The public hadn’t balked at a Wall-E, a film whose first two acts were essentially dialogue-free. Stars: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai Soul is one of the closest yet to fully achieving that potential on an intimate, human scale. As Pixar’s premium offering in 2020, its tears flow early and often as crushing montages and inspiring instrumental performances prove over and over again how much joy there is to appreciate in this world-and how much joy Pixar films have the potential to capture. It’s got some of the most impressive lighting I’ve ever seen in an animated film, with skin, hair and metallic instruments glistening with a complex, near-photorealism that invites you to reach out and touch them. With plenty of jokes and impressive visual creations to plaster over some unwieldy plot decisions (Why are Black people always being pushed out of their bodies in animations?), Soul still sings. Jamie Foxx’s obsessed music teacher/jazz pianist wannabe Joe flirts back and forth with death, getting a little It’s a Wonderful Life lesson while an unborn soul (Tina Fey) learns about all life has to offer alongside him. Less heady than Inside Out, thanks to its grounded roots in barbershops and tailor back rooms, Soul is still one of Pixar’s most existential.
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That’s the way it should be for a movie all about learning to look up once in a while and enjoy the life that’s happening all around you. Pixar’s best in years, Soul matches its musical deftness with character and locations designs that are true love letters to New York City and its inhabitants. Stars: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Questlove, Phylicia Rashad, Daveed Diggs, Angela Bassett, Graham Norton What do you do with yourself when the best thing you’ll ever be a part of is already over? How do you find drive in life when your lifelong goal has been accomplished? How do you handle getting old and not being needed anymore? If these seem like heady concepts for a Toy Story movie …you’ve never seen a Toy Story movie. The overarching theme in Toy Story 4 isn’t as much death as it is loss-loss of purpose, loss of meaning, loss of value. It finds the next step, for Woody (voiced as ever by Tom Hanks in what honestly has always been one of his best roles), and the franchise, while still being as hellzapoppin’ and wildly entertaining as you have come to expect from this franchise. Like its protagonist, it’s less concerned with trying to do something revolutionary just because it’s done it in the past and instead worries about what comes next …what the next logical progression is.
What a relief it is, then, that Toy Story 4 is such an immense joy. And in the nine years since that installment, Pixar, as a company, has changed, becoming more corporate, more sequel-focused, more …Disney. That final one, Toy Story 3, ended in such a perfect, emotionally devastating fashion that trying to follow it up felt like the ultimate fool’s errand.
How could we not be? This is perhaps the most beloved animated franchise of the last 50 years, and, in the eyes of many, each movie has been a little better than the last one.
Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michal Key, Jordan Peele We’ve ranked the top half of Pixar’s feature-length output.
Not every Pixar movie has been a masterpiece, but thanks to the imaginations of people like John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Brad Bird and Andrew Stanton, the studio has made a habit of delighting audiences of all ages-never an easy task. Anthropomorphic bugs, monsters, ocean creatures and cars followed, eventually leading Disney to purchase the company for a whopping $7.4 billion in 2006. With its origins as the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm in 1979, it was spun off into its own corporation funded by Steve Jobs seven years later with the release of a short animated film called Luxo Jr., featuring Pixar’s now iconic desk lamp.īut it was Toy Story, a movie about a toy cowboy named Woody and his newly arrived rival, Buzz Lightyear, that made Pixar a household name. Since launching with the revolutionary Toy Story in 1995, Pixar has released two dozen movies and the studio’s consistency has been astounding, delivering hit after hit.
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