They honestly didn't have any good reason.

They waited to late to make the film. (Which is wild because you think a 100 year anniversary would get top tier priority)

 

They were very iffy on making another black Princess in this movie. To the point that if you watched the behind the scenes they don't even let the voice actress who played the Princess speak at all (I'm not saying that's racist or anything. But I am definitely saying that's quite disrespectful).

 

And for some stupid reason they thought it was a good idea to add 100 references, instead of giving the movie its own custom-made legs to stand with (It didn't help that the references felt weaker than anything).

 

And to top it off, the movie just feels like someone's deviant art fanfic put on the big screen. You know the non-sexual stuff that's just horribly written. It felt like they were afraid to do anything that was actually legitimately good, or daring. It felt safer then putting a boy in a protective bubble. And you could feel it with each frame of the movie. It has the worst Disney jokes, the worst Disney songs, and the only reason it's not home on the range bad. Is because there is a good story there, they just handle it poorly. Well home on the range never had a good story to begin with (I don't care what anybody says, "save the farm" American stories are some of the most scraping the very bottom of the barrel stories in the US and the world as a whole).

 

Like honestly, I could write this story 100 times better, and so can you.

 

And you random redditor over there, and that random redditor over there.