Toy Story was Pixar's first movie and didn't have nearly as much of a budget as their other films, and Toy Story was amazing, despite its few flaws, but the films that came after it improved what was already wonderful.
It's a shame that not every Pixar sequel has received the same treatment. Cars 2 was a very strange movie. While the first and third films in the franchise were simply about Lightning McQueen learning what it meant to be both a famous race car and live a calm life, the second movie was about his best friend, Mater, becoming a spy. Cars 2 's biggest impact was becoming a movie that many people joked about and made memes of as they thought this installment didn't fit into the series due to how ridiculous it was.
Pixar is arguably the best animation studio out there. Rather than focusing on working on many projects, they care more about their quality. While movies from those other studios have also been good, very few have had the quality that Pixar films are given. As much as fans love seeing Pixar's great sequels, there is, without a doubt, a limit to what can be done in each franchise.
There would never be a Toy Story movie where Woody and Buzz Lightyear visited the Land of the Dead or a Finding Nemo movie that took place in a fantasy world with mythical creatures , which is why films like Coco and Onward need to have their own identities.
There are many other ideas that could become great films, but they wouldn't all work as sequels. He got into anime when he was in high school, starting with Attack on Titan, which eventually became his favorite franchise ever made. By Kit Morris Published Jun 17, Pixar has long seemed to exist on a creative plane outside the drudgery of profit-loss statements.
But Pixar is a company staffed by mortals, not superheroes. In these ways, Pixar seems disappointingly similar to its Hollywood counterparts, and American society writ large. That leaves Pixar on the precipice of a curious new era.
After a thrilling run of original hits and a middle age buoyed by sequels, the Pixar of the next decade will try to regain its original imaginative spark in a climate where only mega-franchises succeed. And it will have to try to retain a culture distinct from Disney Animation, which has created two of the biggest original hits of the decade in Frozen and Zootopia.
Even now, though, amid the endless Cars and Toy Story films, Pixar is the studio whose original ideas are the most exciting to see brought to life. The waterworks that have been streaming on Twitter since the film was added to Netflix are a testament to its emotional impact.
Too often today movies especially Disney movies use pop culture lore as a shortcut to human connection. A modern Marvel or Star Wars film is only as good as your interest in those commercial enterprises. But Coco does what Pixar does best by delving into core human experiences such as love, loss, and the joy of expression with an unknown cast of characters who, by the end of the film, feel like family.
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Filed under: Movies Pop Culture. How Pixar Became a Sequel Factory. Flipboard Email. Sign up for the The Ringer Newsletter Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email required. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice and European users agree to the data transfer policy. Pixar has therefore been actively releasing computer animated feature films for 24 years.
If we divide this time period in half, there is a remarkable difference in the types of films Pixar has created during the first twelve years compared to what it has been producing during the second period of twelve years. One word can sum up the difference quite succinctly; sequels. The first twelve years spans to During that period of time, Pixar released 7 feature-length films. Of those 7 films, only one was a sequel. The second period starts in and ends this year So not only was Pixar twice as prolific during the more recent 12 years of its feature-film releasing career, it began to rely heavily on sequels.
There are a few possible explanations which immediately come to mind. First of all you have to consider the ground-breaking technology being brought to theaters by Pixar with the release of Toy Story. There was novelty in the presentation, but Pixar needed more than just a gimmick to keep people coming back to see their films. Because of this, they had to establish the quality of their storytelling, and the best way to do this is with strong original films.
Toy Story 2 is an outlier, of course. But consider the huge success of the original film. The original Toy Story was the highest grossing film of For a company looking to make its mark, it needed more successes like this one. It also needed money to stay in business. Sequels can be easy profit, and they can keep fans happy because their favorite characters are back for another adventure. As such, it is no surprise Toy Story 2 did even better at the box office than the original film. It allowed Pixar the freedom to pursue more risky original films and ideas.
You see, in order to fund the production of Toy Story , Pixar signed a 7-film contract with Disney. As part of this contract, Disney owned the rights for a sequel for any of these films. Therefore, Pixar could not make a sequel to any of these first 7 feature films unless Disney also decided to do so. At the same time, Pixar had the right to refuse to work on a sequel if requested by Disney.
Therefore, during the first 12 years of Pixar releasing feature films, either Disney did not request any sequels besides Toy Story 2 , or Pixar refused to work on any sequels except for Toy Story 2 reasoning could be as discussed in the paragraph above. I for one believe the lack of sequels has more to do with Pixar refusing to work on them rather than Disney not asking for them to be made.
There are a few observations which can be used as proof. First, you have to consider the fact that Disney purchased Pixar at the beginning of At that time, Cars was about to be released, and the studio was in production of Ratatouille , WALL-E , and Up — all of which had been conceived many years before.
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