Expectations are the damnedest thing.
Over nearly thirty years of making computer-animated feature films, Pixar Animation Studios has created a set of expectations that are gradually becoming impossible to overcome.
Among its initial films, the studio made such wonderful original stories that seemed impossible to top.
In the late-2000s, with a run of films like “Ratatouille,” “Up,” and “Wall-e,” Pixar proved that it was as capable of pushing storytelling boundaries as well as the technological boundaries of animation.
And even early in the studio’s run, Pixar bucked the conventional wisdom that sequels are pale imitations of their predecessors, with the 1999 sequel “Toy Story…The post Lightyear Spoiler Review: A Brand Deposit That Fails to Achieve Lift-Off appeared first on /Film.
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