Up there with the rest of the Pixar masterpieces

Rating: Null/10 (11 October 2009)

There's a difference between Pixar and most of today's movie studios that makes it stick out like a rose in a sea of sore thumbs. The difference is that the first thing they do their best to get right is the story and the first thing they do to get that right is to find the story's heart. There are a lot of clever movies, scary movies, exciting movies, silly movies and just plain bad movies out there released year after year, but Pixar goes for the heart every time and there's just no replacement for movies that want to speak to people's hearts.
The opening sequence in this movie is a series of images that another film-maker might have done as a series of flashbacks. It's a simple story of two people who have found that they must be near one another to be happy - true love. Where is true love in the other stories pumped out like mortar shells from the industry's product-connection and tie-in merchandise addled belly? It's rare these days. Sex, sure, flirtation, mawkish sentimentality, but love? 100 million stars for that sequence alone.
The rest of it had me howling with laughter, as usual they just don't seem to be able to put a foot wrong. Could Pixar be the greatest movie studio of all time?