Best Pixar film

[SuperBacon]

It's Monsters Inc, but feel free to add your wrong opinions.

[FLips]

It's Toy Story 1 for me.

I was a huge fan of their initial run up to Incredibles, it felt like every film was something unique and different. I had no interest in Cars and by that extension I overlooked Ratatouille and WALL-E on their initial release (though painstakingly dragged myself through the 360 game of the former). I've seen both by now and enjoyed them both (but still haven't seen Cars).

I then watched the combo of Up and Toy Story 3 in the cinema and thought you know what, they're just deliberately trying to make me cry now and I can't be bothered with that so other than when I saw Monster's University on telly, I didn't watch another Pixar film until we watched Toy Story 4 in the hotel on our honeymoon. I saw Turning Red when that went onto Disney+ which I thought was bang average, but I wasn't the target audience for a kids film about getting your first period so I suppose there's always that.

I'm sure Inside Out and some of the others are good but I have no interest in watching them.

[Joe Blog]

Toy Story for me as well. 

[DavidB6937]

I've seen Toy Story the most so I suppose it's got to be that one. Although I adore 2 and 3 as well and I generally watch them as a trilogy if I'm doing a rewatch.

Other favourites? I'd definitely put Up near the top. I just think it's a lovely story and I'm okay with them making me cry.

There's definitely a lot of others, especially in the earlier years where they seemed almost invincible, where their creativity knew no bounds and they managed to make nearly everything a hit. They all looked stunning and managed to hit the right balance of comedy and emotion.

[Hannibal Scorch]

It’s probably Toy Story 3. I’m glad they only continued with a few shorts afterwards, similar how they skipped making a Rocky V and went straight to Rocky Balboa.

But I also think Wall-E is superb, Up is wonderful and Monsters Inc is a lovely tale. It’s probably easier to state my least favourite Pixar’s as the gulf between good and bad Pixar is wide.

[Carbomb]

Up, just for that opening twenty minutes. The rest of it is tremendous, but that first section just got me right in the feels.

[Surf Digby]

For me it's probably Ratatouille, although Up comes close. The Good Dinosaur was a favourite in our house for a while too.

I was pretty indifferent to Toy Story when it came out, and I've never really developed any attachment to the series. The trailer for Wall-E made it look incredibly saccharin, and so I avoided avoided it at the time.

Up also allows me to make tedious Russ Meyer jokes, which nobody else in the house gets.

Edited November 17, 2024 by Surf Digby
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[Chest Rockwell]

Either Ratatouille or Inside Out for me. I enjoyed Coco and Soul a lot, of the more recent ones I've seen. But I've only seen those once each so I'm not sure where I'd rank them.

I found Ellen way too annoying for me to be able to enjoy Finding Nemo properly.

Edited November 17, 2024 by Chest Rockwell

[westlondonmist]

Wall-É, it's got a good storyline, heart warming and quite funny. Monsters Inc is quite funny and Ratatouille is pretty decent. Monsters Inc is over 20 years old and the other 2 nearly so. 

Inside out is probably the best modern franchise. 

I've seen all the Toy Story movies, I enjoyed 2 the most because I just found tmWoody being in awe at seeing that he was a TV star funny. Overall I don't really like them. Lightyear was bad. Cars films are guff too. Never understood the popularity of the Nemo films either both the dad and Dory are annoying. 

 

Pixar is very hit and miss these days. I didn't enjoy Elemental, Onward or Soul. Luca was solid enough but felt a bit like a TV movie. 

 

 

Edited November 17, 2024 by westlondonmist

[I Bent My Wookie]

Coco for me with Inside Out a close 2nd.

I grew up with Pixar becoming a thing and was probably the target audience since Bugs Life was released so it's interesting to see how my opinions have changed from early childhood to adult. 

As an example loved Finding Nemo as a kid but now between Ellen's annoying voice and all the main characters having massive annoying character flaws it just doesn't seem as enjoyable. 

Probably for the same reason Coco is a favourite of mine now. I love learning about other cultures, the musicality of Disney and something a bit different from the norm but probably would have been bored as a kid as its quite a slow burn film with pretty colours. While working cinemas in 2017 I did notice more teens and adults going than I expected, where you had your usual packed Saturday of kids there too.

[CDM]

Toy story 1 and 2 for me. I've always thought it was ironic that they the first completely cgi film was the best along with its sequel.

And when I say best I don't mean in my opinion I'm going on general reviews 

[Devon Malcolm]

Oh god I forgot about Ratatouille.

It's still Inside Out, then Up, Ratatouille, WALL-E and Toy Story 2.

[textonly]

There's a ton of Pixar I like a lot, and some that I truly adore, but nothing really comes close to how deeply I love Inside Out. It's easily one of my favourite movies of all-time. Of course, cards on the table, I'm 100% sure this says as much about me as it does about the movie itself, but honestly that should be true of everyone's favourite films. I think it's clever, funny, poignant and just really beautiful in its message. Back when it came out, I was a bit emotionally stifled (hadn't cried in over 20 years), but it still nearly made me cry about four times in the cinema. Nowadays I'll watch it and weep frequently.

[cobra_gordo]

Probably Monsters Inc for me but it's a close call between that, The Incredibles, Ratatouille and A Bugs Life. Notable mentions because they were watched to death in our house and we love them for Luca, Coco and Brave. Pixar has had way more hits than misses though so it's tough to narrow down. I will say though that I don't particularly like either of the Inside Out films. I know, I know.

Also we love Cars in our house so I won't hear a bad word against it. I'm fairly sure that film is one of the reasons my son became a full on petrolhead and is now training to be a mechanic so I'll always appreciate the role it's played in his life and given us something to bond over forever. He carried a tiny Luigi car with him everywhere at one point, lost it once and it was like our world had fallen apart until I managed to find him a replacement. My daughter has a Sally toy on the dash of her car and is genuinely wanting to do her Micra up to look like Lightning McQueen to give the kids at the school she works at a laugh in the morning. I'll add that Cars 3 is actually pretty great too with Lightning McQueen being the veteran on the way out. I got quite emotional in the cinema watching that one. Cars 2 can get to fuck though, absolute dumpster fire of a film I was forced to watch too many times.

[Weezenal]

Toy Story - during lockdown, my daughter was at the age where she just wanted to watch the same thing every day. She must have watched each of the four Toy Story films 10 times each, and I never got sick of them.