Favorite Pixar movie?

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My favorite Pixar movie growing up was A Bug’s Life and it still has a special place in my heart.
 
Personally, I’ve been more attracted to series’ general theme of dealing with a world that seems uncaring in how it changes around you. Well, Cars and Cars 3 dealt with this. I’m not sure what happened with Cars 2.
 
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I’m not always a fan of how humans are drawn for Pixar films (the huge heads and bitty bodies in a lot of animation these days don’t move me), and some of the stories don’t move me either, so I only want to watch Pixar films and similar Disney films imitating Pixar style in limited doses.
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I had read in an article back in the early 00’s-- one of the problems they had for a long time in CG is the difficulty in getting humans to look properly human. There’s just always something jarring about the failed realism that would pull you out of the story. So to counteract that, they try to do a stylistic human— and when you see the character design as being “stylized” rather than as “a failed attempt at realism”— you’re able to settle back and enjoy the story.

That’s a bit less true nowadays, now that the CG technology has made enormous strides— but it’s still pretty expensive to go for photorealism. So now, the biggest obstacle is probably budgetary, rather than technology.

I think Inside Out was the only Pixar film I wished I could go straight out and buy as soon as I saw it.

But all their stuff is pretty watchable. It’s fun to imagine that all the Pixar stuff happens in the same universe— from Brave in the distant past, all the way to WallE in the future, and so on. 🙂 (Or rather, from The Good Dinosaur in the way distant past, to the way distant future, with a bit of time-traveling thrown in…)
 
Either Up or Wall-E. Those two years were Pixar at its peak imo, and they were followed by what might be my third choice, Toy Story 3.
 
My taste leans more toward Studio Ghibli but I thought Toy Story 2 was one of the best sequels ever, so I would have to say that’s my favorite Pixar movie.
 
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It’s fun to imagine that all the Pixar stuff happens in the same universe — from Brave in the distant past, all the way to WallE in the future, and so on. 🙂 (Or rather, from The Good Dinosaur in the way distant past, to the way distant future, with a bit of time-traveling thrown in…)
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Oh yeah, the Pixar theory – I think this stuff is awesome. 😄

There’s been all kinds of buzz on the internet about whether or not Onward (to be released in 2020) will actually break the Pixar theory. Grown men discussing and arguing over how the stories of a string of animated films could all be connected. It’s just awesome. 😂

Just one example:

 
I liked the original Cars and the story and lessons to it- the main character who is arrogant and selfish learns there’s more to life than just glory and accolades for yourself and has a complete change of heart and attitude.
 
The Incredibles for me. One of the best superhero movies ever, up there with the top live-action superhero flicks. It’s a better Fantastic Four movie than either of the actual FF movies from the '00s (I didn’t see the FF reboot attempt from a few years ago).
 
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I’m sitting in a movie theater sobbing loudly during the last 10 minutes of the first 20. I had a miscarriage. My husband and son (by adoption) actually choose not to chide me for crying ( a miracle!) because they were misty-eyed as well. I was prepared for the tears in the last 20 minutes - not the first!

Yes, UP is my favorite Pixar. It was the first movie that dealt with something like this! Even though I sobbed, I saw some seriously wonderful lessons about love and detachment from things. I try to watch at least once a year.
 
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My taste leans more toward Studio Ghibli
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I couldn’t agree more, Tomarin. While I like the Pixar films - some of them very much indeed - Studio Ghibli is in a whole separate, higher, category.
 
Incredibles for me as well, Zoom, and I agree that it might be the best superhero film ever, just like Sean of the Dead is definitely the best zombie flick! Funny how that happens…
 
Maybe a thread asking for people’s favorite Studio Ghibli film is in order?
 
I never saw Cars 3. Of the others, I’d rank them like this

Ratatouille
Inside Out
Finding Nemo
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 4
Monsters Inc.
Up
Coco

Incredibles 2
Finding Dory

Monsters University
Cars
Toy Story
Toy Story 3

The Good Dinosaur
The Incredibles
Brave

A Bug’s Life
WALL-E

Cars 2
 
I’ve been prone to call the original Cars Doc Hollywood 2.0. its quite enjoyable and moving at times but it bears an uncanny resemblance to the Michael J Fox comedy (minus the skinny dipping scene and language of that 1991 film)
 
Up, Coco and WallE.
I couldn’t rank them. I love them differently but equally.
 
It’s a shame that the Fantastic Four aren’t the iconic group they once were, in movies or comics. At one time they were the flagship supergroup for Marvel.
 
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