There are movie studios … and then there’s Pixar.
The computer animation company has a track record any studio would envy.
“Toy Story.” “The Incredibles.” “Finding Nemo.” “Up.” “Monsters, Inc.”
Now, they’re back with “Toy Story 3,” and the animation giant isn’t leaving much to chance.
Not only do they bring back the great voices from the past two “Toy” films, including Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack and Tim Allen, they created a faux commercial for one of the newest characters.
Check out the clip. What bowled me over, as always with Pixar, is the attention to detail. Remember that static wrinkle old VHS tapes used to get after a while? Yup, it’s here in this clip.
“Toy Story 3″ hits theaters June 18.
(Photo: Pixar’s attention to detail makes movies like “Toy Story 3″ pop off the screen – with or without 3-D glasses.)
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Pixar is about due for a bomb or two, especially as they are now getting into sequels.
The “Cars” sequel scares me … but “Toy Story 2″ was excellent (and I can’t tell you about my thoughts on “3″ yet cuz of embargo rules).
Don’t for the upcoming “Incredibles” sequel.
The studio has me sold until they start cranking out duds, but the quickest way to dudville is through sequels. Tread carefully.
The thing that Pixar always gets right is that they fully develop the story and the characters. When I see a movie like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, it’s obvious that all of the effort was put into the effects. As for being due for a bomb, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Wall-E’s eco-evangelism, but the beauty of the first 45 minutes more than made up for it. The way they humanized the robots, through mostly gestures with minimal verbal communication, was simply brilliant. No one but Pixar seems capable of this, and no amount of effects or star power in other movies can hide this.
What is most impressive about Pixar is that they aim higher than anyone else. So, even their failures will be better than the best that other movie companies are capable of.
Even a movie about a cooking rat has more honest emotion than the made for Oscar dramas that come out of tinsel town.
I have to totally agree with Libby, first you start with the story/characters/etc. Then you worry about upgrading your server farm to handle all these cool new animation effects you want to create.
I also concur with Libby. Pixar consistently presents quality across ALL fronts: story, character, technical execution, etc.
That “cooking rat” story still moves me with its seamless montage conveyance of the reminiscence effect of ratatouille for Ego; that dialogue-free exposition back story at the beginning of “Up” stands on its own as a quality piece of short film-making; and “Iron Man 2,” with its broken plot points and overdone sequel foreshadowing is but a shadow of what the proper superhero film should be, as “The Incredibles” demonstrated.
Due for a failure? Perhaps. Spielberg has “1941,” and Streep has “She-devil.” But as Dimitrios notes, a possible Pixar failure (sic) still will be a good film.
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