The more things change, the more they stay the same. Today, Disney is going through each of its animated classics and giving them a live-action update. It doesn’t matter if the individual plotlines of those features work well in real life or not, everything from Beauty and the Beast to The Artistocats is getting that treatment. An equivalent phenomenon from the 1990s to the late 2000s was Disney’s obsession with direct-to-video animated sequels. After The Return of Jafar made money hand over fist for the company in 1994, Disney’s DisneyToon Studios division made titles ranging from The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride to Bambi II and everything in between. It was an easy way to print money in the golden age of home video even though the follow-ups were rarely any good.