As the 2000-2009 decade comes to a close, it’s great to see how far our favorite studio has come.
Luckily, we’re talking about Pixar, a company that has made huge strides in the last 10 years. This is despite the fact that they began at technology’s cutting-edge and by the time 2000 came along, were already a well-recognized brand.
But, it’s the way they’ve continued to implement CGI into compelling stories that has made their films so original and landed them high up on the lists that follow:
IMDb’s Top 25 of the Decade: Pixar is a regular in The Internet Movie Database‘s ever changing list of Top 250 films of all time. When Slash Film decided to see which films from this decade landed in IMDb’s top 25, they found two Pixar films situated at #8 and #17. That would be the latest two films from the Lamp: WALL•E and Up (#15 on the unadjusted list). The aforementioned films are also IMDb’s #1 and #3 top rated animated films. Check out SlashFilm’s list here and the ever changing IMDb Top 250 here.
Rotten Tomatoes’ Best Reviewed of the Decade: With the Golden Tomatoes coming up, it’s always nice to know that Up is high on Rotten Tomatoes‘ Best Reviewed of the Decade list. Slash Film compiled their version which ranks Pixar’s 10th in at #2 with a 98% fresh rating! The official list is arranged in categories instead of sole percentages. In this list, The Incredibles won Best Superhero Film, that’s a huge honor since the last 10 years have been full of formidable masked crusaders! Also, Andrew Stanton was a runner-up for Best Directorial Debut. Both The Incredibles and Finding Nemo appeared in Slash Film’s Top 25 based on RT.
Metacritic’s Best Reviewed of the Decade: Metacritic is known to be more blunt in their rankings than Rotten Tomatoes. So, it’s a relief to see Pixar on their list, too. Ratatouille ranked in at #3 with a Metascore of 96! Next up is WALL•E, landing the #8 spot with a score of 93! Other Pixar films, including Up and The Incredibles, can also be found throughout this Top 100 list.
Hopefully I’ll be able to follow up this post with more Top of the Year/Decade lists before 2009 is over. Keep checking back!
Last modified: December 27, 2009
Look out for At The Movies (hosted by extremely respected critics AO Scott and Michael Phillips) to announce their number 1’s of the decade tonight. If early reports are to be believed WALL-E will turn up on at least one of their lists, and since they’re both up to #1 that means WALL-E will likely gain a #1 spot from one of the two most-respected critics out right.
I love At the Movies, although I haven’t watched in a while. That’ll be a great addition to the article I promised at the bottom of today’s post.
What’s equally interesting is to see how Disney films (animated and live action) fared on those sites over the past 10 years. There was a reason Dick Cook got fired… made a bunch of really bad movies!
AO Scott did indeed pick WALL-E as his number 1 of the decade. 🙂 I believe co-host Michael Phillips chose Ratatouille as his number 2 of the decade as well. The only two animated films on either list and they’re so high up, quite an achievement.
http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/specials/bestofthedecade/
Oh and you can see the user-picked best of list has WALL-E at number 3, also the only animated film on the list.