Next batch of Pixar films after the Monsters Inc. prequel

Inside Out is the new "on loop" movie at our house (5yo girl) having succeeded Fantastic Mr. Fox and Frozen. I'm pretty happy with this although now she asks "Why did Bing Bong fall back out of the rocket and fall back down?" and neither of us can really answer it because it's too hard to explain while trying not to cry.

Little kids get this movie on a straight comedy level, apparently. When we first saw it and were evangelizing it to some of our friends I learned that kids Riley's age and up (into the twenties) all seem to take it along the lines of "yeah, seems about right" but as noted in that one review, parents take it somewhere between a gut punch, a good (but not great) stand-up routine and a roller coaster, and in all cases, you know what's coming and you still cry/laugh/scream despite how rote all the elements might be.

Finally saw The Good Dinosaur. I approve!
It's a great children's film, less aimed at adults than most of Pixar's movies. Some of the photorealistic nature animation is incredible - interesting contrast with the character designs, which are as cartoonish as you can get (often too much). Probably a third of the movie has no dialogue, or one character talking effectively to a dog, and there's a well-created sense of loneliness and longing I found touching. Was afraid this would be another Cars or something, glad to report it was not, and willfully misadvertised as such.

And as others have said, the Sanjay's Super Team short is very good

finally saw inside out..it was so dreary to take the infinite possibilities of this concept and just make it the same adventure park theme ride as wreck-it ralph. endless urgency and conflict. jumping. falling. big things tumbling.

like when joy and sadness were clinging to the ledge at the climax and the other emotions were trying to figure out how to break the glass and they used the flames from anger’s head to melt a hole in the glass. like..why was there glass? and why would anger have actual flame? which do they have to cling to a ledge to climb back in? why does this imaginary world have earth gravity and physics and chemistry besides lazy screenwriting?

it’s depressing to imagine a kid imagining their subconscious like this. “i’m gonna be late for the train!”

also the character models were hideous and charmless and just looked like fungus and mucus commercial mascots.
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what is that last thing, a testicle?

His name is Deez.

More like Dis

No thoughts yet on Finding Dory? Took my little one to see it at the weekend, think I enjoyed it more than she did.

There's a bit here - Pixar to Disney: Drop Dead - I liked the movie overall, but there was a scene at the end of Finding Nemo where they've lost Dory, and she's terrified and bewildered, and then they find her hooray the end. And I found that scene very affecting, and the ghost of that scene haunts the movie for me.

I'm aware that I dodged the main concerns of FN by neither being or having a kid.

Also wandering around Sydney Aquarium yesterday, the kids are having none of the idea that those fish are called Clownfish and Blue Tang.

So going back to the original post we've known about this for years:

UNTITLED DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS

Director: Lee Unkrich
Producer: Darla K. Anderson

From director Lee Unkrich and producer Darla K. Anderson, the filmmaking team behind the Academy Award®-winning "Toy Story 3," comes a wholly original Pixar Animation Studios film that delves into the vibrant holiday of Día de los Muertos.

...and we finally have some details:

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/12/06/pixar-coco-cast-plot

First, the voice cast: Benjamin Bratt and Gael García Bernal will lead Coco alongside newcomer Anthony Gonzalez, who will voice the film’s main character, a 12-year-old Mexican boy named Miguel. Gonzalez was hired after serving as Miguel’s scratch voice during early development, proving himself indispensable to both the filmmakers and the character. Character actress Renée Victor also joins the cast as Abuelita, Miguel’s grandmother.

However, to understand whom Bratt and Bernal are voicing, it helps to get a little context. What’s Coco even about?

Coco follows the secret musical ambitions of Miguel, who resides in a lively, loud Mexican village but comes from a family of shoemakers that may be the town’s only music-hating household. For generations, the Riveras have banned music because they believe they’ve been cursed by it; as their family history goes, Miguel’s great-great-grandfather abandoned his wife decades earlier to follow his own dreams of performing, leaving Imelda (Miguel’s great-great-grandmother) to take control as the matriarch of the now-thriving Rivera line and declare music dead to the family forever.

But Miguel harbors a secret desire to seize his musical moment, inspired by his favorite singer of all time, the late Ernesto de la Cruz (Bratt). It’s only after Miguel discovers an amazing link between himself and De la Cruz that he takes action to emulate the famous singer and, in doing so, accidentally enters the Land of the Dead.

Abuelita, Miguel’s grandmother
Miguel, who resides in a lively, loud Mexican village
Abuelita, Miguel’s grandmother
Miguel, who resides in a lively, loud Mexican village
Abuelita, Miguel’s grandmother
Miguel, who resides in a lively, loud Mexican village
Abuelita, Miguel’s grandmother
Miguel, who resides in a lively, loud Mexican village

The next Pixar movie after that will focus on a streetwise East London paperboy Guvnor and his grandpa Old Geezer, and their comical attempts to avoid the Morris Dancing festival in Shoreditch.

dude we're already used to Hollywood documentaries about Real England

I'm so confused. Half of this sounds like a really lame version of The Book Of Life without the crazy supernatural stuff & framing devices that made that movie awesome

The other half just sounds really stupid and terrible

... how is this thing actually getting made? it sounds like a total rip off of Book of Life (which was great)

As far as Day of the Dead cartoons go, I'd much rather someone adapt this:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51gu6AB7%2B3L._SX342_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

oh god i didn't even notice this in Ned's prologue...

the vibrant holiday of Día de los Metros
the vibrant holiday
the vibrant holiday
the vibrant holiday

i mean, for all i know this movie might not suck but the PR department can go fuck itself

Well, teaser trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNCz4mQzfEI

Seriously just watch The Book Of Life. Wtf Pixar

"No, really, it was our own original story we borrowed from Corpse Bride. Wait, shit!"

this looks really bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zxj9q8Yjdw

That might have been good if no-one had made The Book of Life (or Kubo and the Two Strings)

So Toy Story 4 is inexplicably great, for a movie that sounded completely unnecessary.

That's pretty much how Pixar sequels work

True. I guess this is the one series where each film really hits it out of the park. Most of the other sequels (Dory, monsters, incredibles) were enjoyable but not equal to the first.

Nah that's fair. Didn't like the first Incredibles so haven't bothered with the second but i usually sigh and roll my eyes when they bring out a sequel even tho they're very well-executed compared to the other US animation studios

God sitting through previews of upcoming animated movies last night was motherfucking painful. Trolls 2? Angry Birds 2? A bunch of other ugly horrendous looking shit. Frozen 2 trailer was lovely though (though I doubt I'll ever see that).

Non-Disney/Pixar animated multiplex fare is one of the purest expressions of unalloyed misanthropy I can think of.

Dreamworks bats .250 maybe, but the good ones are good

(arches eyebrow as smirk slowly spreads across punchable mug)

(twerks to the tune of 'Who Let the Dogs Out')

.250 is probably generous. you recalibrate after your 3 yr old exposes you to amazon prime shit like "Jeppy"

or "Learn with Jeppy" if you want to google

That's pretty much how Pixar sequels work

oh man i expected to meh that Finding Dory and it made me cry SO MUCH, like heaving sobs by the end

same

Yeah, Finding Dory was a solid film. It was no Coco though...

yeah Coco was the business.

i've forgotten every single thing about Finding Dory TBH

Could be good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8DKg_fsacM

Ha, that looks good!

Will say, Pixar has been super hit or miss for me since ... Disney acquisition? I don't remember anything about Toy Story 3, didn't see Cars 2, thought Brave was OK, hated Monsters Inc 2, thought Inside Out was OK, didn't like Good Dinosaur, don't remember anything about Finding Dory (except Gerald, the goofy unibrow sea lion), didn't see Cars 3 (and didn't remember it existing?), loved Coco, hated Incredibles 2 ...

neat!

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There was way too much "wait, we have to go back for ...!" in this one, but otherwise I thought Toy Story 4 was surprisingly good.

God sitting through previews of upcoming animated movies last night was motherfucking painful.

Unless you have children, there is no reason NOT to walk into movies 20 minutes late to miss the trailers.