Pixar Has NO IDEA What They're Doing 

"When every film is appealing, no film will be" - Syndrome

Feel like if the First Inside Out and Coco came out today they would also get panned by corporations for feeling too autobiographical Inside Out literally existed because of Pete Doctor’s own Daughter and her emotions making the movie somewhat technically count as a autobiographical film

I think Dana Terrace put it best, "There's something very disgusting about telling directors, writers, and artists their experiences and inspirations aren’t "appealing" enough for the masses".

Isn't it insane how literally everyone in Hollywood is desperate to rebound in success while simultaneously avoiding ways to accomplish that because they are just that out of touch? Like, that breaking point of no return is fast approaching and they probably should wake up or get out. And you especially have to wonder how the people at Pixar feel right now, cause I'm confident most of them don't approve of this directions themselves, especially with people like Domee Shi being a key member of the creative trust.

You basically summed up how every studio is reacting to the pandemic delay.

I would also like to say: In late 2022 - 2023 people were hating on Pixar just because of lightyear not being the best and the last wish being so good made people say that Pixar has fallen off while dreamworks was on top plus the fact the Mario movie did so well for illumination people were making fun of Pixar’s box office issues and calling it woke despite elemental doing better than ruby Gillman and migration. This also lead to turning red getting hate just to fit the anti-Disney movement.

Disney sabotaged Pixar & is now forcing them to mainly focus on making sequels with less originals with Elio as the last original Pixar movie in a while!

Man, Elemental made me tear up, and they have the audacity to say it's not relatable.

That voice you made @8:27 was SPOT ON!💯💯💯💯💯

I liked Luca so much I saw it in cinema again

All of Pixars recent films >>>>> Wish

In Disney and Pixar's defense: other studios like DreamWorks Sony Animation and illumination even their own ORIGINAL movies aren't doing well either movies like Ruby Gilman and Migration either flopped or really underperformed and they are still relying on sequels or adaptations like Kung Fu Panda 4 and Garfield movie and Despicable Me 4 and Beyond the Spider-Verse also it's kind of ironic how Elemental still became the highest grossing ORIGINAL animated film from any studio since Coco in 2017.

Part of the problem may also be the animation style. Pixar’s been using the same style for years, which can be not only boring but also uncanny. I don’t really enjoy looking at Pixar human models. Maybe if they played with something new and actually created better stories instead of cheap spinoffs or politically charged material, I’d watch their movies.

7:04 "LIKE, NIGGA WHAT?" LMFAO THAT KILLED ME

Thank you for reminding me Elio exists because i haven't seen any advertising for it like. At all and i almost forgot about it

i guess the only redeeming thing about pixar right now is the confirmation that they will NEVER stoop to live action remakes.

I think that the “they aren’t relatable” thing is stupid. Like wall e is about a robot falling in love and saving earth.thats not “reLaTablE” but people still love it

I do understand Pixar’s dilemma. They are a company built on nostalgia. People constantly compare their newer films to the films of old, expecting perfection and overdramatizing them if they’re not exactly how they want them to be. There’s more pressure on everyone to live up to their “glory days” even though their newer works ARE very good, definite classics for the future. Luca is one of my favorite Pixar films to date. But this? This is soul-crushing. The guy who strove for creativity and passion is now basically saying don’t do that. While some sequels sound good (Moana 2, Inside 2 was great), ONLY doing sequels and spin-offs is not what the general public is looking. Mr. Pete Doctor, get on the Internet. Watch videos like this, hear what the GENERAL public has to say instead of what your focus groups say. Sure there will be people who will be trolls, but there are people who just want good, ORIGINAL movies.

Hey Pixar,ever heard of Shrek? It’s a movie about a NASTY,DISGUSTING OGAH’ Are ogres real? No. Shrek is not relatable(His character arc and personality is however)

I don’t think anyone knows the real reason why this is happening!

As soon as I heard last year was the first year that Universal surpassed Disney, I knew that Disney was gonna have to get their act together or burn down the castle to save money.

I haven't rewatched Lightyear but that version of Starman by David Bowie... 😊👌

Saw Inside Out 2 yesterday. It’s amazing

I have my call music as bonetrousle so i got hella confused when it started playing😅

Makes me wonder why they still want to make movies when all they do us suck 24/7. I strongly doubt inside out 2 and/or moana 2 will be "acclaimed". The latter in particular when it was originally planned to be a _series_ after the first.

Lightyear didn't need to be a movie. Woody would've been a best movie!

So what does saying the quiet part out loud mean? I don’t know what that even means. Either way, Pixar is making some seriously poor career choices right now! I remember renewing my long dead Disney Plus membership to watch Turning Red after fan art of the film blew UP! And it was worth it! I felt like I wasn’t being talked down to or being spoon-fed the latest new animation technique as a movie. I WANTED more of THIS Pixar! Not the one making spin-offs.

Hey Pixar? Lightyear was your biggest flop. Not Turning Red, Luca or Elemental. You can’t blame Turning Red and Luca for not doing well at the box office because you literally released both of them on your streaming service. By the time you put them in theatres, everyone had seen them so why would we spend money to go see it again in theatres? OF COURSE no one was going to go spend more money after that. And yet Lightyear crashed and burned by audiences. Was THAT not enough of a wake up call that we don’t want any more sequels and want original content? Especially with how many people watched Luca and Turning Red on Disney Plus AND the massive comeback Elemental had? And how dare you tell your last three directors that their stories and art aren’t mass appealable? I don’t even want to support Pixar anymore after this utterly tone deaf and disgusting anti art statement.

I would go back to cancelled movie and put the greenlight back on them

Pixar fell off with The Good Dinosaur. Everything since has been wildly hit or miss

I realy hate that way Using gay characters to get money from gay peopel , its just so... ı don't know man Im tired

Believe it or not, Luca is my second favorite Pixar movie (I adore Alberto and went to see it in theaters this year despite having seen it on streaming multiple times). Toy Story 3 is my favorite but you could say even that had a personal story (I dislike 4 a lot)

This is why im going to Boycott Inside Out 2. Im not giving Disney a penny until they can get their crap together.

ngl, I have high hopes for inside out2. It's just a gut feeling though

I literally cried during elemental when I watched it the first time. still loved it every watch and edit. brooooo pixar and disney suck.

2:13 weren't MOST of their bombs for the last 4 years Nostalgic properties?

I wanted to and still haven't seen turning red. I saw lightyear and did not enjoy its setup or it's twist. The rest of pixars straight to streaming lineup didn't interest me in the least

My biggest issue with pixar is every movie looks the same, i enjoyed soul but all the others have been very similar character design and just honestly i prefer older animation but that part might just be nostalgia

Let's hope Elio will be based than the ones we had in recent years

I want Elio,

🙂

Turning Red was the high point of Pixar and exactly the direction animated family movies need to go in. It had a message and a topic that families need o hear, think about and deal with. All the other films plaid it too safe or jus flat out go things wrong. Onward couldn't help Covid bu they could have done more to make he fantasy world feel like a fantasy world and no "our modern world but with non-humans" Soul was a fun story with a fun ending but i came out a the wrong time. Whie people saw i as too woke and Black people saw it as too offensive . Whole I disagree, hat was the reaction I saw from multiple youtubers. Lucca did queerbaiting which lost audience from both the LGB community and he homophobic community. Good news he boys are strait , there are no gays in it and it is a better Little Mermaid remake then the little mermaid remake. side note, we do not hate black mermaids. Buz Lightyear was in he shadow of "has no Tim Alen" and cancel culture and more woke BS but he real reason it and Toy Story 4 failed was a complete lack of Mira Nova Toy Story 4 and 5 come down o a simple fact. Wood and Buz's story is over, half he voice cast is dead. Itt is time to let it go and move on. get some one new. Make a new focus. Elemental plaid it too safe. predictable story and no enough characters. It might be a new idea but the plot has been done before. and Elio looked bad from the trailer. though the idea sounds good. if Pixar wans o do sequels hey need let characters age up and deal with teen issues and young adult issues. life doesn't just end a 21. kids need to learn about mature subjects. learn how to deal with them.

There are several major problems within Disney on why their movies are flopping. One, budgets, the budgets are too high. $200,000,000 for Elemental. Really?! It cost 150 million for Spider-verse and Puss in Boots. You can't make a movies cost a quarter of $1 billion then expect it to make $1 billion just because you're a big company. Two, marketing, the marketing for every movie from Disney has been garbage. No interviews, no hot ones, barely any trailers, no promotions with Disney RU-vidrs, and the list goes on. Marketing is vital for any movie and if it's bad, then the movie will get no money. Three, victim blaming, they are blaming the audience for their failures and not themselves. No, it's not anyone's fault but yours that your movie bombed, Disney! if you blame the audience, then they're not going to watch anything you make because they know you're going to get mad at them and not yourself for why your movie failed. Fourth, target audience, let's be real, Disney shouldn't be marketing to kids or any side of the political party. They NEED to target the parents. Parents are the ones who decide what their kids watch. Parents are the ones who will spend their money on their kids so they are the ones who Disney needs to market to. If parents don't want their kids watching Disney, then they are lost as a company.

It's stuff like this that has caused me to turn to indie shows like Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, Murder Drones, and the Amazing Digital Circus. Do they have problems? Sure! But at least they are original ideas, instead of another sequel or spin-off or reboot or remake.

Something to point out, Despite making twice as Lightyear, Elemental is still technically a flop because of its oversized production and marketing budgets. That’s one of the problems, they spend too much on these films for them to make a profit.

Pixar could learn a thing or two from Anton Ego’s speech on embracing and defending “the new” even when the world is often unkind to new creations… a speech from one of their *OWN F--ING MOVIES*

I don’t think it’s just Pixar, remember the batgirl movie they made then never released, remember how we could’ve gotten a movie made by the same people who made spider verse about an favorite Batman beyond

maybe pixar would've been better off had disney not bought them

Why is it we never listen to “if you try to satisfy everyone, you satisfy no one?”

Idk, legit excited for Inside Out 2, but a FIFTH Toy Story feels dangerously close to edging into Land Before Time territory.

This is heartbreaking. Pixar executives are basically saying “we don’t care about originality, creativity, or personal experiences” You’re telling thousands of people that they essentially don’t matter. You’re telling your fans, THOUSANDS of people who finally started to see themselves or gain empathy for others with different experiences that THEY DON’T MATTER.

To me, im a huge fan of Pete Docter, and i know for a fact this isnt like him and never was, i know this wasnt his idea. He puts heart and effort into Pixar. Hes being manipulated or forced somehow to being this news to his dismay

Honestly, i think Hollywood has no idea what they're doing anymore, besides burning goodwill, ruining everything that made the industry uniquely great, and forcing employees to rebel against them. Like, as a person who grew up with animation. I'm starting to have way more faith in indie media than mainstream media

Didnt Pixar get real teenagers flanderized with these emotions to make the new emotions accurate and not pandering?

Crazy how 3 different channels just uploaded talking about how Pixar is screwing themselves

6:57 It’s funny because Pixar will often have a movie about a masculine experience, and I’ll have zero trouble enjoying the film as a woman. I don’t even notice nor care. Most movies speak to the masculine experience and yet few women complain. It’s only when you make a more female-focused movie that people get mad.

It takes a whole level of denialism to look at a spin-off that flopped and an original movie that was well praised and did decently in the box office and conclude that it's best to make more of the spin-off movies that flopped. I've been a long time Pixar fan, but man it's so hard to be one right now when they are saying stuff like this.

Another Toy Story? Really? After Lightyear too.

Sadly, most sequels feel like cash grabs.

It seems Iger’s influence is starting to infect Pixar…

I like to see the reaction of Turning Red's Director Domee Shi after reading this paragraph. I bet she's thinking about going Panda Ming on Bob Iger's and Pete Doctor's asses.

What I find sad is my school is filled with a bunch of Pixar pessimists. They don’t like anything Pixar has done in the 2020s at all, creative or not.

They weren’t in theatres!? In the U.A.E they were all released in theatres, maybe it’s because Disney plus wasn’t available in the emirates at the time , but I watched soul, Luca and turning red in theatres.

Pixar started off at a nice medium rare, but now they’re well done; Pixar is COOKED.

I don't know if it's been stated already. But it's kinda funny that in 2022, DreamWorks released a sequel of a spinoff of one of their more signature and profitable brands of a character who debuted in that brand's first sequel (Puss in Boots) and became a huge success, critically and commercially with the film still being talked and mentioned around long after its release. But a Spinoff film in that same year of one of Pixar characters from Pixar's 1st and successful brand is barely a blip on the radar. (Lightyear) with little word about them other than how medicore it was. Makes you think, huh?

I'd hope Inside Out 2 turns out a box office hit

This may be personal preference, but I don’t think any of the Pixar films of the 2020s were bad. Sure they have their flaws, but they’re still definitely doing better compared to other studios

It sucks that Pixar is declining. Seriously. Not making original films and ones that stand out? That just sounds disappointing

considering his filmography, I can't picture for the life of me Pete Docter of all people saying something like that unironically either Disney TOLD him to say it, or the author of the article is twisting his words

The Reason Strange World, Lightyear, and WISH failed and bombed hard at the box office was because they were all very bad movies and movies no one liked. Wish showed how Soulless disney has become Strange World was annoying Lightyear was trying to make parody character like Buzz Lightyear a serious story

Damn, I wasn’t expecting Schaffrillas to post about this at the same time!

9:16 "Curse Those Italians!" HELP

Leave it to Dana Terrace to summarize a whole crummy situation in a single tweet.

Remember when the compagny made good movies with original stories? Monsters inc, Wallee, Finding Nemo, UP, Coco. They are all excellent! Now it's '' Original ideas sucks, let's just make sequels! '' It's not disrespectful to the producers and fans of Turning red, Soul and Luca. Thank's for that Pixar 😒

I really hope Elio is well received because if it isn’t we might not get an original movie from Pixar for a good long while. All the Lightyear slander is making me feel alienated tho just because that’s the only Pixar movie in recent memory that I’ve rewatched multiple times but I do still love the rest of Pixar’s output from this decade so far. Most of the blame rests solely on Disney and I feel so bad for Pete Docter he’s in such an unwinnable position.

You and Schaff released Pixar videos around the same time

everyone here who owns a company, never let a massive corporation like Disney buy it out NO MATTER WHAT. it is the only way to not end up like Pixar

After watching puss in boots 2 and spiderverse 2 ever 3d animated movie looks like shit in comparison.

Can I be honest, after Cars 2, everything went downhill for the most part and I was more impressed with the shorts and wished they made films more experimental like the shorts. Also thank you for calling out the stupidity of racist and toxic business practices because we need to clown that mentality as quickly as possible.

If Elio does well, Pixar will say “it’s a fluke because our other original stories this decade didn’t do well”

What Pixar and other studios like Dreamworks, Sony and Ilumination don't seem to understand is that what the people dislikes is badly written stories. Turning Red and Soul were very good, speaking of themes a lot of people can relate like our relationships with our parents or what do we want to do with our lives. I cannot speak for Luca and Elemental because I haven't watched those but it seems to appeal to a lot of people. Lightyear on the other side, it was not that bad but it was pretty mediocre. The same can be said of Incredibles 2 even tho it's a little older. But is not like sequels are necessarily bad. Monster University and Cars 3 were pretty solid( again a bit older but it works), heck, even Toy story 4 worked even if it was a bit unnecesary in the story. The issue is that they don't let stories thrive in the hands of the creative teams and instead the executive are cuting past the edges, substracting the movies of their precious hearts. An example of this is clearly Wish, which is not pixar but is disney still. Moving into dreamworks Puss in Boots 2 is a sequel of a Spin off!! And the movie was amazing because it innovate not only with its story but also its animation. On the other side, Kung Fu Panda 4 was a mess with barely anything good on it because the writing was bad. Now on their original movies, Ruby Gillman flopped hard and The Bad Guys thrived so again it's not necessarily true that new ideas are bad It also doesn't work that the studios doesn't even respect their artists. Both Dramworks and Pixar have announced massive layoffs to save their precious millions. Prefering to use ai or cheap outsourcing, once again robbing the movies of the creativity that people loved

It's sad how this beloved studios is going down the drain. Even though I tried of them doing sequels instead of original ideas, I'm really praying that Inside Out 2 is the only good thing out of this upcoming line of unessary sequels by the company.

One thing I've noticed is that Pixar have never made a film based on a pre existing IP. Every film they've made has either been an original idea, or a sequel, prequel or spin off to said original idea. They've never adapted a book, comic or video game, and I'm kinda glad they haven't. And also blame Disney for this, Pixar deserve to thrive. And we don't hate minorities, we hate bad writing, and Lightyear was poorly written, but it wasn't the fault of the gay relationship.

I loved Luca, Turning Red, Elemental, and Soul. I hope they make more unique stuff!

Hearing a movie is a sequel is like almost a guarantee I'm not watching it. I was actually annoyed hearing that inside out 2 was gonna be a thing, Plus Disney just sucks.

I just saw Schaffrillas Productions video on this situation

7:25 I'm glad you mentioned this. It really does feel like minorities are still not taken seriously by big cooperations. And that in turn can affect parts of society and encourages bigotry and awful stereotypes in and out of media.

Elemental has skyrocketed to being my favorite movie. It really touched my heart. When I heard about it I wouldn't stop talking about going to see it for weeks. I just knew that I at least was going to like it because something about elements is up my alley and I'm a huge sucker for a good romance, especially an "interracial" romance. I absolutely loved it because Ember directly mirrors me. I'm not an immigrant and I'm black, not Asian. But still, discrimination and mistreatment from other people, family having high expectations for you and feeling like you can't be your true self around them, having a a fiery temper because you have a difficult time understanding and expressing your true feelings? Those are the ABCs of me. Wade perfectly mirrors my fiance (who's white) and it was like seeing our relationship on the big screen. I got a little emotional during some parts of it. Anyway I say all that to say that Elemental almost felt like old Pixar again. From the beautiful story with the movie really tugging at your heart strings (typical Pixar), the STUNNING animation and the fact that they weren't afraid to do a love story considering Disney has been trying to stay AWAY from love stories lately (cough cough *Wish* cough cough), it felt like something Pixar would have come up with 10 years ago. I would have loved to have grown up watching something like Elemental. 😍

It genuinely makes me pissed the way they talk about soul, turning red and Luca, like especially Luca for me because I am gay and watching that movie made me feel so seen. Even if I can't relate to soul in the same way doesn't mean it's a bad story that I won't watch just because I'm not the targeted audience because I'm white, the fact that it's still personal makes me want to watch it anyway!(plus, to hear about experiences that I haven't gone through are still important) But things like lightyear? I could not give a damn. It just sucks how so much media have been bought off and now they all just feel like the same boring and bland work..

Can't wait For inside out 2 !❤️❤️❤️

Every day I get another reason to support indie animation. At least with indies, minorities are allowed to tell their stories and share their experiences without corporate meddling.

6:50 was turning red about puberty? I thought the movie was about accepting your inner child. can someone explain how it is about puberty other then the puberty joke.

I like to imagine disney has a gun to the back of pixars head telling them to tell the media that they made these chocies on their own.

Pray that Elio won't be the next Lightyear.

'A universally relatable movie' huh? Well guess what? We can all play this game. Name any Pixar movie and state why you can't 100% relate to it. The stupider it sounds, the better.

Well. This aged like milk. 😂

99.99% this was just corporate talk Bob Iger fed to Docter

It bothers me so much that Docter says that Elemental had a bad opening weekend. Who cares if it started roughly when it eventually made much more money down the line!?! This is really just a testament to bad marketing if it started slowly. And then people who did see it thought it was good and recommended it to others. People didn't do that with Lightyear because it wasn't good

I’m honestly glad elio is being delayed. Because that gives the writers and other employees more time to work on it. That way it doesnt flop hard like disney’s other movies did

I feel like i'm the only one who liked Lightyear, It was unnecessary and unexpected considering the animated series which you can find on Disney+ is still around... but it was semi entertaining 😶