Pixar: The last bastion of half-decent American animation
All American cartoons made after the 1990s are shitty, and even in the 90s pickings were slim. In this bold twenty-first century, the only American-made cartoons that don’t make me want to, I don’t know, shoot somebody, are the things made by Pixar. Pixar is known for their cutting-edge 3D animation, which is fine and all, but I hate most 3D animation. However, they know how to write, and have a half-decent sense of imagination, and that’s what makes their silly little cartoons entertaining to an extremely jaded and cynical twenty-year-old such as myself.
During Thanksgiving I was watching Toy Story with my three-year-old cousin. I hadn’t seen the movie since I was ten or something, but I still managed to find it quite entertaining. The writing’s great, the direction is competent, and the animation still looks pretty good for a thirteen-year-old film. So basically, it’s fun for the whole family.
This post isn’t really about that shit though.
Just recently I saw Ratatouille and Wall-E. Perhaps you’ve heard of them. They have the same brand of Pixar cleverness that makes all of their films not mind-numbingly horrible, but what I noticed specifically about them was how otaku-like they were. In Ratatouille, you have this nerdy guy who can’t do anything right as the main character, and his love interest is a girl with a harsh personality. This harsh girl however may have feelings for this nerdy guy, and to top it all off she has a hard time expressing her feelings!
Same shit with Wall-E. Wall-E is a fucking dork who lives in a box (not dissimilar to Nishijou Takumi) he collects a bunch of weird shit, and gets lost in a TV fantasy world. His love interest Eve has a pointy personality, but hey! she kind of likes this fucking dork.
Sound familiar? Jesus, I wonder how otaku reacted to these movies. All I know is, if I don’t see fucking Wall-E porn at C76, I’ll be sorrily disappointed!
There’s lots of EVE-tan art, at least.
So tsundere~.
Needs more The IncrediblesxMonsters Inc. porn.
There was universal reaction in Eve being moe, especially on mecha boards….
Ratatouille is a very clever movie. It can appeal to anybody, and doesn’t dumb anything down for the kids.
motherfucker you can draw, why don’t you draw some wall-e doujins yourself
do a crossover with wall-e using his vice grip on aladdin
So I take it you’re not an Avatar fan then.
But yeah, Pixar movies are a prime example of CG done right. A lesson I wish Japanese studios would take to heart.
Also, WALL-E porn is just as (but not more) disturbing as Transformers porn. so please don’t make a statement like that…..
Tons of Wall-E Guro NAO!!!!!!!
Apparently Disney/Pixar plans to re-release the Toy Story 1 and 2 in theaters with the graphics updated and enhanced for Digital 3D showings in a year or two, to kick off the fact they’re doing Toy Story 3 in 2010. Shall be interesting.
Well, Lassester is a big fan of Miyazaki… XD And I think they handled the translation/the release of the English versions of Ghibli movies.