If we hadn’t suddenly decided to work through all the Pixar movies that we’ve missed, I don’t know if we’d ever have watched and boy - what a shame that would have been. It was a bit of a rollercoaster watching this movie, because initially, it seemed like a nice, charming family story about music, happy to watch it.

This is such a weird movie. There is very little to the story, and in this case the lack of dialogue just emphasises that fact. The scenery is outstanding, mind-blowingly good and realistic but then it doesn’t quite work with the cartoonish characters bouncing around. The form of the dinosaurs vs humans is confusing - I know it’s just a movie, but why would the dinosaurs know how to farm but humans be running around like wild dogs? This is a prime example of style over substance.

I was nervous about this movie because the concept has always baffled me a bit (the movie of the toy from that toy from the movie) and generally speaking all the reviews I’ve seen have been negative. But… I loved it? Space movie, a sort of time travel story, a rag-tag group of people defying the odds, Taika Waititi being funny, what’s not to like? And compared to some of the recent Pixar movies we’ve watched, it’s at least vaguely sensible.

I’ve been nervous about watching this because anyone who ever talks about it tends to say they end up in floods of tears - not my go to choice of film! But I’m patching up the holes in my Pixar back catalogue and this is one that had to be done. Actually, it was a lot better than I thought it would be… but somehow also a lot worse.

I have thought that with some of the latest Pixar movies, they’ve gone a bit off-the-rails and the ideas must have been drug-fuelled - the pair of trousers walking around independently being the prime example. I thought it was a recent thing but this movie made me realise it’s probably always been there at Pixar. In this case, we have a talented chef of a rat directing a young man to cook by using his hair as… a steering wheel? Very odd. But it’s a great movie, the animation looked incredible, the fur on the rats, the water, the food! And the underlying message that talent doesn’t care about your background is great.

I recently realised there are some holes in my Pixar back catalogue so started working through the movies that I’ve missed, starting with this one. It’s a really good movie, nice and original, good story, fun characters, great voice acting talent. The graphics are a bit dated now, it still looks good but there’s a noticeable lack of fur, the water is questionable, and most of the bugs look a bit like they’re moulded out of clay. But a lot of fun, and a happy ending!

Although I’ve always been a bit judgemental of the red panda (not a real panda), I was kinda looking forward to this movie. I’d forgotten it was a Pixar film but when I saw that ident, it raised my expectations even further. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite live up to my hopes, but it wasn’t an overall bad movie. In the scheme of things, it wasn’t as good as Luca, but it was better than the one where they dragged some decapitated trousers around.

Ultimately, this movie is okay, but it feels like it dips below the standards we expect of a Pixar movie. It was better than following a walking pair of pants for an hour, and it was better than I thought the trailer made it out to be, but it wasn’t fantastic. It was mostly enjoyable, a good story with a cute coming-of-age friendship situation at its heart, but it also opened up quite a few questions that were not gamechangers but niggly-annoying.

I’ve been looking forward to watching this for a while, and it didn’t disappoint. At first, I was worried it was another one of those fever dream ideas that wasn’t going to come off, but once it started to gel it was amazing. Tina Fey was great as a curious oddball soul, and somehow Graham Norton as an older hipster pirate type guy totally worked.

The general consensus for this film is that it’s fine, a perfectly good movie, but not anywhere near Pixar at their best. And I agree with that to a degree. I thought both Chris Pratt and Tom Holland did a great job with lending their voices to this and had good chemistry as brothers trying to work out their relationship.

I just looked back through my reviews of the other Toy Story films, and the last two got five out of five scores… which is weird because I remember absolutely nothing about the second one, and the more distance I got from the third, the more I hated it. But thankfully, this fourth entry in the franchise was brilliant and genuinely deserves the top score. It made up for my feelings on the last one.

So, I re-watched the first Incredibles movie before this one because I couldn’t remember it at all. And I wasn’t super duper impressed so I don’t really know what the fuss is all about with this series. And I also don’t think that film needed a sequel but here we are.

What I love most about Cars 3 is that it had absolutely NOTHING to do with Cars 2, barely referenced it and pretty much ignored that it ever happened. Instead, we’ve got what should have been the proper sequel - a story that continues the first, concentrates on racing, and delivers an important message: sometimes you need to know when it’s time to step back, and sometimes you need to keep fighting.

I am, for the most part, always nervous about watching Pixar sequels these days, but this one delivered all the good stuff and was stunning to look at. Following Dory is an inspired choice, as she was the most popular character from the original film, although I think this sequel suffered from trying to get into the story.

Aw, loved this one. It took me a while to get into it, particularly because I didn’t really like the animation of the humans, so it was a bit distracting. But I also thought they didn’t really handle the explanation of how the brain and core memories and things worked particularly well, it was very much tell instead of show, which Pixar are usually much better at.

Monsters Inc was one of the first films that I watched with this new note-taking process, but we had to rewatch it in anticipation of the prequel. I was particularly looking forward to this one, having seen the trailer and it not looking like Pixar totally ruined the concept - as they have done with a few of their other films.

This first one looks like your traditional action movie fodder, but there are heaps of famous people in there! Olympus has Fallen I hadn’t heard of this spin off from Cars that Disney are making, called Planes (or if I had heard of it, I’d forgotten!). It does what it says on the tin, and even has a bonus appearance from one David Croft! Lofty Crofty, the blimp! Amazing.

I hadn’t realised there was a bear in this. That’s two bear films in a row! I loved most of the bear stuff, the feminine walk, the gestures, the communication, bear rage! Overall, though, I wasn’t totally convinced by the whole thing. It was good, a nice 90 minutes of entertainment, with a few laughs. There were bits that didn’t make much sense, though, and it all seems to hang on the magic - which is also very confusing. I liked it, but it’s not my favourite Pixar offering.

I turned my nose up when I heard about the Monsters Inc sequel idea. Not a sequel at all, but a prequel looking back at the monsters when they were at university together. Bah! What nonsense. What cashing in. But a teaser trailer is out, and I laughed out loud. Twice! I forgot how much I love Mike.

Mr C was ready to watch Toy Story 3 as soon as it was available but unfortunately, I couldn’t remember anything about the first two. Hence we had to wait until we’d watched both the original movie and the first sequel before enjoying this third one. We’ve had mixed feelings about Pixar and their sequels in the not-too-distant past, but Toy Story seems to have done okay so far. I was a bit reticent as I know a lot of people said it was weepy, and I didn’t want to be awkward. But after a hard weekend, we were happy to sit back and enjoy the toys.

Marvellous sequel. Even better than the first one, in fact. I do think there’s a sneak preview of the whole ‘creating a lot of extra characters for big bucks’ here. It certainly is nowhere near as cynical as later sequels, however. One of those new characters is Wheezy, and who can hate Wheezy? I wasn’t so keen on the cowgirl, but her horse was cute.

Oh dear. It’s hard to know where to start really. Firstly, I suppose, it is important to say that I was convinced this film was going to ruin the entire Cars franchise for me. It didn’t do that. There was enough of the fabulously simple Mater and the racy arrogance of Lightning to keep that essence. The trouble is, there wasn’t the story to do them justice.

Aww, it was good. It amazes me that this film is 16 years old because it still looks amazing. In the trivia, there were some notes about things they couldn’t animate | hair and water being two prime ones. We know they sorted hair because they did Monsters Inc, and we know they sorted water because they did Finding Nemo.

Yesterday, we watched Finding Nemo, partly as a way to make Mr C feel a bit better after his short but nasty bug, and partly as it seemed fitting after the sad death of Steve Jobs this week. When the news broke that he’d passed away, I wasn’t surprised to find my Twitter stream and RSS reader filled with posts about the man, but there were occasional crossover posts that surprised me. Seeing Formula One people tweet their thoughts on Jobs was a strange crossing of the streams.

This is great, it’s one of the films that came from Pixar at their best. The fun and adventurous stuff is as good as it possibly could be | laugh out loud and very engaging. Bruce was one of the best things I’ve seen for ages, and I loved Ellen as Dorey.

It definitely wasn’t as mushy as I thought it was going to be, but my expectations were quite low. It was better than anticipated, but I did think the beginning was very slow. Whilst it was fun to see Wall-e interacting with his environment, it’s thirty minutes on the dust and depression of Earth before the fun stuff out in space begins. Overall, I mostly liked it, but I wouldn’t watch it again.

In preparation for watching The Incredibles 2, I realised I had to watch this one again. I had zero recollection of what had happened in the first movie, and as my initial summary says, this wasn’t a Pixar movie that I felt had rewatchable qualities. I still think that. To be honest, I just don’t know what all the fuss is about. It’s good, and entertaining enough, and Edna is still one of the best things in it. The concept is intriguing, but is the world of superheroes one we need more of at the moment?

I’ve seen this before but it was even better the second time round - whether that has to do with watching along with many others I don’t. Pixar movies are always so finely crafted, they are a real treat.

For some reason I feel like I should make excuses for watching this film, but hey, it’s not just for kids. Who doesn’t love a good bit of Pixar? Perhaps this film isn’t AS much fun as it was the last time I watched it, but it’s still a perfectly acceptable way to spend an hour and a half, Pixar certainly know what they’re doing creating multi-level films, especially with all the little things you only notice on multiple viewings.

WALL•E trailer The newest film from Disney Pixar… to be honest, it doesn’t grab me as much as I’d hoped. Showbiz - News - Beckhams preferred to Brown in Downing St - Digital Spy I pray that this isn’t true.

I was expecting Secret Window to be a slasher horror type, which is why I didn’t watch it with Mr C, and I was mystified as to why Johnny Depp would star in such a film. But of course, this is no such film. It’s actually a really intense, clever, psychological thriller with a huge twist at the end. I did not see it coming. Followed by The Incredibles which was up to Pixar’s usual brilliant standard and doesn’t really need me to sing it’s praises, it does that by itself. My only thought about this one was that it seemed really adult. The characters talked and moved fast and used big words like ‘anonymity’ which I can’t even say let alone imagine a five year old understanding. But either way, it was good stuff.

There’s some very interesting work going on at Pixar: The Incredibles looks very good, and the cute lamb in Bounding is especially sweet. I’m glad that Pixar are splitting from Disney after the next couple of films, because it seems completely unfair that Disney get to do whatever they like - as long as they pay the right money. The right to make sequel after sequel even if Pixar don’t want them to is pushing their luck a bit.