best pixar film

Eoiny1117

which is the best?

al28283

The Incredibles

Basq

Toy Story..

.. every single time!

Goldstein

Before this is locked it's important you know wall-e is the answer.

Icarus Wings

Basq wrote: »

Toy Story..

.. every single time!

Definitely! Finding Nemo's got to be in there too though...

EDIT: I actually wanted to live under the sea after watching it!! That scene with the younger fish travelling to school showed beautiful digital effects and the intense colours of a coral reef - something that kids rarely get to see unless they're living in Australia.

spankmaster2000

Up

johnny_ultimate

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johnROSS

Toy Story.... 2
or Wall-E

toy story 2 brings back great memories.

Skinfull

Has to be Toy story. The graphics hold up, the characters are perfect, the script and tone if lovely and it really set the bar high for the rest. Topped only by that scene in TS3 in the incinerator... (

sReq | uTeK

for me it has got to be WALLE-E ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE being able to capture every possible emotion with very limited speech, the story everything about it.

Just love it.

krudler

Incredibles for me, its simply one of the finest examples of a superhero movie done right.

Icarus Wings

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

for me it has got to be WALLE-E ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE being able to capture every possible emotion with very limited speech, the story everything about it.

Just love it.

Lots of important messages in there too about the future!

It's getting difficult to choose just one! Can I have an extra vote please?!? :D

emeraldstar

spankmaster2000 wrote: »

Up

Way overrated.

Monsters, Inc. for me. It's funny, and cute.

rednik

Toy Story, the original and the best filled with great acting.:)

vicwatson

Toy Story 3 - legendary stuff.

The part at the end where Andy is parting with his toys is just class, the metaphors are many, just watched it again yesterday for the secoind time and it's really quite brilliant on so many levels, particularly that for me it has the most "adult" jokes of all the Toy Story films.

Brilliant stuff

Tombo2001

OK

Ratatouille is a brilliant movie because:

-The story line is absurd and makes sense and kids love it.
-It is kiddish enough for three year olds and mature enough for 50 year olds.
-It is brilliant fun.
-It doesnt have anything that will terrify a young kid.
-It is educational about food. It is educational about geography.
-It deals with an interesting issue, of confronting stereotypes, and how -you shouldnt judge a book by its cover, and thats a great lesson for a young child.
-The baddie turns out to be a goodie in the end. And the actor who plays that baddie (Anton Ego) does a fantastic job.
-The graphics are stunning, I know that goes without saying, but they especially do a fantastic job of showing Paris from the point of view of someone looking two inches off the ground.
-Some brilliant foodie in-jokes.

This is a movie I could recommend for any kid of any age. Not many movies I could say that about.

Wall-E is a movie for adults; brilliant as it is, I dont think my 4 year old would particularly care, which is a problem for a cartoon.

hollster2

finding nemo would have loved to live under the sea, the excitment of finding nemo and effects are brilliant.

Mickeroo

krudler wrote: »

Incredibles for me, its simply one of the finest examples of a superhero movie done right.

I would have picked The Incredibles until very recently. Its a brilliant brilliant film that works on many different levels. Its great bondesque action movie along with still being one of the best superhero films ever made, not only that at it's base level its just a film about a family and a very good one at that.

However, i think Toy Story 3 edges it. I still can't get my head around just how good it was. Its a great kids/family comedy but like The Incredibles underneath there's a deep, mature emotional rollercoaster of a film about friendship & growing up. I seriously doubt Pixar wil ever surpass it.

Wall-E and Up aren't too far behind those movies either imo.

Psychedelic

I would pick Up just ahead of Toy Story 3, purely because of the massive emotional resonance they both have, which the other films don't come close to having, for me anyway.

johnny_ultimate

I think it's a pointless exercise trying to pick 'the best'. They've had a number of excellent films, and trying to rank them is futile. Personally, I have more of a nostalgic connection to the Toy Story films, and as a trilogy its a masterly achievement where I can barely rank the individual films. But I think Up and Wall-E may be more masterly crafted films: Wall-E particularly has an experimental, cine-literate edge that propels it above and beyond the remit of family entertainment, while Up's emotional resonances are universal. The Incredibles makes an equally convincing case with its perfect grasp of generic tropes - which it subverts while embracing. Equally fond of Ratatouille and Finding Nemo - both mature, unusual and emotionally engaging interpretations of anthropomorphic animals.

I can tell you what the worst is though, and that's the cynical and noisy Cars 2 (and, to a less vitriolic degree, Cars, which has at least some redeeming features despite its lack of ambition) - an ugly blot on an otherwise great to brilliant filmography.

AllWasWell

Has anyone seen Brave? I saw it's premiere at the film fleadh..fantastic film! How to train your dragon should be in the mix aswell

Mickeroo

AllWasWell wrote: »

Has anyone seen Brave? I saw it's premiere at the film fleadh..fantastic film! How to train your dragon should be in the mix aswell

How to Train Your Dragon ain't Pixar

Gazza3k11

My favorite is Toy Story 3

Sleepy

My first reaction was to vote Toy Story 3 but I have to vote for Up for it's first 10 minutes alone. It's the only piece of film that makes me well up every time as a man in my 30's. If film is an art-form that's about evoking emotion, it wins hands down.

(though the incinerator and "last goodbye" scenes in Toy Story 3 almost qualify, the intro to Up! is more relatable for me somehow).

Da Shins Kelly

Wall-E is by far the most important and most profound Pixar film, for me. The message is great and some of the scenes in it are just beautiful cinema. It's more than a kids movie (granted most Pixar movies are), but it's way beyond the realm of children's animated film. The fact that there is no speaking at all for the first half an hour or so (?) and yet it is still utterly captivating is testament to how brilliant it is.

Toy Story is close behind.

SdoowSirhc

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I think it's a pointless exercise trying to pick 'the best'. They've had a number of excellent films, and trying to rank them is futile. Personally, I have more of a nostalgic connection to the Toy Story films, and as a trilogy its a masterly achievement where I can barely rank the individual films. But I think Up and Wall-E may be more masterly crafted films: Wall-E particularly has an experimental, cine-literate edge that propels it above and beyond the remit of family entertainment, while Up's emotional resonances are universal. The Incredibles makes an equally convincing case with its perfect grasp of generic tropes - which it subverts while embracing. Equally fond of Ratatouille and Finding Nemo - both mature, unusual and emotionally engaging interpretations of anthropomorphic animals.

I can tell you what the worst is though, and that's the cynical and noisy Cars 2 (and, to a less vitriolic degree, Cars, which has at least some redeeming features despite its lack of ambition) - an ugly blot on an otherwise great to brilliant filmography.

I think you hit the nail on the head in my opinion. I pretty much love every Pixar film except the Cars films. I don't know why, but they have no appeal to me. Maybe the characters of cars with no people just doesn't make any sense to me. I know non of the Pixar films "make sense" per se, but if you look at them as fiction you can make more sense of movies like Finding Nemo because fish really do move around and act themselves, obviously not as they do in the movie, but none the less they do move around and interact amongst themselves.
I'm blabbering, this makes no sense but I love Nemo and dislike Cars :P

Outkast_IRE

Who voted for cars 2 !!!!!!!!!!! we must hunt this person down, they must not of seen any of the other movies on the list.

Cars 2 the only pixar film i turned off half way through.


Also toy story 3 was also excellent, but they seem to be riding the series with toy story 4 i cant see where they can go from the last movie.

Cienciano

Looking through that list, they have unbelievably good consistently.

I'm with you outcast, Cars 2 was terrible. First cars was brilliant, second one was purely for kids imho.
I'm voting for Toy Story 3, purely for one of the best scenes in cinematic history in the incinerator. I really liked Up, The Incredibles, Toy Story 1 and 2, Wall-e, Cars. All really good films.

UCD AFC

scarface was pretty good too

Icaras

Up without a doubt. I think invokes stronger emotions. Might not be as funny as toy story but the sadder bits are some of the saddest bits I have seen on film.

emeraldstar

Cienciano wrote: »

Cars 2 was terrible. First cars was brilliant, second one was purely for kids imho.

Ah, I wouldn't say that now! Still very weak in comparison to the others.

Bobby Baccala

Finding nemo, seriously good film for hangovers, takes literally no effort to watch and everything is just so............ blue....

Cienciano

emeraldstar wrote: »

Ah, I wouldn't say that now! Still very weak in comparison to the others.

Yeah, not as good as their top films. But I still really liked it. 2 was painful to watch.

JohnnyRyan99

Wall-E challenging Toy Story? Ye fecking bunch of hipsters!!

JohnnyRyan99

Also I think if they did a whole Movie like they did the first ten minutes of Up, we could have a contender!

Marty McFly

For me its Wall-e, Monsters Inc then finding Nemo.

Wall-e forme because its stunning to look at, is fascinationg to imagine a future world like that because you could almost belive it could happen, its make you feel a range of emtions its just hits the right note on ever level.

Monsters Inc and Finding Nemo becasue there basically cute easy simple viewing that will make ya smile great for hungover days were ya dont want anyting challeging and just want to enjoy.


I found Up vastly over rated just didnt get it at all, also found myself dissappointed by the Incredibles but as a whole Pixars films have all been at least decent and I for one enjoyed the Cars film although that prob has somethign to do with the fact Ive loved cars(as in real cars) since I was a kid

razorblunt

Can we please find out who voted for Cars 2?

Wall-E for me, it's some out let down by the inclusion of humans, it's the only thing I dislike about the film.


I also feel The Incredibles is very overrated it just really bored me, can probably say I will never watch it again.

A Disgrace

The first half of Wall-E is one of the most stunning peices of film I've seen. It loses the run of itself after that, but it's still a great movie. The Incredibles is the most fun of all Pixar movies, and a great action movie in its own right.

tim_holsters

It's a really tough one but I went with Up.

Tipsy McSwagger

Wall-E is the best Pixar film for me, absolutely amazing film. Surprised so many are voting for Toy Story 3, it's the weakest of the trilogy IMO and was not even the best animated film of 2010, that honor goes to How to Train Your Dragon.

johnny_ultimate

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

was not even the best animated film of 2010, that honor goes to How to Train Your Dragon.

In a year that saw the first Irish screenings of Summer Wars, The Illusionist and Eva 2.0, I have to politely counter that statement. An excellent film, no doubt (although IMO not on a par with the brute poignancy of Toy Story 3 - close, but not quite), but in a year with much animated excellence, I personally cannot agree with an over-definitive statement such as that.

DjFlin

Who's the joker that voted for Cars 2?

Thwip!

Incredibles for me, not just the best Pixar film, but also the best Fantastic Four film we're gonna get

Gbear

Up, for the montage at the start if nothing else. One of the most stirring pieces of cinema I've ever seen.
Breathtakingly sad. Not what I was expecting.

Bobby Baccala

haha no love for cars or cars 2 here.

Good. The first one was bollocks and there was no need for a more bollocksy sequel.

Mickeroo

Hah, this always happens when there's a Pixar discussion. I like the first Cars, its definitley the weakest Pixar film i've seen(not watched the second one) but it's not a bad film by any means imho. I like the themes of nostalgia in it, the death of the small american town etc.

toy story all 3 of them

tho walle and brave are cool

they gave walle a soul and made ginger feels like humans lol