No sequel!!! :)

How does a sequel ruin the original? Of course they don't!

5 years later, and with Hot Tub Time Machine 2 out.. no doubt you'll want to change your theory.

sequels are usually a disappointment. none of the sequels to disney films that i have seen have been much good.

You already got two inferior Aladdin sequels and 65 (30) minute cartoons! They milked that cow dry!
It does diminish the property when they do that. That's why Disney stopped the sequels to the classics. The sequels were truly crap. Bambi 2? Cinderella 2 and 3? Horrible.

I agree most sequels or prequels, no matter how bad, can't ruin the original but it is possible. I also agree people need to stop saying that out of context when they just mean it's not worthy to be part of the franchise. But it is possible.

A good example is the Star Wars prequels, which actually do forever diminish the experience of watching the original for me and a lot of other people, a bigger reason they get so much hate. With really stupid things they added to the mythos which affect how the viewer perceives the original, like (spoilers, although all from the prequels you won't want to watch anyway)
-Anakin building C3PO
-Obi Wan's an idiot for not remembering these two droids he went on loads of adventures with
-Han & Chewbacca are idiots living under rocks for having never seen Jedi
-Chewie having Alzheimer's since he knows every spoiler about the Skywalker family and never spills
-Yoda's an idiot for not using his boss powers from the prequels to stop every single bad situation that was ever going to happen
-Jabba no longer being intimidating due to how the prequels portrayed him
-Making Vader less intimidating and more of a brat having a temper tantrum
-Boba Fett is just a dumb Storm Trooper from cloning
-Confusing the viewer with the fact all the Storm Troopers have different voices even though they're all Boba Fett's clone
-Taking 20 years to build the 1st Death Star but only 1 year to build the second one
-The story is unimpactful because only special people with a certain gene can use the force so they're not accomplishing anything by learning to use it
-The special editions reducing Star Wars to awful, The Empire Strikes Back to good but not great, and Return Of The Jedi to one of the worst movies ever made, disrespectfully undoing the hard work of legions of people with little credit who actually worked to make them great
-And more...

These are all effects of the prequels on the original, forever diminishing how the viewer perceives it while watching it, knowing these stupid things are going on or affecting what's going. So it is possible to diminish the experience of a movie by making a prequel or sequel, it's just very rare. In fact, outside of this I can't think of any other movies that have been actually ruined or diminished for me by a prequel or sequel that sucks


~NW~

Have you all heard about the new sequel to the Aladdin series? Aladdin: Jafar May Need Glasses? Should be very entertaining!