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this isnt adaption. this is a clear case of using a popular brand to sell something

also why does everyone hate peter rabbit? i didnt think it was horrible. im not familiar with the source material so judging the movie by itself i didnt see anything offensively wrong with it
 
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D'Snowth said:
Or that moviegoers are sick to death of sequels.
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The overexposure of sequels really sucks, because it damages other movies that are actually deserving of sequels. The Lego Movie was one where fans actually wanted a sequel. Paddington 2 did extremely well critically, even a bit better than it's predecessor, which itself had great reviews, but US movie goers weren't as interested the second time around. This might've also hurt Muppets Most Wanted.
 
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Pig's Laundry said:
This might've also hurt Muppets Most Wanted.
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Yes. None of the previous Muppet movies were sequels to another, they were always stand-alone features, separate from the others - playing up the sequel angle for MMW was a big mistake; they should have done it as a stand-alone feature as well.
 
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D'Snowth said:
Yes. None of the previous Muppet movies were sequels to another, they were always stand-alone features, separate from the others - playing up the sequel angle for MMW was a big mistake; they should have done it as a stand-alone feature as well.
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The odd thing is, it basically could have been a stand alone. None of the human cast returned from the first one. The story was basically totally disconnected from the first one, other than a few references that could easily be written out. Sam Eagle played an FBI agent, which contradicts what he did in the first movie. There was little reason to have it be a direct sequel.

It should have just been about the Muppets traveling Europe on a tour with no talk of being a sequel. I thin the only reason they made it a sequel was to cash in on some of the good will they had gotten from the 2011 movie.

The Muppets are hard to understand if you are a movie exec. They don't get that Jim Henson just made whatever he wanted without worrying about connecting it to past productions or making sense in a single continuity.
 
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mr3urious said:
The Lego Movie 2 was #1 last weekend, but failed to make anywhere near the numbers of the first one, though it did open higher than Ninjago. This proves that lightning rarely strikes twice.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2019&wknd=06&p=.htm
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I think what happened is they waited a little too long and released other movies in between. Lego Batman kind of satisfied the audiences hunger for a new Lego Movie and that was two years ago.

Of course, we also have movies like Toy Story 3 which was a LOT longer between sequels, but they also didn't do any projects in between to satisfy the want to see them on screen.
 
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