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- luckyorphan0
Cygnus is almost right.
Up is definitely one of Pixar's weakest films, but I would give Cars the title of worst. Wall•E and Ratatouille were weak as well.
Up and Wall•E were both pedestrian, boring, and somewhat cop-outs, in terms of storytelling. I was never surprised by anything in either, and I found their moralizing irritating (regardless of the fact that I generally sympathized with the lessons attempted).
Up, specifically, was a nice movie, but a generally slapped together mess. I felt that the story tellers were either borderline lazy in being alright with the story, or rude in expecting that audiences would spend extensive effort reading into the story to discover a hidden allegory (I've heard many theories from friends in regards to this). And don't even try to convince me that there's anything acceptable about planes – albeit piloted by dogs – shooting real bullets at a kid in a movie.
In the end, Up fits perfectly into my belief that Pixar is an unmoored ship right now, wandering about, and trying to hold on to what they had in the days of its inception. But sadly, they lost something special when storyboard supervisor Joe Ranft died in a tragic car accident. Since his death, their short films have stunk and their features have slipped dramatically. And since Lasseter has taken over all of Disney creative, he's less involved as well. Add to that the fact that crap like Shrek makes any movie look wonderful and imaginative.
And this is coming from someone with a degree in animation, who can recite Toy Story verbatim, thinks Finding Nemo is a masterpiece, and lobbied his wife to name their kid Dash.
Help me Brad Bird...you're my only hope.
(Iron Giant - #3 film of all time).- It's amazing how one person can influence all projects from a company to be excellent instead of mediocremegE
- Indeed.luckyorphan