Now Brother Bear 2 arrives, sequel to one of Disney`s final traditionally animated features, and while I haven`t seen the original, I wasn`t expecting good things from the follow up. Aladdin II was a pale shadow of the original, and The Jungle Book II was excruciatingly bad. They usually comprise woeful stories, second-rate songs and a d-list cast filling in for the higher echelon A-listers that only do features. I`ve only seen a couple of these sequels, and they`ve always struck me as terribly inferior in every way. Not to worry though, as while the 2D animated feature may be as extinct as the dodo, the market for the straight to DVD sequel is still alive and kicking, and those pencil wielding animators aren`t quite redundant yet. It strikes me as wrong on nearly every level, although it is probably a sign of the times, an indication that audiences want gag laden CG spectaculars, instead of pen and ink and schmaltz. It`s like Ford no longer making cars, or Roget no longer bringing out his Thesaurus. Now, I`m not particularly a fan of the rat, but this strikes even me as shocking. Introduction Apparently Disney have stopped making traditionally animated features, investing their efforts into 3D CG animation.

Brother bear and aladdin