Pixar movies are a little formulaic, and many of them like Coco, Soul, and TurningRed, are real tearjerkers. Why is that a bad thing?
If you’re a cynic, you probably walked out of Coco convinced that you’d just been manipulated. You may have found the opening minutes of Up to be cloying and sentimental, or you might think that, as beautiful as some parts of Soul may be, it’s all a little bit obvious.
This moment is deeply affecting, and it also adheres pretty strictly to what Pixar almost always pulls off near the climax of its stories: A character who was once misunderstood asserts the right to make themselves heard, and the protagonist learns a lesson about empathy or history or what it means to continue to love the people you’ve lost.
Simple yet universal messages There are some who find the simplicity and overt sentiment of Pixar’s core themes cloying, but one of the reasons the studio has found such success within a pretty standard formula is because everyone can find something in the stories it tells. However, that can strip away some elements of individual experience, but Pixar has started to bridge that gap, albeit haltingly.
Exceptions to the rule Of course, Pixar’s tear machine does not work on every person every time. The entire Cars universe feels more like a cynical cash grab than a genuine attempt to tell good stories, and Lightyear feels like one of the strangest IP extensions to come out in the past decade, and that’s saying something.
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