I’m going to be doing a series on my blog, Adventures In Hypergraphia, going backwards through all the Pixar films and picking what I feel was the best trailer released for each one was.
I’ll post new entries in the series here as I do them. In the mean time, feel free to share trailers you found the most memorable. How did you react to them?
I’m peticularly interested to see your pick for WALL-E. WALL-E is my favorite Pixar film, and all the trailers are my favorite Pixar trailers. Not because of bias (well, a little bit) but also because they are well done trailers.
Especially the teaser, that Andrew Stanton is in where he describes the lunch where ideas for various Pixar films were concieved.
Cars 2! I mean, even if you dislike it, you have to admit the trailers are epic. “Out here is where the ocean burns”. Awwww snap, things are about to get serious!
A close second is one of the trailers for WALL-E. The Brazil soundtrack just makes it!
I burst into tears when I saw the Japanese teaser for Toy Story 3. It’s basically the same footage as the English one but with a super-depressing song and quite morbid captioning.
I always thought the A Bugs Life theatrical trailer was awesome, if only because it used Baba O Reilley by The Who to good effect. But I love the Up teaser, purely because of how simplistic it is
I really liked the Brave teaser. I loved how the trailer didn’t give too much of the film away and I was amazed with how well they did ancient Scottland.
By far, my favorite Pixar trailer has been the teaser for The Incredibles, which says so much in such a brilliantly animated short. I was kind of bummed that it wasn’t in the actual film.
I also like:
Monsters Inc Mongolia teaser
Full-length Ratatouille trailer
Wall-E teaser because of the cute music
The second-half of the full-length Wall-E trailer
The already mentioned teasers about the old Pixar meetings.
I don’t know. I always find most of Pixar’s trailers an inconsistant mix where it focuses more on the jokes then the actual story. I have to say Brave’s teaser was one of the best trailers for a Pixar film however. The trailers do get you hyped up for the film of course.