It seems that Dan Kois does at the point he decided to write an article to defend them.

It's a well written article, that praises the quality of those productions. He says that these sequels worth no less than those CG productions with lots of fart jokes and pop culture gags.

I agree we have quite a lot of awful movies (1, 2) nowdays, but I don't think that this alone justifies these "easy money back" effort from Disney.

The technical quality of these sequels is great? I think that's a pretty obvious statement when we think about how many gifted artists work at Disney.

The problem is how they get a story which stands for itself and try do extend it to another one, telling what happened after the "lived happily ever after". Don't you think that a movie called Cinderella III sounds a bit strange? What about Bambi II?