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Kitty!!!
I just saw it last night (and the Star Wars trailer! Woo hoo!), and I loved it. It built a little more slowly than most Disney movies, but it all paid off beautifully in the end. That ending… man. So touching. The whole (packed) theater I saw it in went up with a collective “Awwww” when the screen went to black. I took my Little to see it, along with her brother Carlos. Carlos is a 10 year old, inner-city tough boy, and he was sniffling towards the end. Hee hee. That was good to see.
Apparently this has been written about elsewhere, but that abominable snowman was a dead ringer for the Bumble in the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Christmas special. Loved it.
First movie we’ve seen this year (new kid and all) and the wife and I loved it.
Any more in jokes I might have missed?
I saw it with my 6 year old and we both loved it!
Yeah. Only one guy in the audience besides me laughed at this. I figured the SDMB crowd would have picked it up. I think it’s nice that the newest, most advanced state-of-the art animated film gave a nod to the original king of classic low-tech stop-motion animation.
I noticed the hair thing, too. Looks like there’s nothing they can’t do now!
Awwwww, bummer. I love the Pixar outtakes. But since I haven’t seen Monsters Inc. yet, maybe this is an incentive for me to wait a few weeks…
They did that for Toy Story 2 as well – after a few weeks with the first set of outtakes, they switched to a second set.
If you don’t have the DVDs, you can see all of the outtakes on Pixar’s web site.
Actually, it’s the other way around-Bug’s Life had two sets of outtakes, Toy Story 2 added outtakes.
Oh, go have a snow cone.
It’s LEMON!
Kitty! I loved that - because my 18 month old nephew calls anything soft the same thing. Actually, he calls it “itty”, but it’s close enough.
Slightly OT - he also won’t say my name, or my brother’s name, or Grandma and Grandpa - but he will say Norman. Who’s Norman? My mom’s cat.
Susan
I liked it, but I was a little disappointed that they gave away the laugh thing so early into the movie. It totally ruined the ending.
Also, I was very angry that they never thought to use laughs as a better power source until the very end. They obviously realized it was a better power source (they turned on all the doors by making her laugh). They had the girl laugh 2 other times and overload the lights. Then they don’t think to harness that power instead of screams? I don’t think so.
They should have not had the girl laugh at all until right near the end. But then they’d have to figure out some other way to do the whole ‘million doors’ scene. I guess discontinuity was a better idea than redoing the whole scene.
I’m thinking that keeping scary, “dangerous” kids around would be too risky, at least politically, especially when with a slight mod to their tactics, they could get far more power using existing infrastructure. I mean, c’mon! Didja see the size of the laugh cannisters? They were freekin’ HUGE!
Not to mention that with so many incompetant scarers, comedy would have to be an easier route, without having to build new tools, or change any infrastructure. A capitalist’s dream! More power, no new infrastructure required!
I can’t believe I’m discussing the economics of Monsters, Inc. like it was real. I guess I must’ve loved it. I know my daughter and wife did.
The point was that Sully was the only one that realized laughter was more powerful than scream. He was trying to relay that information to the friendly boss, but before he got the chance, the boss turned evil on him.
I’m very sure Toy Story 2 shipped with outtakes originally – I remember going to see it on opening weekend, and sticking around for 'em.
Loved it. Loved it! LOVED IT!
I got to see it opening night as a birthday present. The quality of animation just blew me away. (I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed the kickass job they did with Sully’s fur.) Boo’s movements may have been a little stiff and clunky, but if you compare her with any of the kids in Toy Story or Toy Story 2 you’ll see a real difference.
The bear about seeing a Pixar movie the first time is you have to balance following the plot in general with trying to catch all the in-jokes and sight gags they’re stuffing in there. Like the tabloid headline. Anyone else see it?
Valkyrie, the Tzeroling, and I loved it, and the ending made us all sniffly. It’s worth the money, and if they do have outtakes I’ll wait until it’s for sale on video so I can see 'em all.
Amazing animation… i liked this movie, i think it was worth it.
the quality was so good that i was wondering, did i see a digital screening or what? i didnt see all the usual flaws and defects of normal films… anyone??
wow, great , great quality!!
I saw it on the day it came out, a great movie. It’s the first one that I’ve seen since summer. The quality of the animation just keeps going up and you don’t even notice it when they try some new technical trick. There were also plenty of funny moments and I loved the reference to The Right Stuff.
The Star Wars trailer was dissapointing. Only two real special effects shots, both of which look like repeats of what was done in Episode I. I’ll still see the movie, though.
Someone beat me to the fact about the abominable snowman from Rudolph, but did you notice that the village had “fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks,” from the Armour Hot dog commercial jingle?
I looked overt the credits on IMDB today and saw that Bonnie Hunt did the voice of Flint.
Who was Flint?
Saw it last week, and loved it.
it was gripping, even though you knew it would end well.
Glad for the ending.
“Its lemon”. Yep, loved that, too.
As long as John Goodman has a voice, he will have a career.
He’s good.