Best Pixar feature

"The Incredibles" vs "Finding Nemo"

Nemo in a landslide.

no it is a bug's life, guys.

i like them all. but nemo might win my vote. wait, i didn't see cars. i like all the rest.

A Bug's Life has been seriously played to death by my children and I will never be able to like it again.

So, Nemo.

Myself, I'm torn between Toy Story, Nemo and Incredibles.

no wai! nemo was loud and sorta ugly. monsters, inc. by a nautical mile.

WTF THIS IS CLEARLY "THE INCREDIBLES", THAT IS THE ONLY ANIMATED MOVIE THAT HAS APPEALED TO MY FATHER

(Nemo is good, tho)

Monster's inc. was so intense/gentle/original/imaginative.

TOY STORY GODDAMMIT, ur all crazy for nemo

'The Incredibles' 2nd

A Bug's Life has been seriously played to death by my children

Yeah, I can't even think about it without vomitting on my keybrd.

remy otm. nemo is my least favorite (it is good though). haven't seen bug's life.

no wai! nemo was loud and sorta ugly. monsters, inc. by a nautical mile.

Because you are disparaging Nemo you are barred from using oceanic terminology.

I think I am partially influenced by the brilliant Crush the turtle show at Disney World. I like how he taught my kids to say, "totally."

Toy Story 2 holla

I didn't see "Monsters Inc" because of Billy Crystal, much like I didn't see either "Toy Story" because of the perfect storm of awfulness that is Tom Hanks + Tim Allen.

Yeah, I can't even think about it without vomitting on my keybrd.

Reason I stopped watching movies at home with my kids.

LOL. Yeah, I should try that instead of going through SO MANY keyboards.

(yeah, i do like nemo a lot anyhow)

Toy Story movies are pretty good, but you have to pretend you don't know who is voicing the characters. Oh, except for the manipulative song in Toy Story 2 that Jessie sings that makes me cry like a big idiot.

Dan, that is bigotry, WATCH TOY STORY NOW, it is one of the most fundamenta movies of the past 10 years.

*fundamental

"I didn't see "Monsters Inc" because of Billy Crystal"

nobody despises billy more than me, but he doesn't ruin monsters inc. he's fine in it. he should be forced to do nothing but voices forever.

rittin is fundamenta

I believe you mean "fundamentalist."

My son had me pick Cars. He watches it over and over again. But he likes Finding Nemo a lot too.

I probably would have picked Nemo myself.

Billy Crystal is pretty good in Monsters, but not so great in Howl's Moving Castle...

oh god no. the japanese voices weren't so hot either iirc tho

or did they even have them on there? there has to be some reason i chose a soundtrack with billy crystal on it

i think there are fairly objectionable people in every pixar movie

I didn't see either "Toy Story" because of the perfect storm of awfulness that is Tom Hanks + Tim Allen.

Yeah Dan, get over it and just fucking watch Toy Story, it's great. In fact I've decided to vote for it.

"The Incredibles" is superlative on pretty much every level, though.

You're right on that, Dan, but if you like it so much YOU MUST SEE TOY STORY.

Chap, is it me or do Brits vote for certain American films way more readily than the Americans do? First we both go for Being John Malkovitch when nobody else raises an eyebrow, then we're all over Toy Story. Is there something in the Limey mentality we're discovering here?

(someone else can tap-in the open goal zing)

I think the difference here is that "Being John Malkovich" is awesome but "Toy Story" has two of the biggest penises in Hollywood in it.

Maybe you want to rephrase that.

Louis - maybe it's a raised-in-North-London mentality (you're a North London boy, right?). Though I can't really see much of a thematic link between Malkovich and Toy Story, and I'm thinking about it - er, they're both kind of about identity, I suppose.

xpost - Dan, godammit, WATCH TOY STORY

MAYBE I DON'T

oh wait maybe I do

but I didn't know they were two of the biggest penises in Hollywood, so i thought it was (and still think it is) one of the greatest children's films of all-time, possibly THE greatest. storyline, script, animation, acting, the lot.

I'm a South London boy (with plenty of N.London friends/acquaintances). Same Malkovitch, different Who, clearly. :-D

Tom Hanks is such a cock, someone kick him in the pussy.

my favourite film EVAH, Oldboy, is far more beloved of Brits than it is Americans (many of whom loathe it for some unfathomable reason), and it has a great deal to do with identity as well. let me get my magnifying glass out...

oh, and Fight Club! all arty british student-types worship Fight Club. i am no exception.

OH MY GOD WE HAVE NO EMPIRE ANYMORE AND WE CRAVE A NEW IDENTITY.

Cracked it.

toy storys aint all that. not bad though.

or maybe they are simply awesome, entertaining films which a load of americans 'hate' because they're scared of liking something the teensiest bit crass or populist. :-P

american college doofuses have fight club boners too i promise. and maybe you didn't realize that oldboy was directly responsible for a black day that broke our nation's heart

i thought that was some crazy kid

"Fight Club" is awesome, plz get one (1) thesis that makes sense.

Toy Story is good, the rest I can do without.

actually the only 3D CG movie I think is really really really good is Over the Hedge

I've only seen two, Cars is way better than The Incredibles

american college doofuses have fight club boners too i promise.

Way to stereotype! I can't help enjoying it, and besides, I don't watch it regularly or talk about it; I just happened to absolutely love it. Doesn't mean I don't understand slightly more cerebral shit. See also: The Matrix (haven't seen either sequel).

and maybe you didn't realize that oldboy was directly responsible for a black day that broke our nation's heart

I knew it would come to this, eventually. I kinda want to go on a killing-spree in the name of Citizen Kane now, just to demonstrate how tenuous the link is. That dude didn't do ANYTHING that related IN ANY WAY to the film's central premises, except by involving VIOLENCE. Any idiot fucker can do that.

Re: over the hedge X : Then you have a warped sense of quality. Tell me, are you from Northern London?

Fight Club is also far more clever than many people make out.

Curtis WISHES he was from Northern London, he wants to be closer to his #1 pop idol Lily Allen.

Fight Club is also far more clever than many people make out.

Will you please just shut the fuck up?

best pixar feature?

the power button on the dvd player.

I'm not even British

But then again I haven't seen The Incredibles so I might be missing out on quality. I hardly ever watch cartoon movies these days, I just saw Over the Hedge because my gf wanted to see it.

this thread is for reclaiming the toy stories and even cars if you want to get real saucy, not fight club

There goes my theory that only Northern Londoners have bad taste.

Louis Fight Club praise is best left off Pixar threads. A better place for it is in my English class last semester (esp. if you want to get into my English prof's pants).

Will you please just shut the fuck up?

Well done for having a better taste in films than me, and not being an objectionable snob about it.

I think I like Monsters Inc the best.

What kind of pants are they?

Just to wrap the whole FC thing up, I don't regard it as a 'monumental step forwards' or whatever, just an insanely enjoyable film (like, y'know, Ocean's 11). I definitely wouldn't cite it in an English class.

I've seen and rate:

toy story>>monsters inc.>>>toy story 2/finding nemo>>>>>>>>>a bug's life (think I've only seen half of this or was it antz?)

the amount of >s you've used would suggest that it was Antz.

: >

i really cant believe toy story 2 isn't the runaway favorite between the toy stories among those who've seen both. frasier is in it.

Antz had Woody Allen and J-Lo though.

thank you i could never tell which is the woody allen one (they all look alike amirite?). i need to find an internet.

guys still so excited about ratatouille!

Toy Story 2 had mean motherfucker dark secrets KELSEY GRAMMAR as a collector's item toy who never got taken out of his box and consequently is an insaniac elitist who hops around in a box.

Pretty much the role he was made for!

IRON GIANT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Incredibles, p.s.

never got taken out of his box and consequently is an insaniac elitist who hops around in a box.

Americans should like this better than the first, then.

There were a lot of Elastigirl ass shots in the Incredibles. It started to weird me out after a while.

ratatouille is about a cooking rat named remy. like me!
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I reckon this one sounds like it could be pretty good.

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it is so annoying how the characters move in iron giant. but i like it better than incredibles too

The moral of Toy Story 2 is collectors are douchebags; keeping toys in M++ condition is evil, a moral I can get behind. Especially since I got ebay negative feedback after selling MINT ++ MY LITTLE PONY. She WAS mint condition except for the missing head, the coal marks and the burnt mane.

Yeah, I'm leaning towards Toy Story 2, though the first was good, too. But ANTZ has Christopher Walken and Sylvester Stallone.

OMG WALL-E is Chibi-Robo the movie!

Ants wasn't even PIXARs, fool.

Iron Giant is one of my 19 favourite films, it says so on my facebook page.

ANTZ>>>>>>PIXAR

i don't think i was able to evaluate antz fairly due to childhood bias against animated disney knockoffs, somehow already-extant mild dislike of woody allen, and the movie's awkward attempt to be grownup but damn that was an ugly looking movie

Ants wasn't even PIXARs, fool.

But as long as we're talking about Old Boy and Virginia Tech, why not.

I think Antz is a bit underrated, probably a Northern London thing.

Toy Story 2 actually made me cry, but I might have been on my guy period at the time.

Monsters Inc. and The Incredibles are tied at 2nd place.

ANTZ was as far as I can remember, quite horrible,(I watched it when I was still a kid) but I think what annoys me about Antz/Shrek/Shark's Tale/Over the hedge and these non-Pixar films in general is that they try to recruit all the big-name stars they possibly can with their budget, but Pixar goes for the lesser known but more awesome people like Holly Hunter, Denis Leary, Ellen and John Goodman.

I think Antz is a bit underrated, probably a Northern London thing.

I would say so. I'm glad I was on the board today. I will think twice before trusting a North-Londoner again. I will think twice and consult a Welshman before making any vital decisions.

shrek is ugly

But far better than WILL SMITH INCARNATED AS A GISH.

OR EVEN A FISH!

shrek has had the most evil impact of any of these, sharks tale was just a minor shit skillet

Shrek is forever hatred 9th circle of hy heart's personal hell for others. However, I was kind of having amental breakdown when Shark's Tale came out and everywhere I went I had to see Will Smith Fish. I started getting some ideas of reference from the whole thing...that image fucked with me hardcore.

yeah making the wisecracking computer animated animals actually resemble their celebrity voicers would have been a nightmarish trend had it caught on

shrek 2 is really good believe it or not. I hated the first and my wife said the 3rd was terrible.

Shrek is fucking terrible

srsly. i saw shrek 2 and liked the cat but it's offensive stuff, why would they ever make a cartoon character whose pores you can see

toy story 2 is great

I didn't see "Monsters Inc" because of Billy Crystal

The real true ranking, as ranked by a truth-wrangler:

1. Les Incroyables
2. Monsters Inc.
2. Toy Story 2
2. Finding Nemo
5. Toy Story
6. Cars
100000. A Butt's Life

Finding Nemo is my favorite, I am an American thx.

IRON GIANT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Incredibles, p.s.

-- Abbott, Friday, 15 June 2007 02:06 (Friday, 15 June 2007 02:06)

OTM x a gazillion

Guys Cars is actually a pretty good movie. I mean, I think Leee has it ranked pretty accurately near the bottom, but it's still definitely worth watching.

I'm going to vote for Nemo I think mostly because there were parts in it that, when we saw it in the theater, were more edge-of-my-seat than anything I had ever seen in any movies that claimed to be edge-of-my-seat kind of movies. Also because I am an absolute sucker for father/son stories of any kind (hello 1st season of LOST).

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I'm not totally sure I like Toy Story 2 better than The Incredibles, but I voted for it here for the same reason I voted for Bogus Journey in the Keanu poll: it's so rare that a sequel is as good or better than the original that it kinda deserves extra points.

i like you. here's the answer key, a day early.

1. Monsters Inc.
2. Incredibles
2. Cars
2. Toy Story 2
5. Toy Story
6. Finding Nemo

ts. a butt's life v. anutz. i haven't seen either

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IN YR FRIDGE, EATIN YR CHEESE

this movie will be great

1. Incredibles
2. Toy Story 2
3. Monsters Inc
4. Toy Story
5. Finding Nemo
6. (tie) I barely remember A Bug's Life and haven't seen Cars

Ratatouille actually was pretty great (caught the sneak peek showing Saturday night). It took me forever to realize Patton Oswalt was voicing the main rat. Now, it's not in the upper tier of Pixar films, but it's definitely not Bug's Life or Cars either. It's kind of light on breathtaking action sequences, but it's paced well and (naturally) has a sweet ending.

Is it better than the Incredibles?

A Bug's Life is a great movie but I didn't vote for it.

there is no way that i would ever consider any of these movies "great." but then again, there are very few children's movies that would earn my seal of approval.

@Tape Store: It depends. I liked The Incredibles a great deal, so I say no. But it's a perfectly fine way to spend about a little less than two hours (plus, you get to see a sneak trailer for the next Pixar film Wall-E).

Good. I'll tell this to my classmates who plan on dragging me to THE FANTASTIC FOUR PT 2.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

The Incredibles and Nemo coming top I have absolutely no problems with. I do think both Toy Stories are better than Monsters Inc, though (which is still good, but which I found slightly lacklustre for Pixar).

an upset in the race for second place

I would have put Monsters Inc. over Finding Nemo.

Why is there no mention of "Luxo, Jr" ??????

The only good thing about Monsters was Cliff from Cheers as the abominable snowman voice.

nah everything else was good too.

the abominable snowmman looked weird everything else was good

laaaaaaaaaaaaaame

HA

feel good family films have nothing on THE MOST EXCITING ACTION ADVENTURE OF DECADE

Incredibles was both of those things though; hence (probably) it's win.

Abominable's lemon snowcones was a great gag!

'licious otm.

TOY STORY 2

(I didn't vote)

The Incredibles is the only one I can imagine owning my own copy of. Which I do.

hay guys: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20012203,00.html

''I can say that among third installments, nobody wants another Bad News Bears Go To Japan.''

Story Line: Bo Peep finds out that she's accepted into the Toys Beauty Contest, but the gang has no way to get there...Buzz Lightyear reminds everyone that he can fly.
"Hey Dipshit," says Woody. "That was just some fuckin' terrible uplifting plot device used by the last screenwriter."
Everyone leaves via RC. Buzz Lightyear is upset, but he still thinks he can fly. So he jumps out of RC and lands in the middle of Route 66, dead. Everyone gathers around and cries; they ruminate on the mysteries of toy life and discuss Hasbro. Then Ham makes a funny joke.
"Dude, this is totally not the time, you asswipe," says Slinky Dog.
"You talked!" Everyone screams.
But now is not the time. Bo Peep needs to get to pageant. But no one knows how to get there. So, Etch-A-Sketch draws them a map. They get there on time. Everything's going well. Then it's time for the talent portion. Bo Peep's Sheep come up with her, and she does a striptease to "Space Jam." All the other toys boo, but then Woody comes up and starts dancing. When Woody hits Bo Peep (accidentally, mind you), Mr. Potato Head comes up and arrests him.
"I'm the Sheriff! You're just a plastic tuber!" Woody shouts.
Woody goes to prison for 5-10 years, and the gang goes home.

storyline shepherded by Little Miss Sunshine screenwriter Michael Arndt

eep

God Toy Story 2 is so totally the best yall are cum garglers

I voted for Toy Story 2 (so I'm not a cum gargler!), but there should be some kind of rule against doing a sequel more than 10 years after the previous movie in the series. Especially when it's a kids movie and the target audience wasn't even born when the first one came out! Hell, by 2010 it'll be 11 years after Toy Story 2, even worse than when Tim Allen did the third Santa Clause movie more than 12 years after the first one.

They weren't necessarily connected statements

and yeah I thought the fifth-ninth grade gap between toy stories one and two was huge, this is ridic.

Nah, you're looking at it all wrong. There's a whole generation of tots now who've seen the first two Toy Story movies on dvd at least 100 times each, so when Toy Story 3 rolls out it'll just be a continuation. I mean, it's not like the characters will have aged or anything.

Or, there'll be a whole generation of tots who loved Finding Nemo or Ratatouille or whatever they're putting out next year, and the teenagers who grew up with the Toy Story flicks won't be as interested.

I'll be 36 when Toy Story 3 opens and I'll probably be there opening weekend. So fuck the kids and teenagers.

I'm not saying that Pixar movies aren't beloved by plenty of adults and teenagers, they are and way more than animated family movies traditionally have been, but they still need the youngster appeal to pull in the big big bucks (and justify a sequel like TS3). Finding Nemo was HUGE and I think a lot of that had to do with it skewing younger than, say, The Incredibles.

Toy Story 5

Didn't know Toy Story 5 was out yet sry dude.

There's a four disc edition of Monster's Inc...this is baffling to me!

btw has anyone seen the 3-D Toy Story movies in the theater? Worth going?

x-post -- Two whole extra discs of nothing but Billy Crystal!

*cuts off ears*

tough luck, it's subtitled

I love Monsters but what is on those discs?

"Bonus Features Include: MONSTERS, INC. Ride And Go Seek: Building Monstropolis In Japan Go Behind The Scenes Of The New Attraction In Tokyo Disneyland, Filmmaker's Round Table Filmmakers Reflect On The Creation Of The Film, Audio Commentary, Pixar Fun Factory Tour, Banished Concepts, DVD Of Film Plus Original DVD Bonus, DisneyFile Digital Copy."

Abbott: It was definitely nice to see Toy Story 1+2 in 3D in the theater, especially since I never saw the second one. Admittedly, though, the 3D wasn't that great, since they weren't made for it in mind. But even Up had pretty mediocre/uneffective 3D use, too. Still, if you like the films, you might as well do it - it's cheap and in the theater!

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I wonder how the Pixar employees under the head people really feel about it.

Original poll is incomprehensible to me. Seriously, The Incredibles by a 4x margin over either Toy Story? Crazy talk...

GUYS

http://jonnegroni.com/2013/07/11/the-pixar-theory/

Okay there is a a lot of contention over the idea that A Bug's Life takes place post-apocalypse, but hear me out.

So what happens? Humanity, machines, and animals grow in harmony to the point where a new super species is born. Monsters. The monsters civilization is actually Earth in the incredibly distant future.

Where did they come from? It’s possible that the monsters are simply the personified animals mutated after the diseased earth was radiated for 800 years. [Not during Wall-E. I would guess that it took hundreds of years after Wall-E for the animals to become monsters] The alternative could be that humans and animals had to interbreed to save themselves. Gross, I know, but plausible since the lines between animals and humans are constantly up for debate in Pixar.

please someone else read this :(

Okay, at first I was all "yeah, right" and by the end I was all "HOLY FUCKING SHIT"

795 responses on “The Pixar Theory”

Several months ago, I watched a fun-filled video on Cracked.com

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Plus

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Equals

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Nobody said (at least in this thread) that they believe the theory. But this shit is fun, right?

Don't be a killjoy, dude.

Me? I think the theory is awesome! Einstein is a genius. Get it? Conspiracy hat plus pot equals genius.

Like, why not? He makes a strong case for it.

lol I totally misunderstood your triptych. Carry on!

http://www.vulture.com/2015/06/all-15-pixar-movies-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html?cx_navSource=top-stories-cx&cx_tag=pop

https://www.avclub.com/bad-buzz-disney-lays-off-lightyear-director-in-first-p-1850503777

seems like a fall guy for lightyear's weak box office. after reading all the tepid reviews for it, i was kinda surprised how solid it was. it wasn't top tier pixar but it was fun. i feel like folks were more put off by the premise than anything, maybe. it's solid animated sci-fi.

It would be interesting to rerun this poll now. A couple of their recent efforts (Soul and Coco) have been quite good. And, of course, Up and Inside Out should rank very highly.

Elemental looks absolutely terrible to me.

It looks like a retread of ideas they've already done.