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I was pretty up-front in my The Incredibles review by the fact that super heroes movies are a tough sell for me as they are not my thing and that is still true. I do try to watch these movie despite any my personal taste. But movie review are seldom objective and this review series is which Pixar movie is my favorite.
So the question is how did I like the sequel to The Incredibles? The aptly named Incredibles 2.
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This marks the last Pixar movie that is actually a rewatch. Technically speaking, there are two other titles that there playing in the backgrounds but I don’t count those as movies I’ve seen but when I get to those titles I will note them.
So yes, I have seen Coco before, I think I actually watched it last year for the first time. It really took me a whole lot for me to watch it because while I heard it was really good I can’t help that I’m quite sensitivity to death imagery these days and animated skeletons as the major focus in the world of the dead for a feature length movie seemed like a lot for me. And that sensitivity still lingers.
But does my own sensitivities towards Coco shade my perception and untimely enjoyment of the movie?
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And agian we are back with a movie installment in the Pixar Cars Franchise. A Franchise and a world I really don’t get. Like the are cars but with same rules as people. Are they born? Are they made? Is gas sustenance or alcohol?
It almost seems maddening that the movie doesn’t want you, the viewer, to ask those type of world-building questions because it exists as “fun family movie” with talking cars that go fast.
Any is Cars 3 Good? Is it better than Cars 2? Is it better than Cars 1?
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It’s really amazing the sheer amount of sequels that Pixar produces. SO when I heard that Finding Nemo got a sequel called Finding Dory I ignored it and promptly forgot about its existence, and I liked Finding Nemo when I first saw it in theaters. And in truth, this title does not have the same reputation, for better or worse, than other Pixar titles have.
Going into this movie I had low expectations, other than knowing that Dory was the focus and trying to find her parents, I knew nothing. I didn’t even 100% if was a sequel or a prequel.
Did Finding Dory meet my low expectations or was it even worse?
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Prior to making the decision to watch all the Pixar movies there were two Pixar movie titles I did NOT want to watch. One based on word of mouth and the other I had actually seen before. I knew I didn’t like it then. The Good Dinosaur is the later, I had seen it once before and I didn’t like it.
But MAYBE, just maybe on a rewatch I will like it more or at least appreciate its artistic or narrative merits more than the first time I watch this movie.
Maybe?
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Inside Out is one of the few Pixar titles that I have watched the most as a jaded grown-up. Not sure if it’s more than four but this rewatch definitely makes it three times in the last few years. Arguably that is not very impressive for some people but for me it’s quite a lot.
Admittedly, the reason why I watched Inside Out more over the other Pixar offerings had more to do with the subject matter than the entertainment of animation so in that capacity it was different viewing experience.
But the question is as always is what are my own subjection feelings, opinions and emotions for Inside Out? Which emotion took control of my personality console as I watched Inside Out?
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Monsters University is another new Pixar offering for me to watch. Now I was little harsh on Monsters INC but ultimately it was cute and good movie. So with that in mind I knew Monsters University was a prequel, apparently Pixar’s only prequel to date, and I went in to this one with a fair opened minded and measured exceptions.
So how did I find Monsters University?
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And we’re back to the another Pixar title that is a rewatch. To be perfectly honest, I did not care for Brave the first time I watch it. I remember coming away from it really disliking Merida and also not really recalling the plot at all. I think I immediately forgot what the will-o-wisps did but remember them being in the movie. I think I just forgot the witch entirely.
But I went into this rewatch with an open mind.
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After slew of Pixar movies that I had already seen we are back to one that was new to me – Cars 2. This movie wasn’t a total mystery to me has I heard a little bit about it before watching. Mainly that it was “bad” and that it was a spy movie centering around Mater. Of course that premise sounds insane but maybe, just maybe Cars 2 isn’t as “bad” as the internet thinks?
Or is it?
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Toy Story 3 is yet another Pixar title that I did watch before. I saw it exactly once and I don’t think I had much in the way of strong feelings toward it aside from the incinerator scene and the ending.
For many people, they consider Toy Story 3 the peak of the Toy Story movie franchise as well as Pixar in general. And maybe they are right and for them it is but I can only speak to my opinion of the movie
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