The Incomparable Podcast

Number 49

August 2011

We're back on the Incomparable Podcast. I am Jason Snell, your host. And today we're going to be talking about Pixar. The movie studio that is now a part of Disney has made some fantastic animated features over the years. In fact, some might say they've never made a bad feature, and then some of us haven't

seen cars too yet, so we just don't know.

Joining me today to talk about Pixar are Steve Lutz.

Hi, Steve.

Good day to you, sir.

Good day.

Good day.

And John Syracusa. Good evening. Good day, to you, sir. Good day. Good day. And John Syracusa.

Good evening.

Good evening.

John, on your other podcast, your personal podcast called Hypercritical, I know there was a

section of that, of a previous episode where you talked a little bit about Pixar.

So in some ways, we're just following up from a we're like the brother from another podcast here that doesn't

rhyme and it doesn't so so seriously i talked about Pixar sort of having this kind of um

legend of having never made a bad movie and i I believe Cars 2 is the lowest scoring on the tomato

meter. At last check, I think it was a 37% positive score, which is pretty bad. I haven't seen it.

That seems almost like backlash low to me. I mean, I have not seen Cars 2 yet, but my wife and

kids went out and saw it, and they all seem to enjoy it.

And my strong suspicion is that the reason that they get down to 37, 35 on the tomato meter is that critics have been sitting around just waiting for a less than sublime Pixar film.

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