Pixar's worst movie

[Fridge]

with the reminder that pixar will soon be releasing it's worst picture, Cars 2, i just wanted to look back and see which movie it will be replacing. Looking back a the list it's hard to think of one, it's like picking out which diamond is the least valuable, they're all pretty, and they're next to perfect.

Toy story 1,2&3, a bugs life, monsters inc., finding nemo, the incredibles, cars, ratatouille, Wall E, Up. those are the ones i'm talking about i'm not asking about shorts and other stuff ~_~...

so which movie do you think was the worst?
ME - monsters inc.

A Bugs Life, compared to the others its awful. Plus Antz (I know its not Pixar) did something similar in the same year and it was far better.

 

[arugulino]

I hated Toy Story 2, enough so that I didn't bother to see 3. So to me that is the worst film by Pixar.

3 isn't as fixated on the bad guy angle as 2 was, and it's pretty much hilarious beginning to end. It deserves at least a Redbox rental. =]

 

[LogicNProportion]

Definitely Cars.

 

[joemegson94]

Cars and A Bug's Life are pretty good films, but they're quite mediocre compared to Pixar's other films. (I haven't seen Ratatouille)

 

[JaredXE]

Cars. Cars sucked.

Next has to be Up. Up and Wall-E were emotional kicks in the balls when I watched them simply because I saw them by myself and they were about finding a special person in your life, though I like Wall-E a lot better.


Stupid Pixar, having to remind me I'm alone when I'm just trying to enjoy a movie.

 

[ExaltedK9]

You're having a meltdown because I said I thought a Pixar movie was boring, and I'm the immature one? I gotta say, I'm not a fan of your twisted logic.

Oh, and I'm not trolling, just expressing an opinion, which incidently sent you into a tailspin of anxiety.

Yes, I'm having a meltdown because I'm using correct English. I'm guessing Ernest Hemingway wrote nothing but constant hissy fits then.

Yeah, I get it. Just saying [http://blognolife.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/trollface.png].

And movies are not objective. How good they are is a matter of opinion. Mine being that up was boring as hell. But I'm glad that it sent you on a magical rollercoaster of emotions. Oh, and up was a high budget movie. (It is Pixar after all) And any animated 3D movie takes a small fortune to actually animate, along with thousands of man hours.

Open to debate. (not really apparently) But I know Up was a big budget production, as are most "main" Pixar enterprises. I wasn't implying that Pixar was low budget, was making it clear that I wasn't even including the "smaller" B-list movies in the comparison.

And is that a spelling error I see? What do ya' know, it looks like you're human as well. But regardless, I'm gonna ***** about it on a public forum because it offends me in ways you can't ever comprehend.... (I'm being facetious, by the way.)

You never read The Raven [http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/TheRaven.html] then. Or, you know, pretty much anything written... what? More than a century ago?

I'll pretend I'm surprised. (I'll pretend not to notice you undeserved superiority complex)

And to answer your questions, in order:

No, I didn't dislike it because it was animated, or terribly devoid of car chases.

Yes, I think I'm perfectly aware on why you didn't like it by now. (Care to enlighten me? Even though I'm sure it's gonna be something along the lines of: "Omg ur not enlightened!!11!1!!1")

Transformers was ok

Yeah... Let's stop here. I think that says enough about you. (That I like robots? I do.)

Good day.(Indeed)

By the way, more people liked Transformers than they did Up. Shattered it in the box office... and for good reason.

 

[Ildecia]

seems like everyone didnt like cars,

so i'll go with antz.

EDIT: crap, antz was dreamworks... so probably then... hmmmmm

A Bug's Life

 

[jack583]

Snip for length.

was "meet the robisons" pixar or dreamworks?
because i hated how screwed up their veiws on time travle works.

but if that is dreamworks then i say "the incredibles".
i really only liked the first robot fight scene.

Meet the Robinsons was made by Walt Disney without the help of Pixar. I only know this after I searched for it on Wikipedia just now because I never saw the movie myself.

just to be sure that we are talking about the same film:
"meet the robisons": new animated film about a boy genius who gets to travel to the future by way of some random kid from the future (later turns out to be the smart kids future son) that goes back to fix an error he made in his time.

"swiss family robinson": old live action film about a family that gets stranded on an unmarked island and survives via making a house and gadgets that were so advanced given the materials avalable they must have been made by using blue prints writen by "the professor" from the sitcom "gilligans island".

i only ask because you said the film was made by walt disney--who is dead--and not the disney corporation. if you had said the latter i would not have responded, but since you said the first i just wanted to double check.

No I was talking about Meet the Robinsons but I agree with you that the magic of Disney has cleary faded after Walt Disney died. I mean almost all of thier new live action movies are completely horrible. To be honest, the only really good films that were made exclusively by Disney in the 2000s were the Pirates of the Caribbean series and Tron Legacy. I only said Walt Disney because that is the name they put on the particular box.

Also sorry for me taking so long to respond back to your comment, I was enjoying New Year's Eve.

no problem.
hope you had fun.

 

[Dr.Fantastic]

Man I would say cars but I didnt even hate it. I mean it was ok, just ok.

 

[Justanothergamer300]

No Wall-E I felt cheated out of my money after that movie.

 

[PhiMed]

I've never actually watched all of A Bug's Life, so I can't really comment on its place in the pantheon, but out of the ones I've seen (all the rest of them), I'd probably have to say Cars with Wall-e coming in a distant second. Favorites are UP, Toy Story 3, and Monsters, Inc.

Edit: Cars is really actually pretty good, but any affection I may have developed for it is absolutely destroyed by their decision to include Larry the (fucking) Cable Guy as a voice actor. I want that guy to get dick shingles. Nothing that could seriously harm or kill him. Just make him really uncomfortable for a long time.

 

[PhiMed]

Cars and A Bug's Life are pretty good films, but they're quite mediocre compared to Pixar's other films. (I haven't seen Ratatouille)

Fix that. Seriously.

Ratatouille is the most pleasantly surprised I've been in a movie since Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.

 

[PhiMed]

Snip for length.

was "meet the robisons" pixar or dreamworks?
because i hated how screwed up their veiws on time travle works.

but if that is dreamworks then i say "the incredibles".
i really only liked the first robot fight scene.

Meet the Robinsons was made by Walt Disney without the help of Pixar. I only know this after I searched for it on Wikipedia just now because I never saw the movie myself.

just to be sure that we are talking about the same film:
"meet the robisons": new animated film about a boy genius who gets to travel to the future by way of some random kid from the future (later turns out to be the smart kids future son) that goes back to fix an error he made in his time.

"swiss family robinson": old live action film about a family that gets stranded on an unmarked island and survives via making a house and gadgets that were so advanced given the materials avalable they must have been made by using blue prints writen by "the professor" from the sitcom "gilligans island".

i only ask because you said the film was made by walt disney--who is dead--and not the disney corporation. if you had said the latter i would not have responded, but since you said the first i just wanted to double check.

No I was talking about Meet the Robinsons but I agree with you that the magic of Disney has cleary faded after Walt Disney died. I mean almost all of thier new live action movies are completely horrible. To be honest, the only really good films that were made exclusively by Disney in the 2000s were the Pirates of the Caribbean series and Tron Legacy. I only said Walt Disney because that is the name they put on the particular box.

Also sorry for me taking so long to respond back to your comment, I was enjoying New Year's Eve.

Since he died? I guess, but that was half a century ago. They've made a lot of really good stuff since then, arguably some of their best. The 2000s comprise less than a quarter of the time since his death.

 

[RatRace123]

Cars, but being the "worst" Pixar movie doesn't really mean anything, even the worst Pixar movie is still a damn good movie.

 

[Toriver]

Lately, I've tended to only have the chance to see Pixar movies after they've been built up as true masterpieces of cinema entertainment, to come out of it after seeing them thinking they're good, but being rather let down by the extreme over-hype. I'm not going to deny that they're really good movies, but are they really as good as everyone lets on?

Anyway, personally, my vote for Best Pixar Movie would be A Bug's Life. IMO, that one is actually UNDER-appreciated. People heap on the praise for Finding Nemo, Incredibles and Up, but tend to miss out on some of Pixar's earlier gold, like this one and Toy Story 2, which I think is actually better than a lot of the later stuff. I cannot sit through Bug's Life without LOL-ing every 5 minutes. It's great.

As for Worst Pixar Movie, I've got to give it to either Ratatouille or Wall-E, but I think Ratatouille edges out Wall-E for the worst on this one. I can understand that Wall-E is not necessarily supposed to be so much funny as heartwarming and just plain entertaining, so I can kinda give Wall-E a break there. But Ratatouille is just not all that entertaining to me. It's not funny, the story is very far-fetched, even for Pixar, and I had a hard time watching it without sleeping halfway through. It's still not bad, I have seen far worse from animated films, but it's the Pixar movie I liked the least.

 

[LandoCristo]

Cars, I thought I was from Dream Works till a year ago. I like the Incredibles, but it was on tv too many times that I want to throw up anytime I see it.

This. I hadn't payed attention to who made it when I first saw it, and had assumed that Dreamworks had made it until I saw it advertised on the Disney Channel.

 

[eytrvnbmgkhjiuty]

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[warm slurm]

Basically everything post-Cars. Up was boring as shit, and no way in hell did it deserve to be on the same pedestal as Beauty and the Beast (by being the second animated movie to be nominated for best film). If you found the stuff with the little fat kid and the stuff with them walking through the forest interesting and you're not five... then, I dunno.

Toy Story 3 was okay, but super elitist and I find it hard to believe that kids actually enjoyed it. The only reason anybody could enjoy it was if they had seen the first two, because it did bring the story to a satisfying conclusion and the ending was one of the best things Pixar has done (the 'Married Life' segment from Up is one of those too, and was basically the only good part of the movie).

I haven't seen the rat movie, though, so I can't comment on that, and Wall-E was fantastic for the first hour until they went into space.

Pixar just aren't the same anymore. They're elitist; interested more in ~teh awards~ than actually making entertaining films that can be watched time and time again. Seriously, I've watched Toy Story and Toy Story 2 sooo many times each (along with the rest of Pixar's pre-Car movies), but I've only seen Wall-E once, UP once the whole way through (seen the Married Life segment a couple of times), Toy Story 3 twice, and that's it. They're just not suitable for multiple viewings.

 

[Flac00]

None of the movies were good, I admit they have nostalgia factor, but they were not truly good. They weren't bad, but they were definitely not good. They all had the same plot.

Really? And what is that plot.

I'm going to quote Yahtzee Croshaw here with an excerpt from his old website after he saw Wall-E.
"One or more lovable protagonists have existed for some time in a stable but fundamentally flawed routine, which is shaken up by the introduction of a foreign entity, usually another character, around whom attitudes are initially hostile. Attempts to deal with this character eventually lead to the protagonist(s) discovering a new, unfamiliar world, and in doing so discover the nature of the fundamental flaw in their routine. Villains are usually introduced or only become truly villainous from around the mid-point or quite late into the film. Along the way the heroes enlist the help of various lesser characters with clearly definable quirks and at one point reluctantly enter a high-speed chase. The villain is generally finally defeated with surprising ease, and everything concludes in an emotionally manipulative ending in which routine is restored with the fundamental flaw excised.

Now, consider how many Pixar movies that could be describing. Consider it, me bitches."

I'll give you credit, that does work out. But then again that is usually the plot of every movie except for a couple points. Usually all movies and stories alike follow the same plot pattern and end in certain ways. I can name you hundreds of other movies that are counted as some of the greatest, and find that they follow a plot line similar.

 

[tseroff]

None of the movies were good, I admit they have nostalgia factor, but they were not truly good. They weren't bad, but they were definitely not good. They all had the same plot.

Really? And what is that plot.

I'm going to quote Yahtzee Croshaw here with an excerpt from his old website after he saw Wall-E.
"One or more lovable protagonists have existed for some time in a stable but fundamentally flawed routine, which is shaken up by the introduction of a foreign entity, usually another character, around whom attitudes are initially hostile. Attempts to deal with this character eventually lead to the protagonist(s) discovering a new, unfamiliar world, and in doing so discover the nature of the fundamental flaw in their routine. Villains are usually introduced or only become truly villainous from around the mid-point or quite late into the film. Along the way the heroes enlist the help of various lesser characters with clearly definable quirks and at one point reluctantly enter a high-speed chase. The villain is generally finally defeated with surprising ease, and everything concludes in an emotionally manipulative ending in which routine is restored with the fundamental flaw excised.

Now, consider how many Pixar movies that could be describing. Consider it, me bitches."

I'll give you credit, that does work out. But then again that is usually the plot of every movie except for a couple points. Usually all movies and stories alike follow the same plot pattern and end in certain ways. I can name you hundreds of other movies that are counted as some of the greatest, and find that they follow a plot line similar.

That is probably due to Chris Vogler's book on Hollywood stories, which has strong Campbellian influences. I'd say it's a bad trend in modern movies that they all seem to follow it, but some of them can really pull it off. (see Star Wars, LOTR, Matrix, Equilibrium, etc.)