Disney will discontinue their line of painfully embarrassing and awful direct to DVD sequels on the recommendation of Steve Jobs, according to MacWorld. We consider this a coup for parents, because no one older than 8 likes these steaming hunks of crap, yet they are extremely commercially successful.

We interpret this to mean that parents are wasting hard-earned money on awful DVDs. The last of the crappy sequels will be “The Little Mermaid III,” and then, parents, your pocketbook is free of Ariel forever.

On the other hand, this could be bad news for the parents of children who like to play the same movie over and over again… Sorry!

Steve Jobs directs Disney [MacWorld]

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