Only five? Yeah, only five. I haven’t met a Pixar movie I didn’t like. Um, spoiler alert I guess.

5. WALL-E

We needed this movie. This was a scary one as WALL-E was about a robot who lived in 2105, a time where Earth is all messed up due to pollution and humans have left it behind. Meanwhile, the humans are so obese that it’s hilariously sad. They’re working on cleaning up the Earth to one day “return home”. And, WALL-E is a big part of that. A single plant is Earth’s last chance and WALL-E and his…some kind of friend/lover EVE…are protecting it from the…I don’t want to say “evil” but every movie needs a bad guy, right? This movie is possible if we’re not careful. Wake up, world.

4. Monsters Inc

This still leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I mean, if you’ve seen the end of it, you know what I’m talking about. I would’ve liked to see what Boo looked like. Anyway, this movie was fun in that it took you on an adventure you wouldn’t really consider as a possibility. While I don’t think I had a monster in my closet, Pixar did a great job of creating a business out of scaring. The idea of using the screams of children to convert into “power or energy” was awesome. I do like how, in the end, Sully figures out that laughter can produce the “energy” that the monster world needed. Great twist, there.

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