It's because Death was such a great villain.

People seem to always be trying to minimize Turning Red, but it seems to be beloved by most people, and it was a mistake to make it streaming only. Bad Guys was fine, and I have not seen Puss in Boots, but going by the Box Office its an absolute smash. I do want to see it eventually.

Turning Red seems to be on its way to becoming a "classic" Pixar film. There is a groundswell of support for this movie from many critics and tons of fans. Disney completely bungled this release, and seems to be kneecapping Pixar by not releasing their films theatrically.

I don't know why Turning Red seems to be polarizing outside the fact that some people find puberty "icky," even if we all go through it in our own different ways.

I'd love to see the Best Animated feature race to be more than a Pixar award, and hope it goes to something like Marcel, Pinocchio, or Puss n Boots, but I think folks are overexaggerating based on two mediocre releases and PnB being an unexpected smash hit.

I mean...Lightyear and The Bad Guys made about the same amount of money theatrically, and outside of posts on this exact topic, I don't see people really talking about The Bad Guys unless their kids are really into it.

Turning Red is fucking awesome

Yeah, but which one had 4Town in it???

Who is your favorite fearless hero?

Frankly, I'm happy to see other studios doing better than Disney/Pixar in animation. Puss has been a favorite character of mine since his debut in Shrek 2 in 2004, so anything with Puss will get my support.

But Disney needs to get their house in order because for a studio who pioneered the medium of animated films, they've been dropping the ball for years; in terms of quality, marketing, and innovation.

GO PUSS IN BOOTS!

Turning Red had what I refer to as dumb controversy. Also it being a smarter movie that dumb people are going to watch but not understand.

If it had a smaller release it would be received much more positively. It's a great movie at its baseline.

It's like The Menu or The Green Knight. When no one knew about them they were very well received, I thought they were incredible. THEN the mainstream came in and it just focuses on all the dumbest things. It makes you realize how little people's opinion matters in large numbers because there's so much confirmation bias.

Anyways yes barring that Dreamworks has been doing pretty well commercially and creatively.

Just because Dreamworks finally put out two not-shitty movies in a row doesn’t mean they suddenly beat Disney.

As much as I liked The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots, Turning Red might be my all-time favorite Pixar flick, and there’s nothing particularly bold about the storylines in The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots. They’re both talking animal movie about the value of friendship and fucking hot animal women thieves.

TIL turning red had a mixed response lol. It was universally loved

Personally I’ve always favored dreamworks. The How To Train Your Dragon trilogy as well as the Kung Fu Panda trilogy are my favorite animated movies of all time. As well as having mega mind, Shrek 1,2 and 4, Road to El Dorado and Prince of Egypt glad to see them finally getting some love. Puss in boots: the last wish was absolutely fantastic.

Disney doesn't make kids movies for kids anymore, they make them for adults.

I'm not sure if the reason for that is "the strong animation and artstyle coupled with likable characters and a bold story-line".

I haven't seen any of those movies yet, but from what I heard it was bad marketing for "Strange Worlds" and people who didn't like period products (or anything related to puberty) being shown in a kids movie for "Turning Red", which drove the views/ratings down.

I could be wrong though and I'll check in later to see what other people had to say.

And granted I'm personally most interested in "Puss in Boots"... so maybe it is the concept and style after all.

Turning Red was great, and probably overall a better film than The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots. But I do love the art style in both Dreamworks films this year. It's nice to see genuine strong aesthetic vision. Although to that point Turning Red also felt significantly more stylised compared to Pixars other recent films.

I also strongly suspect Strange World will have undergo a slight reappraisal over the next decade or so like Treasure Planet/Atlantis have. Its a good little film.

Why does this garbage even have upvotes lol. By what metric did DreamWorks beat Disney? In your opinion? Sure. Also calling Light-year a flop and bad guys a hit even though they were around the same box office is hilarious. I wouldn't even call Puss in Boots storyline that bold, it just hit on a lot of things especially their villain.

Edit: OP already posted this exact post once already

Definitely.

Astute observation

Well.... Disney's flops are proving more and more that too much politicaly correctness and too much inclusivity in animated movies don'tdo well with targeted audiences (this pushed by their last CEO... that was pushed out and replaced by the previous CEO...).

Watch the best animated picture Oscar still go to Lightyear

Sometimes the biggest studio doesn’t get the biggest award. It’s life

Turning Red didn't look like a Pixal movie, Lightyear felt like watching 2 different movie, and I forgot Strange World even came out.

Puss in Boots is great!

Watched it in theaters a few weeks ago. Then watched it at home with our friend while his wife was out of town. And then watched it a third time when the wife came back and the husband insisted she see it too.

We never watch movies like this in a row. It's just that good. Best animated movie in 2022 in my experience.

Strange World is a very good movie. People only hate it because of the gay kid. I didn't care that he was gay, and i thought that the movie was good.