The Pixar's sequel we've all been waiting for has just been announced

[Squall Leonhart]

Link (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36329)

Quint just called from the Disney soiree in New York City and wanted me to pass this along to ya'll.

Reliable sources had previously indicated told AICN that a CARS sequel was in the works for the 2011 (original report HERE (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35806)).

Quint says Disney has just confirmed (literally just confirmed) that a CARS sequel will be released for Summer 2012. So, our folks were right...just off by a year.

Quint will be following up shortly with more details.Personally? I'd rather see the sequel to The Incredibles. But Pixar only does Toy Story sequels. And Cars.

[Regulus Tera]

I already know the plot:

Lightning gets a flat in a poor uban area. He learns street-smarts and puts on neon lights and is able to win the big race. The end.

[POS Industries]

Personally? I'd rather see the sequel to The Incredibles.
Stupid sarcastic thread titles.

[Mike McC]

Actually, I think The Incredibles works best as a stand alone movie. Adding a sequel feels like it would only cheapen it, to me.

It'd be like making a sequel to The Iron Giant.

[Solid Snake]

Yes. The Incredibles was by far the best Pixar movie since the original Toy Story. Despite how great Toy Story 2 actually was (I really liked it, personally), most sequels tend to suck, even for computer-generated movies (see: Shrek 2 and 3.) So I'm hoping they leave The Incredibles alone.

[R|Я]

Well, I liked Shrek 2.

Though I'd love to see a sequel to the incredibles, I know it would kill the movie, so how 'bout making something just as awesome and brilliant?

And as for cars, I want to actually see Owen Wilson. It's not enough to hear the man. He's got this thing he does (see Zoolander) that makes him awesome, and cars kinda took that away from me.

[TopHatAssassin]

The Incredibles was by far the best Pixar movie since the original Toy Story

Agreed. Though I suppose, if they did do a sequel to The Incredibles it could revolve around Jack Jack when he's older. I donno, I just think he's cool. Really, a kid who can set himself on fire, then turn into metal, then turn into a monster, shoot lasers and warp around the place deserves his own movie.

In regards to the Cars sequel, it makes me kind of sad. Cars, I would say (though not having seen it) isn't a movie that would warrant a sequel. It just seems too cheesy. I mean really, talking cars? It's not like they transform or anything.

Personally I'm looking forward to Wall-E.

[Seil]

All I'm getting from this conversation is that I should see Cars.

[Regulus Tera]

All I'm getting from this conversation is that I should see Cars.

You're getting it wrong! D=

[Xaeta]

Personally? I'd rather see the sequel to The Incredibles. But Pixar only does Toy Story sequels. And Cars.

Actually there is gonna be a Toy Story 3. Something about how they get dumped by Andy in a nursery when goes off to college or something like that...

[Mirai Gen]

Dear god let it not be true.

I mean the Toy Story thing, not the Cars thing.

[Regulus Tera]

Regulus Tera: Killing Mirai's sacred cows one by one (http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120338109294075671.html?mod=blog).

In Pixar's coming movie "Toy Story 3," Woody the cowboy and his toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, leaves for college.

[POS Industries]

In Pixar's coming movie "Toy Story 3," Woody the cowboy and his toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, leaves for college.
http://www.resistance.tk/forums/albums/Rage%20Against%20The%20Machine%20-%20Renegades.jpg

[Seil]

This is completely off-topic, but I like the little "...Put on a happy face!" underneath POS' RAGE comment.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

I thought Toy Story 3 was being done by a non Pixar studio because Disney thought they were going to lose them.

If Pixar is doing it now then its only because Disney owns them now. And this crap story is the work of the other studio writer.

Edit: Then again maybe not..., according to Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_3), the Circle 7 story was about Buzz being taken away because of a product recall.

Honestly? From the sounds of it, Pixar is working with a iffy premise because it doesn't want to be locked into making Toy Story movies for the rest of time. I know I read an article stating, that before Disney bought them out, they had no intention of making a Toy Story 3, which is why Disney went to Circle 7 initially.

SWB

[Hex]

Personally, Pixar needs to stop doing sequals. To me, they seem exclusively like milking enough money out of the models they already built and without actually working on a script. You'll know what I mean if you've seen Shrek 3. Whoever "worked" on that movie should be shot for killing the best charecters I've seen in a long time.

[RMS Oceanic]

Personally, Pixar needs to stop doing sequals. To me, they seem exclusively like milking enough money out of the models they already built and without actually working on a script. You'll know what I mean if you've seen Shrek 3. Whoever "worked" on that movie should be shot for killing the best charecters I've seen in a long time.

"Stop" doing them? Until these announcements they've only done one, and it every bit honoured the story of the original. Also, if you follow that link, you'll see at least three original non-WALL-E films in production.

As for Cars, I enjoyed it. It may be the worst of Pixar's fare, but that's like being disappointed because you missed a number on the lottery and "only" won a couple of hundred thousand dollars. It certainly stands tall against most non-Pixar films of the naughties. As for the sequel:

1. Pixar has a culture of dissecting their films, successful or not, and analysing what didn't work about them, so I have faith that they'll at least to attempt to fix what was wrong with the original. In my personal opinion: needs more travelling. For a cast of anthropomorphic vehicles, they didn't travel around very much.

2. It's being directed by Brad Lewis, producer of Ratatouille. That's gotta count for something.

[Donomni]

I mean really, talking cars? It's not like they transform or anything.

Calling it now. Pixar's going Autobot.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

As for Cars, I enjoyed it. It may be the worst of Pixar's fare, but that's like being disappointed because you missed a number on the lottery and "only" won a couple of hundred thousand dollars.

Clearly, you haven't seen Ratatoullie. It wasn't horrible, but I rate Cars a bit higher that said film.

SWB

[Regulus Tera]

Clearly, you haven't seen Ratatoullie. It wasn't horrible, but I rate Cars a bit higher that said film.

SWB

You heathen!!

[Meister]

Personally, Pixar needs to stop doing sequals. To me, they seem exclusively like milking enough money out of the models they already built and without actually working on a script. You'll know what I mean if you've seen Shrek 3. Whoever "worked" on that movie should be shot for killing the best charecters I've seen in a long time.
I should point out that the Shrek movies were made by DreamWorks Animation (I'm sure you knew, just making sure) and that neither they nor Pixar actually seem very keen on sequels judging by their track record. Shrek had sequels, Toy Story has one and is getting another, Cars is getting one... but that's it.

[Lumenskir]

Clearly, you haven't seen Ratatoullie.
Really? I mean, discounting the fact that the worst Pixar movie is clearly A Bug's Life, Ratatoullie was pretty damn amazing. I'd be interested in hearing why you didn't enjoy it.

Also, when did I miss the "New Things to Scorn" pamphlet most of you subscribe to? I think that Cars is one of Pixar's strongest kid-movie entries, and I'm basing this mostly on the fact that I've watched it about a dozen times while babysitting my cousins. Maybe I'm a sucker, but I still get worked up for that the final race when McQueen helps to nudge The King over the finish line because "I think The King should finish his last race". I guess I can see how some of the dislike can be attributed to the fact that Cars is a kid-movie as opposed to the deeper 'family entertainment' Pixar had been producing, but that doesn't change the fact that Cars is a great kid-movie.

And I'm not really surprised that out of the available franchises it got picked for a sequel. Finding Nemo 2 would be retarded (unless it was FN2: Finding Harder) as the story and character development are finished, any continuation of Monsters Inc. would shit all over the ending of the first, the Incredibles 2 would just be a generic superhero movie except computer generated, and a Bug's Life 2 is impossible because (based on the small survey I did of those around me whenever Pixar movies come up) people still think that A Bug's Life is the movie where Woody Allen was an ant.

[Mike McC]

And we must remember that Disney pretty much bought Pixar, so I think that these sequel orders are probably more Disney's fault than Pixar's.

[RMS Oceanic]

Clearly, you haven't seen Ratatoullie. It wasn't horrible, but I rate Cars a bit higher that said film.

SWB

I have seen Ratatouille, and enjoyed it more than Cars. But then, that's your opinion. Ratatouille isn't everyone's cup of tea. What I'm really looking forward to is WALL-E, and I intend to make full use of a Floridian holiday to track down a 3D Cinema and watch the film 16 days before I otherwise could.

And we must remember that Disney pretty much bought Pixar, so I think that these sequel orders are probably more Disney's fault than Pixar's.

Actually, I thought that as part of the deal Pixar retained creative control over their original creations. Disney may have pressured them a bit, but I don't think they can order them to do it. Like I said, wait for these films to come out first before writing them off. If Toy Story 3 isn't good, then we can worry (or not, as the case may be) about Cars 2.

By the way, that Day Care Centre storyline of TS3 is a mixture of rumour and bits of the original pitch of Toy Story, which ended with the lead toys in a kindergarten toy chest. I'd assume nothing until we here something official. Sources have said that a theme will be Andy growing up, however, which is fine by me because it's continuing the issues TS2 brought up.

[Mike McC]

One thing I've noticed is: Disney gets what Disney wants.

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

FN2: Finding Harder
See now that's an animated movie I would actually watch. Nemo could end up in the Martian icecaps. It'd be awesome.

[Wyndon]

Wow, I thought that was "Finding Neverland" and i was like "huh?"

[Sky Warrior Bob]

About Ratatouille...

Maybe its the romance, or the whole love affair with cooking, but I just can't get into it. For me, while other Pixar films have suffered because of their subject matter, there's always been something I can enjoy during the film. This one had very narrow subject matter, and there was nothing there for me to enjoy.

Also, visually I think Ratatouille is the least visually interesting. Yes, the CGI is much improved, but the backdrop in the movie is too normal. To explain, in Cars the constant use of the car motif, from everything from the birds to the houses. And even Finding Nemo used natural items to great effect.

And there isn't enough variety in scenes. Most of the movie takes place in 4 locations, the shack/house (at the start of the film), the kitchen, the apartment, and outside the restaurant.

SWB

[Solid Snake]

In other news, is anyone looking forward to Wall-E as much as I am? It's a strange name for a movie, I know, but the entire concept of barely any conversation in a romance movie about robots in outer space has to count for something.

[Lumenskir]

On the topic of upcoming new IPs, the King Of The Elves thing sounds pretty nifty, because how can Phillip K. Dick + Pixar be anything but great?

[Mike McC]

Keep in mind, Ratatouille was concieved as a film to be totally free of Disney. So, it makes sense that it has a totally different feel and appeal than the other Pixar films. It just comes down to a matter of taste.

[RMS Oceanic]

In other news, is anyone looking forward to Wall-E as much as I am? It's a strange name for a movie, I know, but the entire concept of barely any conversation in a romance movie about robots in outer space has to count for something.

num_Interested_in_WALL_E++;

Seriously, it looks epic. This from a guy who usually doesn't like post-apocalyptic scenarios. Of course, if that Life After People documentary is to be believed, there's no chance that most remnants of human society would survive for seven centuries, especially with a violent weather system.

But still, it looks good.

[Solid Snake]

num_Interested_in_WALL_E++;

Seriously, it looks epic. This from a guy who usually doesn't like post-apocalyptic scenarios. Of course, if that Life After People documentary is to be believed, there's no chance that most remnants of human society would survive for seven centuries, especially with a violent weather system.

But still, it looks good.

I'm not sure if you could really consider WALL-E a post-apocalyptic scenairo because the vast majority of humanity still survived, but just moved off of an extraordinarily polluted Earth (and possibly to other worlds/starships.) I mean there are several scenes in which we see masses of humanity, particularly after WALL-E leaves Earth, it's just that humans really aren't the emphasis of the story.

[Hex]

[QUOTE=RMS Oceanic]"Stop" doing them? Until these announcements they've only done one, and it every bit honoured the story of the original. Also, if you follow that link, you'll see at least three original non-WALL-E films in production.[QUOTE]
Sorry, I guess I was just fitting all the 3D animations into one group, my fault. But hell, from my point of view, that doesn't even matter.

Personally, sequals should die, original work is going to hell, there isn't enough anymore. Good for pixar doing loads of original work.

Anyway, my fault, I apologize (shrek 3 still blew though.)

[Invisible Queen]

the naughties.
This decade is officially called "the zero-zeroes", you know, like you'd read the numbers "00". And "the naughties" sounds so perverted on so many levels. But I still like it better. :)

Umm, on topic. Yeah I can't think of any Pixar movie I want to see a sequel to. I can understand they want the quick profit - "they" here being Disney - but I think it would be better for everyone in the long run if they tried to keep making original pictures.