Pixar Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/pixar/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:21:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Pixar Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/pixar/ 32 32 We’re upset by how cute this ‘Hoppers’ trailer is https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/20/were-upset-by-how-cute-this-hoppers-trailer-is/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:27:43 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042695 We don’t often take credit for industry-wide trends, but we’re going to when it comes to Pixar pivoting away from making moral fables with occasional humor and back to making bug-fucking-nuts Tex Avery-style animated comedies.* Sure, Hoppers will probably have some sort of grade-A treacle at the center of its chaotic chocolatey coating, but man, we’re just so excited to see these guys have some true, honest-to-god fun again. After all, it’s a movie essentially making fun of the Avatar […]

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]]> ‘Inside Out 2’ Review: Pixar’s turned upside down https://vanyaland.com/2024/06/12/inside-out-2-review-pixars-turned-upside-down/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:00:00 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10038753 It’s genuinely surprising to me that Pixar is still somewhat as acclaimed as it once was, nearly 13 years removed from what we’d all collectively agree was when the Golden Age of the studio came to an unceremonious close with Cars 2. This is a studio that has been hollowed out by its corporate masters, who were once kept at a decent distance from managerial oversight and algorithmic analysis by their structure, which enabled them a kind of autonomy uncommon […]

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]]> The ‘Inside Out 2’ teaser will give you a lot of Anxiety https://vanyaland.com/2023/11/09/the-inside-out-2-teaser-will-give-you-lot-of-anxiety/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 17:54:13 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10036526 It’s genuinely pretty strange to think that Pixar — ye vaunted Pixar — is in a rebuilding phase, but it’s true: After back-to-back billion-dollar hits with Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4, the COVID-19 pandemic really fucked with the studio. All of their original titles (which were their critical bread and butter as well as a chance to mint new IP) received truncated theatrical releases or were shunted off onto streaming, and their return to theaters with Lightyear in 2022 […]

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]]> ‘Lightyear’ Review: ‘Cars 2,’ meet your new competition https://vanyaland.com/2022/06/14/lightyear-review-cars-2-meet-your-new-competition/ Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:21:17 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10030974 There should be some sort of term for what Pixar’s gone through over the last decade and how they’ve managed to escape critical scrutiny. Between their evolving emphasis on producing the lamest sequels known to man as a way of cementing the “Pixar brand” and pleasing shareholders, seeing their ideas poached by rival studios (remember Newt?), having behind-the-scenes controversy for what seemed like the first time ever, and, finally, as their parent company relegates their original concepts – by far […]

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]]> Blast off with Pixar and the brand new ‘Lightyear’ trailer https://vanyaland.com/2022/04/21/blast-off-with-pixar-and-the-brand-new-lightyear-trailer/ Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:53:42 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10030078 Summer movie season kicks off in right about two weeks’ time and, like in recent years, a Disney movie will be kicking it off. That means we’ll be getting a deluge of new trailers for the House of Mouse’s upcoming offerings, which began in earnest on Monday when the Thor: Love and Thunder preview finally came around. Now it’s Lightyear’s turn, and being the sole Pixar offering for this calendar year (unless they’ve added another Cars sequel that they haven’t […]

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]]> Go to infinity and beyond with the ‘Lightyear’ trailer https://vanyaland.com/2022/02/09/go-to-infinity-and-beyond-with-the-lightyear-trailer/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:34:18 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10029309 Remember how when, back in 2017, people were absolutely convinced that the sci-fi horror flick Life was a “stealth prequel to Venom (it’s kind of ironic, in the Alanis sense, that its director, Daniel Espinosa, would go on to direct Morbius)?” Well, we’re kind of convinced that Lightyear, Pixar’s big return to theaters after a long pandemic hiatus, is actually a stealth prequel to Chex Quest. That’s right: The shovelware Doom knock-off that was included in hundreds of boxes of […]

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]]> Watch the insanely cute teaser for Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’ https://vanyaland.com/2021/07/13/watch-the-insanely-cute-teaser-for-pixars-turning-red/ Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:46:57 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10027007 Okay, we’re going to skip the full-on cool-kid Film Twitter-style posturing about how Disney is the worst company in the world and is destroying entertainment as we know it or whatever. You have heard it one hundred thousand times from kids who have considered, at one point, buying a beret and a pack of Djarum Blacks, and we’re fully aware that some of you might be one more lecture away from snapping and going full-on Disney adult, so: this trailer […]

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]]> Pixar’s ‘Luca’ gets a sunny, sea-monster strewn trailer https://vanyaland.com/2021/04/28/pixars-luca-gets-a-sunny-sea-monster-strewn-trailer/ Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:27:41 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10026153 One big surprise from Disney’s most recent release date shuffle was that the new Pixar film, the adorable-looking Luca, would be heading to Disney+ instead of receiving any theatrical release. It’s not a particularly controversial-looking film, as, in contrast to the far-more-serious Soul, Luca is about two sea monsters/human kids having a great summertime on the Riviera, which the new trailer that the Mouse dropped earlier on Wednesday shows. But it is certainly strange that a movie like Cruella — […]

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]]> Dive into the sunny teaser trailer for Pixar’s ‘Luca’ https://vanyaland.com/2021/02/25/dive-into-the-sunny-teaser-trailer-for-pixars-luca/ Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:12:39 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10025456 As mass vaccination campaigns ramp up and cases fall, it’s looking like — knock on wood, cross your fingers, stroke you faux-rabbit’s foot, pray to whatever God you believe in, put on your lucky sweatpants — we might, just might, actually have a summer movie season in 2021. Chief among the big 2020 titles dropping left and right, assuming everything goes just so, is an actual film originally scheduled for release in this calendar year: Pixar’s Luca, which, despite what […]

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]]> ‘Soul’ Review: Pixar’s lovely ode to life (and death) https://vanyaland.com/2020/12/18/soul-review-pixars-lovely-ode-to-life-and-death/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 10:58:00 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10024459 It may be somewhat safe to say that the world in which Pete Docter’s Soul was greenlit isn’t even remotely close to the one it is emerging into. What would have been an interesting metaphysical concept for a film — a Pixar-crafted examination of a potential afterlife following the assumed death of its protagonist (see, that’s what separates it from Coco) — is now rendered even more potentially meaningful and upsetting in the wake of everything that’s happened in this […]

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