It’s a great insight that Toy Story 4 feels more like those post Toy Story 3 shorts and specials (no mention of the Toy Story that Time Forgot? Love that one). I had already been able to really reconcile my problems with the film (mostly the diminished status of the original cast and Buzz’s antics) by deciding this…

A baby/toddler with superpowers is actually not something I can recall seeing covered in the superhero genre, regardless of medium. Treated seriously, it could make a good story.

It would’ve made more sense to see what became of the kids once they became adults and explore the fallout of the super’s return that seemed to be the point of the end of the first film.

It not only just flipflops their plots from the first one, but basically repeats all the thematic tensions from the first film, too. So many of the arguments between these characters could be copy/pasted into the first film’s script, and vice versa. I couldn’t believe none of the characters had progressed, even the…

Right, what matter’s is what is bigger about the inside. Is it hiding the innards of a cool time traveling spaceship or an inscrutable horrific labyrinth trying to kill you?

It really feels like one of those Mater Tall Tales shorts, extended to feature length. 

I remember being somewhat optimistic about this film based on its poster and teaser trailer, showing Lightning getting totally wrecked. I thought it actually might be a more A-level Pixar effort within the Cars franchise looking at getting older and coming back from a serious setback. There are still some elements of…

Eh, I like Frozen so it was pleasant/inoffensive enough as a Christmas special. Definitely more kiddie geared than the main films.  I just didn’t think it was appropriate to be tacked on to the beginning of Coco, mostly for length considerations. 

It seems like maybe they were trying to goose the box office for Coco, and instead it blew up in their faces. 

I’m not sure about most, but there are definitely other afterlife conceptions (that I think are more prevalent in modern society) that have more of a balancing/judgement and equalizing aspect once you die. Certainly I’d say the afterlives you mentioned are not ones many would be invested in, so I think many fictional…

Your point about a next feared step after being forgotten only makes the unequal currency of this afterlife more poignant. I’m sorry, but unless you are really famous (infamous), I think everyone is eventually going to fade from this Land of the Dead as well. And again, it’s a somewhat vicious afterlife that would…

I see your point that they were able to move on, but there remains a tragedy in Imelda and Coco living out the rest of their lives without Hector, without knowing what became of him, with thinking that he abandoned them, with the lifetime of anger and sadness that followed them afterwards. That it happened just as he…

I see your point that they were able to move on, but there remains a tragedy in Imelda and Coco living out the rest of their lives without Hector, without knowing what became of him, with thinking that he abandoned them, with the lifetime of anger and sadness that followed them afterwards. That it happened just as he…

The really big problems is that it wasn’t a short, it was more like a television animated special. Way too long to tack onto the beginning of an already pretty long (for an animated) movie.

The world building is very impressive, but something that left a bad taste in my whole familly’s minds after watching and discussing this film was the vision of the afterlife it presents. The land of the dead is still basically a stratified society built around haves and have nots, with people stuck or struggling…

I really have a hard time watching this movie, because I find Hector’s fate and what Ernesto did to him so tragic and monstrous.  That murder, for such banal reasons, ruined so many lives.   

I try to imagine how one of the humans working at the aquarium describes what happened at work on this day, “First the damn octopus got out again, somehow got into the kiddie touch pool and inked everyone’s hands. But that’s nothing, because Destiny and Bailey were acting weird all day, and finally both jumped the…

For as much as I really like this movie, this fact drives me up the wall.

I like them very much, but I like the big 4 Renaissance pictures very much too(Mermaid, Beauty/Beast, Aladdin, Lion King). Just different films made for different eras, though I do appreciate the sort of more simplistic/idiosyncratic, less commercialized charms of that earlier era’s films.

Those repetitions work in weird tandem with the cheaper animation techniques they were using then in which they recycled frames, sequences,  and character designs within and across different films.