10 Movie Franchises That Have Over-Stayed Their Welcome

8. Toy Story

The Toy Story Gang I personally found Toy Story 3 one of Pixar€™s lower tier films, loosing a lot of the charm and style that had been integral from the series since Woody first took on One Eyed Bart. While not matching the emotion of the directly preceding Up or the previous two films in the series, it at least presented some interesting new characters and brave narrative developments, rounding off the story of Andy€™s toys in a finalised manner. However, Pixar have been unwilling to let sleeping toys lie. Since the films have finished, they've begun an unnecessary series of Toy Story Toons following Woody, Buzz and co.€™s antics while living with Bonnie, preceding some of Dinsey€™s recent features (The Muppets, Cars 2 and the upcoming Finding Nemo 3D). They€™re not particularly bad, but certainly aren€™t up to the high quality Pixar€™s normal shorts. Being before high profile films keeps the series in the public consciousness and has led to increasing talk about another sequel. Toy Story 3, even with its imperfections, rounded off the series perfectly, so any continuation feels unneeded. The shorts have lengthened the franchise too far already (as well as adding fuel to the questions of Pixar€™s creative integrity following Cars 2), but stopping it now would at least keep the original trilogies legacy.
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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.