Tag: Pixar

New ‘Up’ Teaser Trailer

You can find this on Madagascar and Bolt prints, or head over to Apple to watch in glorious Quicktime!

Up is Pixar’s latest, and their 10th feature length release, which means, you should already be in line!

Like all Pixar films, I am sure this will be great.

New Poster for Pixar’s ‘Up’

Here’s the new poster for the next Pixar animated adventure called ‘Up’ which will utilize the popular new 3D cinema technology. Like all Pixar movies, I’m counting on this to be another hit… then again, how long can Pixar continue to bat .1000?

[source: Empire Online]

‘WALL-E’ going for the Gold?

LA Weekly blogger, Nikke Finke, is reporting that Disney will  be  pushing  for its Wall-E to see a Best Picture nod.  Ã‚  On her Deadline Hollywood Daily site, Nikke writes “I’m told that Disney and Pixar are going to push hard  for a Best Picture Oscar nomination for Wall-E on the basis of its anti-toon moody darkness and rave reviews by critics who matter. Certainly many toons have tried for that high honor over the years, and then settled for  “just” a recently added Best Animated Feature nod.  Only one animated movie has made it into the most competitive Academy Award category — Disney’s Beauty And The Beast in 1991 — but, alas, didn’t win.”  Me thinks it has a better chance of winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature… we’ll see.

Review: ‘Wall-E’

Wall-E is pure fun and entertainment for the whole family, and the movie geeks were out in full force to see it. Scott brought his 4 year old daughter, and probably enjoyed it even more than she did! We gave this movie a collective rating of [rating: 4.5/5]. Read all of our reviews by clicking below:

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Review: ‘Ratatouille’

Zac:

Hands down the best animated film of the year (unless Persepolis blows me away whenever I get to see it) and probably the best since Brad Bird’s last film, the masterpiece that is The Incredibles, Ratatouille is a fantastic story about rats, cooking, and believing in anyone.
We follow two main characters in this film Remy the rat and who is a masterful chef who embraces humans and there ways. As well as Linguini, a wanna be chef without a chance to every be good. The two happen to fall in each others laps and are able to help one another out through a little fantasy twist and imagination.
This movie is just full of beautiful shots, exhilarating moments, great comedy, touching scenes, a fun villain, and is just a joy to watch every time you see. I’ve seen this 3-4 times and it is more rewarding with every experience. Remy’s first shot at cooking is a great beautiful cinema moment, the opening is does a great job of introducing us to the world without being at all boring, the sleepy Linguini scene is hilarious, and the ending is just about perfect even if it is a bit of a stretch.
The voice work is stellar through out with Brag Garrett doing some of his best as Gusteau, Patton Oswalt is perfect for Remy, Janeane Garofalo is unrecognizable as Colette but does the French accent superbly, but the best work belongs to Peter O’Toole who gives Anton Ego so much more life, if you could call it that, with his raspy and commanding voice.
The animation is also spectacular and continues to get better every time Pixar goes out and makes a new movie. Brad Bird gives us a wonderful view of Paris, and is one of three great looks at the City of Lights this year. The score by Michael Giacchino is also wonderful and he proves again that he is one of the best composers around today in film. Praises can not be said enough for Bird and his team, while Bird cements himself as one of the best directors ever, if he hadn’t already in most peoples eyes.
With Ratatouille Pixar is back at the top of its game, not that Cars was bad it was just a understandable step below the Incredibles, and while not quite topping Brad Bird’s last this is definitely just as good as, if not better, Finding Nemo and the Toy Story’s.

[rating: 5/5]