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Midweek Mouth-off: Your favourite Pixar movie

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With Brave screening in South African cinemas at the moment, today we want to know what your all-time favourite Pixar film is? If that’s too hard, how about your top 3? Or your least liked? And in case you need a little refresher in what movies the beloved animation studio has made, this should help.

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Last Updated: August 15, 2012

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  1. Tracy Benson

    August 15, 2012 at 10:46

    Has to be The Incredibles. It’s one of my all time favourite movies, I’ve watched it so many times. Up was awesome as well, if only for the saddest and most beautiful first ten minutes of any movie, ever.

    Least favourite, Cars. I couldn’t get over the bizarre implications of a universe made of only sentient vehicles.

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    • Erwin Kempff

      August 15, 2012 at 11:20

      I’m with you on the Incredibles, brilliant movie. Especially since I have my own family. Couple of really moving scenes for me. (Plus my daughter loves it)

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    • James Francis

      August 15, 2012 at 12:33

      Really? I thought Cars was excellent and well throught-out. But indeed it has to be The Incredibles. That movie is completely in its own league.

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      • Tracy Benson

        August 15, 2012 at 13:15

        Like I said, I couldn’t just enjoy it for what it was, the implications of the world left me weirded out. Like, how do they breed? And if you’re “born” a sports car, you get to be this awesome athlete but if you’re born a pit-crew car or an 18 wheeler truck you’re destined to be second fiddle. And if they don’t breed, do they just manufacture sentient machines and program a personality? What else is sentient in that universe? Very bizarre world…

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        • James Francis

          August 15, 2012 at 15:43

          Do you watch every animated movie and wonder how they breed?

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          • Tracy Benson

            August 15, 2012 at 16:14

            I will grant that occasionally my mind wanders into very strange territory. My point is, every other Pixar movie has some fantasy, but a basis in reality with a “recognisable world”, as such. Cars wasn’t like that for me. Where were the people? Was their a nuclear apocalypse we didn’t see that wiped everything else off the planet?

          • James Francis

            August 15, 2012 at 18:47

            Okay, I’m gonna be facetious for a moment…

            The fat people in Wall-E – how exactly did they manage to walk after landing and how did the landing rig survive all that time?

            The toys in Toy Story – how is it that the kid never notices his toys are never where he left them?

            The door system in Monsters Inc. – What did they do about kids who didn’t have closet doors? Also, why the hell does child emotions power their grid?

            The fat kid in Up – Didn’t he have parents? Wasn’t he technically missing? Why wasn’t US news all over that?

            Finding Nemo – Why didn’t Nemo just straight-up die when he got into the fish tank? Those saltwater jobs are tricky… And how did two tropical reef-bound fish manage to survive travelling through the open ocean?

            Ratatouille – How exactly can you control a person’s arms through their hair? Also, how did the rat see what he was doing when he was under a hat?

            I think you should give Cars another try 🙂

          • Tracy Benson

            August 15, 2012 at 19:01

            Like I said, elements of far-fetched fantasy in an otherwise recognisable world.

            But, I never learn, as soon as you start arguing with someone on the internet, you’ve already lost :P.

          • James Francis

            August 16, 2012 at 09:41

            Really? Cos I think I just won 🙂

      • Lourens Corleone

        August 15, 2012 at 13:39

        Cars freaked me out. I always thought it was the most generic story of all the Pixar films, and it just made 0 sense to me…

        Where are all the passangers? Why do they have doors? Why?! *shakes fist at heavens*

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        • James Francis

          August 15, 2012 at 15:45

          So there is a world where people wonder about the technical details of an animated movie, yet I am the only one on this planet who thought Captain America was a piece of shit?

          I’m buying a ticket for one of those space arks…

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  2. Nathan Horne

    August 15, 2012 at 11:30

    My top 3 are: UP, Finding Nemo and

    Ratatouille.

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    • James Francis

      August 15, 2012 at 12:34

      Damn, okay, those too. I’m still for Incredibles, but your selection are arguably just as good.

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      • Nathan Horne

        August 20, 2012 at 17:09

        Cool, but for some reason I don’t like Incredibles… I’ll have to watch the DVD again, but for now I have it placed in the ‘Cars’ pile… : (

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  3. Kervyn Cloete

    August 15, 2012 at 11:37

    Incredibles. Without a doubt. That movie is just about perfect, if you ask me. Followed closely behind by Wall-E and Up.
    I actually fell asleep in Cars. Twice. I never fall asleep in movies.

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  4. GooseZA

    August 15, 2012 at 11:49

    It’s virtually impossible for me to rank them, so I’ve got 2 ties between 6 movies!

    1. Wall-E, Up – Both tied for first
    2.Toy Story 1-3, Nemo – Tied second.
    3. Monsters Inc

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  5. Darryn_Bonthuys

    August 15, 2012 at 11:58

    Yep, definitely The Incredibles. A solid, entertaining superhero romp, and a film that didn’t have that annoying “be true to yourself” message screaming at you, which is prevalent in so many other films.

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  6. Noelle Adams

    August 15, 2012 at 12:04

    My top 3: The Incredibles, Up (a truly deserving Best Picture nominee!) and Wall-E. Monsters Inc and Finding Nemo also rank highly.

    I actually enjoyed Cars but its sequel looked awful (haven’t watched it), so I suppose my least liked Pixar flick is A Bug’s Life.

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    • James Francis

      August 15, 2012 at 12:33

      The Cars sequel wasn’t bad, just kinda obvious – as if Dreamworks or Sony |animation made it. Not Pixar-quality in the writing department.

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  7. Christo Kruger

    August 15, 2012 at 17:46

    Wall-E, nothing else comes even close. And then maybe Finding Nemo.

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