Has anyone seen the commercials in the past for a third Cinderella movie? What about the second Little Mermaid? How about the second Princess Diaries? Moving outside the realm of Disney, the second Miss Congeniality? The third and fourth Tremors?
How is it that you can make a sequel when the storyline is classic, and more to the point, OVER. When there is something saying that "they lived happily ever after", well, they lived happily ever after. There is no more to the story. It's over. Your done. Find a new plotline to make a new movie out of.
I'm always afraid of watching sequels, because it could go one of two ways
1) The original premise is ruined and you have to try to block out the second movie every time you watch the first. This is exceedingly awkward if that movie happens to be one of your favorites.
2) This is the rarer case. It's adds to the original plotline and builds, making the original seem a great movie and the second a continuatiuon, which is what a sequel should be.
A sequel should build, not destroy. In Jaws, the shark was blown up. The shark can not possibly come back and attack that same town again. The shark is dead. Cinderella can't have a third a third movie. She went off with her prince, became queen later on, and the rest is none of our business because apparently she's happy FOR EVER AFTER.
This just goes back to the fact that creativity is dead, and as a marketing device film-makers capitalize classic films into so-called "sequels" so that they can bring people into the theaters. And I'm sick of it. I'm sick of seeing my favorite movies be ruined by subsequent films, because younger generations will think that these sequels are classic and they will lose all preservation of what is great film making.
All things are dieing, as far as human creation is concerned. These sequels are just helping.
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Sequals make the movies better! It keeps the story lines going. It allows you to see more of your favorite movie! My favorite movies in the world are sequals!!!
If the sequel betters the movie, fine. But seriously, what did Jaws II better? What was the point of Mission Impossible III? This isn't bashing sequels, it's bashing bad sequels that have no premisis other than capitalizing on the name of the original film.
I do hate to see that they've come up with new sequels to old Disney classics (like Cinderella, Lion King, etcetera) because those sequels never seem to add up to what the original was. It's not only that they weren't good enough, but they just didn't belong. Cinderella is Cinderella. Try a different stereotypical princess for that other plotline.
Some sequels are good though. Not every sequel sucks. Jaws is ok because you could believe it's just another shark. (there are plenty of fish in the sea). Don't knock all sequels. Just the pointless ones!