Personally I think they both still hold up in 2025. A bugs life unfortunately gets overlooked by a lot of people because of the films that came after. Toy story 2, monsters inc, Nemo, incredibles, all fabulous. People just kind of forget about bugs life. And cars I think gets a bad rep because of how bad cars 2 was.
Don't care.
I'll give you A Bug's Life even though I remember back then people were saying it wasn't as good as Toy Story, or not as good as its competition that year - Tarzan, The Iron Robot or Antz with a z. Honestly it enjoys being their second film and if they had released a movie like this nowadays, everyone would have called it a B-tier Pixar.
I’m bummed those two films have no place in your Disney heart.
I'm not saying it's better than those films because it's not, as I said they were great. But I think the the first cars does hold up today. I don't think the first film was designed to sell toys. Boys like toy cars so it was obviously going to sell some merchandise. Cars 2? That was definitely given the green light to sell toys. But the first had a nice story, looked great and was an all around a good time. It's not Pixars top of the pile, but it's also not as bad as so many think it is in my opinion.
If "Tiana" is going to be something similar to the Paperman short, I'll honestly be fine with it, Paperman does still look good even today and I think it could work well for "Tiana" depending on how it looks.
I really do hope as well WDAS and Pixar do more originals or at least try to find a balance between sequels and originals. I don't personally mind sequels per say, but I do think there's a kind of "oversaturation" of sequels, especially nowadays in Hollywood but I guess I do understand why from a business perspective why Disney would want to focus on sequels over originals. But speaking of the originals, I'm surprised we don't know anything about the upcoming WDAS original film for 2026, I guess it'll be revealed at Destination D23 this year?
IMO…. Cars may be my least fav franchise in Disney history
The franchise is terrible…quick buck nonsense
I always thought Cars 2 got a bad rap. I didn’t think it was great but it was at least interesting. So many sequels just kind of hit the same notes as the original. Cars 2 is totally different. I give Lasseter and Pixar credit for that.
Glad we are at least on the same page with being fine that Tiana’s style could look like Paperman. You should see, well not really, my… outburst at the lead mod of DVDizzy when he couldn’t except a true hand-drawn, Randy Newman-less continuation of The Princess and the Frog. Let’s just say I got banned for speaking my own mind.
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HA, and there is our difference. I have no desire to see Superman. I've never liked him as a character anyways, and Gunn has my least favorite Marvel movies of the Infinity Saga. I'm low key excited for Brave New World and Thunderbolts, mainly because they look very action packed. But the trailer for Thunderbolts did not do much for me, which tempered my excitement. Beyond that, we will see when trailers hit. I want to be excited for Zootopia 2 cause I did really like the first. But I'd agree with you, in general I'm not too excited for much in 2025. I think my family will be excited for Wicked Part 2 (not for me though).
I’m more intrigued by Superman for nostalgia
I will be content when I can go to a theater and not see the Mickey 17 trailer.
Really… wow… I go to the theater weekly and I have only seen the trailer for Mickey 17 once…. Interesting to see different trailers are pushed depending on the theater
