Why? It makes money for them and that is what counts in the biz. They have made a third movie out figures that they already have and did not have to spend as much work or money on the next two.

Kids don't care how it is made. Hell most adults don't give a rats a$$ how it was made. They go to see the story and have fun not anal-ize on the how.

As for cheesy comic, that sells at every age. I have not seen this one, I'll wait until it's on HBO or what ever movie channel it comes out on. But I have seen most others and I don't think that the comedy is cheesy, I even catch lines that only someone as old as me would catch the joke and only if you were aware of the situation that the joke referred to, quite often the 60's and 70's.

Also, what you might think is cheesy, others might think clever. Have you ever watched Kaena: The Prophecy. You might get what your looking for with that one.