# Rank the Pixar films from your favorite to least favorite.

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**Created:** [December 10, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035 "2015-12-10T02:59:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035/41 "2015-12-11T19:40:41Z")

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Is Brad Bird still at Pixar? Maybe they could do a remake of _The Iron Giant_.

😃 (j/k)

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035/42 "2015-12-11T23:41:19Z")

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Inside Out  
Toy Story 2   
A Bug’s Life   
Ratatouille  
Toy Story  
Toy Story 3   
WALL-E  
Monsters, Inc.   
Up   
Finding Nemo   
The Incredibles   
Brave  
Monsters University  
Cars   
The Good Dinosaur  
Cars 2

(Yeah, I’m one of the few people who really loves _A Bug’s Life_.)

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035/43 "2015-12-12T02:08:30Z")

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So it seems most people seem to like Finding Nemo, Up, The Incredibles, WALL-E, and the Toy Story movies and dislike Cars and Bugs Life.

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035/44 "2015-12-12T04:11:55Z")

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The Incredibles  
Toy Story  
Toy Story 2  
Toy Story 3  
Cars  
Inside Out  
Ratatouille  
WALL-E  
Up  
Brave  
Cars 2  
Haven’t seen:  
A Bug’s Life  
Monsters, Inc.  
Finding Nemo  
Monsters University  
The Good Dinosaur

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**Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035/45 "2015-12-13T05:49:29Z")

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WALL-E  
Finding Nemo   
Toy Story  
Toy Story 2

Haven’t seen any of the others.

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035/46 "2015-12-13T06:03:15Z")

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Incredibles  
Up  
Toy Story  
WALL-E  
Brave  
Finding Nemo  
A Bugs Life  
Cars  
Have not seen any of the others but I’m sure I’d like them. I like Cars well enough and I like it the least.

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**Author:** ![SuperAbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@SuperAbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperAbe)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035/47 "2015-12-13T06:48:38Z")

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> [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](#):
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> Ratatouille 2 - I didn’t even know this existed.

It doesn’t. Only links to it are from a bunch of fans who would like to see it (which is…weird…for a movie about art and the search for perfection) and a single Youtube video labeled “inside joke” in the comments.

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**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035/48 "2015-12-13T16:36:17Z")

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For all the Cars 2 hate here, my kids definitely pick this one above all others by a fair margin for some reason.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035/49 "2016-01-20T19:50:45Z")

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> [@RickJay](#):
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> …The fact that “A Bug’s Life” is 10th on my list is a stunning testament to the volume of brilliant work Pixar has done. “A Bug’s Life” is a terrific movie. “Cars” is by the numbers and I’m not a fan at all,. but it’s \*still \*a better movie than most movies. That’s how good Pixar is; their bad movie is better than most movies…

Darn tootin’.

My rankings:

ALL-TIME FAVORITE PIXAR MOVIE  
_The Incredibles_

GREAT  
\*Toy Story  
A Bug’s Life  
Toy Story 2  
Monsters, Inc. \*

PRETTY GOOD  
_Finding Nemo  
WALL-E  
Up_

JUST OK  
_Cars  
Ratatouille  
Toy Story 3  
Brave  
Inside Out_

MEH  
_Cars 2  
Monsters University_

HAVEN’T SEEN  
_The Good Dinosaur_

Here’s an update on the planned \*Incredibles \*sequel, BTW - Brad Bird will be back to write and direct. Woohoo!: ["The Incredibles 2" Updates: Disney Unveils Official Logo At The D23 Expo; Edna Mode Another Superhero?](http://www.vcpost.com/articles/86457/20150830/incredibles-2-updates-disney-unveils-official-logo-d23-expo-edna.htm)

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**Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035/50 "2016-01-20T20:06:20Z")

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They all rank as my least favorite because their animation style is boring, tired and worn out.

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**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035/51 "2016-01-20T21:08:58Z")

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I’m not familiar with consensus Pixar fandom opinion and I didn’t read any ranks in this thread, so consider this mostly uninfluenced, outside of an awareness that everyone and their dog loves Toy Story, Up, and Inside Out.

I haven’t seen most of these in years, so this is ranked on the basis of which ones I’d like to rewatch the most:

1. The Incredibles

gap

1. Finding Nemo
2. Up
3. Toy Story 3
4. Toy Story
5. Inside Out
6. Bug’s Life

gap

1. WALL-E (hard to rank because I enjoyed the first half, not so much the rest)
2. Ratatouille
3. Monsters, Inc.

gap

1. Brave
2. Cars
3. Toy Story 2

> [@Cardboard](#):
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> They all rank as my least favorite because their animation style is boring, tired and worn out.

Wouldn’t this apply to 99% of American movie animation?

The alternatives are foreign traditional animation (like A Rabbi’s Cat and Ernest & Celestine or Japanese anime) which no one but hardcore animation fans watch, or stop motion that no matter how awesome can’t ever seem to break through into wide popular culture, e.g. Coraline, Corpse Bride, etc. I wonder if Coraline would’ve boxed 800 million if it had Pixar on the poster. Or maybe the stop motion was so ridiculously good people thought it was crappy CGI.

I finally got around to watching Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron like a year ago and seeing a traditional looking animated movie in English was rather refreshing, though it did have some CGI flourishes a la the Iron Giant. Still technically impressive, especially considering the pain of animating horses.

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**Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035/52 "2016-01-21T01:05:15Z")

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Which animation style? Pixar’s movies are not all the same style.

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