistic. For the most part, the positive qualities outweigh the shortcomings.


#2) 花木兰 II __________________________________________________________ In this film of mixed-messaged feminism, 花木兰 and Shang (now engaged) are 给 a mission to escort three Chinese princesses to their arranged marriages. With them are the three bachelors Ling, Yao, and Chien-Po from the first film. If 你 haven't guessed where the plot is going boy now 你 clearly give this film too much credit. The oh-so-unsubtle moral this story tries to teach us is “follow your heart”. So essentially do what 你 want even if it does violate years of tradition, laws, 或者 the expressed wish of your political leader. This film also has a new kind of villain, Mushu. His entirely selfish motivations lead him to intentionally sabotage 花木兰 and Shang’s relationship. Even though that’s the closest thing to a real life villain most of us will ever encounter, it’s still a sorry excuse for an antagonist. Anyhow, after a scene in which 花木兰 assumes Shang is dead, she offers herself to the arranged marriage instead of the princesses. The fact that 花木兰 is considered a 迪士尼 Princess after she openly disapproves of the marital duty of a real princess only to willingly 提交 to it herself is ridiculous in a good way. 迪士尼 has spent so many years glorifying the role of a princess, sending the message that ANYONE can be a princess only to make this movie that illustrates being a princess sucks. With good animation, semi-decent songs, and a sad moment to rival most 迪士尼 films, 花木兰 II sadly suffers from a blatant social agenda and overt goofiness. Had it not been trying to 鱼 for so many cheap laughs 或者 thrown so many twisted modern feminist themes at us it could have been a much better film. Oh yeah...and the three princesses elope with the three dudes and everyone apparently is perfectly fine with this. ...Stupid.


#1) 灰姑娘 III: A Twist in Time __________________________________________ 由 far the most original and clever of all 迪士尼 sequels, A Twist in Time seamlessly ties into the original film. It raises the 问题 of what would happen if the Wicked Stepmother got a hold of the Fairy Godmother’s magic wand. Long story short: she turns back time and magically alters various events to her liking. One of the things that made Lady Tremaine a classic villain was that she was one of few who didn’t have magical powers but with them we see what kind of evil and malicious person she had the potential of being, rivaling the likes of Maleficent. This sequel once again explores the less-than-evil stepsister Anastasia, a girl who desperately wants 爱情 and is used as a tool in her mother's grand scheme. With the exception of the prince, everyone was superbly animated, especially Cinderella. There were a few cartoony moments but even fewer 流行文化 references and for once we were kept entirely in the world of an original 迪士尼 film. The script had some great lines and moments including one heartwarming scene where the king bonds with 真假公主 regardless of her awkwardness likening her to his late wife. What I appreciated most was that the conflict was complex and there was no simple resolution. 灰姑娘 is thrown a number of harsh obstacles putting her in moments of true heartbreak and destitution. Yet in this film she actually stands up for herself and fights for her prince, her happiness and her fairy tale ending 更多 than any 迪士尼 heroine I can think of. Granted this story with its time-travel may seem a bit arbitrary and far-fetched when compared to the first 灰姑娘 but it at least looks like some well-intended thought and effort went into it. It may help some not to think of it as a sequel so much as a separate cult film that only makes sense if 你 saw the 1950 classic. With that 说 I personally believe A Twist in Time fulfils the most criteria (not necessarily all) in being the best 迪士尼 Princess sequel.