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#Brother bear and aladdin tv

Movies made out of TV episode parts pass the sniff test.(Also, my editor specified that I include “none of that Tinker Bell shit.”)

A popular line of Tinker Bell movies is also excluded because those films make up an entirely different DTV empire.

#Brother bear and aladdin movie

The Winnie the Pooh movies aren’t included because the characters joined the Disney movie character pantheon from the direct-to-video, short film, and television world.

Films starring tangential characters didn’t count.

I almost nixed Bambi II, as it received a theatrical release in Australia, Mexico, the U.K., and a few other countries, but an absence from U.S. Notable oddities like The Jungle Book 2 and Peter Pan: Return to Neverland do not count all three received a wide theatrical release, despite being conceived for the home video market.

Not all Disney MovieToons projects qualified for the list.

An Extremely Goofy Movie earns a place on the list despite Disneytoon Studios, the house behind most of Disney’s direct-to-video films, having produced A Goofy Movie that film earned a theatrical release in 1995, warranting the sequel’s inclusion here.

Qualifying movies had to be sequels to theatrically released Disney Animation films.

A decade later, the company is pumping out billion-dollar-grossing live-action remakes instead.Īs Dumbo - the first of Disney’s four live-action theatrical remakes this year, not including the live-action, direct-to-Disney-Plus Lady and the Tramp - flies into theaters, I took it upon myself to revisit the much-overlooked Disney direct-to-video renaissance, lest it be forgotten - and unranked. In 2008, John Lasseter, then the chief creative officer of Disney’s animation division, and Disney CEO Bob Iger decided that oversaturating the market with quickly produced movies wasn’t the way to nurture Disney’s legacy IP. Before Disney started cranking out live-action adaptations of every animated property from its back catalog, the company cranked out direct-to-video (DTV) sequels that capitalized on theatrical magic.īeginning with The Return of Jafar in 1994, the Disney MovieToons animation studio and Walt Disney Television Animation produced numerous sequels, prequels, and mid-quels (side adventures taking place during the events of the original film) to be distributed by Walt Disney Home Video.