**** - As spectacular as the animators are over at Pixar - who have released an unending stream of popular and critically praised movies and shorts over the past 15 or so years – they just can’t seem to get the look of humans right. Toys, cars, bugs, fish, rats, monsters and just about everything else imaginable has made an appearance in a Pixar film, and they have all looked spectacular except for humans. The closest they got was with “The Incredibles” and frankly I found their over-stylized look to be pretty off-putting. I bring this up because their latest feature-length film portrays humans in the same creepy and unconvincing way that they were portrayed in the 1st film of the venerated series well over a decade ago. Some progress in that area would be nice. With that out of the way, the movie itself was very entertaining, as is usually the case with this studios’ work. The beginning was a bit dull, and the tail end was almost excruciatingly drawn out in an unsuccessful attempt to try to evoke some sort of emotional response through maudlin schlock, but the action plot of the midsection was probably the best of the three movies that have been made thus far. I wouldn’t mind a “Toy Story 4” being Pixar’s next film. Unfortunately, I have just learned that their next one is actually going to be “Cars 2.” What the hell are they thinking?
Toy Story 3
**** - As spectacular as the animators are over at Pixar - who have released an unending stream of popular and critically praised movies and shorts over the past 15 or so years – they just can’t seem to get the look of humans right. Toys, cars, bugs, fish, rats, monsters and just about everything else imaginable has made an appearance in a Pixar film, and they have all looked spectacular except for humans. The closest they got was with “The Incredibles” and frankly I found their over-stylized look to be pretty off-putting. I bring this up because their latest feature-length film portrays humans in the same creepy and unconvincing way that they were portrayed in the 1st film of the venerated series well over a decade ago. Some progress in that area would be nice. With that out of the way, the movie itself was very entertaining, as is usually the case with this studios’ work. The beginning was a bit dull, and the tail end was almost excruciatingly drawn out in an unsuccessful attempt to try to evoke some sort of emotional response through maudlin schlock, but the action plot of the midsection was probably the best of the three movies that have been made thus far. I wouldn’t mind a “Toy Story 4” being Pixar’s next film. Unfortunately, I have just learned that their next one is actually going to be “Cars 2.” What the hell are they thinking?
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