I think Ratatouille-Wall-E-Up-Toy Story 3 exceeds that one, not just in quality but in speed (four great movies annually). Though it is pretty impressive.

No worries, I'm always happy to extol the virtues of AOTC!

The bits about Ricky Bobby plastering his car with so many sponsor stickers that he can't see out the window must be conceived as something entirely unique and unlike anything in actual NASCAR culture, then. Could've fooled me that they were making fun of a particularly commercialized sport…

I mean, it's all over my prequel essay from a couple years back, but: Detective Obi-Wan! Harryhausen-style arena creatures! That part where Anakin and Padme kiss as they're being led into the arena! Yoda with a lightsaber! Lots of Christopher Lee! Down-on-his-luck Watto! Dexter Jettster!!! I love it.

You think so? I feel like little kids LOVE Kylo. Whatever figure had a removable helmet to show off Plastic Adam Driver's beautiful plastic hair did not seem readily available. Though I did get a regular Kylo figure after the fact for pretty cheap. My daughter took one look at it and gave it a kiss.

It's a pretty nice-looking comedy, as those things go. And Aniello has some nicely blocked full-cast compositions for him to work with.

As little as I wanted to see it at the time, I did feel, watching it at home, that I was probably feeling more distracted than I would have in a theater (as is almost always the case, frankly).

OK, dude. You're right: This was a lengthy rant about how much I hate the Cars movies, and it's never worth criticizing anything made for children. Will keep in mind for the future.

Oh, yeah. It's such a moral victory (that involves him getting a sponsorship offer, widely praised, etc.) that I misremembered it as a proper victory. He also voluntarily loses which feels a little different.

Again, that's not really Pixar's brand in general, so while I agree that they feel much more like kid-only affairs than their other stuff, I do think that's worth exploring, even criticizing (considering how kids absorb stuff from media). I'm happy to acknowledge when kids like something and how that can be valuable…

If children watched movies in a vacuum (metaphorically! Don't put kids in a vacuum!), I might agree that there is no need to review anything intended primarily for children. But because they don't, I don't.

For me, it's between Toy Story 2, Up, The Incredibles, and Wall-E. But if I saw a list with Ratatouille or Inside Out at the top, I'd think: Fair.

Whose vanity?!?!

HOW DARE YOU SIR (it was Jaws 4).

In the interest of full disclosure, during period where I was watching/rewatching/writing up Cars movies, I bought my daughter a Cars t-shirt at the Gap. She really likes it. And though she only really watches stuff for 15-20 minutes at a time (save Sesame Street, and even that, she's really just waiting for Elmo or…

Besides the good point @avclub-7706d2dc2da6837340effd985dc620b6:disqus makes, I also feel like there were a fair amount of Lotsos on the shelf at Disney Stores long after the movie came out, so it may not have been their most popular item. (It was also made realistically dirty-looking, like an old stuffed animal! I…

I'm actually surprised, given stuff like this that I've heard elsewhere, that Cars 2 wasn't a much bigger hit. I kind of assumed it would have a big pop over the original, but it's one of Pixar's lower-grossing efforts, at least domestically. Nowhere near Toy Story, or Star Wars, or Spider-Man (not even as much as…

I very hope this is at least your own bit and not parroting of some Red Letter Media video.

Weird how there are literally dozens of Disney films that cater to children that I like more than Cars, which I don't even dislike.

I don't think they deserve your hatred, but yeah, I have the extremely bizarre opinion that Attack of the Clones is fun and Planes is deathly boring.