Pixar Movies: Favorite to Least Favorite

[ATB]

Saw Wall-E this past weekend. I really enjoyed it, but it doesn't crack my top 5 of Pixar favorites. How about you? Here's the complete List.


1. Toy Story 2
2. Finding Nemo
3. The Incredibles
4. Ratatouille (may even be tied for 3rd)
5. Toy Story
6. Wall E
7. Bugs Life
8. Monsters Inc
9. Cars (ugh. I really despised this one)

[gellar]

Mine will be different than most, cause I really didn't like some that people seemed to love (Incredibles, Wall E).

1. Toy Story 2.
2. Ratatouille
3. Toy Story
4. Monsters Inc
5. Cars
6-9. The Incredibles, Bugs Life, Finding Nemo, Wall E (I disliked them all equally).

gellar

[coopasonic]

1. Toy Story
2. Monsters Inc
3. Cars
4. Ratatouille
5. Finding Nemo
6. Wall E
7. Bugs Life
8. Toy Story 2
9. The Incredibles

*shrug* I don't get the Cars hate or the Toy Story 2 love for that matter.

[farley2k]

1. Ratatouille
2. Monsters Inc.
3. Finding Nemo
4. The Incredibles
5. Wall E
6. Toy Story
7. Toy Story 2
8. Bugs Life


Sadly I have never seen Cars so I really can't judge.

[wonderpug]

I have to cop out and do tiers

1 Wall-E
1.5 Finding Nemo, Ratatouille
2 Monsters Inc, Toy Story 1
3 Toys Story 2, Incredibles
5 Cars, the scene in Bug's Life where he goes to the big city
10 the rest of A Bug's Life

[Pyperkub]

1   The Incredibles
2   Monsters Inc
3   Finding Nemo
4   Ratatouille
5   Wall E
6   Bugs Life
7   Toy Story
8   Toy Story 2
9   Cars

I was never that big a fan of the Toy Story Movies, at least as compared to the others.  Cars I was really disappointed in, though I enjoyed it.  I might even like it more than the toy story movies.  The Incredibles is one of those movies which has simply gotten better over time for me (and I loved it when it first came out).  Going in, I thought the premise was going to be stupid, but it blew me away.

HM - Iron Giant (not a Pixar movie per se, but since Brad Bird is now at Pixar, I will grant it pseudo-pixar status, as it is on a level with the Pixar movies, and other animation is not, IMHO.)

[Gratch]

1   Wall-E
1a   The Incredibles
2   Monsters Inc
3   Ratatouille
4   Finding Nemo
5   Cars
6   Bug's Life
7   Toy Story
8   Toy Story 2

[Lordnine]

1.   Ratatouille
2.   The Incredibles
3.   Wall E
4.   Toy Story 2
5.   Finding Nemo
6.   Monsters Inc
7.   Toy Story
8.   Bugs Life

Cars – Haven’t seen this one.

[Purge]

1. The Incredibles
2. Monsters Inc
3. Finding Nemo
4. Ratatouille (may even be tied for 3rd)
5. Bugs Life
6. Cars
7. Wall E
8. Toy Story
9. Toy Story 2


The promise of yet another Toy Story thrills me. To my very core.

[Isgrimnur]

I need to revisit Incredibles now that I don't have a pissed gf to worry about.  That may have influenced my viewing of it a bit.

[Malificent]

1. The Incredibles
2. Monsters Inc.
3. Ratatouille
4. Toy Story
5. Toy Story 2
6. Finding Nemo
7. Wall E
8. Cars
9. Bugs Life

I worship at the altar of Brad Bird.

[Kevin Grey]

1.  The Incredibles
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2. Toy Story 2
3. Toy Story
4.  Finding Nemo
5.  Cars
6.  Bug's Life
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7.  Monsters Inc.

Never cared much for Monsters Inc.  We own Ratatouille and Wall-E but have yet to watch either. 

[GuidoTKP]

1. The Incredibles
2. Finding Nemo
3. Toy Story
4. Wall E
5. Ratatouille
6. Toy Story 2
7. Monsters Inc.
8. Bugs Life
9. Cars

The Incredibles is No. 1 by a pretty far margin for me.  In fact, if you told me to choose between and Incredibles sequal or a Dark Knight sequal, I think I might go Incredibles.  It may be the perfect super hero movie.

[Scuzz]

Saw Wall-E this past weekend. I really enjoyed it, but it doesn't crack my top 5 of Pixar favorites. How about you? Here's the complete List.


1. Toy Story 2
2. Finding Nemo
3. The Incredibles
4. Ratatouille (may even be tied for 3rd)
5. Toy Story
6. Wall E
7. Bugs Life
8. Monsters Inc
9. Cars (ugh. I really despised this one)

Seeing this list I realize my kids grew up in the middle of it. Therefore I have only seen about 1/2 the list.

I would go with...

1. Toy Story
2. The Incredibles
3. Toy Story 2
4. Bug's Life
5. Monsters, Inc.

[ATB]

HM - Iron Giant (not a Pixar movie per se, but since Brad Bird is now at Pixar, I will grant it pseudo-pixar status, as it is on a level with the Pixar movies, and other animation is not, IMHO.)

Iron Giant is probably my favorite animated movie of all time.  I haven't seen it in a while (but do own it). Looks like I'll be digging it out!

[Teggy]

Top 4 are hard for me, but I gave weight to the ones that have been around a while. I suppose over time they could change (I found Wall E to be really charming, but it's too recent).

1. Bugs Life
2. Toy Story 2
3. The Incredibles
4. Wall E
5. Toy Story
6. Ratatouille (may even be tied for 3rd)
7. Finding Nemo
8. Monsters Inc
9. Cars

Iron Giant is great. My all time favorite animated movie of any kind is probably Nightmare Before Xmas.

Edit: wow, can't believe the Bugs Life hate. I think it has the best balance of adult/kids content. Lots of clever stuff in it.

[coopasonic]

Edit: wow, can't believe the Bugs Life hate. I think it has the best balance of adult/kids content. Lots of clever stuff in it.

Just remember is mostly comparative hate. A Bugs Life may be low on the list but since Pixar movies all rate 8-9 out of 10 on my scale, that's not bad.  That's why I had trouble ranking these, they are all pretty high up there.

[Simon]

1. The Incredibles
2. Wall-E
3. Cars
4. Toy Story 2
5. Ratatouille
6. Finding Nemo
7. Toy Story
8. Bugs Life
9. Monsters Inc.

It's been a long time since I have seen the bottom three so it's always possible that they could move up. Based on how I'm remembering them all that's how I would rank them.

[Ironrod]

They came out over so many years that it's a little hard to compare them as the CG animation state-of-the-art has improved. Toy Story was simply amazing for its day, less so in light of subsequent movies. But what the heck, I'll play anyway.

1. Ratatouille
2. The Incredibles
3. WALL-E
4. Monsters Inc
5. Finding Nemo
6. Toy Story 2
7. Bugs Life
8. Toy Story
9. Cars? (Haven't seen it)

My list looks a lot like Lordnine's.

[mori]

Of the ones I have seen:

1. Toy Story
2. The Incredibles
3. Cars
4. Monsters Inc
5. Finding Nemo

[ravenvii]

1. The Incredibles
2. Toy Story
3. Ratatouille
4. Finding Nemo
5. Toy Story 2
6. Monsters, Inc.
7. Cars
8. A Bug's Life

I haven't seen Wall*E yet, so that's still pending.

[ATB]

Edit: wow, can't believe the Bugs Life hate. I think it has the best balance of adult/kids content. Lots of clever stuff in it.

With the exception of cars, i can probably swap those outside my top 5 pretty easily to any position...

[Jancelot]

1. Monsters, Inc
2. Toy Story 2
3. Finding Nemo
4. Toy Story
5. Ratatouille
6. The Incredibles
7. Bugs Life
8. Wall E (1st half was great, 2nd half was average.)
X. Cars (This is the freak-anomaly of Pixar movies.  Utter crap.)

[YellowKing]

1. Toy Story 2
2. Finding Nemo
3. The Incredibles
4. Toy Story
5. Monsters Inc
6. Wall-E
7. Ratatouille
8. Cars
9. A Bug's Life

Funny how people's perceptions differ. I've found I liked the movies more that I was least hyped about seeing. That's why WALL-E and Ratatouille fell out of the top 5. I was so hyped going in, they ended up being utter disappointments.  WALL-E *only* ranks #6 because of the first half of the movie. I thought the second half was crap.

[CeeKay]

1. The Incredibles
2. Toy Story
3. Toy Story 2


all the rest (with the possible exception of Wall-E which I have not seen yet) are crap.

[Koz]

I'm not a huge Pixar fan, so I've only seen half of them:

1. Finding Nemo
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2. Wall-E
3. Monsters, Inc
4. Toy Story
5. The Incredibles
6. Cars

Loved Nemo, liked the rest of them (even Cars).

[msduncan]

1.  Finding Nemo
2.  Toy Story 2
3.  Toy Story
4.  Monster's Inc
5.  Cars
6.  A Bug's Life
7.  The Incredibles
8.  Wall-E
9.  Ratatouille

To me the magic of Pixar moves were that they were always appealing both to adults and children at the same time.     I balanced my ratings to take into account which movies my wife and I loved the most with my kids' choices factored in.   (if it was only based on kids then Cars would be at the top of the list easily, followed closely by Finding Nemo).

The bottom three -- which is consistently the favorites of many on this forum -- are my kids' least favorites.   I can pop those in, and the kids are playing with something else in 5 minutes.     I also found Ratatouille in particular a big time yawner.     Critics loved it.   I hated it.   

[kratz]

1.   Ratatouille
2.   The Incredibles
3.   Toy Story 2
4.   Finding Nemo
4.   Wall E
6.   Toy Story
7.   Bugs Life
8.   Monsters, Inc.
9.   Cars

[Ironrod]

This thread is making me think about dropping Cars from my Netflix list. Is it even worth 90-ish minutes of my lifespan?

[kronovan]

1. John Lasseter's (Pixar) intro for Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky
2. Toy Story
3. John Lasseter's (Pixar) intro for Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service
4. Toy Story 2
5. Finding Nemo
6. The Incredibles
7. Bugs Life
8. Monsters Inc.

[Nth Power]

I've enjoyed all the Pixar movies so far.  Cars is the weakest, but still enjoyable.

1. Toy Story 2
2. The Incredibles
3. Monsters, Inc.
4. Bugs Life
5. Toy Story
6. Wall-E
7. Finding Nemo
8. Ratatouille
9. Cars

[Thin_J]

1. The Incredibles
2. Monsters, Inc
3. Toy Story 2
4. Toy Story
5. Ratatouille
6. A Bug's Life
7. Finding Nemo
8. Cars

I haven't seen it yet, but actually have Wall-E on the way from Netflix. Should be here today in all it's Blu-Ray glory. I'm halfway expecting it to take the #2 spot just because I like the concept so much.

[Devil]

1 - Monsters Inc
2 - Wall E
3 - Finding Nemo
4 - Toy Story
5 - Ratatouille
6 - The Incredibles
7 - Toy Story 2
8 - Cars
9 - Bugs Life

[wonderpug]

This thread is making me think about dropping Cars from my Netflix list. Is it even worth 90-ish minutes of my lifespan?

Do you have a blu-ray player?

[Ironrod]

This thread is making me think about dropping Cars from my Netflix list. Is it even worth 90-ish minutes of my lifespan?

Do you have a blu-ray player?

Nope.

[coopasonic]

This thread is making me think about dropping Cars from my Netflix list. Is it even worth 90-ish minutes of my lifespan?

It's a cute little story. What else are you going to do with those 90 minutes? Better to have watched and yawned than never to have watched at all.

[CeeKay]

What else are you going to do with those 90 minutes?

punch yourself in the groin repeatedly?

[kratz]

This thread is making me think about dropping Cars from my Netflix list. Is it even worth 90-ish minutes of my lifespan?

Yeah, I think so.

[coopasonic]

What else are you going to do with those 90 minutes?

punch yourself in the groin repeatedly?

I this case I can confidently say watching Cars is better than the alternative.

[Rowdy]

I don't get the Cars hate either.  One of my favourites, and my kids.

1. The Incredibles
2. Finding Nemo
3. Cars
4. Monsters Inc.
5. Toy Story 2
6. Rattatouie
7. Toy Story
8. Wall-E
9. Bug's Life