Next batch of Pixar films after the Monsters Inc. prequel

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.

Independent Woman Bo Peep was good angle

She was a survivalist!

I heard/read a great take on the Toy Story movies as workplace comedies. Woody is established early on as sort of a manager, the guy in charge, barking orders and giving directions. The first movie is about the arrival of a new employee and how to integrate him into the team. The second movie is about Woody considering a promotion with better pay and fewer duties at a different company, but ultimately deciding to remain loyal to his team. The third one is about a hostile takeover leading to Woody et al. jumping ship to a new start-up (Bonnie). And the fourth movie is about Woody coming to grips with aging out of the workforce and embracing retirement.

there were a few moments that felt almost a bit Black Mirror-ish...Forky trying to kill himself, the defective and broken toys living in the antique store forever, the fact that a kindergartener can just create sentient life...I feel like the film's cuteness and humor was able to gloss over all that but the more of these they make the more it kinda delves into that world

I watched this with my kids (4 & 2) so I only got to pay half attention, but it was pretty funny. I assume I missed some good stuff while my kid was trying to climb over the seats. the stuffed toys played by Key & Peele were pretty good, I'm glad they did an ad ahead of time where they play the K&P valet characters cuz I was gonna say

Anyone have any thoughts on Onward? Doesn't seem to have been discussed here much, if at all. Haven't seen it yet but planning to rectify that soon.

Soul is out later this year and sounds v promising, looking forward to that one.

Onward is remarkably unremarkable.

Onward was fine, my 9 year-old loves it and has watched it dozens of times. It's not top tier Pixar, but I also think it dropped from the conversation pretty quickly. I'm not sure a traditional run in a non-pandemic year would have improved it's rep all that much. But I think part of it is the curse of Pixar expectations, Onward didn't break any new ground in animation style/techniques (i.e. nailing Sully's hair in Monster Inc. or the underwater stuff in Nemo) and the story was pretty pat compared to say, Coco. All of which makes it sound like I'm lukewarm on it, but I'm not, I thought it was enjoyable.

I loved it. I tend to get very invested in dead dad stories anyway, but this one resonated in many unexpected ways.

i quit ten minutes in.

I have access to disney+ but I don't feel like watching anything after Coco.

Toy Story 4 in HDR is gorgeous.

There was a little discussion of Onward in the streaming services thread. I was surprised to really enjoy it - my favorite of the uh three movies I've watched this year

Soul is really really good I thought!

Yeah, I enjoyed it. I went in with fairly low expectations, for Pixar anyway, but I liked it. Much better than Onward and a pretty sweet story, for the most part.

a pretty sweet story, for the most part.

With a fairly nuanced message. It certainly is in their more thoughtful, 'adult' category of films, along with Ratatouille and Wall-E.

I was concerned it would be too close to Coco, given the premise (afterlife & music!), but the texture and themes were very different.

Disney charged full price for mulan but soul is up for free with disney+? i guess the mulan experiment failed.

Onward was "free," too. But you're right, if they could have charged more for it I imagine they would have.

Glad to hear this is possibly better than some of the things I've, well, heard.

seems to be a growing consensus on Twitter that Disney has an issue with letting black people be black people through a whole movie. Haven't watched it yet myself.

Yeah, Princess and the Frog was pretty bad on that front. "We have the first black princess! And ... now she's a frog."

We liked it. I especially enjoyed the moment when Dorothea tells the fish in the ocean parable.

I thought the story was sweet in this one, but man, the lighting on Pixar movies is SO beautiful at this point. All of the little reflections and diffuse light everywhere added up to an almost-overwhelming version of NYC, where every time they started to zoom out, I was just flooded with sensory overload and emotion.