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What type of teen was Andy (from Toy Story) ?

Like was he a nerd, emo, theater kid, sports jock, etc?

From his room decorations, it looks like he was into rock music.

Also we know he is going to college, so he probably took his high school studies seriously.

11 Comments
2025/02/01
18:10 UTC

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Monthly r/Pixar Movie Ranking Thread

It's that time of the month again; Ranking Time! To keep the subreddit less cluttered with everyone and their mom's rankings, we're going to use this thread specifically for the community to post their rankings.

So here we go! Post your rankings, tell what your favorites are and why, etc! Just remember, while you may not agree with a user's list, everyone is entitled to their own opinions, they don't have to explain their choices to you if they don't want to, and there are no wrong answers. Everything is subjective. SO PLAY NICE! ;)

Here's a template list of all of the movies in case you need them:

  • Toy Story
  • A Bug's Life
  • Toy Story 2
  • Monsters, Inc.
  • Finding Nemo
  • The Incredibles
  • Cars
  • Ratatouille
  • WALL-E
  • UP
  • Toy Story 3
  • Cars 2
  • Brave
  • Monsters University
  • Inside Out
  • The Good Dinosaur
  • Finding Dory
  • Cars 3
  • Coco
  • Incredibles 2
  • Toy Story 4
  • Onward
  • Soul
  • Luca
  • Turning Red
  • Lightyear
  • Elemental
  • Inside Out 2

The thread will be updated after each release, so make sure you check back so you can provide an updated list.

11 Comments
2025/02/01
05:01 UTC

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For the Month of Love Today: "Pixar's Leading Couple Movies." (The protagonist-deuteragonist definition.)

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2025/02/01
04:17 UTC

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Pixar remixes

Know those Pixar remix videos telling movies like Up- Magna Style or Wall E 16 bit? What other movies and styles would you choose?

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2025/02/01
01:11 UTC

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A wild ride...

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2025/01/31
18:52 UTC

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If you were to add new characters/scenes to Finding Nemo, what would you do?

Andrew Stanton basically had "The Big Blue" canvas and went the route of: Coral reef, sharks, dark abyss, jellyfish, turtle currents, whale.

It must of been fun to imagine where Dory & Marlin were going next & who they were to encounter.

If you were to add another scene/character to the mix, what would you do? I'm no ocean expert, so im not sure of the different zones of the ocean. I remember reading that 90+% of the ocean is just nothing but blue space (similar to the scene with the whale)

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2025/01/30
20:27 UTC

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a bugs life have connection with monsters inc

BNL Or Buy and large make a radiation where the animals also the bugs and the appearance of the tree appeared in wall-e a huge radiation made by BNL Or Buy and large the creatures starts evolutioning

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2025/01/30
01:14 UTC

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Did the Prospector not think any of his plan through?

So out of the blue, I thought about the Prospector from Toy Story 2, and how he was bitter after spending years on a shelf watching every other toy but him being sold. He wants to be put on display in a museum in Japan.

Aaaah.... what??? He's mad because he wasn't played with by kids over the years, that's why he tried sabotaging Woody and influencing him to his side. How would being in a glass case in some museum in Tokyo be any different? He'd still not be played with... which is apparently the thing he was mad about to begin with.

11 Comments
2025/01/29
22:42 UTC

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I wonder if 22 had any famous musicians as her mentors

Maybe she had Jimi Hendrix and yes all of the mentoring dead musicians and composers hated her as well don’t worry i like her just like Joe Gardner himself

15 Comments
2025/01/29
21:39 UTC

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How well would you do in the first challenge in the Scare game?

I don’t think I would make it.

16 Comments
2025/01/29
21:01 UTC

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Cars 2 is Pixar's worst movie but for the reasons people mostly don't talk about.

There, I said it. I know that everybody hates Cars 2 and considers it to be the worst Pixar film including me. But about a year and a half ago, I decided to rewatch Cars 2 even though I seen Cars 1 tons of times as a kid and Cars 3 once in its original theatrical release but I remember watching Cars 2 as a little kid and didn't know my opinion on it, hence why I decided to give it a rewatch.

It's a bad movie. Like very bad. But for all the reasons that people mostly don't say about the film.

A huge problem I had with the film was that the storyline was a jumbled together mess. You have Radiator Springs, then Tokyo, then traveling all around the world. I know that they went to London at the end of the film but I don't know all of the other locations besides for those three. That's right, the plot is forgettable. It's clear that it was just one huge mess of the film from the very start.

And the opening scene is like, what happened: Finn McMissile (or whatever his name is) killing cars and then escaping while getting away with a G-rating is just wild. It's clear that they were trying to copy James Bond but didn't know its intended target audience which is obviously, kids. Then over the course of the film, more action happens. How in the world did Disney/Pixar think that was appropriate for young children. It's crazy to see tons of action happening in Cars 2 when it's supposed to be about racing.

And let's not forget that the spy concept doesn't work that well in Cars 2. That's one out-of-place genre. I understand where they going for but it just wasn't executed that well. Even the spy stuff was done better in Mission: Impossible, the Bourne movies and UglyDolls (despit the latter not being a big part of the movie) and that's saying something about this movie.

I didn't mind Matter's increased screentime but even Larry the Cable Guy can't save the movie at all. Same goes for Lighting McQueen and Owen Wilson, he can't save this movie at all. Overall, it's just a terrible movie. And it's clear why Pixar was forced by Disney to make Cars 2: TO SELL MORE MERCHANDISE TO KIDS!!!

Even if I got around to watching all of the Pixar movies in release order or rewatched the Cars movies, I would probably skip Cars 2 because it's just not a good movie anyways. A reason why I vastly prefer Cars 3 over Cars 2 is at least it went back to its roots of racing and at least ignored the events of Cars 2. That one, I can rewatch. But at least Cars 1 is still a classic to me even though 2 isn't a good movie at all.

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2025/01/29
17:33 UTC

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Pixar's Other Veteran Actors Besides John Ratzenberger.

Rules:

  1. They must have at least two individual roles. Re-envisioned characters, like Woody from the Toy Story franchise (who was even parodied in Cars), don't count.
  2. They should have established themselves in the world of live-action media before being involved in Pixar movies.
  3. For fairness sake, long-time Pixar staff members (e.g. Andrew Stanton, Peter Sohn, and Lou Romano) won't be included.
  4. And for obvious reasons, no professional voice actors would be added (e.g. Frank Welker, Debi Derryberry, and Grey DeLisle).

Here It Is:

(Btw, their color schemes are respectively based off Sally Carerra, Bing Bong, Bloat, and Rex.)

Tell me what you think.

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2025/01/29
07:49 UTC

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Unpopular Opinion- it makes much more sense for new viewers to watch Monsters University before watching Monsters Inc.

I know with a lot of prequels it doesn’t work well at all to watch the prequel first (something like Better Call Saul comes to mind), but I decided to watch the 2 monster films back to back today, starting with MU, and it seems like the optimum way to enjoy the story.

Yeah sure, you’ll miss out on a few inside jokes during MU, that you’d only understand if you watched MI first (Randall squinting taking off his glasses, seeing the abominal snowman etc), but overall it makes more sense doing it in this order, because it provides more suspense for a first time viewer wondering how Sully and Mike ended up at Monsters INC, then it does watching MU 2nd.

Plus, I feel like they created the films in a way that MI picks up perfectly from where they left off in MU. In many ways it does genuinely feel like MI was made 2nd. As the start of the film leads off with Mike coaching Sully and trying to motivate him, which is what we see a lot of in MU. It makes it feel like a natural continuation of the story.

Also, maybe the biggest reason of all, it gives such a happy ending to the story, because at the end of MI it shows that laughter is more powerful that screams, so Mike was able to be as useful in that world as he always wanted, since in MU it’s shown that he physically can’t be scary enough to work in that industry.

Just thought I’d share my thoughts on this, and wondered if anyone agrees with me? The general consensus I’ve seen from people, is that they think MI makes sense to watch 1st, but I disagree tbh.

Edit- I’m not a first time watcher myself, I’ve seen both of the films loads of times, I’m just giving my opinions with a first time viewer of the films in mind.

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2025/01/29
01:08 UTC

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Man, I Love This Shot

25 Comments
2025/01/28
23:17 UTC

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Is a Pixar animator from Tennessee?

At the start of Cars, they leave "Speedway of the South" which looks a lot like Bristol, TN. To from there to California, the fastest route is Interstate 40. The travel montage shows I-24, which meets I-40 in Nashville. And then it shows a twisty river which is crossed and recrossed by the highway. This mirrors I-40 crossing the Caney Fork River in the Buffalo Valley. Such detail peters out in the montage.

So with this intense detail, it seems an animator must be from Tennessee. Any ideas?

7 Comments
2025/01/28
19:09 UTC

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Chick Hicks after the cars universe

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2025/01/28
17:01 UTC

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Wall-E movie buttons over wireless connections.

Wall-E is my favorite Pixar movie by far. I’ve loved it ever since it first came out and I must have watched it a thousand times by now.

One thing has been on my mind since the beginning though, and that’s the lack of wireless interfaces and the near exclusive use of buttons throughout the film.

  • Wall-E has buttons for his recorder.
  • The ship that carries Eve activates her with buttons.
  • Auto controls the ship by using the console

There are more examples… but I won’t list them all.

As a programmer, I like to think this came about because wireless technology was somehow rendered insecure or insufficient, requiring everything to be interacted with through buttons and screens, but I honestly don’t know.

What do you guys think? Does anyone know what the writers intended with this? Was it just a stylistic choice?

6 Comments
2025/01/28
02:30 UTC

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What will Riley look like if she was her own emotion living in Headquarters?

What will she wear? What will she do? What will she look like? Will she give advice?

12 Comments
2025/01/27
10:27 UTC

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What speedway is the Motor Speedway of the South based on?

1 Comment
2025/01/27
09:18 UTC

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The world of Cars is deeply disturbing and leaves me with many questions.

It seems to me that in all other Pixar movies, humans exist in a form similar to our own world. The main characters of the movies, whether they are toys, fish, bugs, rats, feelings, etc. all lead secret, rich lives usually beyond the view of any human characters. But they still exist within the recognizable world of humans with humans still living their lives similar to the real world.

Cars, however, is different, and I find it disturbing. They exist in a world with many familiar trappings of ours - roads, bridges, buildings, billboards, farms, plants, nature - but there are no humans in sight. There are no humans driving the cars, no humans constructing buildings, or offering any reasonable explanation for why cars exist in the first place.

In a typical Pixar movie I would expect that humans drive the cars but also the cars have personalities and secret lives of their own. Not so. The cars also operate machinery (tv cameras, tools, etc) in a cartoonish and nonsensical way vs. how humans would have.

In the first movie there's a statue of the founder of the little town. Some old Model-T type car. Who built the first cars? What came before them? They also reference that oil comes from dinosaurs. How would they know this and how would they have refined the first oil? Their whole society wouldn't have existed until around 1900. Also: what are the tractors and farms for? There are no people to eat the food. Is the entire farming system based on producing ethanol and biodiesel?

This is mostly /s and for fun but I am a still a little wierded out.

Anybody else?

edit

Googled around and I'm not the first to talk about this (I figured).

This article is amazing https://jalopnik.com/this-disturbing-theory-explains-pixars-cars-1791834045

48 Comments
2025/01/27
01:09 UTC

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A Bug's Life: What the season?

Something that's always stuck with me about this Pixar icon is that it's never consistent what season the plot is taking place in. Admittedly, I have watched it more times than was probably healthy, and I'm not trying to highlight potential plot holes, but I've never been able to shake the nagging feeling.

Here's what I'm talking about:

  • Flick says that the colony spends all summer harvesting for the offering, yet when Hopper gives the ants a second chance - during the time when they normally gather food for themselves - he says "You ants have a nice summer."
  • Attempts at compiling a second offering shows the ants working under blazing sun, and Hopper's furious remark - "Have you been playing all summer?!" - implies his accounting was more consistent. Yet when his gang is in Mexico between the 1st and 2nd offerings, he says that they have more than enough food to last the winter right there.
  • The "rainy season" seems like it could be autumn, but when assembling the mechanical bird, the ants take leaves from the tree that have already obtained their fall colors. Also, Hopper returning "when the last leaf falls" implies that autumn will have already passed by the time the second deadline comes.

Has anyone else seen the film enough times that this has stuck with them? What are your thoughts on the consistency or lack thereof? Is there any way to determine with certainty, and does it even matter in the end?

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2025/01/26
19:37 UTC

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The Unmade Pixar Movies That Could've Replaced Toy Story

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2025/01/26
17:03 UTC

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Best Pixar adult jokes of all time????

My favorite is personally, "Hector choked on some chorizo"...

But what do you guys think?

163 Comments
2025/01/26
16:46 UTC

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Why did Cruz get an upgrade and McQueen didn't?

It's clear that Cruz had an upgrade in cars 3, I know this because when we first meet Cruz her top speed is 193 meaning she wouldn't be able to compete with Storm, And we know Lightning can't as he is supposedly 198mph at fastest in cars 3. But later in the movie when Smokey begins training McQueen, there is a scene where Cruz is given a makeover to look like Storm, but her engine in that scene is louder, different and she becomes faster as then she can go over 200mph somehow. Meaning she is now faster than Lightning, only explanation is that she had an upgrade.

8 Comments
2025/01/26
13:02 UTC

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