I feel the same way about Deadpool and Wolverine. Even if it's good, I hope it doesn't make a billion because Marvel Studios is gonna look at that and think, "Oh so we can just keep using the multiverse to bring back everyone and people will show up."
Pixar executives: Let’s make more sequels like for Toy Story! Inside Out 2 made us BANK! 💴 😃 The Toy Story franchise: 😰😰😰
I just loved Inside Out 2!! It left me speechless. Nothing beats the story, sound and characters of this movie, it also made me tear up🥹❤️
I find it confusing that Pixar is going to focus on sequels and spin-offs when one of their biggest flops in recent memory was a spin-off. Sure, Soul, Luca, and Turning Red didn't do so great, thats because they were direct to streaming and weren't available in theaters until YEARS after their original release. Lightyear was the only movie released in that time period that had no excuse, and only flopped because it was mediocre at best.
I think the people who complain about sequels are not the same crowd that keeps turning out for them. The vast majority of audiences don't care about animation and think that it is kids media .parents are taking their kids to films without caring about quality. Hence why the more mature of the Pixar films tend to flop like soul and elemental. And why illumination films do so well. The money is in parents taking their kids to the movies not the film bros online. I'm not saying Pixar should only make fun movies but that a huge part of the problem is the lack of respect for animation amongst the general public.
I didnt think about that AT ALL. I really thought that "Pixar's coming back yall, WOOP WOOP, they are getting those Oscars again" but if they take the route which is mostly and maybe ONLY sequels people WILL get tired, eventually. I just hope that they wont take it, but there is a PRETTY good chance they will. RIP PIxar's originals :(
Onward, Soul and Luca are excellent and impressive films that tackles serious topics i've been binge watch all three last week. They are just sooo amazing. I think with Lightyear it just lacks the heart. I liked Elemental but it also has some issues but overall its a good film. Inside Out 2 is magneficent its probably the best sequel i've seen that came out in Pixar for a while. Elio is definitely the one that i can't wait to watch next year. ❤️❤️
None of these talks factor adjusting for inflation. Toy Story 3 was a bigger box office success than Toy Story 4 despite both making 1.07 billion at the box office. Given the gaps of time between Pixar sequels, inflation plays a huge role in these numbers seeming huge.
Random sequels aren't necessarily bad, but they will always be overshadowed by a movie that SET UP the potential for a sequel. Inside out, when they get the new council, they had the "Puberty" button, and whether or not they actually had a sequel planned, they set up the idea, so its not just random
Summary: Original Movies = GOOD ✅ Sequels = GOOD ✅ PIXAR prioritising Sequels over making NEW Original Movies = BAD🙅♂️🚫
I’m just really hoping Elio does well next year
There‘s actually one part I don‘t like about Inside Out (the Franchise as a whole). They are definitely fun movies and they are well-made, based on a highly original premise, and they do a good job implementing that premise. But, that premise, which is also the basis for the film‘s success also has a (in my view) glaring problem: namely, reducing the very real problems faced by adolescents to a question of emotional self-regulation. Like, all the anxiety Riley faces in both films are caused by very real, potentially serious or traumatic events in her life, and those events cause her to experience emotional distress. But the solution to that distress is always ultimately internal: Riley‘s emotions just have to learn to get along again and take a chill pill. But none of that solves Riley‘s real problems, and these problems are never covered as an issue separate from the emotional response to them. At best Riley is learning to passively cope with outside stress, but not how to tackle it rationally* as something that can be either solved or at least understood with reason. Given that serious emotional distress in children and adolescents is pretty much always the result of outside trauma, and that this is probably the main thing that can damage emotional self-regulation, this seems like a not-totally-insignificant omission *in fact rationality or any kind of real „ego“ doesn‘t really exist in-universe.
Pixar really needs to make new original stories with 2.5d style(3d that has a 2d look.) to be back on track. I don't think pixar is bad at making sequels. However, Pixar need to make sequels when we have more stories to tell like bug's life. Pixar needs to stop to make sequels for the money(with their iconic movies like toy story.)
List of Pixar films predicted to be made in the early-mid quarter of the 21st century (2025-2049) before the animation studio crashes and burns by the time the late half 21st century (2050-2100) starts Elio (6/13/2025) Ducks (3/6/2026) Toy Story 5 (6/19/2026) Incredibles 3 Incredibles 3 (6/18/2027) Finding Nemo: 25th Anniversary (5/26/2028) The Incredibles: 25th Anniversary (11/2/2029) Cars 4 (11/22/2030; directly 13th years after the original) A Bug’s Life 2 (6/13/2031) Coco 2 (6/25/2032) Finding Marlin (3/11/2033) Cars 5 (6/16/2033) Incredibles 3 (6/16/2034) Toy Story 6 (6/15/2035) Inside Out 3 (6/13/2036) WALL•E 2 (11/21/2036) Brave: 25th Anniversary (6/19/2037) Down (6/18/2038) Up: 30th Anniversary (5/27/2039) Incredibles 4 (11/25/2039) Ratatouille 3 (6/15/2040) Inside Out 4 (6/14/2041; directly 27 years after the second movie) WALL•E 3 (6/27/2042; 34 years after the original) Coco 2 (11/21/2042) Ratatouille 4 (6/26/2043) Monsters Inc.: Improved Edition (11/27/2043) Incredibles 5 (11/25/2044) Toy Story: 50th Anniversary (11/24/2045) Cars: Improved Edition (6/15/2046) Coco 4 (6/14/2047) Inside Out 5 (6/19/2048) Up: 40th Anniversary (5/28/2049) Ratatouille: Improved Edition (11/26/2049)
I'll write my impressions of the film first. On the visual side and the representation of the new journey into the protagonist's mind, I have nothing to say; Pixar confirms itself as extremely creative, and even the design of the new emotions conveys their role in the girl's maturation very well. Even on the gag side, I found myself satisfied, especially the one involving the "Dora the Explorer" style cartoon character, as it plays well on the metanarrative. However, in terms of the plot I'm not sure where I stand: on the one hand, it's smooth and there are never dead points. But it is, essentially, the same plot seen in the first film: the emotions are thrown out of the command center and have to return, simply in this case it is no longer just Joy and Sadness, but all the previous ones that are ousted by Anxiety and other new emotions. Furthermore, I noticed that Joy's development path from the first film was set aside, given that we see her, in the incipit, intent on getting rid of the memories that can cause pain in Reily....and it is curious, given that in the course in this sequel he learns the same lesson that he had already learned in the first. Furthermore, I find it perplexing that Anxiety, Embarrassment, but above all Boredom and Envy never appeared in the 13 years of the protagonist's life: I'm not saying that at the age of 1-5/6 they had manifested themselves in a concrete way, but at least the Boredom and Envy are very present even in young children, even at the level of a family film, it is also very strange that even in adults these emotions do not appear at all. Furthermore, although I appreciated the representation of Reily's panic attack, I thought that this was a missed opportunity to show a very important characteristic, which is not a single emotion, but if anything it is the ability to feel pain of the other, namely empathy: when Reily is sitting on the bench and trying to calm down, I would have very much liked her friends to have approached her before she calmed down and told her how they too had suffered similar panic attacks, showing how Reily's emotions saw those of the other two girls, intent on observing them intensely from their respective command centers. Or maybe leave everything more vague, but Reily's emotions distinctly felt the voice of those of others. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Secondly, speaking of the possibility that Pixar may focus too much on sequels... the problem, in my opinion, is that many of those stories had their ideal ending. I take Monsters Inc, as an example: the beauty of the film was that it subverted audience expectations, with the classic "monster in the closet" theme. What could we talk about, in a second film that always had Sully and Mike at the center? Of their formative years, and in this sense it made sense to set everything in the university context... also thanks to the fact that, those who had seen the first film as children, were now of the right age to identify with the university years of the two monsters. A real Monsters Inc 2, what can you talk about? And I could take the next Toy Story 5 as an example, especially considering how the third film was a perfect conclusion, with the passing of the baton from Andy to Bonnie. In reality, in my opinion, the concepts, the basic ideas of these Pixar films are still valid... it's the characters who have exhausted what they had to say. Why not make a Toy Story 5 where we see the stories of new toys, new ways of understanding the world of childhood? It is also true, however, that a similar concept is very difficult to remodel to apply it to new themes... in fact 4 is a sort of mix between toy story 2 and the third. Even if we wanted to talk about new themes applied to the world of toys, the characters' characteristics can be modeled, but what about the world around them? I mean, the second Toy story spoke, in secret, about the contrast between two eras of entertainment and, even though electronic games were not yet so widespread, the fact that toys equipped with modern interactive elements (and prefigurations of video games widespread on large scale), be it spacemen (Buzz and Zurg), perhaps it meant something significant...now that we are in the internet age, what toys could we use? What could be the new themes to explore? How important would the human component be? Beyond this, if Disney is smart, it will also aim to have Pixar develop new ideas to have a sort of counterweight to the sequels, which cannot necessarily all be of good quality (for example, in an Incredible 3, I would expect the passing of the baton from Bob and Ellen's generation to their children, who have become mature [or, at least, Violet and Flash as mature and Jack Jack as an adolescent or pre-adolescent, perhaps making the characters jump 10 years] and introducing a villain who can actually pose a threat not so much to the supers, but to what they represent (in this sense, Syndrome was perfect as Bob's foil).
Thanks Miguel, not much of a sequel fan myself, but must admit I have not seen these two movies. Homework ahead…hope they will bring back the child, and the teenager in me… Hope Pixar will keep making box office-safe films, ie sequels, but also innovative projects, which will take us all to new places…🙏
when i heard about the incredible success of Inside Out 2 i was worried that Pixar would get extremely motivated on making more sequels and spinoffs. i don't wanna see a toy story 10 or other sequels from other studios, stuff like a shrek 12, i'm genuely scared for the future
I also have a fear that Inside Out 2 may have set the bar for Pixar a bit too high. I feel that now people will see it as a new era for the studio and always expect this kind of quality movie to come out of Pixar.
I sure hope that Pixar can get back on track! The studio that was once the undeniable leader of the animation industry has fallen back and played it safe, for many years, while studios like Ghibli and even Sony are creating films unlike anything we’ve seen before. I greatly enjoyed Inside Out 2, but I pray that Pixar can one day become not just what they used to be, but something even bolder and greater!
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