Most of their were cheaply made, did little to tell new stories and were simply founded around recycling familiar characters. They were cynically designed to appeal to child audiences who enjoyed the original.Ĭome the 00s and the idea of the animated sequel has become ubiquitous.

Ice Age: Continental Drift came out six weeks after Dreamworks’ Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012) where both felt such interchangeable pieces of product in the advertising that you had to often focus to remember which characters belonged to which series and which featured which voice actors.

(l to r) Diego (voiced by Denis Leary), Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo) and Manny (voiced by Ray Romano) set sail on a sheet of ice Even the normally respectable Pixar started to jump aboard this bandwagon with the likes of Toy Story 3 (2010), Cars 2 (2011), Monsters University (2013) and Finding Dory (2016) – indeed, much of their protracted and difficult contractual negotiations with Disney were about who owned the rights to the characters so they could make sequels.

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