Up! up, and... sequels??
Apr. 10th, 2009 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amethyst73I just read a story in the NYTimes about how Wall Street is (thus far) unimpressed with the earnings potential of Pixar's next film, Up. (To which I say, the heck with you guys; I for one am looking forward to it.) What I found interesting was the list of upcoming films: "After “Up,” the overtly commercial “Toy Story 3” arrives in 2010 and “Cars 2” in 2011, and there is much talk that a sequel to “Monsters Inc.” is in the works."
I'll be most curious to see how some of these are handled. After watching Toy Story 2 again a year or so ago, my sense was that they'd pretty fully explored the range of emotions that a set of children's toys might feel, and that there wasn't much more to say on the subject, as it were. Cars is my least favorite of the Pixar films - I'm not a car junkie and I didn't grow up driving along Route 66. I'll cheerfully admit that the film certainly had its good moments (the opening sequence was fantastic) and I'll judge the sequel on its own merits, but I'm not hugely excited by the concept. Monsters Inc, though? Now that's a world that one could do a lot in, and I'm quite excited by the prospect. Besides, I love Sulley. :)
I'll be most curious to see how some of these are handled. After watching Toy Story 2 again a year or so ago, my sense was that they'd pretty fully explored the range of emotions that a set of children's toys might feel, and that there wasn't much more to say on the subject, as it were. Cars is my least favorite of the Pixar films - I'm not a car junkie and I didn't grow up driving along Route 66. I'll cheerfully admit that the film certainly had its good moments (the opening sequence was fantastic) and I'll judge the sequel on its own merits, but I'm not hugely excited by the concept. Monsters Inc, though? Now that's a world that one could do a lot in, and I'm quite excited by the prospect. Besides, I love Sulley. :)
