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Jeff, Carrie, Mike and Pat review this week's news in the amusement industry.
Link: CoasterBuzz Podcast
There were two Beauty and the Beast sequels. "The Enchanted Christmas" was set while he was still Beast, and "Belle's Magical World" was a series of short stories. She was supposedly at the castle the good part of a year, giving them plenty of time for more stories. (Yes, I'm a Beauty and the Beast fan) :)
One of our family favorites was a direct-to-video sequel: Lion King 1 1/2. As most of you know, the Lion King is effectively a retelling of Hamlet. Appropriately, LK 1.5 is a retelling of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, but funnier.
But, yeah, most of them are insufferable dreck.
I barely remember Hamlet (I only cared about girls and getting out of high school when I read it), but doesn't he die at the end? Simba was quite alive. :)
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Yes, perhaps "reimagining" would be a better term than retelling---Disney never has been slavishly faithful to the source material.
(Timon & Pumbaa---the Rosencrantz & Guildenstern characters---don't spy on Simba and end up dead either.)
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