Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 50/@comment-25119449-20141203020038/@comment-73.2.85.84-20141203035409

"Cash grab" films are those that that sacrifice or neglect quality in order to increase their profits. Prime examples of these films would be Cars 2 and Transformers 4. In 2011, before Cars 2 came out, Pixar had an unbelievably flawless track record of 11 consecutive commercially and critically successful films. Although Cars did not gross higher than most of their films and was not as critically acclaimed as most of their films, they chose to make a sequel for it because at the time, it was the most profitable film in history, having made 8 billion dollars in merchandising. Disney decided to make a Cars sequel because they would make a lot money off of it, despite the fact that nobody involved in Cars 2 had much emotional connection to the story. The budget of Transformers 4 was almost entirely paid for by the massive amount of non-subtle product placement and spent the final third of its runtime attempting to appeal to Chinese demographics. Both of these things took a heavy toll on the quality of the film, but assured that it would cost almost nothing to produce and would make over a billion dollars.

There is nothing indicating that Frozen 2 will attempt to sacrifice or neglect quality for profit. And there's certainly nothing that indicates a inverse correlation between the amount of time that passes between a film and a sequel and the quality of that sequel. The Harry Potter films were all released about a year apart and each one was met with critical success. Dumb and Dumber To, Terminator Salvation, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, and many others are films generally disliked by both critics and audiences and were released 10 or more years after the films they are sequels to.