Well said.Prince Edward wrote:Pixar are clearly grabbing some easy cash with all the sequels lately. All the talk about how Pixar supposedly are the studio that are being creative and doing new stuff sounds a bit hypocritical. It seems to me that after Pixar made the ideas they had from the start into movies, they have been struggling a bit to come up with new stories. All the talk about Lasseter being the new Messiah of animation is highly overrated. And Lasseter constantly talking about how much Pixar are teaching Disney about animation and storytelling is irritating to say the least. Toy Story 4 and Cars 3 = $$$ is the new guideline at Pixar animation studios.
Lasseter is indeed overrated and despite he's done much good for Disney, he's still not the solely Messiah of animation nor even the new Walt, which many people claim him to be. He has a good eye for a story and quality, but not everything he touches is gold. After all there were other people than him that are equally important to animation and personally I've find several of the so-called "Golden Age" films of Pixar highly overrated.
People are forgetting that Disney were the studio that launched Pixar in the first place and they helped Pixar into the spotlight. And even then, Disney had others who helped them into the Golden Age (Katzenberg, Schneider, Roy Disney, Eisner). Although Pixar shall have credit for expanding their ideas, I still find them inferior to Disney's films. Pixar's films connected with audiences more, but personally I thought Disney expanded their horizons as well, although most of their films from 2000-2004 weren't huge successes.
I guess Pixar has a better reputation because each of their films pre-"Cars 2" were box office hits and actually had a certain universal appeal, while Disney were getting repetive. However, it's unfair that Lasseter is seen as the only, flawless saviour to Disney, while he's only just a human being, who makes mistakes like everybody else.
