oliver9184

I would never have expected Monsters Inc to take the lead!

This is my order, best to worst:

A Bug's Life
Ratatouille
Wall-E
Finding Nemo
Up
Monsters Inc
Toy Story 2
Toy Story
The Incredibles
Cars

Analysis: I need to see Monsters Inc again and I've had serious reservations about both Toy Storys since they came out but having watched the Toy Story 3 trailer I think I might at last warm to them. I think they and Toy Story 3 will fit between Up and Wall-E somewhere in the chart. I think Pixar generally do better avoiding human characters (and cars for that matter) which is part of why I disliked The Incredibles - that and because I was never into comics and superheros as a child - but I can appreciate its qualities as a film. I feel like I should like Finding Nemo more than I do - on paper and in theory it's absolutely perfect and Albert Brooks does wonderful work as Marlin but something's lacking and I still don't know what after four or five viewings. Maybe it's that fish are inherently not very identifiable - though they are, of course, easier to identify with than cars. (CARS!) Wall-E is sort of the opposite of Nemo - something that shouldn't really work at all in theory but absolutely and inexplicably does. The first act is flabbergasting. Were the whole film to live up to the first 40 minutes Wall-E would be at the top of the list - as it is, it's still very good but all the about on board the Axiom gets slightly tiresome. Similarly, Up impressed massively with its opening but then got silly - all those talking dogs came close to ruining it for me.