Tbf the love interest in the Notre Dame sequel is one of the very few people that isn't immediately repulsed by the hunchback. If I spent my life being verbally abused and someone came up to me making dad jokes I'd probably breakdown crying.

I lost it when Sebastian yelled, “Ursula’s Crazy Sister!!” 😭😭😭😭 trying to just casually slip in the fact that she’s had a sister this whole time

Ariel's mom having enough time to gasp in disbelief *twice* before her imminent and very contrived death is the funniest thing in the world

Cinderella 3 has the single best Disney clip ever made. King: “I forbid you to take ONE MORE STEP down these stairs!” Charming: “… Okay” _Jumps out the window next to him_

Quasimodo not getting the girl is well-considered in the og film. The first positive relationship he ever has is with Esmeralda - that’s not a healthy place to begin a relationship of equals. The films deliberately contrasts how he and Frollo vies Esmeralda - one sees her as a temptress devil, the other as a heavenly angel. Neither is her. Only Phoebus operates on her level and can ‘spar’ with her, literally. At a key moment, Frollo tells Esmeralda to love him or burn. Quasi, on the other hand, relinquishes his jealousy of Phoebus and saves Esmeralda with no expectation of romance. The end of the film focuses on him joining hr people of Paris as one of them, accepted as an equal. Too many films offer women up as a means to ‘save’ men through romantic relationships. Or to give value to men who are otherwise ‘not valuable’. Getting the girl would’ve just reinforced that for Quasi. Instead, his growing maturity and compassion earned him acceptance and a rebirth of his very own. That’s so much better than a romance.

What do you mean "Aladdin is innocent"? He's married to the Sultan's daughter and he does nothing to help the poor! He's like the epitome of a class traitor.

Hearing goth Tim Curry CGI piano saying "They can't fall in love if they're DEAD" absolutely sent me. Amazing line, 10/10.

The most hilarious thing to me about The Little Mermaid sequel is that Sebastian says 'Ursula's crazy sister! ', which seems to me that he's implying that he didn't think Ursula was crazy.

Joel looks like he watched the 34 sequels in a row and didn't take a nap before recording this video. Legend.

I like how Joel just decided to talk about these movies in a completely random order with no segways between them

Joel casually but confidently saying that Timon and Pumbaa "make love" really makes me laugh

Hearing the voice of Marge Simpson come out of anything other than Marge Simpson has shaken me to my very core.

I interpret the Wendi “I haven’t really changed” line completely differently. I think it just means that she hasn’t lost a childhood sense of wonder or kindness just because she’s also matured and grown up. It’s not that she hasn’t literally changed in meaningful and important ways but that the important things about her that their friendship were built upon aren’t gone and she’s still the same person Peter Pan became friends with.

“no matter what, some adult is dating some child in lady and the tramp 2: scamps adventure” is a hell of a sentence to wake up to after passing out to a chunk of this

"Can you just talk to the bear please? Can you just communicate with the bear for 5 seconds? You can talk to bears in this movie." is a fantastic line, and I think it should be mandatory in any movie in which you can, in fact, talk to bears.

The biggest issue I have with Ralph Breaks the Internet is that it completely disregards the premise of "going Turbo" and the dangers associated with any game that has that happen. It was treated as terrifying to the NPCs of Fix It Felix Jr. when it was assumed that Ralph was abandoning his game, but Vanellopes' decision is applauded and everybody is just happy for her. WTF?!

We as a society need to hold Mushu accountable for his crimes

I love how Joel says random crap like how fighting raccoons is bad because they’re good guys and we’re just supposed to accept that

"a lilo and stitch movie is good, proportionnal to how much lilo it has" truer words have never been spoken I love lilo and stitch, myself, but I have to agree that lilo is the reason you care about stitch

Ok, for Brother Bear 2, I feel like it’s important to be familiar with Native American/First Nations/Alaska Native stories to understand the marrying a bear thing. In the Long Ago time, animals were people and had interactions with humans as any human to another human would have. Animals had their own clans and villages, but with different powers specific to their species. So a human lady marrying a bear and then becoming one is not that weird in that context, as there are a lot of stories of similar stuff happening. It’s less about finding bears attractive as it is more loving each other and the bear thing is a non-issue.

Big Joel: Hates comic relief bird characters Also Big Joel: Likes that there’s a whole movie about Iago

try as you might, old man, but you’ll never surpass little joel

The phrase "Flounder is an otaku now" is going to haunt me for the rest of my life, I can feel it.

Joel looks like he finally regained consciousness from a 3 day acid trip and this video is the recording of him recounting his visions like a ancient prophet

I've never seen this creator before. All I see is that he watched all 34 Disney sequels and that his hair is wild. I'm watching this.

I 100%, no joke, owe my current career to Lion King 1 1/2. The special features on the DVD featured a “virtual safari” where you got in a little wildebeest ride vehicle and went through the story of the lion king as a theme park ride, except things went wrong. I vividly remember a scene where you enter a dark room and hear the hyenas laughing and see their eyes in the dark, then the work lights blink on and you see the eyes are just lights on sticks. I thought that was the coolest thing. Anyways, I work in lighting in themed entertainment now.

Lion King 2: Simbas Pride includes arguably the best song in a Disney sequel: "Not One of Us". If you ever felt like an outcast yourself, that one hits differently.

Okay. "A prince does not 'woo hoo'." may be one of my favorite things I've ever heard Sir Patrick Stewart say.

"would you still love me if I turned into a bear?" is a question no one asked but Brother Bear 2 sought to answer

Did you know, Walt Disney had a rule that he'd only ever want 34 sequels to be made for his moves, look up Walt Disney rule 34 for more information

I think it's fine that Quasimodo didn't end up with Esmeralda at the end of the first Notre Dame film. His conflict was never "I want to be loved by a woman", it was "I want to be accepted by other people, at least for a day." And in pursuing that goal, he not only gets accepted by the public but learns to love himself by the end of the film. And now that he loves himself, he's ready to be in a romantic relationship in the sequel. I find that beautiful. Also, I love the dialogue between Quasi and Madellaine. It reminds me of the silly things me and my girlfriend say to each other to makes each other laugh.

I’m not sure the scene with Wendy and Peter was supposed to be her “placating” him. I think she meant that at her core, she was still fundamentally the same, even if she’s grown up. A caring, kind, responsible, and hopeful woman, just as she was in her youth, even if she has a different outlook and responsibilities in life.

My favourite thing about the Hunchback sequel is that it actually makes a lot of sense that Quasimodo, after the drama of saving a girl from being burned at the stake by a horny old man who also killed his mother, really just wants an average girl to vibe with.

Mulan in Mulan II: "But in my time, arranged marriage is illegal and looked down upon." Emperor: "Is that so? Magnifico! That's wonderful! I'm glad humanity has reached such a state. But you said you're from 1000 years in the future? Before you judge, consider the circumstances."

Honestly, one of my dreams is to find out which person in the Aladdin 2 writer's room said, "Iago needs TWO musical numbers." Unironically one of my heroes.

NO but "Boys boys you're both pretty. WE'LL ALL GO" is a BOSS move

The original Pocahontas was frustrating enough with how much it erased from Matoaka’s actual life story, but for the second one to romanticize her “marriage” to John Rolfe was honestly awful, especially when you find out that before her kidnapping, she already had a husband and a child among her people. She became so depressed after being held captive by the English for about a month that they finally allowed her sisters to visit for the express purpose of stopping her from offing herself. Her father was desperate to see her before she was shipped away but was never allowed to, so instead (following tradition) he gave a pearl necklace to her captors to then be given to her as a gift for her upcoming “marriage” to Rolfe. I’m assuming this necklace was the inspiration for the one in the movie which just adds to the tone-deafness of it all. Her story after she got to England was just a horrific tragedy.

It’s pretty hilarious now that I realize brother bear 2 just wanted to do a shrek but didn’t realize the fact that “fairytale ogre” and “literal bear” are not interchangeable

Athena's death was quite literally the most avoidable death in all of cinema

genuinely surprised to learn that folks saw Ralph as Vanellope's father figure, Ralph reads way more as a brother or even an older cousin character imo

as a hunchback of notre dame 2 stan/scholar i can't believe you left out how the giant bell is beautiful on the INSIDE as one of the great hunchback of notre dame 2 moments

Bambi II's redeeming quality is that they paid Sir Patrick Stewart to say "A prince does not woo. Hoo."

The "Kronk's eggs property of Kronk do not touch except for Kronk" bit is one of my favorite jokes from a Disney movie

The one big thing that could've made Cinderella III even better would be if the baker had more of a presence in the story besides just the end credits. The baker is adorable.

I love how joel looks increasingly unhinged, and this is gonna go on for an hour!? I'm ready

To this day I have no idea if when little joel says he "loves" something he actually means it or if he believes it is the worst thing he's ever seen cuz he seems to use it in both ways at any given time

About Aladdin King of Thieves, I actually believe Aladdin’s dad. The original Aladdin movie clearly showed a unfair distribution of wealth and power and he literally raided the royal family’s wedding. The people there were NOT innocent. They were the people responsible for upholding the social/economic hierarchy. I believe that Cassim is overall a good guy who is charge of a bunch of morally corrupt guys like Sa’luk.

the amount of adrenaline that courses through my veins every time someone talks about the Peter Pan sequel is enough to kill a horse it's my favorite Disney movie

"They CAN'T fall in love if they're D E A D " genuinely made me laugh for a full minute

Whenever I say Aladdin's dad was hot as hell no one ever knows what I'm talking about. Thank you for this.

I think you may be overlooking stuff with the goofy movie sequel. The original was about Max and his dad fixing and reestablishing their relationship after what's heavily implied to be the death of Goofy's wife/Max's mother. It's never said out loud or directly addressed, but that is what the movie is going for. The sequel is about Goofy needing now to not only allow Max to grow up, but also for himself to finally move on. It is why he has a love interest in the film. It's more than Goofy getting past empty nest syndrome but to get to a point where he can rediscover what it means to be himself, and not just Max's dad.

For stories like Beauty and the Beast one of the fundamental elements that people get wrong is that the Beast, aka the gruff jaded mean one, is the first person in the relationship to try and do better. He sees this girl just trying to be nice to him, not coming on romantically, but just showing him kindness and is able to recognize that his harshness is unwarranted. Then he decides to do better for her of his own volition (even if prompted by other characters), and when she sees his actual effort then she starts encouraging it and warming up to him. Sure they can have bumps along the way and old habits die hard, maybe he snaps at her or hurts her at some point, but the result should always be him being shocked and horrified at the result and needing to apologize and do better after. This is how a redemption story works, the character is jaded and mean but the kindness of someone else gets them to change themselves and be better. People see stories like that and then make the jaded mean one an actual asshole with no empathy. Then they make the romantic partner be the one to initiate romantic feelings for no reason other than “I think I can fix them” and endure endless mean actions from the asshole (often times framing the nice one as stupid or belittling them) until at some point the asshole decides they like them back, despite how annoying they find them. There’s no redemption or examination of the asshole’s behavior, and ultimately the message is “endure abuse and eventually they will love you back” which sucks and is actually toxic. Belle doesn’t have to love the Beast. When he shows he’s capable of being a good guy, when she actually sees him trying to do better, then she decides to reciprocate. She doesn’t even know about the curse or feel obligated to love him to save his life until he’s already sacrificed that for her. It’s a really wonderful enemies to lovers story and I hate how people twist it

Cinderella 3 is unironically my favorite Disney sequel because of the scene where the prince jumps out the window. I can't believe you didn't show it.

The fearless vision of this man to forego timestamps. We are supposed to watch this chronologically in one sitting as he intended

I hadn’t really seen the phrase “Ok wokelet” anywhere before but it lives in my mind rent free now just the PowerPoint spin into frame makes me laugh so hard

I was about to get all up in arms about how he calls the tuba at 1:04:42 a French horn but, like, a tuba is a horn. And they are in France.

I always thought Mowgli could talk to animals because he was raised by animals and learned they're language. And them speaking English is just to convey that Mowgli understands them in a way that we can also understand them.

2:48 Watching Pumbaa repeatedly encircle his bed was one of the most powerful psychological experiences I've ever been through

I love how you had something nice to say about nearly each of the sequels and you had little things to appreciate about them (like little animation moments and cringey but cute dialogue). I feel like these days all movie reviews are snarky, sarcastic, and mean, shitting on every little nitpick.

14:57 mushu’s change also devalues his whole arc in the first movie. he grows to care more about Mulan and her wellbeing then his position, becoming a true guardian and friend to her

I'm so glad Joel latched on to the "Ursula's Crazy Sister" line because its been seared in my brain for over a decade. I laughed so hard during the hunchback 2 portion of the video

Mulan would understand the nuances of a political marriage. She was vying for an arrangement in the beginning to honor her family. I think it'd be a better movie if SHANG was the one that was uneasy with the concept. Shang did think less of Mulan as a misogynist, so did the other guys it'd be more meaningful if he was the one who now, even presented by dainty and obedient princesses, is concerned for their autonomy. It would both show us his growth, and give us an interesting arc. I'm not sure how you'd fully justify either of them thinking that Defecting on a mission that would avoid a war though. The ending is goofy, though that bit about Mulan taking the place of the princesses was good.

I'm sorry Joel but the pause followed by "why would someone steal a glass case" was hilarious

I have to admit, "Why would someone want to steal a glass case?" Got a genuine laugh out of me.

56:10 fun fact, Pomp and Circumstance was used at the specific request of Michael Eisner, because he cried at his son's graduation. He originally wanted to make the short about all of the Disney princes and princesses walking down the line and showing off their kids. really. Animators all hated Pomp and Circumstance, and so when Eisner said "well it has to go somewhere!", they decided to pair it with their least favorite short idea.

I loved An Extremely Goofy Movie because I saw it more as Goofy not being able to let go of Max or accepting that Max has his own life and independence now. It's what happens when you have a parent who has made their kid their entire personality, to the point where they have no life outside of taking care of them- so that theme might've subconsciously connected with me on a personal level. And there doesn't have to be something 'wrong' with Max for the story to work, bc it's about Goofy's character development and attachment issues this time. Why would the sequel repeat the character development they already tackled and resolved in the previous movie? It seems like a natural progression in Max and Goofy's more mature relationship, and while it may not be as beloved, this movie definitely has a special place in my heart.

You can never convince me that 31:51 was in the script from the beginning. They definitely told him to make a sheep noise and he went “le behhhh” and they said “yeah that’s good keep that”

You're right about the unmistakable vibe of Atlantis 2. It's not actually a promo for a TV show - it's the scrapped carcass of one! They started making the show, the original movie never quite performed, and they decided they'd slightly restructure and finish up the first three episodes and call it a sequel, so they could get at least SOME money out of their investment in the show. The rough edges are obvious and messy and exactly the kind of disaster you'd expect from its production story.

obsessed with the way you transition from movie to movie without so much as a pause between sentences

I feel like Mulan being against arranged marriages is pretty in character, considering the stress she went through in the first movie not fitting into expectations and the match-maker actively hating her, contrasted with the happiness she felt finding someone who loved her for who she is, without fitting into her traditional role

i HAVE actually seen all of the Tangled TV show and so i am obligated to report that it is one of the most insane freak viewing experiences ive ever had, Tangled the series is mostly a sea of the most baby of baby episode premises (there are multiple "animal mascots team up to save the day" episodes because they keep adding so many animal mascots) intermingled with an overarching narrative that is insane and thematically anti monarchy positioning the power imbalance of the role of princess as inherently harmful to any relationships an individual of that station might hold, and thats all well and good but what makes it truly freak fiction is that the higher ups are clearly breathing down the necks of the people making those parts because the show can never go all in on acknowledging what the show is about, so a villain will walk on screen, explain to Rapunzel that she is a horrible unempathetic freak who is blind to the wants and needs of the people she calls her friends and incapable of acknowledging the risk to their safety the social power she wielding over them is to their wellbeing, and with no rebuttal to the completely reasonable reading of the character based on the events of the show the villain will go "actually you dont need to listen to my scathing critique of you Rapunzel im actually just evil" and the show can never develop rapunzel further because shes a weird mascot character. on top of all of this the creator of the show seems almost unanimously hated by the staff from what ive seen and after making tangled the series he went to work at the daily wire to go make right wing propaganda. after completing the show for the first time i created 2 filler lists that cut out half of the episodes of the show so i could actually show it to people so theyd believe me when i talk about how weird it is and no one has noticed the missing episodes really because there is some TRUE filler in this thing, like one episode ends with them going down a dirt road, the next episode opens with them on a 4 episode arc where they are on a raft and crash land on an island and have an island adventure and then they show up in a port city after escaping the island AND THEN after that episode ends the next episode opens with them on the dirt road from 5 episodes prior everyone ive managed to get to watch up to episode 16 of season 1 however has been locked in for the full ride because that episode is completely unhinged and brings to the forefront a lot of the anti monarchy themes the show toys with across its run. i dont know if ive got a wider point that i can compact down into a single comment but i need anyone reading this to know of my burden as the tangled the series understander

This video is insane it's so surreal and incomprehensible. What is happening. it's perfect. no sequel review sounds like any other it feels like every one gives the exact feeling of watching the movie in distilled form. It really does feel like you have watched all of these disney sequels and you've become one with them. are you okay. thank you.

The abrupt transitions make me feel like I'm seeing many Little Joels standing on each other's shoulders within a trenchcoat to pretend to be a Big Joel (who is also Mrs. Kronk).

Fun Fact, Djali the goat is actually a male, so depending on how you look at it the gargoyle in love with him is one of the first ever explicitly gay Disney characters!

The bell is cool in Hunchback. Not just aesthetically, but thematically. Just literally beauty on the inside. Doesn't have to be deep for a kids flick.

Another odd thing about Cinderella 2 is that in every version of the story as far as I recall, her father is either a nobleman or a wealthy merchant. She spends several years forced to live as a servant by her evil stepmother, but she was born into wealth. She wouldn't be totally alienated by the behavior of the nobility even if she happened to disagree with it, but in this movie she's acting like a peasant who married into royalty.

Joel looks like what I imagine some unhinged Greek philosopher like Diogenes would look like in this

Joel, are you okay after this experience? You look like you've lived your whole life in a cave and have only known the world through shadows on the wall.

You know as an asexual I admit I've never thought about these attraction questions, but boy are they good ones

27:40 "It's a movie with 15 minutes of absolute perfection, and the rest of it just exists to haunt you." Basically described 90% of all things that feature Tim Curry.

Joel's tone of voice makes everything he says impossible for me to tell if its genuine or not, and I like it that way

I've been scrolling down reading the comments and it bothers me that no one has said anything of Joel's singing of Phil Collins and subsequent " *He fucking gets it, man. He-he's living it* " at 01:09:55 It killed me, man. He truly is living it.

My asexual romantic heart was so jazzed for a romance based solely on a persons’ being that I forgot the concept of attraction to bears existed and I am not happy Joel reminded me

Okay, the dragon, griffon, and unicorn all laughing while the other animals file onto the ark is pretty darn funny.

I think the Peter Pan 2 line about how Wendy hasn't really changed after growing up is meant to reassure Peter that he doesn't have to be afraid of aging, that he can hold onto the most important/meaningful parts of youth without maintaining youth as your physical state, and I dig it.

to me the Ralph/Penelope situation feels like siblings who sorta raised each other and they struggle to separate as they grow into their own selves

Okay Bambi 2 is real good and I'm willing to fight about it. It's about mourning and life after loss, and about the great prince learning to be a deer/kid again. Also it actually looks like it had a budget and not like a great value version of the original

29:30 I actually liked that Quasi doesn't end up with anyone at the end of the first. The entire arc of the first was about him moving past his dependencies on Frollo and on Esmerelda, his physical dependence on Frollo and emotional on Esmerelda.

This opening has truly inverse-Jenny Nicholson energy, like a demon sought to create her polar opposite

I've seen so many people mention how much they liked the romance between Anastasia and the baker, and in a vacuum I get it. But I could never, NEVER, get past that line Anastasia just casually lobs at Cinderella in that same episode. It's lived rent-free in my head for almost twenty years. It's such a punch to the face and the episode doesn't even notice.

I loved the Hercules series as a kid. My sister still sings Aphrodite's theme song whenever she makes a grand entrance into the living room or something.

As someone who watched basically all of "Lilo and Stitch" the series, I know a lot about the different experiments that are in that battle scene… "crab stitch" as you call him is straight-up a theme park ride that I guess travels around the islands and spins people around all day. You know like those twister rides you see at every cheap carnival? Yeah that's the one place where he belongs. 10 / 10 great material.

Just from the clips shown here, i think the reason the banter between quasimodo and his gf works is because the voice actor for the gf is absolutely nailing it. Just hearing her laugh makes me smile.

Atlantis 2 particularly fascinates me, because they tried to mimic Mike Mingnola's art style without any shadows. Which baffles me, as anyone who's read a Mignola comic knows 90% of the ink is black.

For literally all my life I thought an actor named Homer Simpson was the Genie in Aladdin 2. Every review just said "Homer Simpson" and not 1 said it was the guy playing Homer Simpson.

How sad and tragic that Rapunzel escaped an abusive parent-figure who confined her only for her own family to do exactly the same.

Starting off with Atlantis 2? Not even going to ease us into the trauma, are you?

WHY ON EARTH DID I NEVER KNOW THAT BELLE’S ENCHANTED CHRISTMAS FEATURED A GOTH CGI TIM CURRY PIANO-

1:04:32 Lumiere was always meant to be a bit of a playboy, no? in Human Again he sings "I'll be cooking again, be good-looking again, with a mademoiselle on each arm, when I'm human again, only human again, poised and polished and gleaming with charm, I'll be courting again, chic and sporting again" & Mrs Potts responds "which should cause several husbands alarm"

Generally, if a movie is just a bunch of unconnected stories, it’s because they already tried to make a tv show but execs decided to not green light it. They’re not trying to segue into a show, they’re throwing together the studio’s garbage to try to recoup the money they already spent on it.