All of Disney's straight-to-home-video sequels, prequels, and midquels, ranked from best to worst

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• Between 1994 and 2008, one of Disney's studios was tasked with producing straight-to-VHS and straight-to-DVD sequels to their biggest classics.
• From "Cinderella III" to "The Lion King 1½," their level of quality and success vary widely.
• Most of these sequels, prequels, and midquels weren't really warranted and don't expand the original story in any significant way.
• Here's every one, ranked from best to worst.
• A few tropes repeat themselves throughout the films on this list, such as focusing on the main character's kids, giving love interests to characters who definitely don't need them, and making protagonists forget everything they learned in the original films.

If you were born before the turn of the millennium, chances are you grew up watching Disney movies on VHS and DVD.

If you fall into that category, you proably also remember some of the trailers that used to play before the film started.

No, they weren't epic previews of the next big Disney films hitting theaters. Instead, they were usually promos for the next cash-grab B-movie Disneytoon sequel to one of those box office smash hit classics.

We're talking about the likes of "The Return of Jafar," "Pocahontas II," and "Cinderella III," movies that if you had the misfortune to watch as a kid, you hopefully deleted from your memory.

All jokes aside, some of them are worth a watch if only for a hit of nostalgia, and Disney+ has made catching up on ones you may have missed a bit easier.

Here are all the Disney classic's direct-to-video sequels, prequels, and midquels ranked from best to worst (or better put, from pretty bad to very bad).