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Ranking Pixar Films From Best To Worst (To Cars and Cars 2)

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I don’t want kids, but I imagine that when parents are asked to chose their favourite, it’s pretty difficult. Sophie’s Choice, am I right? Anyway, ranking all of Pixar’s movies is the closest I’ll ever come to having to pick a favourite child because I love them all (except the Cars movies because duh). If this gets weird it’s just because Pixar gets me so emotional!

In honour of the release of Pixar’s latest film, Inside Out, I’ve ranked the Pixar movies from best to Cars. Or Cars 2. Same difference! To infinity and beyond! (Did you see what I did there?)

14 & 15. Cars and Cars 2

Cars and Cars 2 are the worst of the bunch, at the bottom of this list, undeserving of any reasoning. Okay bye!

 

13. Brave

While Brave was Pixar’s first film to feature a female lead — Merida who defies tradition and yearns to be an archer —it’s unfortunately just not very good. Brave is fine, harmless and totally adequate but it’s also Pixar at its worst: lazy, generic and lacking any imagination.

 

12. Monsters University

Monsters University may not be Toy Story 2 (err, even though it’s a prequel about Mike and Sulley in University learning how to scare) but it’s a worthy, if forgettable, addition the Pixar canon.

 

11. Up

While the first six minutes of Up broke the world and reminded us how to cry again, every thing that follows is so… typical. It also has a problematic third act which is why it ranks so low on my list; boring villain, generic adventure tale and it starts to grate by the end. You can yell at me the comment section below or @ me on Twitter, alright? Much like Carl, I’m ready to judge you and scowl.

 

10. Monsters, Inc.

Boo and Sully in Monsters Inc.

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As inventive as Toy Story before it, Monsters, Inc. transports older viewers to their childhoods, pondering if the boogey monster was real and worked a 9 to 5 job. Monsters, Inc. is the simple brilliance of Pixar personified; such an undecorated idea as monsters building corporations for scares is ingenious. The voice work by John Goodman and Billy Crystal as Mike and Sulley is timeless, and Boo may be the sweetest child – real or animated – to ever grace the screen.

 

9. Wall–E

Before Sandra Bullock in Gravity, Pixar sent us to space with Wall-E (and, of course, EVE!). I don’t love it like everyone else does, but again – a concept so inventive and ambitious that under any other animation studio would have been reduced to something silly but instead is a poignant, moving movie about Earth’s and society’s down falls.

 

8. Toy Story 2

Pixar did the impossible and made a worthy follow up to their groundbreaking, critically adored first film. Originally planned as a straight-to-DVD release (right?!), Toy Story 2 is much better than it’s production history would have you believe. While it’s not as memorable as the first or third, it’s a reminder that Pixar rarely drops the ball. Also: Jessie (voiced by the incomparable Joan Cusack)—Woody’s partner in-crime from the show they’re based on, Woody’s Round Up—is a great addition to Woody, Buzz and the gang. I sob just remembering the Jessie’s song/“When Somebody Loved Me” scene about how Jessie was forgotten. Love your toys, kids!

 

7. Ratatouille

A movie about a rat in a kitchen who is actually the best chef in all of Paris should not work as well as it does, but that is the magic of Pixar. They make the unimaginable imaginable.

 

6. Toy Story 3

Hey, remember how the ending of Toy Story 3 made you cry more than anything ever and when it was done you ran home to hug your loved ones? Okay, same!

Toy Story 3 is arguably on par with the first Toy Story, but this isn’t time for a debate. Rather the main takeaway is that Pixar made a third movie in a 15-year-old franchise that’s just as good as the first. When will your fave franchises do that, I ask you?

 

5. Finding Nemo

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…

Though I’m weary about the unnecessary sequel Finding Dory, Finding Nemo is great. It is everything we expect a Pixar film to be and contains an exceptional performance from Ellen DeGeneres as Dory. It supersedes voice work and is a fully realized performance that is as hilarious as it is heart wrenching. We’re all just looking for ourselves and a home.

 

4. Inside Out

INSIDE OUT

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Inside Out is Pixar’s most original film in years, taking the imaginativeness and heart of Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. and delivering a new classic. The voice work done by it’s stellar cast – Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling and, in particular, The Office‘s Phyllis Smith – is outstanding. It’s a reminder of how tough growing up can be, dealing with changes and sometimes you need to be a little sad.

 

3. A Bug’s Life

Director John Lasseter followed up Toy Story with their second film, A Bug’s Life. The film takes a look at the underground world of bugs—specifically a colony of ants who are being threatened by their grasshopper foes.

Sometimes, it feels as though people forget A Bug’s Life, but it is top three Pixar. This is not up for debate. It followed the massive success of Toy Story so it lingers in the shadow like Pixar’s forgotten child, but it’s hilarious, typically sweet and makes me love otherwise detestable insects for 90 minutes! That alone is an achievement.

 

2. The Incredibles

While many refuse to count The Incredibles as a real superhero movie, it is up there with the best of them. With The Incredibles, director Brad Bird veers Pixar from what they’ve come to typically deliver – it’s action heavy and a slight satire of the comic-book world, but it expectedly has the same amount of heart. Also: one of the few that truly warrants and sequel (which is finally coming).

 

1. Toy Story

 

Imagine your toys came to life every time you shut your bedroom door. It’s that simple of an idea that makes Pixar… Pixar. Toy Story may be Pixar’s first film but it is still it’s best. Maybe it’s my sentimental attachment to it, and yes, their animation has improved tremendously since the early 90’s, but the ingenuity of Toy Story remains as inspiring now as it was then. To infinity and beyond, truly.

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