Pixar Movies Ranked

[Philomath she/her]

Okay, so tonight I decided randomly to rank Pixar movies. Inspired in part by one recent episode of Brandon and Dan’s podcast. I hope they do a Pixar rankings one. Anyway. Here’s my rankings.

1. Coco 
2. Up 
3. Cars 
4. Monster’s Inc 
5. Inside Out 
6. Toy Story 3 
7. Toy Story 2 
8. Toy Story
9. Finding Nemo 
10. Onward 
11. Incredibles 
12. A Bug’s Life 
13. Wall-E 
14. Incredibles 2 
15. Cars 3 
16. Luca 
17. Ratatouille 
18. Soul 
19. The Good Dinosaur 
20. Brave 
21. Toy Story 4 
22. Finding Dory 
23. Monster’s University 
24. Cars 2

A few notes. Everything from Wall-E up on my list is a movie I may consider on my top movies of all time list. I think there is probably less than half a point separating those movies in my book. 
For the bottom third of the list, I seem to prefer original ideas to what I feel are poorly done or unnecessary sequels. A big problem that landed lots of sequels at the bottom of my list is that it seems like they didn’t come up with a good story idea first. It seems like they went “Hey, here’s a side character everyone loved, let’s tell a story about them.” And then had to shoehorn a story around them. The exception to this is Toy Story 4, which focused on Woody still, but I think Toy Story 3 had a perfect ending and nothing should have happened after it. (Except the shorts. Those are fine.) 

Anyway. I love discussing movies and people’s opinions of them. So feel free to ask questions about my list, share your own rankings, or argue with me about why I’m wrong. I’m here for it all. 

[Frustration]

1 minute ago, Philomath said:

11. Incredibles 
14. Incredibles 2 
24. Cars 2

I have no words.

[Philomath she/her]

@Frustration Incredibles is a fantastic movie. Just doesn’t have my favorite characters. Cars 2… well it’s not terrible. I don’t hate it. I just don’t know what they were thinking with it. And Incredibles 2 is actually ranked high from me for a sequel. Like I said, I tend to rank originality over sequels. 

Edited October 4, 2021 by Philomath

[Flying she/her]

The Incredibles is definitely my favorite. After that would be Finding Nemo. I don't know how I'd rank the rest, but those two stand out to me. 

[cassiegoh]

Here's my top 10 Pixar rankings:

1. Incredibles
2. Up
3. Coco
4. Monster's Inc
5. Ratatouille
6. Toy Story 3
7. Soul
8. Finding Nemo
9. Encanto
10. Inside Out