When Pixar is not Pixar anymore
By now I think everybody has noticed the decline in quality of Pixar films. 10 years ago, a new Pixar film would be all the buzz. People could not wait to see the next foray into 3D animation. But nowadays, I for one could not care less. Nor are the people I know talking about it with the same dignity they did 10 years ago. And that, for some of these work in 3D in some form or other, is something to notice. And it looks like we are witnessing the end of an era. Over at The Atlantic they wrote an interestinga article about this how Pixar changed its Pixar ways.
The painful verdict is all but indisputable: The golden era of Pixar is over. It was a 15-year run of unmatched commercial and creative excellence, beginning with Toy Story in 1995 and culminating with the extraordinary trifecta of wall-e in 2008, Up in 2009, and Toy Story 3 (yes, a sequel, but a great one) in 2010. Since then, other animation studios have made consistently better films. The stop-motion magicians at Laika have supplied such gems as Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings.