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 from movie to movie because computer animation is tedious and sometimes it’s just easier to reuse some background scenery, the Pixar movies are all discrete, each one a new, insanely imaginative attempt to build a world with its own logic, mythos, and hierarchy. Have you considered, however, that all the Pixar movies to date are part of one enormous universe, and that Pixar hasn’t just been making cool little computer animated movies, but has rather been crafting a grand epistemological and eschatological narrative about the tension between humans and talking animals, the rise and fall of the machines, and the eventual evolutionary hybridization moment when humans and animals interbreed to become time-traveling monsters? Have you considered that?
This is basically the theory of entertainment blogger Jon Negroni, who repurposed and expanded the idea that all Pixar movies are part of one grand story about the rise of machines, the fall of humans, and the eventual repopulation of a bug-riddled, otherwise barren Earth with doughy space-travelers at the utterly well-meaning mercy of Walmart robots that could never evolve beyond their toy progenitors’ servile need to please their human masters. Negroni’s theorizing accounts for every Pixar movie, and is so incredibly exhaustive that, after the fifth paragraph, one simply gets tired of muttering, “This shit is insane,” and starts to see that Negroni may, after all, be onto something (spoilers, obviously abound).
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