and i\’ve heard about that live-action bit…wonder what\’s the progress on it.

Worth mentioning is that Pixar is working on its first live action movie right now, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs\’ \”John Carter of Mars\” books…

Also, while it\’s true that at Pixar Ms. Chapman may have been \”the first female director responsible for a feature film\”, but in that same Cartoon Brew article, it\’s pointed out that Sony Pictures Animation had a woman director on its first feature (Jill Culton on Open Season) and DreamWorks had a woman director on its second feature (The Prince of Egypt).

Cars was an ill-conceived vanity project….that is a merchandising boon…due to middle-america\’s love for nascar…and very child-friendly character design.
but the story was generic….and it didn\’t push much in terms of technical boundaries (then again it was following the Incredibles….which was well incredible)

Ratatouille…was just cliche…with again, very good character design….the love story was forced, and not entirely necessary….it\’s like they\’re playing by the book….add 25% romance, 30% action, 25% humor, 20% drama = 100% box office hit!

Wall-e…was a bit better than ratatouille for character development….by necessity really….it too followed the same formula as above….

UP….again cliche….see above.

toy story 3….a sequel…an unnecessary one…honestly i was having Dejavu regarding Toy Story 2….in fact the Lots\’O might as well have been stinky pete.

and set up the next rung of movies to be released which are all sequels (hope they don\’t ruin monsters inc.)…me thinks they\’ve run out of ideas.

and lasseter pushed out a woman who didn\’t conform to his movie/money-making formula above.