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My favorite part of the video was when you thought Chloe was agreeing with the hot take of 'Inside Out' being the worst Pixar film and Chloe was like, "chill, let me finish!"
Two hot takes 1. Toy Story is genuinely one of the greatest films of all time imo 2. The incredibles being in someone’s top 10 superhero films of all time is not a hot take
@22:17 my issue with this hot take is that Joy was purposely unlikeable. She was the “villain” of the story. She tries to abandon sadness for instance. She had to learn the error of her ways. So to say Inside out is bade because Joy is unlikable… is completely missing the point of the movie
You said exactly what I was thinking I can understand not liking her but that’s the whole characters arc if she was likable throughout she would feel shallow that’s why the scene where she is in the memory dump is so important it’s the moment we see her realize her mistakes and that sadness is important it helps humanize her in way that makes me like her and sets up the scene and the rest of the movie perfectly
The people who say Woody acted out of character in Toy Story 4 don’t actually understand his character at all. He’s not a one dimensional loyalty robot that automatically defaults to the same programming no matter the situation or circumstance. He’s a character with real emotions and internal conflicts. Every single movie challenges Woody’s beliefs and world view. Woody acts “out of character” in every movie compared to how he acted in the previous movie. Woody in TS3 is DRASTICALLY different from Woody in TS1. He is constantly growing and evolving as a character. Toy Story is my all time favorite film franchise and TS4 only made my love and appreciation for the world and characters a lot stronger than it already was. It’s not perfect. I do think it is overall the weakest of the four, but it’s still a great movie.
Same here. Finally, somebody who understands what the movies are trying to say instead of taking things at face value and reacting like an entitled man baby who thinks they know how to write characters better than actual screenwriters. Then again, that's most of the animation community in a nutshell, isn't it?
I find it interesting that a lot of criticisms call certain movies bad because the main character is unlikable, but that brings me to a counterpoint with a little film called "The Emperor's New Groove" A movie where you could argue the lead is the MOST unlikable lead in ANY Disney/Pixar film, yet its deemed a huge classic because its humor makes you skim over that with how fast paced and clever it is. I would argue that having unlikeable leads gives you that room to see the growth and development of the people you're going to be around with for the longest. If theyre already inherently good or perfect, its creatively more challenging to work in a storyline that could be as compelling as, say, Inside Out or Toy Story. By showing them at their imperfect stages first, it makes the journey all that more fulfilling when Joy embraces Sadness and Woody befriends Buzz.
I'm actually surprised at all the hate Turning Red has been getting. I thought it was generally well received. Never knew so many people think it's the worst of Pixar. For me, The Good Dinosaur is Pixar's worst.
It was, but the way they handled puberty and highlighted menstruation and sexual awakening in the movie was pretty controversial with conservative audiences
It was not well received and I think it’s the opposite that people are coming around to it, I still believe it’s a mediocre film with a bad message it’s on the same tier as raya and the last dragon
@@GopackgoinfinityI have to disagree. I like the message in the film. I think a lot of people think it’s promoting children disobeying their parents, but it’s more so promoting parents and children accepting their differences and having a healthy relationship that isn’t too restrictive.
The Zurg twist is the biggest mistake Pixar has made since Cars 2. Anyone who wanted to see Lightyear wanted a film like the early 2000s Buzz Lightyear Star command Series,and instead the choice to deconstruct him and focus on his flaws shows that they'd rather focus on his mistakes rather than the good things he accomplished.
Cars 2 is solid by me. Turning Red I think is fine, but I just can’t connect with it as an 18 year old dude. I get that it means a lot to other people tho, and that’s cool, but the film just means nothing to me personally. I find spy cars and Mater’s Tall Tales more entertaining than gyrating to make a point 🤷♂️
Your daughter is so interesting to listen to ! You should do the same format with Disney / marvel / dreamworks etc ! Talking about broken characters and crying because of the hot sauce, that’s hilarious 😂
@@SeanChandlerTalksAbout As a fan of your channel, we’re way more on the same boat with the last three (I guess 4 as I think Toy Story has overstated its welcome starting with the fourth movie… and then came Lightyear and Pixar really killed it with that one for more reasons than it’s money losses, making us wonder how they could possibly be worse at this rate… and then they announced the potential of turning into a reboot and sequel factory, which you did a great video about) hot takes not being too spicy than the first thirds of them. P. S. If you Chandlers saw ElectricDragon505’s videos (which you probably might), you’d really find out that he’s another one of those “Disney shills” (or for lack of a better term, a RU-vidr that while ambitious as he does Animation Lookback and did The Epic Mickey Files and The Art of AniMat, can also be defensive of the current state of Disney even if they were better before the 2010s-2020s before they became more frequently safe and lazy to the point where my appreciation for the otherwise imperfect Universal only got bigger and bigger even if he may be more critical towards what they make, and this is coming from someone who used to watch a lot of his content as a teenager. Then again, he is the same guy who defended Lightyear over Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie, take for instance.)
Alright here are the Hot Takes: Soul is extremely overrated. I find it long, boring, and very scatterbrained. It could’ve had a slam dunk of an ending but it didn’t take it. Elemental is the worst Pixar film and Incredibles 2 is right behind it. Cars 2 is in the upper half of Pixar movies. It’s extremely fun and over the top. It’s a Pixar movie that isn’t trying to force you to get emotional at the end, it just wants to be cool and fun and I like it for that. It’s a very unique film in the Pixar catalogue. After Toy Story 3, the only Pixar movies that felt like home runs to me were Inside Out and Coco. Nothing else has hit that top tier since.
Onward is Pixar’s most underrated movie. I think it’s great and should be talked about it. It’s unfortunate it came out a week before the pandemic started. I think it’s one of the most emotional movies that Pixar has done.
disagree.... it could've been made better. Like if the dad wasn't just a pair of legs throughout the film and the brothers got to spend more than 5 minutes with him. Also Ian reminded me a lot like Arlo being scared, but then lashing out at his brother wasn't fun to watch
I agree. My dad wasn’t around much growing up, so I essentially grew up with my brother. This is the only movie in my entire life that has made me cry. Top 5 for me personally
Toy Story 1 is not overrated. It may look pedestrian now but it was very innovative at the time. It was the first fully CGI movie and made great innovations in CGI technology. After Toy Story 99% of theatrical animation became 3D. Its good to respect your elders.
I agree with your statement. But for me I miss hand drawn animation films, I wish we live in a world where hand drawn and CGI can coexist but we don’t live in that reality, or I’m just an old timer who stays in the past.
@@JonathanGaeta I agree I love both. We do still get 2d hand drawn stuff. Its all over tv and we get a ton of anime. I watched Spy x Family: Code White in the movie theater earlier this year.
@@benh4579 Its still one of my favs.Calling it overrated is like calling Star Wars overrated. If you look at it now it looks like any other movie but back in the day it was innovative for its advances in technology. It was one of the first blockbuster movies to have a toy line. I saw it for the first time months ago and said "This movie is ok. I acknowledge that it made an enormous impact in film history. I might have appreciated it more if I was younger. It's a solid average movie."
I also wouldnt call Toy story 1 overrated, too. That said as more time goes on. I favour Ratatouille, Coco and Wall E more. Probably because I resonate with those films more
About your point on Turning Red, I absolutely agree! Why would parents be okay with wanting their kids getting all of their needs met from their friends. It sounds more like a 'choose your family' theme that strongly exists in the non hetero community. Also, from my point of view, Turning Red was a non hetero focused film. Think about it this way. One of her friends, the tall one who looked kind of like a boy. Did she really have a big crush on the boys in the bands? Or was she putting on a front in order to stay close with her female friends that she's in love with? This is a common theme with non hetero girls who are only into girls, or barely into boys. All of the Turning Red girls were coded this way. Even the mother was coded like a woman who married this strange frumpy man because of social conditions, but nothing about the couple showed any sign of romantic attraction. Nothing wrong about the film, the problem is the dishonesty of how these kinds of films are marketed to make people think it's designed for them. And yes, what's with all of these deconstruction of male characters and turning them into broken old men? It's all for a different demographic.
Here are my hot takes: - Cars 1 is a 9.5/10 for me and placed at number 5 for me among my Pixar ranking. It’s also one of my favorite movies ever. - Cars 2 is a 7/10 for me. Huge guilty pleasure. Cars 3 is great too, 8/10 for me - Toy Story 2 is my favorite of the trilogy - A Bug’s Life and Monsters University are underrated. Incredibles 2 is not very good imo, but it is still serviceable. - I don’t connect with Soul much, so it’s lower on my Pixar ranking. Like number 20 something. Same with Turning Red. - I like Luca. I’ve actually come to like it more than before. I still don’t get the overwhelming praise it gets tho, that it’s one of Pixar’s best, it’s one of the best animated movies ever or in recent years, etc.
@@dannytooley7530 mad respect. Ratatouille is my favorite Pixar movie. It’s one of the few movies out there I’d give a 10/10, and it’s really high up among my favorite movies of all time, like my number 12 I think
Hot Takes: The recent Pixar movies are mostly fine, but the animation is very stale and just makes watching them worse Soul is just so boring, and I feel that the message could've been much more potent if the ending didn't have Joe switching bodies with the cat, and if the afterlife just looked more appealing.
Really? I think the animation is the best part of them! I don’t like Turning Red very much, but it was very unique and fun to look at. Luca barely even looks like a Pixar movie, and I say that in a good way.
Huh, I disagree completely! I think the highlight of recent Pixar movies is their excellent animation. But otherwise, they have not been interesting at all in the last few years. The one exception to this for me, funnily enough, IS Soul, which is one of my top 5 Pixar movies of all time.
Hot take: a bugs a life is my favorite Pixar movie, because while not the best Pixar film it’s the most comforting one and that has more power than being extremely deep or complex
I actually agree heavily with this. Woody is so damn unlikable as a protagonist in a way that really makes me not wanna see him succeed at all. People always seem to bring up Joy in that she's an unlikable protagonist, but Woody is so much worse in TS1. Joy is doing what she does to make Rileys life better, whereas Woody is completely selfish. I understand it's the single most important animated movie like ever, but from a purely critical pov, it's the weakest in the franchise for me.
like many the first film wasn’t meant to be a franchise, each film they come up with new ways to mold these characters. i definitely agree with this, yet it’s still very enjoyable
@@benh4579 It’s a great movie and it sets up woody and Buzz but I feel like it’s three sequels tell more compelling stories. But Tbf for me that as good thing because sequels are suppose to try to be better then the original.
About the inside out comment, I think that Joy is supposed to be the villain of the movie, to make us understand that we also need the sadness as well. Also, I think she is more of an antagonist rather than a villain
I think she was really passive aggressive at the very least. She was stubborn, controlling and was apprehensive towards Sadness yes, but that wasn't her entire character. She's still the living embodiment of happiness after all so she's mostly a friendly person at the end of the day. It's just those negative traits of her personality were just obstacles she needed to overcome within herself. Now imagine if she truly was the villain of the movie. So fixated on trying to make herself Riley's default emotion that she would callously push away the other emotions just to make herself feel superior and would especially treat Sadness like a punching bag moreso than an important asset to Riley's mind. Then she would have been truly an unlikable protagonist. The same thing can be said about Woody. Need I remind everyone of the infamous Black Friday Reel?
@@noobmasterruben5167 Unlikable but eventually grows out of that stage once he accepts Buzz. And besides, learning the history of Toy Story's production, Woody almost became the villain in similar fashion to Lotso from the third movie.
This is off topic from this video but I just wanted to mention an Easter Egg in Inside Out 2. Spoiler Warning if you haven’t seen Inside Out 2!!!!!!!!! Here is a really nice Easter Egg. When they showed all the emotions in their bedroom sleeping, when they zoom over to Joy, sitting next to her bed on a shelf is an origami figurine of Bing Bong and his rocket. Such a nice touch that even if Riley will never remember Bing Bong, Joy will always remember him and his sacrifice. 💔🥺😭
@@NinthShinigami It was such a nice and beautiful touch. I started to cry a little 😭🥺 Joy will always remember him and his sacrifice. We all will remember him. You will forever be remembered Bing Bong ❤️
Hot take: Toy Story 4 is as good/better than Toy Story 1. Not hot takes but I think Toy Story 3 and 2 are the best Pixar sequels/best film in the sequel.
Not trying to make this sound like a hot take (because it's not the hottest of the takes today) but I really dislike Incredibles 2. It looks decent on the outside, but when you compare it to the first Movie (I consider the first to be Pixar's Masterpiece) you really start to realize how much of a downgrade is. The story is not really compelling or interesting, a lot of the arcs are half-cooked, and the worst aspect of it is that all of the parr family characters are insanely downgraded. It's also a movie that is way too safe and just wants to pander to audiences, it never takes risks. The first movie has amazing twists like the superhero genocide reveal scene or high tension moments like the plane chase sequence or the suicide attemp scene. In the second movie the higlight was a bunch of funny jack jack moments that didn't even contribute to the main story. It's not the worst one, but I would agree that it is the most dissapointing Pixar film. I believe that they should have made a time jump to see grown up characters to see the story actually go somewhere, not just another superhero movie.
How much Pepto-Bismol do you buy? I would be s@itting flames for the next 38 hours if I was messing with those hot sauces. I wouldn't say Pixar is dead but I think it's past its prime and I also hate Inside Out with a passion. I find 90s-2000s Pixar to be the best years overall.
17:05 "As a fan of the CW Flash show" don't say that out loud I hear Madvocate coming down to get you and make sure you regret ever saying that or anything like that.
Hey I wrote the comment for inside out, but i meant that not only Joy was unlikable but also Rhiley. I did not like how she just went agaisnt her mother and ran away from home
My hot take is that a lot of the beloved Pixar movies from the late 2000s- early 2010s (Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Inside Out) feel like bloated shorts. Ratatouille in particular feels likes a tech demo, while Up gets pretty bad after the first few minutes. All the best parts of WALL-E could be condensed into a short without all the fatphobia and repeated Hello Dolly songs. And I still maintain that "Riley's First Date" is better than most of Inside Out (although I do love me some Bing Bong). Also, I guess liking A Bug's Life is a hot take now? Seems like this one has not aged well for most people. I like how it has a legit, non-twist villain.
I love the Toy Story movies but one hot take nobody agrees w/ is that the 2nd one sucks. I despise it bc it feels like nothing happens for most of the runtime and the prospector is insufferable to me.
I really enjoy Incredibles 2, my only issue is the third act since I don't think it does anything good with its villain and it is until the third act the villain is revealed, so I think the third act is wasted potential, other than that, I really like it.
Can’t believe you blindsided us with a huge Syndrome is uninteresting hot take! Actually might be one of the biggest hot takes in the entire video despite not being mentioned as such!
While I agree about the twerking aspects, was definitely an odd choice I disagree about the overbearing aspect of parents. The over bearing, over protective parents who have expectations that is very hard to reach is something I do think a lot of people can relate with.
literally loggin in just to comment : I get the most all these but Inside Out is where I draw the line. calling it the worst and the character unlikable shows a lack of understanding in children. She got uprooted from everything she knew and tried to adjust. The ONLY way for it to be 'overall boring' or to see Joy as the villain is to miss the point of the movie entirely! everything doesnt have to be action pack all the time, sometimes the movie is in the dialogue and character development. FOR REAL! like just bc you have to have your brain over stimulated and entertained all the time, does not mean every movie is boring if it doesnt match your dopamine addiction. Joy is JOY for a reason, its going to conflict with sadness, the the POINT OF THE MOVIE!!! she learned at the end why sadness is important. This movie depicts and shows emotional development in the best way! Rant over
My opinion on each take: #1: Mixed Feelings; I wouldn’t call Toy Story 4 an abomination, but it does have some flaws in my mind that hold it back from being a great Toy Story film. I think it’s good, but very flawed. #2: Agree; Turning Red is a movie that I just didn’t connect with at all. I thought the message was terrible, I didn’t care for any of the characters, and it was targeted too heavily to an audience where it wasn’t relatable for me. #3: Mixed Feelings; I think MU is good enough. I think the message is good, and the building friendship between Mike and Sully is a lot of fun, but the story feels much less imaginative because it feels like a generic high school sports movie. #4: Disagree; I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, I think Incredibles 2 is kind of sloppy. The storytelling is pretty messy, the villain is totally nonsensical, and the plot is just a rehash of the original. #5: Disagree; I think Finding Dory is fine, I don’t have any gigantic issues with it, but again, it feels derivative of the original film, so I’m more likely to rewatch Finding Nemo. #6: Heavily Disagree!!! I still think Pixar has a good track record after Toy Story 3. Sure they’ve had their misses, but their films just went from special to good in my eyes. #7: Disagree; Cars 2 is a film I grew up with, but it’s probably the dumbest Pixar movie. If they had made this a spin-off direct to video movie which had Mater in the lead, that would be fine with me, but as an official movie, I don’t think it works. #8: Mixed Feelings; The twist does feel like a big retcon of what was established in Toy Story 2, but I think the twist serves for Buzz’s character development. I don’t love the twist, or the movie all that much, but I don’t think it’s horrible. #9: Couldn’t Disagree More; Joy is meant to be somewhat antagonistic but gets to grow, it’s a beautiful and creative story that’s relatable. #10: Disagree; While I think the film itself is quaint compared to animated films nowadays, it’s historically important and that cannot change. It’s still a lot of fun, I understand the concept of Woody being unlikable, but I think his arc works. This took a while, I hope you enjoyed my voice in the conversation. 😮💨
Is there going to be a sequel to this video? 1. Inside Out is an amazing and thematically emotional film, but I couldn’t get into its speculative elements. 2. Coco is Pixar’s worst film, but in terms of general movie going experience (no Pixar bias), it’s just an okay film. You can still like Coco. But if anyone says Elena Rivera, Miguel’s grandmother, you are a monster!
Do not like Incredibles 2. All the lessons Bob learned about family and letting go of his past as THE superhero to be part of a team and family just disappear overnight. But the second film starts the next day. It has almost no real character development or meaningful plot elements. It is just an empty popcorn flick. With a truly awful villain motivation. Why wouldn’t she be most mad that her dad was too stupid to have his super hero phones in the safe room? And supers were already illegal. Why would she try to make them legal just to make them extra super duper illegal? It is just a bad movie. Not just a bad Pixar movie but a bad movie. Like most of the post Endgame MCU - empty super hero flavored junk. Bird is one of the best directors and I cannot believe he came back for that. He has my two favorite Pixar films, probably the best MI movie and the Iron Giant. Just baffling.
When I heard the positive and negative takes on Turning Red, the negative ones were asking "why???" from a number of perspectives and the positive ones were full of far less praise for the film itself than for the fact that it pissed people off. Which, along with the film itself, just made the whole experience around its release a toxic beehive.
With you mentioning Disney's history, one of my biggest hot takes with the Animated Canon is that I find the package film era to be extremely underrated, as I really appreciate the large variety we get from it. Also, Melody Time is actually in my top 5 favorite films from the Disney Animated Canon. I'm that big of a fan of it.
My thoughts on these hot takes: 1. Toy Story 4 is not an abomination but it is not good and bottom tier Pixar. The only Pixar film I found to be an "abomination" is The Good Dinosaur. 2. I understand the divisiveness of Turning Red but I'm personally on the positive side as I really like it. The message of the movie wasn't to put your friends over your mom to seek help but rather to accept your family instead of turning your back on them for your friends. 3. This was me back in 2013 when I was 9-years-old and even had an MU party for my 10th birthday in 2014. I still love the movie as of now and as a college freshman (incoming sophomore) myself, it hits harder to watch a movie about a college freshman. My only flaw with the movie was how they did Randall dirty. 4. I go back and forth between that but I think Incredibles 2 is Pixar's most overhated movie. It's way better than what people make it out to be for. 5. To quote Winston Deavor: "I disagree strongly" nothing else to say. 6. Ok this is too much for me. Sure, Pixar started releasing misses after Toy Story 3 but saying they should have stopped after that is too far. There are modern Pixar films that feel like classics such as Inside Out, Coco, Soul, etc. (why does no one talk about the latter two?) 7. Cars is my favorite in the trilogy and I view it as a guilty pleasure but that's only because I'm not a Cars fan at all. This franchise is not for me. 8. Lightyear is a good movie and gets way too much hate, but the Zurg twist wasn't good. It made no sense. But I will say that wasn't my biggest problem with the movie. My main problem with Lightyear was how the tone felt inconsistent. In the first 30 minutes, you could tell the film wanted to be a grounded and serious movie but then we get introduced to characters who turn out to be comic reliefs making goofy ahh jokes and dumb decisions. The 2nd half of the movie didn't feel in line with what the movie was striving for. 9. I'm not mad that someone called Inside Out the worst but I hate the reasons for it. Riley being mean spirited in the movie is just Riley being human as human beings can be assholes. And the fact that your brain can be a mess is just a part of life. I do think Inside Out is amazing but I prefer the 2nd one. 10. I do think the Toy Story franchise is a tad bit overrated in a sense that there are better Pixar films out there than the Toy Story movies like The Incredibles, Wall-E, Ratatouille, etc. I even prefer Soul and Coco over the first 2 Toy Story films. Toy Story 3 is easily my favorite one.
While I enjoy some Pixar movies, I will always kind of have a personal bias against them, just because of the fact that they basically killed 2D animated movies from Disney and made them just go fully with the CG animation. And I just don’t really like the way CG animated movies look. I think 2D is so much better and I kind of wish that Disney stuck with that style for their movies and just let Pixar do the 3D style.
I did not realize that thinking Incredibles 2 is better than the first is a hot take. I will have to rewatch them both, but I just loved Jack Jack's character.
Also, I think "Incredibles 2" has more action in it when compared to the original. I think they definitely stepped it up a bit with more action sequences that are in the sequel. And there are definitely a lot more superheroes in it when compared to the original, as well. I mean, you've got all of those different superheroes with so many different super powers in the movie. And they're utilized quite well when the Parr family is on that big boat near the end of the film. The Parr family is the Fantastic 5 taking on a bunch of different superheroes on a big boat in the finale! And it's just totally freaking awesome! I do love the original "The Incredibles," but "Incredibles 2" is my favorite of the two. Both movies though are some of my favorite Disney films & Pixar films ever. 🦸♂
I just did not like toy story 4. It actually makes us dislike bonnie for treating woody like garbage amd after Andy was so torn about giving him to bonnie but he did it cuz he knew woody would be loved and taken care of. I also didn’t enjoy the movie as a whole. Wasnt as fun, jokes didn’t land as well amd bo peep was treating woody like crap too. Woody deserves better
I think inside out is one of the best Pixar movies ever, just behind the Toy Story movies, can’t see inside out 2 until next month but I can’t wait to see it.
Here are my reactions to these flaming hot takes: 1: Toy Story 4. While I don’t think it’s an abomination, I do agree that it cheapens the perfect ending of Toy Story 3. It ultimately just feels so unnecessary! 2: Turning Red. I am yet to see this film so I can’t comment but from I have heard, I don’t think I will like it anyway and I have no real interest in watching it anytime soon! 3: Monster’s University. While I don’t think it’s a bad film, I do think it fails to capture the magic of what Pixar is known for. It’s just a rather forgettable film that never really leaves much of an impression on me. 4: The Incredibles 2. I definitely disagree with this one! The first Incredibles is one of my favourite films period. I was so excited for a sequel and while I didn’t exactly hate it, I did feel both disappointed and underwhelmed by it. 5: Finding Dory. Another one that I wholeheartedly disagree with! Finding Nemo is an absolute classic and I have always loved the themes it explores. I think Finding Dory is a fun but forgettable film that doesn’t hold a candle to the original! 6: “Pixar is dead” I think Pixar has struggled a lot recently with failing to capture the magic of their past films but in no way do I think they are finished as a studio! Pixar is an incredibly successful studio despite some recent misses and disappointments. They just need to get back on track with what they used to be good at! 7: Cars 2. While I don’t think it’s as good as the first film, I do think it is a little over hated in my opinion. In all honesty, I would say that I prefer Cars 2 to Cars 3! 8: Lightyear Zurg Twist. I think the film had potential but it ultimately squanders this and not only is it a disappointing prequel to the far superior Toy Story films, it’s also a rather frustrating watch! 9: Inside Out. Unpopular opinion here but I think Inside Out is a tad overrated! I think it’s a good film but not a great film. It’s just never really been a film I hold in high regard. 10: “Toy Story is overrated” The first 3 Toy Story films are some of my favourite animated films as well some of my favourite films of all time! They are light years (pun intended!) ahead of any animated film that comes out these days.
I for sure agree on Incredibles 2, both films are really solid but the sequel just feels so much more refined and that they took everything that made the first film so great and improved it, the animation is incredible
My thoughts on each of these 1. I agree with the haters. I think Toy Story 4 is one of the worst Pixar movies. 2. I don't agree. I think Turning Red is a fun movie. I don't think it's the best one, nor the worst one, I consider Turning Red to be a middle tier Pixar movie. 3. I agree! MU had a great message. The haters are just middle aged men who are way past their college movie phase. But to many of us, MU is probably the first college movie that we'll ever watch. And it is great! 4. I don't agree at all. Incredibles 2 feels like a direct-to-video sequel that just got a big budget and a theatrical release. It's not as big, epic, and grandiose as the first Incredibles movie. 5. I don't agree, but I kinda get where people are coming from. When I watched Finding Nemo and Dory back to back, and not gonna lie, both felt pretty equal. I just like Nemo a little more than Dory. Probably due to nostalgia. 6. I don't agree at all. While I do understand the saying "you either die as a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain", Pixar is still a business. And if they just decide to call it quits after Toy Story 3, that's honestly a pretty stupid move to make as a movie studio, or business in general. 7. I don't agree. However, I also don't agree that Cars 2 is the worst Pixar movie of the bunch. Because it's far too enjoyable compared to something boring like The Good Dinosaur, Toy Story 4 or Lightyear. Cars 2 has a lot of action going on. 8. I'm split. I still think the Lightyear Zurg twist is really really stupid. But I do agree that it does create the conflict of the movie. The idea that Buzz learns from his mistakes was sorta neat, but it was executed horribly. And I agree with you that Disney's old man deconstruct cliché is getting old, and they should stop ruining our childhood characters this way. Lightyear is my least favorite Pixar movie of all time. 9. I don't know what to say. I don't think Inside Out is Pixar's worst movie, but I kinda agree with the problems these people brought up. Inside Out 2 hasn't released in my country yet, so I can't tell if it's better or worse than the first one yet. 10. Yeah no. Toy Story is film history. These people need to understand how important Toy Story is to the movie industry. While I do agree that the characters are flawed, people need to remember that pretty much every character in this movie goes through an arc. Woody learns not to be jealous. Buzz learns he isn't a real space ranger, and that's okay. Andy's toys learn that everything was a big misunderstanding. Sid's toys learn to stand up to their oppressor. And Sid learns that toy lives matter. So yeah, everyone starts off as a flawed character, but they do go through an arc. So I kinda agree about the unlikeability part in the beginning of the movie, but they improve by the end of the movie, and the characters become far more likeable in Toy Story 2 and 3, which is definitely one big reason why I prefer Toy Story 2 and 3 over Toy Story 1. But I don't think it's overrated.
I don’t understand that “Pixar touch” everyone talks about. Why does a Pixar film have to have a Pixar touch? To me that’s an unnecessary ingredient for a review of a movie
Of the hot takes I get many of them, the Toy Story 4 and turning red. Though I enjoyed Toy Story 4 and turning red I get where people like Sean are coming from but I know people who did have over bearing and toxic parents growing up and I think we all know there’s people out there who should never have become parents who are.
I remeber 'Lightyear' being one of my top 2 most anticipated movies of 2022, and aside from Sox who is the G.O.A.T., a great first 35 minutes and the breathtaking animation, It was a major disappointment. The three screw ups got on my nerves, the Zurg twist was awful, and it kind of ruined itself in the first minute by telling you to watch this movie from Andy's point of view. But the best thing to come out of the movie for me was the experience watching it with friends who were high off their asses.
My hot take.... Toy Story 1 is one of the worst Pixar films (for me), whereas the other three are near the top tier for me. I've never liked the original, even growing up on it. It's just never been a good movie for me.
What I disagree with on Toy Story is how often people put it as the Greatest Pixar Film of All Time. Because they’ve done better. They’ve done better SO many times. Better animation. Better stories. Better characters. Hell I think Toy Story was the worst Toy Story film until 4 came out (and I like 4 but it’s just not there compared to the other 3). But I think almost every Pixar non-sequel is better than Toy Story. Almost. Luca, Soul, A Bug’s Life, and Lightyear aren’t as good. It’s maybe the most nostalgia-blinded movie of Pixar’s catalog and one of the most nostalgia-blinded movies of all time. It’s important, yes. Very important. But it’s not their best.
I agree kinda. Like to be the first 3 Toy Story movies are 10/10 but I would rank Finding Nemo Ratitudu Up Inside out Finding dory Incredibles 2 Soul Luca Inside out 2 As better movies
Totally agree with you about the Zurg twist. I was still on board for the whole movie until the twist happened. The movie immediately drops two stars from me. I can still forgive that if the alternate Buzz is not Zurg but just a new villain
Toy Story 3 was a conclusion to Andy’s storyline. Toy Story 4 is a conclusion to woody’s storyline. Toy Story 4’s message is that toys being brought to life is not just about them getting to walk and talk, woody has a life of his own and he wants to achieve some purpose in his life, instead of being what he was supposed to be
I would say that while this isn't a hot take it's definitely something that we disagree on and that's my opinion that Snydrome is not only the greatest animated villain ever but the greatest Pixar character ever, I know this isn't a hot take but I just wanted to spite you.
