Best and Worst Pixar Films

I agree with LTL. Cars was not the best written, but loved the look.
Special fondness for all the Toy Story movies because my oldest is about Andy's age and was going off to college when we saw 3. Cried at that more than anything dark in the story.

 

Agreed. Both the movie and the short are outstanding. I just left them off because I remembered that they weren't Pixar. Otherwise, it would definitely be in my top 3.

 

Have not taken Daughter One to Inside Out, so this list is subject to change.

Tops:
The Incredibles: Just spot-on, perfect dialogue between a husband and wife. They sounded so much like real life that I could totally see them as married. The little jabs, the back and forth, the inside jokes, reading between the lines and talking around a subject -- it's like my marriage, only superhero size.
Toy Story 3: I'm drawn to darkness.
Toy Story: The alpha to 3's omega.
Monsters Inc.: Steve Buscemi is great.


Bottoms:
The Rat Movie: Way, way too long. And, really, a fucking rat? Come on.
Brave: Too long and annoying.
Finding Nemo: I rooted for the sharks.
Cars 2: The worst sequel perhaps ever.
Meh:
Wall-E
Up
Cars
Monsters University

 

There's a suicide in the first five minutes of "The Incredibles"!

 

Having seen Inside Out...

The difference between one thinking it's the best Pixar movie ever - or just one of the better Pixar movies - may boil down to what you think of Docter creating a kind of "road movie" halfway between, which includes the imaginary friend. If the brain is a movie studio, and that's kind of the gist here, than Bing Bong is the vaudevillian hobo with a heart of gold.

 

Inside Out
Incredibles
Ratatouille
Toy Story
Finding Nemo

That's the five.

And Anton Ego's reaction to ratatouille is the greatest Pixar moment.

 

Saw Inside Out last night and it was incredible. Depending how many nominees they have, and how deep the field is, I could see it getting a Best Picture nomination like Up (another Pete Docter film).

And that short was amazing, too. I'd love to see that song get an Oscar nomination.

 

I didn't care for Inside Out. I thought it was just OK.

 

Looks like there are only versions of the song from Lava with still images on YouTube rather than the actual short, which figures with the movie still in theaters. My daughter came home from her summer camp singing it yesterday. Apparently, quite a few of the campers love it. Now it's stuck in my head, too.

 

This is worth your time.

Pixar’s films put technology and storytelling hand-in-hand / The Dissolve

 

God damn am I going to miss The Dissolve. Hope all those nerds find work somewhere else.

 

It could get one. It's actually a strong year for movies thus far, but we'll have to see what the voters do with Mad Max and Ex Machina. The former is a visual spectacular - more or less why movies are made - the latter is very, very very good in ways you have to chew on a little. But neither may get best picture nods. Both should.

It Follows is better than both, "in 20 years they show it at film festivals" good, but it'll get lost.