Our film critics are not on Pixar’s payroll. Nor are they getting any under-the-table perks from the animation studio. There’s a much less sinister reason that a Pixar movie””in this case, Toy Story 3””tops our Most Redeeming Films list for the third consecutive year: We think their movies rock.
It’s not just the astonishingly good animation. It’s the phenomenal storytelling, the depth of character development, the keen insight into the human condition””even from the perspective of plastic playthings. One of our critics confesses that he cried at the end of TS3 all three times he watched it””and will likely do so the next three times. That’s what Pixar films do to us.
Agreed!! Pixar films rock.
My only quibble. I do a lot of my film-watching on airplanes on long-haul flights. I saw Toy Story 3 on a flight to Cape Town for the Lausanne Congress in October. Typically those flights are overnight flights, with many passengers around me are trying to sleep. So, I’ve annoyed LOTS and LOTS of passengers while watching Pixar films, such as Toy Story 3, or years ago “The Incredibles,” when I’ve burst into laughter at some of the lines and woken up my seatmates multiple times…!!
Pixar movies should definitely have a warning: warning this film is funny and likely to cause uncontrollable laughter. Do not watch when others are sleeping nearby 🙂
Glad to hear that T19 and Christianity think so highly of Pixar films.
By the way, there’s an extraordinary resource available for churches called The Gospel According to Pixar. It’s available from Mockingbird, a ministry started by a bunch of fellows from Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry.
Sorry… I meant to say Christianity TODAY in the post above. 🙂
I have thoroughly enjoyed almost all the Pixar films I’ve watched. My only complaint: Justice is the climax, not grace and transformation. Not that Pixar is any different than any other studio in this regard. However, the ‘bad guys’ (or bad toys) always meet their just end.