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By engaging in corporate mergering without protection, Pixar has contracted the SQI (SeQuelItis virus. (I really hope someone laughs at that joke. Because I WANT TO BE A COMEDIAN SO BADLY.)
Could this be the end of our favorite company’s winning streak, critically…and maybe even financially?
Uh…no. TS3 has gotten incredibly good reviews, and Pixar is quite immune to sequelitis. And Disney rocks. There wouldn’t BE Pixar (at least how we know it) without Disney. Plus, most Pixar films are still not sequels.
But their next two films are sequels!
I just miss seeing a new film every year.
In my local paper, EVERY Pixar film gets 5 stars. I am tellin the truth serious. Pixar does not dissapoint.
True, but I think that there’s nothing wrong with a sequel if it’s well made. With Pixar, they’ve already made TS2, which was amazing! And I have no doubt TS3 will be amazing too. No offense to anybody out there, but I really don’t think we have to complain every time a new sequel is announced if it’s from Pixar.
If the new sequels are half as good as Toy Story 2, we have nothing to worry about. Coming from Pixar, that’s highly likely.
I’m not worried or phased. Pixar has yet to disappoint me. It’s true that sequels are kind of a warning sign, but I believe that if it’s from Pixar, then we should have no worry that they will generate a quality story.
Pixar would only make sequels if they had a good story to tell.
I’m not worried. If I end up like Woody after he said “I’m not worried”, I’ll apoligise.
I’m not too worried myself. I have yet to see TS3, but it still has good reviews. I do think that some sequels are coming WAY too fast (Cars 2 is definitely coming too fast for me…Rim crash). But other than that, I’m not concerned. The difference between Pixar and Disney is that Pixar actually TRIES to make a movie good and they usually succeed. Whereas Disney winds up doing the SAME story over, and over, and over, and over, AND OVER again…usually on Disney Channel…and usually it’s all “teenage drama” that is very uncommon in the real world 
. If they DO release something that’s not too great…well, it won’t be a sequel and it would probably be in the days when none of us will see it because we’re either in a “Quarantine” of sorts or six feet underground. It won’t happen for a LONG time as long as Lasseter and Co. are on the team.
Surely sequelitis tends to result in movie companies doing better financially, not worse? I mean, look at Dreamworks.
And as for ending the winning streak critically, well I think most people would say that either A Bug’s Life or Cars did that, and they were both originals. Then you’ve got Toy Story 3 which is doing fantasically critically so far.
I agree that I much prefer originals over sequels, but I can’t ever see Pixar doing badly out of making a few sequels.
I say they should get back to doing original films. Those are what made me love Pixar in the first place.
The characters can live on through shorts. Pixar can live on through original filmmaking.
I don’t think the sequels will be BAD. I just think it’ll take away from what makes us love Pixar so much; art over finance.
Personally, I would prefer it if the characters didn’t even have to live on through shorts or anything like that. I’d just like them to be left well alone, and to the audience’s imagination. Of course, I might be eating my words when I eventually see Toy Story 3, but as a rule of thumb that’s my viewpoint.