Wall-E — 10 Years Later (Stanton, 2008)
Wall-E is near the top of the list of films I call "friendship killers."
Tag: Pixar
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Cars (Lasseter & Ranft, 2006) — 10 Years Later
While many of Pixar's films, like Toy Story, have already become beloved classics, Cars has mostly been forgotten. And not without some reason. It’s not a bad film, but it lacks the imaginative power of Wall-E and Inside Out or the emotional resonance of the Toy Story trilogy and the opening sequence of Up. Film history will mostly remember it as a cog in Disney’s well-oiled cash engine.
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The Incredibles (Bird, 2004) — 10 Years Later
Of all the films I reviewed in 2004, The Incredibles is surely the one I’ve rewatched the most—and the one I would most readily rewatch again. If it takes ten years or even longer for an Incredibles sequel, I’ll be here.
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Finding Nemo (Stanton and Unkrich, 2003) — 10 Years Later
The older and more experienced I get, the more confidence I have in my own judgment. That's as it should be. When it comes to "family films," however, it feels as though each passing year allows me to drift further and further from any sort of critical consensus about what is desirable within the genre and what particular films meet the criteria for meriting praise.
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Emma, Merida, and the Female Bildungsroman
In his critical reception history for the novel in the Bedford edition, Alistair Duckworth notes that "feminist voices" were seldom heard championing Austen prior to the 1970s
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Brave (Chapman, Andrews, and Purcell 2012)
Payoff there is, but I found my own emotions at the conclusion somewhat muted by the fact that--and there's just no easy way to put this--I preferred the pre-chastened heroine to the one who had learned her lesson at the end.
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Monsters, Inc. (Docter, Silverman, Unkrich, 2001)
You know the biggest shock about revisiting Monsters, Inc. ten years later? It was the "Coming Soon" preview for Disney's Treasure Planet.
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1More Podcast–Episode 5
Kenneth R. Morefield and Peter Waldron podcast about Pixar films.
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Up (Docter, 2009)
As such, there has always been something troubling to me about the increasing insistence of Disney and Pixar films that the villains not only be wrong, but incorrigibly evil--not merely defeated but destroyed.