Disney-Pixar movies

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  1. Finding Nemo
  2. Wall-E
  3. Incredibles (Actually, I’d give this and Wall-E a tie)
  4. Toy Story
  5. Monsters, Inc.
  6. Toy Story 2
  7. Ratatouille
  8. A Bug’s Life
  9. Cars
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My favorites… most to “least”

#1. Toy Story:

#2 Finding Nemo

#3 The Incredibles

#4 Toy Story 2

#5 A Bugs Life

#6 Cars

#7 Ratatouille

#8 Monsters Inc.

I enjoyed Cars, but I think there is a definite step down between #5 and #6. Ratatouille, I never understood all the hubub. It was OK… but certainly not on par with their best work. Monsters, Inc is probably the only one of the lot- that if I saw it was on TV- I wouldn’t consider watching.

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Finding Nemo is only bearable when you’re playing the drinking game. I’m amazed, there’s no love for Cars here. That was easily my favorite Pixar movie to this point.

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Well **Bosda ** is keeping you company at least.

I suspect it really helps if you like NASCAR and Redneck humor to like Cars. I could be wrong.

From what I can see, any movie with major roles from Larry The Cable Guy & Owen Wilson are unlikely to well like by the general Doper crowd.

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I like Cars just fine, I think it’s often very funny, and has some beautiful imagery and animation. It’s just that when forced to rank it, it’s last in my preferential list.

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What’s the Finding Nemo drinking game?

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Anytime a fish talks, you drink.

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Haven’t seen the new one yet, but here’s how I’d rank them thus far:

Toy Story
The Incredibles
Monsters, Inc.
A Bug’s Life
Ratatouille
Toy Story 2
Finding Nemo
Cars

The first 3 are the only ones I’d be interested in sitting all the way through again, though (and the 1st one’s the only one I would own).

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Good job, Hampshire for turning this from a imdb questoin to a fun interesting thread. Here’s my rankings as of today.

  1. Finding Nemo
  2. The Incredibles
  3. Monsters Inc.
  4. Toy Story
  5. Rattatoulie
  6. Toy Story 2
  7. A Bugs Life
  8. Cars

This list is hard to make. Really, if I tried to rank them tomorrow the list is going to be different. A Bugs Life is the one that I have the weakest memories of - I haven’t seen it since it was in theaters. So, that will probably always be low; it didn’t stick with me as well as the others. I can’t wait to see Wall E (probably tonight) so, I can add it to my almost randomly generated pixar movie list.

pat

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I don’t like NASCAR, I just like cars! It’s easily my favorite and nobody’s ever accused me of being a redneck. The whole Americana/retro theme appeals to me enormously. Couple that with a cars-loving 3-year-old (and a husband who likes cars as much or more than I do), and you’ve got The #1 Movie of All Time in our house.

So, my rankings:

  1. Cars
  2. Finding Nemo
  3. Monsters Inc.
  4. Toy Story 2
  5. The Incredibles
  6. Toy Story
  7. Ratatouille
  8. A Bugs Life

Haven’t seen Wall-E yet.

Other thoughts: I also thought Ratatouille was incredibly boring. It’s not a kids’ movie at all. A Bug’s Life is just sort of too mean for me. Kevin Spacey when he’s got his vicious on is not my idea of a good time. However, I love to tell my children, “Francis, you’re making the maggots cry” whenever one of 'em is doing something naughty.

I wish they’d left humans out of Toy Story all together. They look as terrible as the toys look wonderful. The humans are marginally improved in Toy Story 2, but I still think the story could have been written without them in such a prominent role. Shoot them from the waist down, for example. Ratatouille solved the problem by making the people cartoon-like, rather than trying to make them look like real humans, but the story was so lame I couldn’t appreciate it much.

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My main problem with Cars was that the landscape was consistently more interesting and engaging than any of the characters.

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I haven’t seen Wall-E yet, so:

1- The Incredibles
2- Ratatouille
3- Cars
4- Monsters Inc.
5- Finding Nemo
6- Toy Story 2
7- Toy Story
8- A Bugs Life

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  1. The Incredibles
  2. Toy Story 2
  3. Finding Nemo
  4. Monsters Inc.
  5. Toy Story
  6. Bug’s Life
  7. Ratatouille
  8. Cars

Wall-E: Not sure yet. Parts of it were hauntingly gorgeous and moving, but I think it was overly ambitious, and didn’t fit together overall as a movie.

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Oh, and for point of reference, here are the IMDB ratings for all the pixar movies:
Ratatouille: 8.2
Finding Nemo: 8.2
Toy Story: 8.1
The Incredibles: 8.1
Toy Story 2: 8.0
Monsters Inc: 7.9
Cars: 7.6
A Bug’s Life: 7.3
Wall-E is currently at 9.2, but brand new films always take a while to settle down.
Some non-Pixar animated movies of note:
The Lion King: 8.1
Spirited Away: 8.5
Shrek: 8.0
Shrek 2: 7.6
Shrek 3: 6.2
The Iron Giant: 7.8
Happy Feet: 6.7
Madagascar (included only because a sequel is being made): 6.5

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To compare here is the Rotten Tomatoes ratings:

Toy Story: 100%
Toy Story 2: 100%
Finding Nemo: 98%
Incredibles: 97%
Wall-E: 96%
Ratatouille: 95%
Monsters Inc.: 95%
Bug’s Life: 91%
Cars: 75%

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And here’s Metacritic’s rankings:

Ratatouille: 96
Wall-E: 93
Toy Story: 91
The Incredibles: 90
Finding Nemo: 89
Toy Story 2: 88
Monsters Inc.: 78
A Bug’s Life: 77
Cars: 73

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Worldwide Gross, US dollars adjusted for inflation to 2007 figures:
Finding Nemo – $991,608,645
The Incredibles – $710,675,541
Monsters, Inc. – $626,856,517
Ratatouille. . – $621,416,583
Toy Story 2. . – $614,542,612
Toy Story. . . – $500,301,132
Cars. . . . . . – $486,790,016
A Bug’s Life – $467,814,401

(NOT including DVD sales.)

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Some of these I own; some of these I have seen only once in the theater. The latter will inevitably end up farther down on the list since I don’t remember them as well. But I would happily see any of them again. Twice.

  1. WALL-E
  2. The Incredibles
  3. Monsters, Inc.
  4. Toy Story
  5. Ratatouille
  6. Toy Story 2
  7. Finding Nemo
  8. Cars
  9. A Bug’s Life
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And how do we rate the shorts, BTW?
“One Man Band”
“Lifted”
“For The Birds”
“Knick-Knack”
“Gerri’s Game”
all rate fairly high for me.
I’m not a big fan of “Boundin’” or “Mike’s New Car”, but I think the earlier ones like “Luxo JR” still are great.

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I haven’t seen TS2 yet, but as for the rest…

  1. Cars – Loved it and think it’s hilarious!
  2. Toy Story – Just wow – especially as the first
  3. Finding Nemo
  4. Monster’s Inc (my 3 year old’s favorite)
  5. Wall-E – lots of little plot holes, but visually it was just awesome
  6. Incredibles – I know a lot of people love it, but I thought it was just all right. You have made me want to rewatch it though.
  7. Ratatouille – just watched it for the first time, and it didn’t hold my attention too well. Dumb story!
  8. Bug’s Life – I didn’t even finish this one. I just could NOT get into it. How some of you rank Cars below this is beyond me.