Modern Pixar is Repetitive and Boring

[@ArmaBiologica35]

I'm tired of Pixar trying so desperately to make me cry and having weird and abstract concepts for the sake of being weird and abstract.

[@Mich6961]

yh it just feels very manipulative at this point

[@paulitastic2460]

Thats true Also they already bother with their message of family trauma. Gosh we can have a movie without the protagonist and their father/son fighting?

[@Nic_2751]

@@paulitastic2460 well that’s more so Disney and Generational trauma

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

Emotional manipulation.

[@carlosmattessich3883]

Wha-

[@okapi_q]

I really, really enjoyed Luca, it was a simple story but I enjoyed how grounded and heartfelt it was. That said, I do agree that a lot of Pixar’s recent output can be summed up as “nice, but forgettable”.

[@starryslight7095]

Im with you, i LOVED Luca. It was written by my favorite author (Jesse Andrews) and his vibes just came through so I couldn't help but love the atmosphere

[@gabriellitewski7988]

My childhood

[@hansgretl1787]

Still waiting for Bopper to read out the Patron name of "Nowi is perfectly legal".

[@Mich6961]

6:25 This. I feel like my response to most newer Pixar films is: Stop reminding me about how dysfunctional my friends and family are, god damnit!

[@paintbrush3554]

While Luca is coming of age in my opinion it carries alot of messages. One of those being the balancing of relationship influences and understanding the negative and positive qualities of your friends so that you both benifit and minimize overstepping boundaries. Understanding that some relationships are seasonal in your life. For example in Luca and Albertos friendship, Alberto's over confident attitude, one tracked mindset, and intuitive personality was great for motivated Luca to be explorative, self assured, and goal oriented. However it also when pushed too far became pushy, narrowminded, and illogical towards his friend. In the end Luca and Alberto got alot from their friendship as they became more self aware of this balance. In my opinion this part of the movie was stronger and got more focus than the coming of age kid vs parent part(which became more of a B plot).

[@phillinsogood]

I agree. And the whole idea of him discovering a new passion towards the climax of the film in school & science was really refreshing 🙌🏽

[@Elayzee]

Pixar has been boring and repetitive for a long LONG time. They use the same template for nearly their entire film catalog. Cute character gets lost and then has to find their way back home. The majority of even their "golden era" of films used this exact same story. I don't think they're even capable to making a different story at this point.

[@starryslight7095]

bopper this video was eye opening !!! I've felt the Pixar stagnation??? But i never had the brainpower to connect the dots and define WHAT the problem was. I especially felt the need for "family good" and "coming of age" in Encanto when exploring the other family members' conflicts was dropped to making sure everyone got along. Anyways YOOOO this slapped and I will giddily watch every movie analysis video you make. I cant stop thinking about how its like the same plot every movie my mind is reeling you've opened my eyes but at what cost

[@starryslight7095]

I wanna reinforce real quick that of all the cinema analysis videos I've ever watched i feel like this one has revealed more to me than any other. Keep being you king 🙏

[@DoctorFalchion]

I really enjoyed the video; I think Soul and Coco are very strong films, despite falling into these traps, but your points shone through to me about a lot of the films I feel ambivalent towards. However, there was one point of sharp disagreement: I thoroughly enjoyed Encanto! It may have the same tired family matters themes, but like Ratatouille (one of my favorite films) it both has a completely different structure from the majority and ties other themes well to the main narrative. Something almost all of these other films have in common - Pixar's greats often included - is that they are adventure plots. Encanto being solely focused on the family with a bottle episode type location means the themes are able to be explored more deeply than they typically would. You get more specific looks into more characters' perspectives, and in my opinion each of them compliments the story well, exploring their own related sub-themes. It's also up there with Moana for my favorite music in a post-2000 Disney film so.... credit to Lin Manuel Miranda, that might've helped my perception of the movie. (I'd love to see you talk about the film and why it didn't work for you)

[@blaquelinktriforce4234]

Yeah you’re right. They have the same thing in all of the modern Pixar movies. It’s always coming of age. Coming of age. Coming of age. Coming of age. There is less variety.

[@TheEssentialHughJazz]

I don't think enough people give credit to Ratatouille as a film that comments on how difficult it can be to succeed in a field when you come from an Othered background. Remy's identity as a mouse restricts him from the kitchen, to the point that the only way he's even allowed to participate is by puppeteering a more acceptable individual and letting him take all the credit. Remy's father cautions him against attempting to break into the human world by showing him a vending machine full of the bodies of rats caught and killed in traps. Remy fears that his family and peers don't understand the reality of their situation - that they are living a lower quality of life than humans, and that their own sense of fear is holding them back. I just think there's a lot more in that than a coming-of-age narrative.

[@quadpad_music]

There's also commentary on art criticism, whether genius is a matter of nature or nurture, and coming to terms with your own inherent limitations. There's A LOT more to Ratatouille than coming of age, really.

[@sailorearth2007]

For me not much hit after Coco in terms of Pixar….Encanto on Disney’s side is also a work of art

[@VivianAladren]

I need to talk about Encanto one of these days, because I feel the same kind of creative fatigue coming out of Disney's originals. Great video!

[@moony2249]

I am super curious about this take. I have heard nothing but praise about Encanto and I personally really liked it as well. There's like only a few things I'd criticize about it. They're pretty important criticisms I think but not so much that I would say it makes the movie bad. I would really love to hear another opinion on this movie

[@francescolimberti7306]

Story should drive the theme, not the other way around... that's a simple but mostly forgotten concept

[@theghostcreator776]

Aww man there goes the negative filter! I agree with a lot of the points brought up, although I personally would chalk up the unmemorability of these modern films to samey and generic characters as well as flanderized returning characters. No character in modern Pixar films ever act in a way you don't expect, they are simply not complex enough to do such a thing.

[@raghavarun9275]

ironically I feel like Sony started with making the least interesting films but recently has been pushing quality and unique animated movies recently like into the spider verse and the mitchels vs the machines, I hope they have success w this so other studios may follow suit

[@gabriellitewski7988]

Modern movies have nothing special

[@dulcemendoza3526]

@@gabriellitewski7988no

[@captainhowlerwilson508]

When it came to the sequels, I think it worked with Toy Story 3 the most because they were focused on telling a story with amazing animation in that movie. It also felt like a great finale to not just Toy Story but also Pixar in general, although I am glad for the existence of Inside Out, Coco, Soul and Toy Story 4 to an extent. It was when Cars 2 was made that these sequels started feeling like cash grabs. Then they made other sequels that just don’t come close to their original films as well as mediocre films like Brave and The Good Dinosaur.

[@EmeraldSageCipherus47368]

Came for the Fire Emblem, stayed for the professor. Over the past year or two (I've forgotten the exact length of time) you've been branching out beyond just your RE's and FE's into other topics and, honestly even though I'm not super big on movies and especially pixar for basically the same reasons you brought up ('cept I'm a little too young to "remember" pixar/disney in its hayday), I really enjoyed the structure and points brought up in this video. Moana for me still remains my favourite movie made by disney for various, mostly cultural reasons (not religious in any way, but I love the maori/polynesian culture) but it also felt somewhat refreshing even though it still maintained a couple of tropes, most other movies made by them in recent years do seem to fall a bit flat. Other heavily cultural movies such as coco and encanto fell into pitfalls that I think moana doesn't and encanto in particular felt rushed but that's kind of just what the business needed to do in order to continue the chain of consumerism that the human mind has been conditioned to absorb, I guess. Great work as always, professor, I jump at the opportunity to watch your essays even if, like this one, it's on a topic I don't really care about.

[@orangeslash1667]

I have a problem with Fire Emblem being full 3d, for some reason the charm from the 2d games are gone????

[@lupusburst448]

of the recent Pixar films, Coco was my favourite, Luca and Soul were boring imo, especially Luca with how hyped it was it was just disappointing

[@Snooziac]

Encanto was an absolute masterpiece. I don't know why people say it's a bad film. It had a simple story, a great message, and memorable characters and songs. If anything, I think it was a return t form for Disney.

[@hummus_exual]

The issue I have with Encanto is the horrible pacing. Everything happens *so quickly* , it doesn't give you any respite to actually assimilate what's happening. Luisa's nervous? Boom. Luisa tells us her deepest insecurities after one song. Mirabel must hug Isabela? How could that possibly happen, they hate each other. Boom. They hug after one song. Abuela and Mirabel have a horrible fight that culminates with the house collapsing? Boom. They make up after one song.

[@blaquelinktriforce4234]

@@hummus_exualThat’s true.

[@BigBreadBoi]

I wish they changed the visual style from movie to movie again, for example bugs life, toystory, wall-e, Monster inc, cars and the incredibles all have wildly different styles and Main characters. Unfortunately each new Pixar movie is just about a round face person and a coming of age, there's no mystery, no "what will they do next". I remember when I was younger, every time they announced a new Pixar films it was like a "Whaaaaat This ones about robots yooooooo" but with elemental coming out soon after inside out and soul it doesn't look unique at all, you could grab screenshots of each of these films and the average person would think its the same thing.

[@onepercentcrit8422]

I wasn't expecting to see a video from you about this. It was a pleasant surprise! I look forward to more of your video essay content.

[@DaniDoyle]

Finally someone said it

[@Moonsong227]

Late to the video but im glad someone put it into words. All these cgi movies look the same and kinda just happen. Plus as someone with a background that was more composed of mother gothels than anything else, niche as it is, the vibe of Pixar movies and even Disney movies since about 2017 ish have left me feeling kinda...gross. Stories about forgiveness and sibling bickering or whatever are fine, but with movies like Coco and Encanto (I'm not trying to single out the two big Spanish flavored movies I swear), their families treat the main characters so badly I yell at the screen for them to run off and join a shonen adventure for their own health. It doesn't help that most young people I know/encounter have more mother gothels than Ms. Ketchums, with like maybe one or two exceptions, so if it wasn't for the availability of info these days I would worry about kids seeing these 'family is everything no matter what they do to you' stories. Doubly ironic to me is how this era of movies is all post Frozen, Tangled, and Brave, which do incredible discussions of unsettling if not outright traumatic and definitely atypical family situations. But that's just my hyperfocus I guess lol, I was always a found family kinda person.

[@ARAOCDB]

You deserve more subscribers. The consistency and quality of your videos deserves more attention. Keep on doing killer work

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

So many “Coming of Age Stories”, but almost nothing about actually being an adult.

[@zenronez1158]

It's interesting hearing your perspective on movies

[@Raylightsen]

I hate pixar art style. Is souless and boring and ugly.

[@Nic_2751]

Yeah I understand, I think we need more open endedness, I actually really like MU’s message that even if you try your hardest and don’t achieve your goal, it’s ok that you can find a new dream and support someone else who needs you, even if they’re just one person.

[@naruchancutie1]

I agree! I love MU. That talk with Sully and Mike at the end was great and the scare scene was great. I really felt for Mike

[@FatherMulk]

Up was the last Pixar movie I was really into.

[@christianhansen2569]

After seeing all the Encanto memes blow up TikTok I think Bopper should get on that preemptive “here are the problems with modern 3d Disney” right away

[@tonyparra8459]

Toy Story 3, Inside Out, Coco, Onward, Soul and Luca are my personal favorites though, but I also enjoy watching Finding Dory and Incredibles 2. Some of these Modern PIXAR films are ok.

[@just-mees]

The pixar (/disney 3d animated movie) cycle is basically Trailer drops -> people forget about it -> movie drops -> people watch it -> the songs are everywere for 2 weeks -> people forget about it -> movie wins oscar in every category in animation -> trailer drops for new movie -> people forget about it

[@ProfessorBopper]

Pixar has thankfully never made a musical so we can skip being bombarded by the music for their movies at least

[@orangeslash1667]

@@ProfessorBopper When Pixar is at their work, they are afraid to take risks most of the time. I'm thankful for Pixar, but I due feel that Pixar can be kinda overrated. The fanboys are so certain that the Cars 1 and 2 were their only mistakes. No, the moment Brave come out I knew something was wrong.

[@ILikePopCans]

I feel extremely lucky to be able to watch this before disney nukes this video into the sun 🙏

[@TheMrfoxguy]

Someone outta nuke them I'm done with donesy only modern film I like is tangled

[@phillinsogood]

Disney plus put encanto in the Pixar section which I found odd because it’s not a Pixar film but stylistically feels like one

[@gablit-gt8kk]

There's gonna be franchise fatigue if all good things don't come to a end naturally

[@WhatsUpShup]

Branching out!!! Yes king we love to see it!!! I’m not a frequent watcher of western animated movies but of the ones I have seen in the past several years definitely have felt unmemorable, for reasons I couldn’t quite put a finger on until now. Keep it up bopper! 🤩🤩🤩

[@PaperBanjo64]

Pixar's classic 90's and 2000's movies were golden, Toy Story, Monsters Inc. Finding Nemo, Cars, (yes I actually LOVE that movie) Ratatoullie, Wall-E and Up, but I haven't even seen most of their 2010's output, and don't even want to, plus I really DO NOT want to support Disney, and Boss Baby looks like the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

[@pepperonigorlpointblankper4178]

ALL Disney/Pixar young protagonists have the exactly same personality. Meilin, Ian, Luca, Miguel, Anna & Mirabel would all act and react the exact same in any situation.

[@janx7104]

I wish movies were more special these days. Maybe I just need to see the right stuff. Also, you're becoming so much more than just an FE channel. Love it

[@alexmacleod3728]

Pixar went Downhill for 2 reasons 1. They got Swallowed up by Disney and 2. Steve Jobs Died

[@Weesnaw2]

I personally don’t blame Pixar, I honestly blame Disney for shoving this shit in our faces.

[@gablit-gt8kk]

I can't stand franchise fatigue

[@Cappy-Bara]

Neat change of pace

[@AutumnReel4444]

Luca is great, the rest hardly even happened in my brain

[@clintwaki6936]

I agree with you, even if the only pixar movie I've seen since Toy Story 3 was Coco. I remember liking it even if the twists were kinda lame. Pixar does seem to be missing it's edge these days, but all their movies are beautiful to watch. I recall from one of your streams you had a film rating account and I'm curious what your pixar rankings are.

[@captainhowlerwilson508]

I never cared whether the twist was predictable, all I wanted was a nice story about something important to us all, and that is what Coco is about. Predictability is a real problem if the stories are bad. At the same time though, subverting expectations has its limits as well.

[@raddgaming1052]

Idk man Luca goes hard

[@merit4078]

I did love Merida, Coco and enjoyed watching Cars 2 (yes, sue me), Luca, Onward and Soul, I still have to wholeheartedly agree with your point! Especially since I also remember very little about Soul despite liking it whilst I watched it. It was also one of those movies where I said to myself “that’s nice! … now I need to never watch it again”. I just think, as you said, most modern Pixar movies just get really repetitive and the style is also kinda boring now and idk… it just doesn’t capture my heart and attention like it used to (except a few exceptions as mentioned above). I once explained to a friend that I don’t think it was a steady decline but more so an up and down that went further and further down until it hit its rock bottom. The moment I noticed personally was with the movie Red (that was Pixar, right?). I thought it was… ok. At best. But it just made me so angry with how generic it was and how much potential was wasted- And yeah: I just agree so much with this video. I wish the originality was back and the heart of it all

[@Ghi102]

Commenting so the algorithm gods bring more traffic to this great video!

[@gabriellitewski7988]

I hate living in a brave new world!!!!!!

[@qwertyrhoads9295]

11:04 You thought Encanto was bad? Now I'm curious.

[@breadbaskets2772]

I really liked Coco, havent really seen any other modern pixar so I havent observed this pattern for myself

[@CoderQC]

Hire me Pixar.

[@blaquelinktriforce4234]

I want A Goofy Movie 3 and Super Goof Troop now!!!

[@kitsonicko]

I Do Wish Modern Pixar Gets Good!

[@gabriellitewski7988]

I should've been less interested by the end of the 2000s

[@lorenzomartinelli7665]

Where the hell are the Christmas Cavs?

[@numberoneappgamesforkids]

But it pays the bills. :D

[@midnalight6419]

The man spits truth. Soul was really good, though. I remember a lot of it. And it was a really good piece on existentialism. And it was quite funny. Edit: Onward was also really close to me, because it's about a kid named ian turning 16. I turned 17 and my name is ian the day I watched that film, without knowing those facts about that character.

[@chad3166]

Turning red was coming of age!

[@gabriellitewski7988]

I think 2009 was the last good year for Disney movies

[@captainhowlerwilson508]

I would say 2010 was their last overall great year.

[@HandlesAreReallyBad]

No that would probably be 2002. Afterwards we got all those direct to video sequels that no one liked, Chicken Little, Home on the Range, and that blatant Madagascar rip off. Sure we got stuff like Meet the Robinsons and Princess and the Frog, and the Pixar films (although I separate them from the main Disney category), but the dam holding the sewage broke after Treasure Planet.

[@TheMrfoxguy]

Ahem zootopia

[@Patrick-wl6pw]

Pixar i said stop tropes see before

[@Axolol184]

Soul ain't that good champ, just because its """""""philosophical""""""" doesn't make it a masterpiece

[@ProfessorBopper]

Y’all binary motherfuckers compute faint praise = masterpiece

[@Axolol184]

@@ProfessorBopper it ain't good either tho, its decent at best

[@ProfessorBopper]

It’s perfectly fine; genial

[@Axolol184]

@@ProfessorBopper alright, its fine as you say, still far from pixar peaks

[@jordanfranklin-garza849]

Love your videos man! Keep up the great work

[@TeddyBelcher4kultrawide]

I only saw cars 2

[@dayru_ru]

Coco was very good at least; I also liked Encanto despite the flaws. It was like a shounen anime

[@marcoasturias8520]

Encanto is Disney's, not Pixar's

[@gabriellitewski7988]

I don't want to watch maturity anymore

[@opinionpaladin6007]

It's nice to hear someone else say something you've been thinking for a while.

[@JustsomeKid93]

I guess it’s not really fair for me to say since I haven’t watched them but I literally forgot the names of the previous few Pixar movies until you brought them up

[@brunkosproogle5046]

Great vid! I know I'm late to this, but I'll still throw my hat into the ring. Frozen II was actually really good, just had a weak ending IMO. I think Raya was the worst movie i've ever seen, point blank period.

[@gablit-gt8kk]

Movies by John Lassester are better

[@Tuffkid42]

Great stuff Booty Booper

[@MetaAyaFangirl]

So you hate Soul.... HOW DARE YOU!

[@gabriellitewski7988]

Soul isn't that popular

[@manslikeaqeelsonicadvances8566]

Yeah because it is not popular.

[@danvocals123]

Great great video

[@gablit-gt8kk]

I hate calarts!!!!!

[@vishuprathikanti9352]

"These movies are just about growing up and family is everything" I... but it's... uh... wait but...

[@gabriellitewski7988]

I wish I stopped pixar by the end of the 2000s!!!!!!

[@rsaravia115]

I honestly feel like modern Pixar starts with Cars 1 because that’s when I feel like Pixar went downhill with Pixar films being inconsistent and the only modern Pixar films that I kind of liked since Cars that wasn’t a sequel was Ratatouille and Inside Out.

[@LHK-art]

To me the last good pixar animation was up, I felt coco was just up under a new skin.

[@VanguardJohnson]

I think boring and repetitive regarding the family or coming of age theme is harsh. We can expect Pixar to pump out an easily digestible, yet warm and loving film like Coco, Encanto, Up, Soul, Onward and such. Reliability and repetitiveness is probably not the term that Pixar would want to define themselves as, but in a greater light, you can define it as consistently great and provides a message you want to see when watching that genre of movie. Obviously there's some B lists in Pixars time, which is variable based on the person, but for me like Luca, and C lists like Cars sequels. I agree mostly with your statement of being old, cause we are watching it to get the feels you expect from Pixar, not something else surprising or makes you contemplate the world or the world that the movie is based on.

[@gabriellitewski7988]

Coming of a age is how my life went downhill in the 2010s

[@gabriellitewski7988]

Coming of age sucks

[@orangeslash1667]

@@gabriellitewski7988 Back then we usually look down at Dreamworks compared to Pixar. Times truly have changed.

[@paulmajano]

Luca is about two gay guys😊

[@blaquelinktriforce4234]

Coco and Soul are amazing in my opinion. Turning Red is good but, it’s not that great.Turning Red is in my opinion where Pixar went down in quality even though it’s not bad.

[@Thenadathor]

Disliked for clickbait

[@keldeo05]

Haven't watched yet but putting cars movies in a trash bin Is an instant dislike

[@p_owl5925]

776 views

[@LakituAl]

It's all The Good Dinosaur's fault, got it.

[@flugshub8873]

How the hell can you consider Coco, Luca, and Soul to be bad?!?!?!?!? All three are some of the most wholesome, human, emotional movies ever made. Re-evaluate.

[@gabriellitewski7988]

I don't give a interest to crappy movies

[@yin_xing]

Well, ENCANTO did pretty well for the non United States audience.

[@jeffcarlin5866]

Pixar PEAKED with WALL-E. They have never made anything better -- and WALL-E was released in 2008. Woke political messaging is destroying Pixar as well.

[@christopherreichart9193]

Won be a dick I like sequels of everything

[@kennyx6796]

Nah, these studios are woke and produce crap.

[@ProfessorBopper]

Free thinker, exhibit A

[@madmouse4400]

​@@ProfessorBopper toy story 5 is comiiiiiing....