Pixar Movies

Last month I went to the movie theatre and saw Brave. When I had first seen the trailer for it (before The Avengers maybe?) I had thought well that doesn't look good at all. But I was bombarded on TV by further trailers for it over here once I got back to Canada and decided I would go and see it.

I think I should have trusted my first instincts because it was definitely disappointing. There was barely any plot, the characters were meh, there was definitely a lack of Pixar magic. It is basically the first Pixar movie I've seen where I did not come out thinking hey I want to see that again or bits of it again. (i am not counting Cars because i never saw those knowing full well i am not in that target audience). I hope it doesn't mean that Pixar is going downhill because they are some of my fav movies of all time. If I had to rank them it would go something like this:

1) Up
2) Wall-E
3) Toy Story
4) Monsters Inc
5) Finding Nemo
6) Toy Story 2
7) the Incredibles
8) Toy Story 3

Up is by far my favourite. I sobbed in the first chunk of that movie watching their life together unfold. And yes i know the movie is a comedy and yes i know they are not real people yea yea yea but it's the idea of two people growing old and going through trials and tribulations together that totally gets me. I've always been weird about old people, i cannot handle even fictional old people going through hardship. I think even on the third time seeing Up I still sobbed - and it was on a plane, too.

Wall-E is just too cute so it def gets the second spot.

That's a tight race there in slots 3 to 5. And I think I don't rank Toy Story 3 anywhere near as high as most other people because I saw it so late and everyone was like its the best movie ever!!! And i watched it at home all distracted while doing other stuff.

Ratatouille was also disappointing but at least I'd watch it again if it was on TV.

So really the only good thing about Brave was that we saw two preview for animated films coming out later this year that I want to see:

Monsters University - a prequel to Monsters Inc

Wreck it Ralph - about a baddie in a classic arcade game that wants to be the good guy! Totally targeted towards 80s babies who played Super Mario and Street Fighter etc. awesome!!!