Where Wall•E fans were prompted to feel defensive of their love of the personality-filled robot and his Apple-like companion, fans of Up are in good company. Since its release on May 26, Up has received almost exclusively positive reviews. RottenTomatoes (RT) lists only a few rotten reviews on their site, so Up achieves a 98% [...]
Opening day for a movie branded a “children’s film” by our culture is quite a sight to behold. There were lots of kids with not near as many parents, a couple of toddlers and at least one baby (who cried in the middle of the movie but wasn’t taken outside). We settled in and crossed [...]
Toy companies and Wall Street are all up in a tizzy right now over Pixar’s upcoming film Up. I’ve seen article after article down-talking the new film, which at first was receiving a lot of positive buzz. It has only been in the last few days that the real reason behind the turn toward the [...]
Here’s another linkspam! I’d have more interesting things to write about but all of my free time is going to the Cleveland International Film Festival until next week. (I would claim to be sad about this but I am so not! Come check it out if you’re in the area!) Hong Kong Disneyland Expansion Hong [...]
As the fervor for the newest Disney-Pixar film increases, more and more merchandise and neat little tidbits do as well. A small promotional website is where the trail starts. The site is called Buy n Large. It appears to be a company within the canon atmosphere of the Wall-E universe which sells both space condos [...]
The adventure started when Johnathan and I were at the Cleveland International Film Festival. Last Thursday, we saw a movie around mid afternoon and out of sheer curiosity, checked the movie listings for the rest of the festival (which runs through today). Imagine our surprise when we saw a movie called The Pixar Story listed [...]
YES I LIVE! Sorry for the lack of updates – Banana 1 had finals this week (I wrote an 15 page paper on the Holocaust in an hour and a half, so BEAT THAT, BITCHES) – so to compensate, here’s a massive amount of linkspam. Disney and More is holding a contest, and the prize [...]
According to Pixar, Cars was inspired by the style of the old 1952 animated short, Susie The Little Blue Coupe. It’s directed by Clyde Geronimi, who also directed Cinderella, Peter Pan and supervised Sleeping Beauty. Sterling Holloway, AKA Kaa in the Jungle Book, served as narrator for this film. The short is available in a [...]