The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. When people get worked up about Pixar not being what it used to be, here’s what they mean. The premise of Monsters, Inc. could, in the wrong hands, be absolutely opaque. Some wonderful person has the clip on YouTube which, frankly,… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 15-11
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. If Alice is here for a reason, it’s sheer trippiness. Sure, it’s not Jodorowsky, but it’s pretty good for a Disney movie produced in the same year as A Place in the Sun and A Streetcar Named Desire. The film knows… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 20-16
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. The great romantic comedy of 1977 was never Annie Hall, but The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Let’s see Alvy Singer love himself as much as Pooh loves pots of honey during the middle of a flash flood. (“What I… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 25-21
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. I think when The Good Dinosaur was released in the fall of 2015, we were all so emotionally exhausted by Inside Out that summer that just about anything would have been extraneous. Certainly viewers rejected The Good Dinosaur, which is a good, solid movie… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 35-31
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. Somewhere towards the end of this movie, I had to level with myself. I was laughing my butt off at basically everything Jack-Jack did, but as the movie decided to get closer to solving its plot and further away… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 45-41
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. We’re entering the Wolfgang Reitherman portion of the program, which I’m pretty jazzed about. (Everything from here on out is at least okay, which is kind of a relief…writing about bad movies isn’t super fun.) There’s good and bad… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 50-46
Seeing Things Secondhand 