{"id":15159,"date":"2016-06-24T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15159"},"modified":"2016-06-23T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T05:29:09","slug":"carys-top-four-favorite-pixar-films-and-top-four-least-favorite-also","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/24\/carys-top-four-favorite-pixar-films-and-top-four-least-favorite-also\/","title":{"rendered":"Cary\u2019s Top Four Favorite Pixar Films (and Top Four Least Favorite Also)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NEMO\"<\/a>Finding Dory was recently released in theaters, and it\u2019s a sequel to Finding Nemo, which is one of my favorite Pixar films.\u00a0 So it got me to thinking about my other Pixar favorites, and also Pixar movies that I didn\u2019t like as much.\u00a0 So I made a list of my top four favorite and least favorite Pixar films.\u00a0 Why four?\u00a0 No reason other than that it was harder to narrow it down to five. I had four distinct ones in each category but after that it wasn\u2019t as clear.\u00a0 So I stuck with four for eac<\/p>\n

The one rule is that all of these are the full length theatrical releases only.\u00a0 No shorts.\u00a0 There\u2019s way too many shorts for me to make a list out of!\u00a0 But if I had to pick a favorite Pixar short, it would be the TV special Toy Story That Time Forgot.\u00a0 It was a Christmas special where the toys visit another boy\u2019s house and meet up with a newly given line of dinosaur warrior action figures and playsets.\u00a0 It makes so much fun of the toys I grew up with in the 80s, especially stuff like He-Man, that it really spoke to me.\u00a0 They even had anime company Gainax make a mock cartoon intro for the \u201cBattlesaurs.\u201d\u00a0 It looked like something that really could\u2019ve existed.\u00a0 I liked the short so much I even got it on DVD! What\u2019s also cool about this short is that Steve Purcell directed it.\u00a0 He created Sam & Max.\u00a0 Purcell also helped with Brave, and was even the voice of the crow in that movie!\u00a0 I wonder if he still works for Pixar and if so, what he\u2019s working on now?<\/p>\n

Cary\u2019s Top Four Favorite Pixar Films<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK with that out of the way, here are my top four favorite Pixar films.<\/p>\n

Finding Nemo<\/strong><\/p>\n

I kind of flip-flop on whether this is my top favorite Pixar movie or the one below it on my list.\u00a0 But since Finding Dory is on my mind, Finding Nemo is my favorite right now.\u00a0 Tomorrow it may be different.\u00a0 Even though this film has been out for more than ten years, the water effects and underwater scenery still look amazing to me.\u00a0 And most of the characters are very identifiable to me.\u00a0 For instance, Nemo has a disability (underdeveloped fin) that can slow him down sometimes but he doesn\u2019t let that keep him from doing what he needs to do.\u00a0 And I can identify with that, being blind in my left eye since birth.\u00a0 There are lots of laughs, too, and you\u2019ll never look at seagulls the same way again!\u00a0 Plus, I just like going to aquariums to look at fish, and that\u2019s what this movie makes me feel like doing.\u00a0 My favorite exhibit at EPCOT Center is The Living Seas (which is just a big aquarium), but I really liked it when they remodeled it to have a Finding Nemo theme!<\/p>\n

Hey you know what I think would make a neat kids\u2019 TV show?\u00a0 Have it be about Nemo and his classmates as they learn about sea creatures from their stingray teacher.\u00a0 They could also learn how to overcome their own obstacles, like with Nemo\u2019s small fin disability.\u00a0 I know there is already a show for kids out there that teaches about sea creatures (Octonauts), but I like my idea, too.<\/p>\n

So what did I think about Finding Dory?\u00a0 Well, while I don\u2019t like it as much as Finding Nemo, and it may not be in my top four favorites, it was still a great movie with lots of laughs and I enjoyed it.\u00a0 I also can identify with some of the themes in this movie.\u00a0 For instance, Dory has a flaw (short term memory), and she must find other ways around her problems in order to accomplish her goals.\u00a0 That\u2019s something I have to do a lot, too!\u00a0 And you\u2019ll definitely want to stay after the closing credits for a funny extra bonus scene.\u00a0 You know how they did the seagulls in the first movie?\u00a0 They do something similar with another animal in this one!<\/p>\n

Up<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like I said earlier, sometimes I like this movie better than Finding Nemo, and vice versa.\u00a0 This movie has a very sad beginning, but it\u2019s such a beautiful story.\u00a0 And there\u2019s something for everyone.\u00a0 A well-written plot for the grown-ups, and funny gags with the kid and dog for the younger ones.\u00a0 I liked this movie so much, I saw it twice in theaters, and I almost never do that!\u00a0 One cool thing they do for kids at the Animal Kingdom park at Disney World is they have a Wilderness Explorers program like in the movie.\u00a0 Kids can go to different parts of the park and do certain activities to earn stamp badges they can put in a book.\u00a0 My brother and I said that if we were kids when we went there, we would totally do that!<\/p>\n

Inside Out<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes it takes a while and I need multiple viewings to really like certain Pixar films.\u00a0 One good example was Monsters Inc.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t like it at first, but after I gave it some time and watched it some more, I gained more appreciation for it.\u00a0 But not with Inside Out.\u00a0 As soon as I watched it, I knew it would be one of my top favorites.\u00a0 While it\u2019s wasn\u2019t as visually stunning to me (but it was still colorful), the reason why I liked it was for the writing.\u00a0 It\u2019s such a sad yet beautiful story, and even though the main character is a young girl, I think that only grown-ups will fully understand this movie.\u00a0 Also, I bet that for many years to come, tons of college students will write their psychology course papers about the themes in this movie!<\/p>\n

Toy Story 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like all three Toy Story movies.\u00a0 While some parts of the first one haven\u2019t aged as well, it\u2019s still a timeless movie that deserves its spot as a Disney classic.\u00a0 And the third film is great, too, but almost a little TOO sad in spots.\u00a0 The reason why Toy Story 2 is my favorite is it\u2019s a nice balance between the two others.\u00a0 It has some touching and poignant scenes, but still retains the classic fun of the first movie.\u00a0 So it\u2019s a happy medium.\u00a0 Plus, I loved what they did with Rex\u2019s character in this one.\u00a0 They made him a crazy obsessed gamer and he was hilarious!<\/p>\n

Cary\u2019s Top Four Least Favorite Pixar Films<\/strong><\/p>\n

And now for my least favorite Pixar films.\u00a0 The ones at the bottom of this list are the ones I like the least.<\/p>\n

A Bug\u2019s Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

This movie came out after Toy Story and it\u2019s really not a bad movie at all.\u00a0 It just didn\u2019t impress me as much as Toy Story did.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t think it has aged as well either.\u00a0 And why were all the ants blue?\u00a0 So yeah, it\u2019s still a fun movie, but I never felt compelled to get it on DVD like nearly every other Pixar movie.<\/p>\n

Cars 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone likes to bash this movie but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s THAT bad.\u00a0 Although it\u2019s still on my list so I guess it\u2019s not their greatest work either.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a spy-themed movie with talking cars.\u00a0 I do like the Cars characters because they remind me of Putt-Putt, one of the best kids\u2019 game series out there.\u00a0 There\u2019s really only one reason why Cars 2 is on this list.\u00a0 At one point in the movie, Mater sings the State Farm Insurance theme.\u00a0 At the time this movie came out, there were some State Farm TV commercials with Cars, so having that be in the movie was such a blatant product placement.\u00a0 Pixar usually doesn\u2019t do product placement in their movies (except for other Pixar movies), so it just felt off-putting to me here.<\/p>\n

The Good Dinosaur<\/strong><\/p>\n

This movie looks great and has a good message about family.\u00a0 But it doesn\u2019t do anything better than Don Bluth\u2019s The Land Before Time (the first one, not any of the sequels).\u00a0 If it\u2019s not ripping off that movie, it\u2019s ripping off The Lion King.\u00a0 This movie came out at the same time as The Peanuts Movie, and I liked the Peanuts film better.\u00a0 Of course, that has to do a lot with my nostalgia for Charlie Brown TV specials, but it\u2019s rare I like something better than a Pixar movie.\u00a0 Also, The Good Dinosaur had the misfortune of being released the same year as Inside Out, which as you remember is on my top four favorites list, so it had a lot to live up to.<\/p>\n

Monsters University<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was extremely disappointed with this one.\u00a0 The first movie was great because of the little girl character and the message about children\u2019s laughter being more powerful.\u00a0 But the sequel doesn\u2019t have any of that.\u00a0 The message is the hackneyed \u201cfollow your dreams\u201d trite, and the two main characters end up dropping out of college anyway.\u00a0 So the message I got out of this movie was that \u201ccollege is useless.\u201d\u00a0 And considering how unhelpful college has been to my career life, I\u2019d have to say that\u2019s sadly true, unfortunately.\u00a0 So this movie ends up being depressing to me.\u00a0 One of my brothers said that the movie is better if you look at it as a tribute to college comedies of the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s, which is a good point.\u00a0 But I still don\u2019t like this one that much at all.<\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 If a Pixar movie wasn\u2019t on these lists, it doesn\u2019t mean I didn\u2019t like them either.\u00a0 I still like all the other movies, just not as much (or more) than the ones listed here.\u00a0 In the comments section, let me know what you think of my list, and tell me which Pixar films you like and don\u2019t like.\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finding Dory was recently released in theaters, and it\u2019s a sequel to Finding Nemo, which is one of my favorite Pixar films.\u00a0 So it got me to thinking about my other Pixar favorites, and also Pixar movies that I didn\u2019t like as much.\u00a0 So I made a list of my top four favorite and least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15161,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159\/revisions\/15161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}