It is a film with wide appeal that fires on all cylinders, with standout musical numbers, dramatic resonance, unforgettable characters, and breathtaking animation. The success of The Lion King makes perfect sense to me. Only with Toy Story 3, a sequel to a beloved franchise, benefitting from both 3D premiums and considerably higher standard ticket prices, did Pixar get past Nemo's behemothic $340 million North American and $865 M worldwide hauls. Still, the domestic box office returns never got as high as they did on Finding Nemo. Pixar could not be accused of creative complacency, with the hits The Incredibles and Cars giving way to the most original and decorated stretch in the studio's history. Disney's 1990s reign of hit musicals abruptly came to an end and saw films like Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Hercules unable to recreate the same degree of magic. Both studios naturally expected growth to continue, which it did not. Both served as the high point (certainly commercially, arguably critically) for animation studios in the midst of historic hot streaks. Both are animal tales that find a young male character losing a parent and then losing his way. Some pretty clear parallels exist between Finding Nemo and The Lion King. When accounting for soaring admission prices, only six films this century have grossed more, all but one of them ( Avatar) sequels or starring pre-existing characters. Ignoring inflation, Nemo passed The Lion King to become the top-grossing animated film in domestic history.Īdjusting for inflation, Nemo still outgrosses every Pixar film through Brave, selling even more tickets than the enormously well-attended Toy Story 3.
The general public's reception, meanwhile, left no room for doubt. The reviews couldn't handily exceed all of Pixar's acclaimed previous efforts, but they were about as overwhelmingly favorable as those of the first two Toy Story movies and slightly better than those given to A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc.
The 100-minute comedic undersea adventure was, by a narrow margin, Pixar's longest film to date. All of these factors hit fever pitch with the theatrical release of Finding Nemo, the studio's fifth film, in late May 2003. The movies were getting longer and technically more sophisticated.
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We'll be tearing apart both versions of the set and will be posting our full review within the next day or so.In the first several years of Pixar Animation Studios feature filmmaking, everything was looking up. The Standard edition looks very bare when compared to the Ultimate Toy Box, but it still has two great films on two discs. It has everything that the great laserdisc box sets of old had, for a fraction of the price.
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If you are a huge movie geek and absolutely have to have everything ever conceived about a given movie, then the Ultimate Toy Box is for you. As always, you can find these on sale for the first couple weeks and online sites always have them for a bargain, but price is something to think of when you go out to get the discs. Where the Standard Edition retails for $39.99, the Ultimate Toy Box goes for $69.99. Also, the Standard Edition contains trailers for upcoming Disney movies such as The Emperor¿s New Groove that the Ultimate Toy Box does not have. In addition to the differences shown in that list, there are a couple things that the Standard edition does have over the Ultimate Toy Box.įirstly, the Toy Story 2 outtakes are presented during the credits in the full frame edition, but they are not there in the widscreen presentation (you have to access them from a menu).
Dolby Digital 5.1 sound effects only track.THX Optimode (like on the Fight Club disc)."On Set" interviews with Buzz and Woody.Each version contains the same transfers taken form the same source (he Standard edition does offer Toy Story 2 in a Full Frame format in addition to anamorphic widescreen) but the special features on each one are quite different.īeing the nice DVD editors that we are, we decided to write up this quick little comparison between the two sets before we post our review. As expected, Disney released both a "Standard" edition and a special boxed set called the "Ultimate Toy Box". The day that animation fans have been waiting for is here - both Toy Story and Toy Story 2 are out on DVD.