Jesus, Fish, Get a Grip! Finding Dory's Cute, Annoying Empathy Play

The one thing that Dory remembers is that she can’t remember. During a flashback in Finding Dory, Pixar’s follow-up to 2003's Finding Nemo, we discover it was always this way, via a baby Dory with thick eyelids and red eyes that made her look like the cutest widdle stonder who ever took bong rips through gills. “I…
Here's the Official Trailer for Finding Dory, a Star-Studded Cartoon About a Memory-Impaired Fish
If you saw Finding Nemo (and all of us did), you’ll agree that Dory, the very confused fish with severe memory problems, was the breakout star. Now, after years of waiting, Dory’s finally got her own movie, and it looks like it’s going to reduce every member of the audience to a sad sack of tears when it comes out in…
How Pixar’s Inside Out Avoided Its Greatest Danger: Becoming An “After-School Special”
Inside Out is a complex film about the human psyche, but it has a really simple message: Sadness is an important part of life. You can’t have joy without sadness, and growing up means accepting that memories can be happy and sad. Director Pete Docter told io9 it was hard to avoid making this feel like an “after-school…
Pixar's The Good Dinosaur Trailer Is a Prehistoric Delight
Pixar’s latest movie is about a world in which the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs missed the earth, allowing dino life to flourish. It’s also about a world in which dinosaurs have names. And a world in which dinosaurs and humans can, if they overcome enough, be friends. More than anything, though, it’s about a…
Kids Traumatized After Theater Shows Insidious 3 instead of Inside Out
A theater full of tots was left weeping in Ohio when the person running the projection booth mixed up Insidious 3 (which looks legitimately terrifying) and Inside Out, treating the children to the “opening reel” of a movie full of screams and evil ghosts that murder people and then drag them to the land of the dead.
Inside Out: A Roller Coaster of Emotions That Proves the Value of Them
If you didn’t see Pixar’s Inside Out in theaters on Father’s Day, surrounded by whispering children who clapped both at the end of the short preceding it (about volcanos who fall in love), and again at as the credits rolled, fear not: you will still very likely sob hysterically while laughing equally as hard, even…
New Peek at Pixar's Inside Out Captures the Tween Hell That Is Dinner
Get excited: Here's a brand new trailer for Inside Out, the Pixar movie coming in June. Featuring Amy Poehler, Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling, it's set inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl as she makes the rocky transition to tweenhood. Can't bawl my eyes out in the middle of a movie theater full of children, just like
Meet the Characters of Pixar's Inside Out
Fear, disgust, joy, anger–they're all present and accounted for in the latest teasers for Inside Out, Pixar's upcoming movie about all those feelings we have rolling around inside of us. Will we take anything they throw at us, even these very brief looks at a film not coming out until June? I mean, here we are.
Amy Poehler Is Joy and Mindy Kaling Is Disgust in New Pixar Movie
Here's the first teaser trailer for Inside Out, the new Pixar movie about the personified emotions living inside a little girl.
Next Pixar Film Will Take Place Inside the Mind of an 11-Year-Old Girl
Pixar brass have broken their silence (or, you know, just started talking now because they weren't entirely sure before) about the plot of the studio's forthcoming animated feature, due in theaters next summer. Inside Out will take place entirely inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl, and it will tell the story of a…
Hurrah: An Incredibles Sequel Is on the Way
Let the child inside you rejoice! There’s another Incredibles movie in the works at Pixar and Walt Disney! That means more Elasta girl and Mr. Incredible! We get to see what became of Violet’s invisibility powers, Dash’s … dashing and the baby, Jack Jack. In the film’s final scene, baby Incredible essentially had…
Watch this impersonator sing "Let it Go" in TWENTY-ONE Disney voices
We know, we know. There've been enough covers of Frozen's "Let it Go" by this point to play out from now until eternity. But voice-impersonator Brian Hull's may just be the most impressive of them all. Watch him sing Frozen's theme song in the voices of 21 Disney and Pixar characters. He totally nails it.
Pixar Artist Gives Dark Scenes from R-Rated Movies a Whimsical Twist
Josh Cooley, a storyboard artist for Pixar, makes amazing movie-themed art in his in his off-hours — only instead of the usual Pixar-friendly topics like like talking toys, talking cars or talking monsters, Cooley illustrates stills from some of the scariest and most violent R-rated movies. Who knew that the hammer…
Amy Poehler's set to star in Pixar's Inside Out (2015), and it sounds awesome: "A trippy journey inside the mind of a teenage girl." (Literally inside it: Her imagination looks like a film studio, her memory looks like Blade Runner, and her abstract thought looks literally abstract — all are connected by a Train of…
Thanks to Brave, Each Pixar Movie Is a Chapter in One Huge Story
The Pixar animation magicians have created a vast and sprawling universe of characters, from humans, to animals, to machines, and even, please save us Baby WALL-E Jesus, to monsters. You might think that, with the exception of some Easter eggs (like the Planet Pizza Delivery truck from Toy Story) that keep popping up…
