GHL 259 - Top 5 Pixar Movies

Ashley, I love your passion for Brave and Good Dinosaur, your standing up for things you love regardless of any other opinion is one of my favorite things about you guys, and your discussion of the mother daughter relationship of Brave makes me want to give it a rewatch to see if it works better for me! I’d also like to add, respectfully, please consider giving Inside Out another watch. Your comment on it teaching kids to suppress sadness seems to miss the mark of the growth of the film. Yes Joy bullies Sadness at first but that growth towards accepting her is so crucial to the film and especially the end where only through embracing Sadness and realizing it’s so important to process grief and come back to joy and especially to develop the complex emotions of adulthood so beautifully portrayed by the multi colored memory balls is to me one of the highest marks of brilliance in Pixar. Please don’t take this as an attack, just a counterpoint to hopefully help you see it in a different way

Tom Trainor

A very respectable list, buddy! Love the Toy Story 2 enthusiasm.

Here’s my top five Pixar films: 5. Up (though Russell got on my nerves at certain points, I think Ed Asner’s character went through a great personal journey, and the whole film really did feel like an adventure). 4. Finding Nemo (a beautiful location, and definitely the saddest Pixar film in my opinion. I love the relationship between Marlin and Nemo, and the opening still gets me every time). 3. The Incredibles (I think most of the jokes hit, the villain is both really funny and intimidating, and Mr. Incredible is one of my favorite protagonists of the films that I have seen in my life). 2. Ratatouille (I love the atmosphere of this film, the ending is brilliant, and I think Ian Holm is hilarious as the villain). 1. Toy Story 2 (I love everything about this film. It’s not too simple, but also not too mean-spirited, Buzz, a character I didn’t like in the first one, gets some of the best scenes, and I really appreciate that they have a much bigger role to minor characters in the first one like Rex, Hamm, Slinky, and Potato-Head).

Adam Grunther