10 Best Pixar Movies

Since the creative talent of Pixar Animation Studios teamed up with the imagineers of Disney, magical, memorable, memorizing movies have been the result.  Who else could produce quality, classic feature films which stand the test of time like Toy Story, A Bugs Life, and Cars? So, take a look and enjoy

Up

Pixar returns to the CGI fray after the triumph of WALL.E with this story of seventy-something hero Carl Fredricksen (voiced by Edward Asner) who has dreamed of travelling the globe. He gets his chance when he hooks up with a clueless eight-year-old…and they both set off into the great unknown.

Wall E

Throughout the 21st century, Earth was governed by the Buy n Large megacorporation (BnL), causing mass consumerism and covering the planet in trash by 2105. In an attempt to resolve the situation, Earth’s population was evacuated on fully automated luxury BnL starliners for five years while an army of trash compactor robots called WALL-E’s were left behind to clean up the planet. The plan largely failed, however, forcing humanity to remain in space indefinitely. Seven hundred years later, in 2805, only one WALL-E unit functions, having survived by salvaging parts for himself from other defunct WALL-E units. This unit has developed sentience and a sense of emotion, particularly curiosity, as shown by his quirky habits of collecting knickknacks from the mountains of trash.

Ratatouille

Remy is a rat who lives in the attic of a French country home with his brother Emile and a pack led by his father Django. Gifted with a keen sense of smell and taste, Remy aspires to be a gourmet chef, inspired by France’s recently deceased top chef, Auguste Gusteau, but instead his talent is put to work in sniffing for rat poison. When the pack is discovered by the home’s occupant, they flee into the sewers; Remy becomes separated from the others and ends up marooned underneath Gusteau’s restaurant in Paris, conversing with a hallucination of the famous chef.

Cars

Cars is set in a world populated by anthropomorphic vehicles, including cars (hence the name “Cars”), trucks, trains, and airplanes.

The last race of the Piston Cup stock car racing season ends in a three-way dead heat between retiring veteran Strip “The King” Weathers, perennial runner-up and dirty fighter Chick Hicks, and the self-centered rookie Lightning McQueen. A tiebreaker race is scheduled for one week later at the Los Angeles International Speedway. Lightning is desperate to win the race, as it would allow him to leave the sponsorship of Rust-Eze, a rust treatment for old cars, and allow him to become the sponsored car of the lucrative Dinoco team in The King’s place. Eager to start practice in California as soon as possible, Lightning pushes his big rig, Mack, to travel all night long.

Incredibles

Mr. and Mrs. Parr, also known as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, gave up their crime fighting careers as superheros to raise a family under the long arm of the government protection program. Life as an every day citizen was great for Mrs. Parr, but Mr. Parr longed for his glory days as a superhero. When temptation gets the best of Mr. Incredible, can Elastigirl and the rest of the Incredible clan save him?

Finding Nemo

Marlin, a Ocellaris clownfish, takes extra care of his only child, Nemo, after his wife Coral and the rest of their eggs were eaten by a barracuda. Due to a crack in Nemo’s egg, he has grown up with one small, weak fin, but which Marlin assures him is his “lucky fin”. On the first day of school, the other kids tease Nemo about his overprotective widower father. Nemo decides to swim into the open waters to prove that he is capable but is quickly captured by a scuba diver, who climbs aboard a boat and drives off. Marlin is unable to keep up after a frantic chase but meets Dory, a regal tang with short-term memory loss. Together they discover a diver’s mask on the ocean floor dropped from the boat, and Dory is able to read the address on it as being Sydney, Australia. The two set off; Marlin’s story of determination quickly spreads about the oceans, and various sea creatures quickly give aid to his search.

Monsters

Almost all children imagine monsters under the bed or monsters hidden in the closet, and almost all parents console their children by saying monsters don’t exist. But what if they do? …and what if the monsters are actually scared of children? Meet the residents of Monstropolis and see the warm and fuzzy side of those marvelous monsters.

Toy Story 2

Woody prepares to go to summer camp with Andy for the weekend, but Andy rips his arm by accident while playing with his toys before leaving, forcing him to be placed on a shelf and stay behind. There he discovers that Andy’s mother is having a yard sale, to where she takes a fellow shelved toy, Wheezy, an old rubber penguin with a broken squeaker, to be sold. Woody sneaks down to the yard sale with the help of Andy’s pet dog Buster and saves Wheezy, but is accidentally left outside and found by an enthusiastic toy collector, who ends up stealing him when Andy’s mother refuses to sell him. Buzz chases after the collector’s car as he drives away, but quickly loses him. During an investigation back at Andy’s room, Buzz and the other toys quickly determine that the thief is Al McWhiggin, owner of the toy company Al’s Toy Barn. Buzz recruits Slinky Dog, Mr. Potato Head, Rex and Hamm to go out and save Woody.

A Bug’s Life

Every season, a colony of ants are expected to harvest food for a Mafia-like bunch of grasshoppers (or possibly just Locusts that are refered to as grasshoppers). One ant, Flik, is an inventor whose creations usually do more harm than good. While trying out a mechanical harvester, he drops his machine and on auto-pilot, it knocks the pile of food into a stream just before the grasshoppers arrive. Their leader, Hopper, gives the ants the rest of the season to make good on what they owe, but orders a double ration of food after Flik stands up to him in defense of the Queen’s youngest daughter Dot. Flik is admonished by the colony’s royal council. When Flik suggests that he try to recruit some “warrior bugs” to fight the grasshoppers, Princess Atta (Dot’s older sister and the eventual successor to the Queen) allows him to do so, but only to keep him out of the way.

Toy Story

Woody the toy cowboy has enjoyed life as the object of young Andy’s affection. He’s taken great pride in being the one toy Andy would choose to play with above all the others. However, when a birthday party produces competition for Andy’s affection in the form of a spaceman called Buzz Lightyear, Woody isn’t going into the yardsale box without a fight.

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