10 Best Pixar Films

More clever and entertaining than most live-action adult movies I've ever seen. These characters actually have character.

Character development is the most powerful tool you can use in film. When you give your characters personalities, emotions, flaws... your audience will care about them. Even if your characters are cars. (Come on, tell me you didn't feel sorry for Bumblebee in Transformers when his leg got cut off.)

Pixar are the masters of character development, once again flexing their unmatched storytelling ability in Cars. It is so well done, and the characters are so... well, human, that you forget the simple little fact that they're cars. CARTOON cars, even.

Cars is about a race car fixated on winning and living fast is forced to slow down by a sleepy town and its automobile inhabitants, and learns that trophies are nothing more than "empty cups". It's a little slower-paced story than other Pixar films, but uh, that's kind of the point. Great story, great animation, excellent voice acting (props especially to Larry the Cable Guy, who seems to be funnier when you can't actually see him). In other words, a typical Pixar film.

Pixar. That's all that needs to be said, really.

Pixar does it again with Wall-E, a movie that really flexes the storytelling chops of the animation giant. The majority of the film is silent, forcing the film into visual overdrive, and it is beautiful. The graphics and animation here are better than ever, rivaled only by the french bread in Ratatouille.

Wall-E plays on the universal theme of loneliness. Wall-E is all alone on Earth, left to clean up the garbage left by the human race, who ditched the planet long ago. Because robots need loving too, enter the appropriately named Eve, a robot sent to Earth to find signs of life.

There are a few cautionary tale sub-plots. The film tells you what will happen if we keep living the way we do now: the Earth will become a barren wasteland, we will all look and sound like Kathy Najimy, and a big-box retail company will rule the world. Come to think of it, we're not far off.

...Oh, and in the future, all the computers run on OSX. Wall-E makes the Apple boot-up sound when recharged. Eve is a sleek white and blue design. Another one of the later characters is actually voiced by MacSpeak. ...No, we're not very far off at all.

Normally, I don't like films with social commentary bullshit. But this one is an exception. A great film. Johnny 5 alive!

Pixar's solid sense of storytelling has not wavered here. This is your typical Pixar film: excellent voice work, AMAZING CGI, and an entertaining story all the way through. There isn't much I can say here that I haven't already said about the other Pixar flicks. Well done.

...Oh, one thing. Keep your eye on the french bread. Tell me that shit ain't real. Seriously, if I find out that crumb was computer generated, I'll never leave my house again because that would be F-ing scary.