In your opinion - what's the WORST Pixar movie?

Wow, so much hatred for Cars...

I like them all, but the one I don't watch regularly is Bugs life. I've only wathed it all the way through once. Its ok.

My daughter(20 months) LOVES toy story 2. Pretty much all the Pixar flicks. Love toy story 3 even though it makes me cry. wall-e makes me tear up a bit. Sarah Mclaghlin's song in TS2 Gets me. Incredibles-Great film making end to end with Frozone having the BEST lines.(You tell me you're super-mega-ultra-lighting babe, that's fine by me.)

But, I'll admit, I'm thinking Cars 2 is going to be a stinker. Love the first but the previews for 2 leave me feeling "eh".
 
I like Cars...

I like Owen Wilson (though he does the same thing ALL the time).

But I really enjoy the exploration of the impact the interstate (40) had on Route 66, and all the small towns along the road. Its a small niche in American history, but at the same time Route 66 made a moderatly large impact on American culture in the 50's, 60's, and 70's.

And when technology, advancement, and development overtake the "warmer, softer side of life" (eg. emails replacing hand-written letters), it is a bit sad.

Cars acknowledges this to a degree, and renews interest and knowledge of Route 66, and a time and life-style in America that is now fading fast, if not gone all together...
 
I don't hate Cars, but it is one of my least favorite Pixar movies. Pixar at their worst is still better than 90% of movies out there.

And yes, I did say The Incredibles was my other least favorite. It just didn't resonate with me.
 
I would have to go with CARS as well.

I dont know why they're releasing a sequel to CARS...THere are so many other Pixar franchises which are better deserving for a sequel.

I would take Incredibles 2, Monster Inc 2 or Finding Nemo 2 .
 
I think "Up" was the worst film Pixar made.
Why?
They kill off a main character in the first act, then go on about it for the entire film. I never felt so bad watching a film, to make it worse my wife is sobbing through the entire movie. Death is a touchy subject as we all have to face it, it's hard enough to get through in real life. Since I did marry the love of my life and we have no kids, it's very easy to relate to the main characters. The only thing that film did for us, was to make us face the fact that one day one of us is going to loose the other. That's not my idea of an uplifting film.

I considered "Cars" to be one of the best films Pixar did. It's the first film I ever saw that I 'got' the whole thing. Most films I do not get most of the jokes mostly out of ignorance. Cars on the other hand, well you have to be a motorhead to really get it. I've also observed people would have a hard time looking past the talking cars. Which I completely understand it looks very dumb on the face of it. But I think that was part of the point of the film, to see what Pixar could do to get things to act. It is a film after all it is one of those films that you must truly suspend your disbelief.
 
With all due respect Atemylunch, while you may have had, shall we say, misgivings about the premise of Up, that doesn't objectively make it a bad movie. Ellie dying was indeed sad, but it sets the stage for the rest of the film. I for one, find it refreshing that Pixar is dealing with such "heavy" subject matter in what is ostensibly a "kid's movie."
 
Keep in mind that in discussions like this "worst" and "least favorite" are often intertwined, and begin blur.

I won't say Up is their "worst". But then again - as has been mentioned - I don't believe there is a worst when it comes to Pixar.
 
Also, I think what Pixar does masterfully well is strike at our more intimate feelings, and that is what allows you to either like, or not perfer, a particualr offering.

My favorite is Monster's Inc. Why...? I have a very tight bond with my daughter.

I do not prefer Up for pretty much exactly the same reasons so well stated by Atemylunch.
 
jlee562 said:
With all due respect Atemylunch, while you may have had, shall we say, misgivings about the premise of Up, that doesn't objectively make it a bad movie. Ellie dying was indeed sad, but it sets the stage for the rest of the film. I for one, find it refreshing that Pixar is dealing with such "heavy" subject matter in what is ostensibly a "kid's movie."
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Pixar really hasn't made any bad movies they all very solid movie making. (That's in the strictest of terms). You can say you dislike a movie, and that's fine. But Pixar works very hard to cover all of the bases. which is why so many people like their films.

I would say killing Ellie in the first act of Up does set the tone. Sadly that tone overshadows everything else. Death has a way of doing that(if you have experienced that, I have way too often), I consider that a bad decision on storyline. For some like myself it ruined the whole film(and I'm a big fan of airships).

I never said it was a bad film, just the worst Pixar ever made. In my opinion it's a very bad film for I felt really crummy while watching it. So I'm never going to watch it again. I can't say that for any of the other Pixar movies. All of the rest of them are enjoyable to watch.
 
I disagree that Ellie's death overshadows everything else. Ellie is NOT the main character of the story. But, suffice to say, we shall agree to disagree.
 
Why is there a thread about the worst? Pixar is ALAWAYS brilliant and I have yet to see a bad movie from them.
 
I just came from kung fu panda 2(liked it) and saw a trailer for Cars 2 that makes me very interested .

As for some of the comments on UP I would have to agree I didn't like crying some ten minutes into the movie. But a good movie all around.
 
Ratatouille.
I hated the "politics" of Wall E, but I could see past it enough to like the movie. I couldn't get by rats in the kitchen.
 
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Id probably have to say "Up" was the worst for me.

Granted there were some legitimatly funny moments and the characters were ok, but I felt so annoyed watching it becuase the movie was entirely differnt from how they marketed it.

The trailers made the movie seem like it was about a man who pilots a house that he has made fly with balloons, and accidently has an annoying boy in tow that presumably he grows fond of over the course of the journey.

I was really suprised when I found out that the part that takes place in the flying house only takes up about 20 minutes of the story, and the rest is about the old man and the boy trying to save some stupid bird that has nothing to do with anything.
 
I really enjoyed Ratatouille, for two reasons - first, it had a very different feel to it than most of the other Pixar films. In all scenes outside the kitchen, it was gritty, dirty, and grimy, where the rest of Pixar's work looks clean and polished. This was a nice contrast for me, and I bought it. Second, I enjoy Patton Oswalt, and his voice work in the film was what let me overlook the rat in the kitchen.

I enjoyed UP and Wall-E because they were fantastic movies, although each did feel like two different halves smashed together. That was ok, because I liked all four parts.

I cannot stand "Larry the Cable Guy" and I cannot stand Nascar. You can guess which movie I liked the least - although it was still ok.
 
Wall-E and Iron Chef Rat are tied for worst, as far as I'm concerned.

I get what Wall-E was trying to do, but it was so "the population is so stupid that we have to cram the message down their throats". Subtlety would have done this movie, a world of good. At least Idiocracy did it with a bit of humor. It appealed to everyone - even the people it was inherently insulting. Stupid people found it funny, because they recognized something familiar. Smarter people found it both amusing and terrifying. Wall-E, just flat out ,called everyone fat, stupid and lazy and didn't make you work to figure it out.

Iron Chef Rat - I just couldn't get into the characters. Maybe I was just too disturbed by the thought of the rat in the kitchen. I just didn't care if the guy, or the rat, ever became cooks.

A bug's life, I'm sort of on the fence, about. I don't think it ever really got a fair chance because it was released too close to Ants, which was a much better movie.

Cars was enjoyable, if not a little too simplistic in it's "be humble and don't be afraid to learn from others" message.

Up was half of a great movie. The base story was great. The dopey humor with the dog - meh. I realize it's geared more towards kids and they need dopey crap to keep them entertained, but once in a while, I'd like to see an animated movie that takes itself more seriously. Maybe that's why I liked Toy Story 3 - it had a relatable story to tell with characters that you really cared about. But it was a theme that was carried throughout all 3 movies - the journey from childhood to adulthood, as told from the toy's perspective.

-Fred
 
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