I just saw Wall-E at the drive-in last night, so I have now seen all of Pixar’s feature films. They are the only studio that I can say that I have absolutely enjoyed every single one of their movies, and I have watched each one (with the exception of Wall-E, but that will change once it comes out on DVD :)) multiple times.

John Lasseter, the creative head of Pixar, has been compared to Walt Disney for his eye for knowing what works in a story and it shows. Even though Pixar is owned by a big corporation, their movies really show that their was a lot of love, both of animation and of storytelling, behind each one. There is definitely a parallel in my opinion as well, as Walt’s movies (with the exception of the few double-features and collections of shorts he made as feature films in the 1940’s during World War II when the studio was facing financial difficulty) always seemed to have a lot of love behind them as well.

It’s nice to see that mentality (and also nice to know that John Lasseter is in charge of Disney animation as a whole now) in today’s consumer-based marketplace. These movies will always be used as cash-cows for the Disney corporation with their toy lines and hundreds of product placements, but the movies themselves don’t seem like stories just meant to cash in on the money of parents buying related merchandise for their children. That’s really refreshing to me.