Generally speaking, all movies
from Pixar studios are the same two movies. It’s either an adventure film where
characters have to get from Point A to Point B (Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo, The Good Dinosaur, Inside Out,
Monsters Inc.) or it’s a coming of
age film where the main characters stay in one place and fight (Cars, Ratatouille, Monsters
University, Toy Story 3, A Bug’s Life).
Sometimes the film is a combination of the two (Wall-E, The Incredibles),
but more often than not, the plot and the story of a Pixar film is something
you’ve seen many times before, often times from a previous Pixar film. However,
Pixar remains the top of the animation mountain- both in terms of box office
success as well as quality of work. Pixar has been able to consistently churn
out great film after great film for over two decades. Even a decent film like Finding Dory is lightyears ahead of most
of the animation crop.
Yet there are clear tiers within
each individual Pixar films. The tiers used to be “Holy cow, that’s friggin one
of the best movies of all time” and “That’s very good, but it’s not one of
Pixar’s best”. Films like the Toy Story
franchise, Wall-E, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles fall into the former while other films like Cars, Ratatouille, and A Bug’s Life
fall into the later. Unfortunately, ever since Cars 2 came out in 2011, we have unfortunately needed to create a
third category for Pixar: “wow, that surprisingly was not a good movie”. Films
like Cars 2, Monsters University, and Brave
has unfortunately taken their place among the Pixar lore and semi-hurting the
legacy. Since 2011, Pixar has made some Friggin Best Films of All Time movies
like Inside Out and Toy Story 3, but for the most part, the
films are either Surprisingly Not Good, or just bordering it. Pixar’s last two
films, The Good Dinosaur and Finding Dory are good films and films
that I would give a positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes if I had a vote, but
clearly rank among of the worst films the studio has ever produced.
