Pixar vs. Pixar

Yesterday my family and I went to the Disney Studio to watch Wall-E. We all liked the film but some more than others. I took a little informal poll but since my family refused to give me answers to my questions until I promised not to post their answers on the Internet so here are the answers of some unnamed strangers who sat next to me at the screening.

The tendency is always to compare Pixar to Pixar so my question to these unnamed strangers is give me a list of all the Pixar Features / most favorite on down. Forget how the Pixar film at the bottom of your list compares to the features of other studios, just compare apples to apples (That`s the Jobs, Steve).

L (An aging Animation Educator, Computer and Stop Motion Animator)

1. The Incredibles
2. Monsters Inc
3. Finding Nemo
4. Toy Story
5. Bug`s Life
6. Wall-E
7. Toy Story II
8. Ratatouille
9. Cars


R1 (A female artist, mother of 2)

1. Monsters Inc
2. Wall-E
3. The Incredibles
4. Finding Nemo
5. Toy Story
6. Bug`s Life
7. Toy Story II
8. Ratatouille
9. Cars

R2 (A female artist, age 17 who just gratitude from high school)

1. Finding Nemo
2. Monsters Inc
3. Wall-E
4. The Incredibles
5. Toy Story
6. Bug`s Life
7. Toy Story II
8. Ratatouille
9. Cars

T ( A male, age 20 in his second year of college)

1. The Incredibles
2. Wall-E
3. Monsters Inc
4. Finding Nemo
5. Toy Story
6. Toy Story II
7. Bug`s Life
8. Ratatouille
9. Cars

So does this tell us anything other that the fact that I will live up to the letter of my promise but not the spirit of that promise when setting on a juicy blog subject?

For one the subjects with the Y - Chromosomes both listed The Incredibles as their Number 1 pick. Since superheroes are big with male empowerment fantasies I can see that.

All 4 lists listed Ratatouille and Cars in that last 2 spots. Which means that our sample are not car nuts and that the idea of rats in the kitchen makes us, I mean them, uneasy. I had a student who thaought that Cars was the greatest movie ever, bar none. This student wanted to be a race car driver before he wanted to be an animator.

I think that my problem with Cars is that the love story did not work for me. The idea of cars have sex in a bed or in the back set of heaven knows what, just did not work for me. Just too much thought to make anything work in the Cars world. Killed the flow.

The love story works for me in Wall-E. Therefore Wall-E works. So why is it so far down the list of this unnamed person called L?

This person L loves story. If the story is not there he isn`t either. Never a problem with Pixar but a story without a threat is not a story and this story tries to make a threat without a real villain, bold but falls a little short of other Pixar stories.

Next, anything that does not fix gets to him. The live footage and the preaching message about environment gave him problems even thou he is the greenest of green and has been since the 60s.

So there is our poll from unnamed sourse. Don`t know if it means anything but I would like to see other people`s listings of Pixar Features.