Pixar’s latest movie hit the big screens recently, amid talk of the incredibly successful studio’s apparent recent downturn in form, and less than impressive box office returns. Every Pixar movie since a certain animated Spider-Man hit our screens, has been struggling to carve out its own corner of a market that it used to dominate with its fellow Disney animated releases.
Now their new releases are often labelled as ‘simplistic’, ‘lacking vision’, or ‘by the book’, especially when animated movie makers continue to push the envelope with movies like the aforementioned Spider-Man movies, Puss-in-Boots most recent release, and by the looks of it, Seth Rogen’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie that is due to hit cinemas later this year. Like the live-action movie world, Pixar, regardless of its stable of legendary characters and stories, has entered a world where people, especially critics, want new, they want fresh, they want you to push the boundaries.
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Oh wow, there’s so many possibilities when it comes to opening this review. I could somewhat reformat a joke from “Zero Punctuation” about how Disney has been killing off their franchises with the efficiency that would worry the Gestapo. I could talk about how this is one of the launch titles of Disney+, which just came out in the states and how it doesn’t even graze the left buttock of the other titles Disney+ has at launch like “The Mandalorian”
