Pixar Animated Films

(June 2012)
A list of our favorite movies by Pixar Animation Studios
Brave (2012)
Directed By:
Mark Andrews
Starring:
Kelly MacDonald , Emma Thompson , Billy Connolly

An impetuous princess discovers that her reckless choice has put both her family and her father's kingdom in peril in this animated adventure. Merida may be the daughter of royalty, but all she wants out of life is to become a truly great archer. When Merida and her mother clash over the willful girl's future, the decisions she makes have greater repercussions that she ever imagined.

Ratatouille (2007)
Directed By:
Brad Bird
Starring:
Patton Oswalt , Ian Holm , Lou Romano

A scrawny rat named Remy (voice of Patton Oswalt) finds his dreams of culinary superstardom stirring up sizable controversy in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant in director Brad Bird's madcap computer-animated comedy.

Cars (2006)
Directed By:
John Lasseter
Starring:
Owen Wilson , Paul Newman , Bonnie Hunt

A pedal-to-the-metal race car determined to prove his worth on the tracks discovers that life isn't always about crossing the finish line first in Toy Story director John Lasseter's mechanically minded tale of friendship and loyalty.

Finding Nemo (2003)
Directed By:
Andrew Stanton
Starring:
Albert Brooks , Ellen DeGeneres , Alexander Gould

A computer-animated comedy-adventure about finding a very small fish in a very large ocean. Marlin is a more-than-slightly paranoid Clown Fish who is extremely devoted to his young son, Nemo, the only survivor after an undersea predator. Finding Nemo is a heartwarming take of adventure, devotion and family

A Bug's Life (1998)
Directed By:
John Lasseter
Starring:
Dave Foley , Kevin Spacey , Julia Louis-Dreyfus

A Bug's Life is a computerized retelling of the Aesop fable The Ant and the Grasshopper, made as a cartoon-short by the one-and-only, Walt Disney, in the mid-'30s. The story focuses on a colony of ants who seasonally gather food for themselves and a wild gang of rowdy grasshoppers. When bumbling worker ant Flik destroys the food supply, the angry grasshoppers threaten to kill the ants if they don't produce a new supply of food by the time they return -- an impossible feat.

Wall-E (2008)
Directed By:
Andrew Stanton
Starring:
Ben Burtt , Elissa Knight , Jeff Garlin

A computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot who travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend. Along the way, the friendly trash-collecting robot who has always known what he was made for gradually begins to understand what he was meant for.

The Incredibles (2004)
Directed By:
Brad Bird
Starring:
Craig T. Nelson , Holly Hunter , Samuel L. Jackson

The Incredibles revolves around former high-profile superhero Bob Parr (aka Mr. Incredible), who has not-so-successfully settled into suburban life along with his wife and kids under the watchful eye of the Superhero Protection Program. Just when it looks as if things can't get any worse for Bob, he gets a summons to show up at a remote island to receive instructions for a highly classified assignment, which he promptly accepts.

Monsters Inc. (2001)
Directed By:
Pete Docter
Starring:
John Goodman , Billy Crystal , Mary Gibbs

Hulking, blue-furred behemoth James P. "Sully" and his one-eyed assistant Mike Wazowski are employed by Monsters, Inc., a scream processing factory. It seems that the denizens of their realm thrive on the screams of kids spooked by monsters lurking under their beds and in their closets. When Sully and Mike are followed back into the monster world by an unafraid little human girl named Boo, they are exiled to her universe, where they discover that such a modern-day mythological specimen as the Abominable Snowman is a fellow refugee.

Up (2009)
Directed By:
Pete Docter
Starring:
Ed Asner , Christopher Plummer , John Ratzenberger

A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure.

Toy Story (1995)
Directed By:
John Lasseter
Starring:
Tom Hanks , Tim Allen , Don Rickles

Woody, a pull-string cowboy toy belonging to a wide-eyed youngster named Andy, revels in his status as the boy's number one toy. His supremacy is challenged by a high-tech, space-ranger action figure named Buzz Lightyear, who believes that he is real and not merely a plaything. The rivalry between Woody and Buzz hilariously intensifies, but when the well-being of Andy's toys is threatened by a nasty next-door neighbor kid named Sid -- Woody and Buzz join forces to save the day.