Comments on: From Best To Worst: Ranking The Pixar Movies

By: Andy Peth

Andy Peth — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

1. Nemo â Great performances by Brooks and DeGeneres, fun story, excellent pace
2. Toy Story â Groundbreaking
3. The Incredibles â Long-winded but spectacularly entertainingâI drop it because they could have shortened the scenes with the dad at work
4. Cars â Excellent pacing and fun
5. Toy Story 3 â Terrific, but the burning scene was misplaced in a kid flickâI mean, seriouslyâ¦
6. Up: Charming, paradigm-shifting for kids, but long
7. Toy Story 2
8. Ratatouille: Yes, I liked this more than most people did
9. A Bug's Life
10. Monsters, Inc.: Overrated, in my view
11. Brave
12. Cars 2: Truly awful on every level
13. Wall-E: First time Iâve ever been too bored to mind a torrential downpour of preaching that much (okay, I minded)

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

Wow..toy story 1 must be in first position..
It's a really bad ranking you've made in my opinion.

By: Roark

Roark — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

For me, Up and Wall-E have become rather overrated. Both fine films, but very conventional after their admittedly outstanding opening acts. Cars and Brave are rather underrated – sturdy classical storytelling with a lot going for them, but ultimately second tier Pixar, which makes them doomed to be forever slagged as disappointments.

My top five would probably be Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, Toy Story, The Incredibles and Monsters Inc, but aside from Cars 2 there's no such thing as a genuinely bad or even mediocre Pixar movie. Even in decline, which they have been for a few years (Toy Story 3 excepted) they're still the closest guarantee of quality entertainment the studios have to offer.

By: brace

brace — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

I liked Brave way more than Up – Pixar's worst in my opinion (haven't seen Cars 2)

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

1. Toy Story – How could it not be top? Just a brilliant, charming, inventive, complete movie
2. Toy Story 3 – Just stunning, in many ways my favourite and that incinerator scene… My God
3. Toy Story 2 – Excellent the way it moved the Toy's universe on
4. Monsters Inc – Fun, warmth and character to spare
5. Nemo – Visually stunning, decent storyline too
6. Wall-E – First half great, second half, not so much
7. Cars – Good fun. Could be my kid's love of it that's got it higher up the list than it should be
8. The Incredibles – never really 'got' what people raved about with this. Was ok, but…
9. Brave – Could've been great, but not as bad as people made out
10. A Bug's Life – Mostly meh, but had its moments
11. Up – One for the critics. Actually a really dull film
12. Ratatouille – Missed its mark… Whatever it's mark was supposed to be
13. Cars 2 – A blatant cash in
14. Monsters U – haven't seen it so can't comment

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

For a guy who hates Pixar so much. You sure do write about them a lot.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

Pretty Decent List.

By: Toomaui

Toomaui — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

Wow, am surprised how much of this list I disagree with.
Iâm with you on the Incredibles, but after that, Iâm not so sure. I donât rate Ratatouille at all â would see it as one of the worst. Not funny, twee, sentimental and didactic.
My top five would be something like:
1. The Incredibles
2. Finding Nemo
3. Toy Story 2
4. Up
5. Toy Story
Then again, Iâm not particularly a Pixar fanatic. I still miss hand-drawn animation… C'est la vie

By: Nathan Duke

Nathan Duke — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

All in all, not a bad list, although I don't really agree with the ranking of the top five.

I'd go: 5. Toy Story 4. Finding Nemo 3. Ratatouille 2. Up 1. Wall-E

By: starway2001

starway2001 — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

My son's favorite Pixar movies are in the reverse order of this list (with the exception of Incredibles being much higher). I'm supposing our tastes are not as sophisticated as the author's.

By: James

James — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

Great article! I only have one question… I can't quite follow this portion of the Ratatouille segment: "it was going to be the first film released outside of its distribution pact with Disney (which explains its international setting)." The film was released normally by Disney both in the US and overseas, Pixar didn't release it on their own as the wording seems to suggest.

By: krimzim

krimzim — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

Hey man, I like your list.

By: welles80

welles80 — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

I've never understood the love for The Incrdibles, personally it does bugger all for me.

Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Ratatouille, Up and WALL E are all exceptional films. Toy Story 3, Finding Nemo and Toy Story 2 are almost there but not quite.

Brave, A Bugâs Life and The Incredibles have some pretty decent moments and are nowhere near âthe worstâ anything but in comparison to better Pixar they don't make the grade.

Cars /Cars 2 are soulless crap.

By: Nicole Vacca

Nicole Vacca — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

Monster House and Chicken Little would have been lowest ranking if they were Pixar films (they're not, though they're both still Disney). I don't see how The Incredibles is #1. The plot was a little messy and it didn't have as much heart as Monsters, Inc, and Toy Story 3 (arguably the best of the trilogy, in my opinion). At least Up was in the top 3.

By: fxjcjtms

fxjcjtms — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

How could a writer who knows how to spell things like 'aesthetic' and 'prognosticators' be unaware of the difference between 'principle' and principal'? Repeatedly.

By: Lets be real

Lets be real — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

How is Ratatouille rank so high? No disrespect but seriously???? That should be near the bottom with Cars and Brave…one reason why…I practically forgot that it was even Pixar. Heck, I forgot about that movie entirely. It was the least memorable of all the Pixar movies, no one even talks about that one no more. Toy Story 3 should be 1 or 2 and Finding Nemo should be like 3 and Up or Wall-e next.

By: Kyosuke

Kyosuke — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

I don't see how films which have received much so much acclaim (Toy Story & Finding Nemo) can be ranked under such mediocre films

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

Loved this article. Well thought-out and articulated. I disagree with the order, but that's to be expected (I'm sure everyone has their own list). The top 10 or so of these movies are all so equally wonderful that there's no way to win.

Finding Nemo definitely tops my list. Partially because of the influence it had on me, but I really do think it's an astounding movie. I still think the pacing is nearly flawless, but yeah I agree the fishing net extra climax at the end pushes it just a little long. Other than that it is a masterpiece, in my opinion. Along with Ratatouille and The Incredibles. Man. I need to watch these again.

By: Aidan

Aidan — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

Maybe I need to give Ratatouille another go (I feel it belongs much lower on the list), but The Incredibles is a big *yawn* for me. There is no way that it belongs higher than WALL-E, Up, or the Toy Story films. For that matter, I'd shove it down there in "Cars" territory. I didn't even think that it was Pixar, for some reason, and so I had an unpleasant shock at reading number one.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

Walle had so much potential but ended up being the lamest lecture Pixar ever could have done considering all the crap Apple has contributed to the environmental damage to the earth. And UP was just plain stupid. They need to stop lecturing people and start entertaining them. I totally agree with the Incredibles. Loved that movie.

By: julie

julie — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

pffft

By: DChute

DChute — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

Great to see "Incredibles" at No. 1. Like almost everybody else, though, you missed the film's Libertarian moral underpinnings. It's almost a cartoon "Atlas Shrugged," railing against the supression of people with extraordinary abilities. "Saying everybody's special is the same as saying no-one is."

By: Andy Peth

Andy Peth — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

Wall-E was nonstop preaching; thoroughly boring. I don't know anyone–rightwing or leftwing–who actually enjoyed it. The lead character was a charmer, but this and Cars 2 were two horrifying episodes in the rightly vaunted history of Pixar. Because of them, I didn't even bother seeing Brave.

By: Captain Celluloid

Captain Celluloid — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:23 +0000

I would suggest that your premise, or at least your headline, is misleading at best and flawed at worst.

The are no WORST Pixar films . . . . there are some that are not as wonderful as
others.

My issue is not with your ranking the films.
My strong issue is your use of the use of the word WORST which strongly implies that some are TOTALLY AND WITHOUT ANY MERIT BAD and that is not the case with Pixar films . . . .
Pixar in particular and with most films in general.

If I were your editor I would write "headline editorializes story in a negative spin; allow reader to draw their own conclusions. Is this a story or an opinion piece. Label clearly if it it is opinion of the writer" I would also note that FROM BAD TO WORST LISTS and TOP TEN WORST MOVIES EVER LISTS are weak ideas in general.

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By: James Ernst

James Ernst — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:22 +0000

1. Toy Story
2. The Incredibles
3. Toy Story 2
4. Cars
5. Monsters Inc.
6. Ratatouille
7. Toy Story 3
8. A Bug's Life
9. UP
10. Monsters University
11. Brave
12. Finding Nemo
13. Cars 2
14. Wall-E