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Have you seen Toy Story 2? It is actually a decent movie. It was originally slated to be a typical Disney direct-to-video sequel. But the Pixar guys didn't want to do substandard work, so they worked hard on the preproduction and managed to convince the Disney execs that it was worthy of a theatrical release.

Four years later, the story repeats itself: Disney's five-movie partnership with Pixar ends and Disney owns all the movie characters, so they decide to make a direct-to-video Toy Story 3 with their in-house studios. Then Eisner leaves, Disney buys Pixar, the Pixar guys are put in charge of Disney Animation Studios, and Toy Story 3 gets shelved so that it can be redone from scratch as a theatrical release by Pixar. Given the history, I expect that it, too, will be a decent film.

If you could guarantee money from extending an existing franchise, wouldn't you? It's not like Pixar is releasing sequels every year or two for all their movies.

I was just commenting as a film lover.

As a fellow film lover, TS2 was enjoyable and I expect TS3 will be as well (in the sense that even the worst Pixar film is better than many other attempts at animated storytelling, at the very least in visual/audio quality).

Just you wait for -1