You mean you rank the movies in that order, or just that you prefer Monsters Inc to the rest?
I'm actually not a big fan of the second Toy Story film, but I understand that I'm relatively lonely in that regard and am not seeking converts.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~MadrugadaExcept for Cars 2, which is just like an ordinary brick
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There will never been a full unanimious opionon on Cars 2. Love It or Hate It
Finally saw it. My main complaints are that Mater isn't a character for carrying a movie, and I would have preferred not to mix up "car spies" into the Cars world.
I have a friend who's complained that one reason Pixar is usually excellent is because their messages are more unique than the standard "be true to yourself" or "protect the environment" Aesops, and Cars 2 used both of them.
My father, who is thoroughly against sequels on principle ("stories should end"), said he thought it was a pretty successful sequel, because the characters weren't compromised and "they found more story without stretching it out of the last one".
Fresh-eyed movie blogStill think the movie would've been infintely better if it had starred Sally. She, along with Doc Hudson, was one of the few characters I really had any investment in the first one.
You are displaying abnormally high compulsions to over-analyze works of fiction and media. Diagnosis: TV Tropes Addiction.Of course, in this one, Doc is... well, you know.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
What do you mean?
Rewatched today. Realized that half of my friend's critique, that it used the played out "protect the environment message" is only as true as it is for Wall-E, which he loves and always explains that it's not "about" environmentalism, but pollution to get the story started.
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They seemed to be a lot more blunt about the environmental message this time though. The first just had Earth happen to be covered in garbage. The second is a lot more specific, with major characters saying things like "once big oil, always big oil." Quite frankly, it's what neocons get for Crying Wolf about Wall E.
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Nearly everything they've done was meaningful to some extent, even the first cars movie. Hell, I think the second one was too (see aforementioned message) but it is a bit more action-centric and a bit less sentimental.
And the main thrust of Wall-E concerned planting a tree.
(I also wouldn't call Sarge a major character even in the first movie)
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There's a difference, in hostility, political implications, etc... between encouraging tree-planting and encouraging permanent distrust of big oil. As it was put in the comments to this
article...
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Eh, IMO Monster's Inc > Finding Nemo, Cars, A Bug's Life, The Incredibles, Ratatouille and the first two Toy Stories, maybe the third one, too. Of course, I think that Finding Nemo's vastly overrated.
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