“Elementary”, the new film from Pixar studios, has been in theaters since June 21. On this occasion, discover the firm’s films with the highest ratings according to AlloCiné viewers.
In cinemas since June 21, Elementary by Peter Sohn is the 27th feature film from Pixar studios to which we owe the Toy Story saga, the films Cars, Monsters & Cie, Finding Nemo, Up There, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Coco, The Incredibles and more recently Buzz Lightyear, Soul, Red Alert and Luca, all three released directly on Disney+ in France.
So many nuggets of animated cinema that made the hearts of young and old spectators vibrate. Among all these works, find out which are the 3 films best rated by AlloCiné spectators.
COCO (2017) – 4.5/5
With an average rating of 4.5/5 stars for 33,544 ratings, it is coconut by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina which is placed at the top of the ranking. Released in our theaters in November 2017, the animated feature highlights Mexican culture and allows us to discover what the Day of the Dead really is.
For several generations, music has been banned from Miguel’s family. Yet the little boy dreams of becoming a musician as accomplished as his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Determined to prove his talent, Miguel, by a strange combination of circumstances, finds himself propelled into a place as astonishing as it is colorful: the Land of the Dead.
There, he befriends Hector. Together, they will accomplish an extraordinary journey that will reveal to them the true story behind that of Miguel’s family…
This joyful and colorful film won two Oscars in 2018: that of Best Song for the title of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “Remember Me” (“Do not forget me” in French), and Best Animated Film.
Punctuated by a soundtrack with Mexican accents, Coco is one of the most joyful and at the same time most moving films from Pixar studios. The film transports you to a colorful Underworld where loved ones live in harmony waiting to be celebrated on November 1st.
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With great inventiveness and incredible visual richness, the feature film is perfectly mastered from the script and the characters are so endearing that we are not about to forget them. The perfect balance between emotion, humor and tenderness.
Death at 109 of María Salud Ramírez Caballero, the real Mama Coco of the Pixar film
Note that the director Adrian Molina will return to the front of the stage very soon since he is directing Elio, the next film from Pixar studios already announced in our theaters on February 28, 2024.
TOY STORY 3 (2010) – 4.4/5
Before Coco, director Lee Unkrich already gave us the third episode of the saga Toy Story. And once is not custom, number 3 surpasses the original and its sequel (by a little), since Toy Story by John Lasseter has a rating of 4.3/5 stars and Toy Story 2, released in 2000, has the audience rating of 4.1/5.
With an average of 4.4/5 stars for 40,291 ratings, Toy Story 3 therefore ranks second among the best Pixar films according to your ratings.
Released in 2010, 10 years after the second opus, the feature film sees Andy leaving home to go to university. Buzz, Woody and the other toys then meet at the crèche! But the latter will build a plan to escape the children as quickly as possible.
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An adventure full of nostalgia since spectators who grew up in the 1990s with Toy Story easily identify with Andy. It is a question here of transition to adulthood, nostalgia, transmission and knowing how to turn the page…
A universal work rewarded by two Oscars: that of the Best song for “We belong Together” by Randy Newman and Best Animated Feature for Lee Unkrich.
In 2019, the most famous toys of the 7th Art returned with Toy Story 4. Given the success of the film, a fifth episode was announced in February 2023. Buzz and Woody should therefore soon be reunited!
WALL-E (2008) – 4.4/5
And it’s WALL-E by Andrew Stanton who brings up the rear of this Top with an average rating of 4.4/5 stars (the hundredths figure being lower than that of the Toy Story 3 rating) for 58,308 viewer ratings.
Released in our theaters in 2008, this science fiction film managed the feat of moving us with a love story between two robots.
WALL•E is the last being on Earth and turns out to be a little robot! 700 years ago, humanity left our planet, leaving this incredible little machine to clean up the Earth.
But at the end of these long years, WALL•E has developed a small technical flaw: a strong personality. Extremely curious, very indiscreet, he is above all a little too lonely… However, his life is about to be turned upside down with the arrival of a little “robot”, well streamlined and named EVE.
A film of anticipation that makes you think about the way in which human beings treat the planet. Through the adventures of Wall-E and Eve, the feature film by Andrew Stanton, to whom we owe 1001 Paws (co-directed by John Lasseter), The world of Nemo and its sequel Finding Dory, is an ultra-mastered work that raises awareness of ecology and overconsumption.
Oscar for Best Animated Film in 2009, WALL-E was inspired in its director by the giants Amazon and Apple. Andrew Stanton indeed revealed at the microphone of the podcast of The Hollywood Reporter “It Happened in Hollywood” in 2020 why he made his hero a garbage picker robot:
“It’s really the logic of the times (2005-2006) that led me to make the scientific, environmental and sociological choices that I made. I simply followed what was happening around me. All both days we were getting Amazon deliveries. I started wondering where all this stuff went after”.
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Regarding the vision of humans who are transported on self-propelled chairs and are obsessed with screens, the filmmaker was inspired by the technological advances of Apple.
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He explains : “The iPhone was released in 2006, two years before the movie was released. I was literally one of the first to receive the iPhone before it was officially released, because Steve [Jobs] was our boss. […] I started playing with it and thought, “Why this feeling of attachment? That was the addictive part of it.
I was a smoker when I was in college. This was long before there was a computer or anything else to distract you. We used a cigarette to pass the time and not get bored…
But I remember thinking around the time the iphone was launched, “Wow, this could get out of control fast. It’s like a nicotine kick.” That’s what made me think about humanity being distracted by technology and screens, and how everyone is next to each other without really being together.”
15 years after the film’s release and with the recent launch of the headphones Reality Pro from Apple, WALL-E is perhaps Pixar’s most visionary film…