Which of these Pixar releases are you particularly fond of?
(Disney animated feature releases poll here)
For those not in on the joke, Aladdin is included as it didn’t make the Disney poll.
[SIZE=2]The Cars movies are the Pixar dregs.
ETA: I’ve seen every Pixar movie except Cars 3.
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The Incredibles is just wonderful.
And has the most multilayered script of any animate film, made in America.
I agree, the Incredibles is the greatest animated movie in my opinion. I hope the sequel will measure up. It is due out next year.
I’m also a big The Incredibles fan (although I also love Monsters, Inc). Violet is one of my all-time favorite characters and I love her story arc (and Edna has to be one of the greatest bit characters ever). The whole movie is witty and moving.
I hated Ratatouille. The sight of all those rats swarming that poor lady’s home, in the larder and all up inside the food at that restaurant. . . gah! I’m seriously gagging just thinking of it.
ETA: I think the only animated movie I like more than The Incredibles is The Iron Giant. Which isn’t Pixar or Disney, I don’t think.
WALL-E is a modern masterpiece.
It was WB; but it was directed and written by Brad Bird who went on to be the director & writer for both Incredibles & Ratatouill.
My daughter was 4 when it came out we tried to get her to go see it. “I don’t like rats.” But they are funny rats. “I don’t like rats.” Your sister really wants to see it. “I don’t like rats.” I’m sure you’ll like it. “I don’t like rats.”
So she didn’t go see it. Then she watched it a thousand times on DVD and loved it.
I am surprised at the lack of love for Monsters, Inc. Goodman and Crystal are brilliant in that movie.
NO CAPES! fnord
Brave is my favorite.
Fun fact: Q. Why is Merida named after a city in Spain?
A. She isn’t. It’s a name the writer Brenda Chapman derived from the Scots Gaelic form of the name Brenda Chapman based her character’s name on is Mèrida (/ˈmʲɛːrʲidˠa/ MERRY-dah), a variant form of the Scots Gaelic name Maighread (/maːrʲɛːtˠ/ MAH-ret) (in Irish: Máiréad /ˈmˠɑːrʲeːdˠ/ MAW-raid), which means Margaret, from Greek margarites. The resemblance to Spain’s Mérida (/ˈmeriða/is coincidental. The Spanish city gets its name from Latin Emerita (Augusta), meaning the veterans (from the army of Augustus).
I don’t know how long the beginning, with just Wall-E and the bug, is, but I sat there entranced without a single word of dialog, just following him about his world. Great storytelling without words. They made us care about a garbage-collecting robot.
The first part of UP, where they showed how the husband and wife met, and their life together, was beautiful. I avoided UP for years, as the advertising made me think it was about a flying house and silly hijinks.
I tried 3 times, and I couldn’t make it past the first 15 minutes of Cars. Never saw the rest of the movies in the series. Never will.
Seen all of them except The Good Dinosaur and the Cars movies. Might watch TGD some day, probably won’t ever watch the Cars series. Picked Brave, The Incredibles, Inside Out, and the Toy Story movies for the poll.
The list of movies I clicked is remarkably close to the list of movies that I’ve seen. The only discrepancies were Finding Nemo (which just never really hit me the way it seems to for most people) and Monsters, Inc. (which I thought was decent, but not really remarkable).
The Incredibles is my favorite, too.
The Good Dinosaur is underrated, and Inside Out is overrated. And I don’t mind the Cars movies, and picked Cars 2.
I’ve never understood the hate for Cars among the Pixar oeuvre. It’s the tale of a pampered, spoiled athlete who learns to give a damn about somehing other than himself. The references to car culture are well understood and well done (although not everyone’s cup of tea, I’m sure) and the animation is as gorgeous as anything they’ve done. The drive in the mountains and the night scenes of Radiator Springs with all the lights on are fantastic. And it’s got Katherine Helmond and Paul Newman doing voices. And Bonnie Hunt, sigh.
I do remember the first time I saw it I noticed how much of a jerk Lightning is at the beginning. Most movies of this sort will start with the main character kind of roguish, but you know he means well or is misunderstood. I thought it was rather brave of Pixar to make their hero so genuinely unpleasant at the beginning; it makes the redemption part of the story that much better.
Toy Story. The best!!
I don’t care much for most of them, but WALL-E and Up are glorious. Nothing before or since has come close, IMHO.
I’m a rare booster for Monsters U because I love that they were brave enough to make a movie whose message was “you know what? Sometimes you can’t just follow your dream”. As well as “even if you’re the hero, sometimes you can fuck up bad enough that you won’t get a second chance”
I downgrade UP! quite a lot specifically for that long intro sequence that everyone else loves so much…it has a huge gaping plot hole in it! Why *didn’t * they go travelling? His job was portable, they had no kids, and exploring was Who She Was … what stopped them? It annoys me enough that I’ve never been able to re-watch that movie