Posts Tagged ‘Cars 2’
Film Review – Early Man
Meh. It’s okay. Look, Aardman Animations has long been a high benchmark for quality stop-motion hand crafted animation. From their very earliest works like the incredibly funny Oscar winning short Creature Comforts (that’s the one with the zoo animals giving interviews to an unseen documentary…
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Interview – Harley Jessup – Coco
Spencer interviews production designer Harley Jessup from the animated adventure Coco.
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Film Review – Cars 3
For a long time Pixar had an unimpeachable record. Can you think of a company of any kind, not just a movie company but any company, that had a track record as impressive as theirs for their first dozen years or so? The Toy Story…
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Film Review – The Good Dinosaur
After the critical success of Inside Out, Pixar Animation Studios returns with the second outing of 2015, The Good Dinosaur. While Inside Out is considered to be one of the very best films the animation studio has put out, this prehistoric tale feels like the…
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Film Review – Planes
Planes now marks the third time we have visited the world of animated talking vehicles first established with Cars (2006) and continued with Cars 2 (2011). This series feels like it overstayed its welcome by two films. No longer in the hands of Pixar, Disney…
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Film Review – Monsters University
It would be fair to say that my feelings were tepid upon hearing the news that Pixar wanted to do a sequel to Monsters, Inc. After all, alongside A Bug’s Life and Ratatouille, Monsters, Inc is one of the most overlooked films in Pixar’s long…
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Film Review – A Cat in Paris
A Cat in Paris is a delightfully animated tale that keeps you entertained the whole way through. When the Academy Award nominations were announced last year for Best Animated Feature, I was thrilled that A Cat in Paris and Chico and Rita were nominated. I…
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Film Review – Brave
It has been far too long since the last original, non-sequel Pixar movie, Up, came out in 2009. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Toy Story 3, and I’m a bit of a Cars 2 apologist, but original ideas are what has established Pixar as…
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