Watching all the Pixar Movies  – Cars (2006)

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“Cars” (2006) Movie Review

Coming right after watching The Incredibles I figured Cars was going to another hard sell for me personally. I don’t love cars, or racing* or the Americana aesthetic that much. 

I really only tangentially knew the premise and really had no idea how a the red car mingled with the rusty pick-up truck or how racing actually factored into the plot.

Only recently did I learn that this movie was centered around Route 66. I’m not sure I if ever watched a trailer and if I did and just forgot. I’m not even certain I have seen a clip of Cars even in passing. Anything I knew about this movie was tangental from other sources. I knew nothing, which tracks. 

Basically I had no working knowledge of Cars but from the looks of it, it just did not seem like it would appeal to me and my taste at all. 

And yet I still watched it and I TRIED very hard to keep an open mind.      

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Watching all the Pixar Movies  – The Incredibles (2004)

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“The Incredibles” (2004) Movie Review

Honestly I think The Incredibles was always going to be a hard sell for me, as full-disclosure, I’m not that into to superheroes movies. It’s just not for me. That being said I went into The Incredibles with an open-mind as it wasn’t standard super hero fare

So the question is did I like it?

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Watching all the Pixar Movies  – Finding Nemo (2003)

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“Finding Nemo” (2003)

Well, Well, Well at last we have come to one of the rare Pixar movies have seen prior and even rarer still I believe this is the only one I saw in theaters. Which is crazy if I actually thought about it or I’m just forgetting about seeing another Pixar movie in theaters but I don’t think so. I think to date it’s only been Finding Nemo.

So did it hold up for me?

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Watching all the Pixar Movies  – Toy Story 2 (1999)

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Pixar “Toy Story 2” (1999)

Again we have a Pixar offering that I haven’t seen before. Unlike A Bug’s Life I did have been working knowledge of Toy Story 2’s plot as I’ve seen clips and I was familiar with Jesse’s backstory. I just didn’t know how the plot unfolded. 

It’s a little odd to think about that Pixar’s third move being a sequel. So often they get criticized for doing sequels when their third movie was a sequel. They did sequels right out of the gate. But at least it was an example of a good sequel.

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Watching all the Pixar Movies  – A Bug’s Life (1998)

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Pixar “A Bug’s Life” (1998)


Well, well, well it didn’t take long for me to get to a Pixar movie that I had never seen before now. I do believe I have seen clips of A Bug’s Life before but I have a vague memory of it playing on a TV of a room I was in once, if that counts. Also I did go on the Animal Kingdom extraction “It’s Tough to be a Bug” like so many I was freak out by the sensory effects but mostly I recall enjoying the extraction.

So It’s not that I had nothing to go one for this movie but I had never sat down and watch it in its entirety before. 

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Watching all the Pixar Movies – Toy Story (1995)

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Woody & Buzz

Preamble

On my time on Earth I have only seen nine of the Pixar movies. I feel remiss about that so I have decided in the same vein of my Disney movie marathon I will (try) to watch them all. Unlike that marathon I think I will review of all them and with a running rank of the top few  as I go and a separate full ranking after I watch all the available ones up, whenever that happens.  Also unlike that Disney marathon I’m going in order of release date instead of a random order.

First up Toy Story (1995). Which is one of the movies I had seen prior. 

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