5 Animated Sequels That Are Better Than The Originals

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These days, it's hard to find sequel stories that live up to the original one. When a movie does well enough to get turned into a franchise, it's usually because the studios know they can make a ton of money off of it, and so sequels (especially for animated kids movies) tend to be cash cows more than anything else. Often, creativity and good storytelling are put to the side in favor of fan service and awkwardly placed callbacks to the jokes from the first movie that became iconic. There's a reason that Minions became such a hated franchise despite their roles as the silly side characters in the original Despicable Me.

But what happens when the sequel is actually good, or in some cases, even better than the original movie? Sometimes the creative teams behind these franchises use sequels as an opportunity to further explore the story they initially set up, and actually expand upon the world and the characters in an interesting way. There are a few animated sequels that manage to capture the same spirit as the first movie, and actually turn out to be better in a lot of ways. These are the animated sequels that paid attention to what made their predecessors great and managed to become iconic in their own ways.

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The How To Train Your Dragon series is one of the most solid and beloved tocome out of Dreamworks. Every movie in the trilogy is fantastic and memorable, and they all manage to feel like complete stories that can stand on their own and aren't just being made because they're popular. How To Train Your Dragon 2 was obviously the first to follow the initial movie, and it does a really great job of expanding on the characters and the world that viewers were already introduced to in