How quickly times change. There once was an era when Pixar didn’t think it needed sequels and could just go from original story to original story. In fact, in 2016, Pixar’s president Jim Morris said there were no Pixar sequel plans after Brad Bird’s “The Incredibles 2,” something of a response to the underwhelming reception to “Cars 2” and, to a lesser degree, “Toy Story 3.

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It’s sort of remarkable, the ways that animation on the big screen has changed in the past two decades or so. In the early ’90s, the game was pretty much entirely owned by Disney’s hand-drawn animated fairy tales, which were hugely successful but almost entirely seen as kids’ stuff, with the occasional Don Bluth or Ralph Bakshi effort winning some eyes but not really competing; and the beginning of an interesting scene in Japan that largely failed to crossover to mainstream audiences stateside.

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It might be a holiday invented to cynically replicate the commercial success of Mother’s Day, and it might not have its own Garry Marshall movie yet (this is a good thing, now that we think about it), but Father’s Day is still an actual thing. An actual thing that’s coming up on Sunday, in fact. And it seemed to us like a good opportunity to examine one of cinema’s most resonant themes — fatherhood.

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The 30 Best Voice Performances In Pixar Movies

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The project is now back at Disney, who briefly owned the rights in the 1980’s, under the supervision of “Die Hard” director John McTiernan with a script by future “Pirates” trilogy scribes Ted Elliot and Terry Russo.

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We would tell you to just ignore this mind-boggling flub, but since the Annie has predicted the winner for Best Animated Film all but ONCE since the category was introduced to the Oscar race, we’re still going to say ignore it anyway.

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