Quote Originally Posted by NJDad View Post
There's a list ("Pixar's Winning Streak") on Rotten Tomatoes (where they average out movie critics' reviews) when there was 9 Pixar movies. Wall-E was #5 and Ratatouille was #6 when all the reviews of all the films were averaged out.

Since that list was made, both Up and TS 3 have gotten higher scores, so Wall-E drops to #7 and Ratatouille #8 on the snobby critics' list.
You piqued my interest, so I checked the scores of all 11 Pixar movies on the critical aggregate sites Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.

First, the Metacritic results, which assign a normalized score out of 100 for each film based on the enthusiasm (or lack thereof) of the reviews:

11. Cars -- 73
10. A Bug's Life -- 77
9. Monsters, Inc. -- 78
8t. Up -- 88
8t. Toy Story 2 -- 88
6. Finding Nemo -- 89
5. The Incredibles -- 90
4t. Toy Story 3 -- 92
4t. Toy Story -- 92
2. WALL-E -- 94
1. Ratatouille -- 96

And now for Rotten Tomatoes, which assigns a percentage that represents the percentage of overall favorable reviews, not taking into account the enthusiasm of the review. Therefore, an extremely positive review and a mildly positive review are worth the same. Also, a normalized ranking out of 10 that does take the review's tone into account:

11. Cars -- 6.9/10 (74%)
10. A Bug's Life -- 7.9/10 (91%)
9. Monsters, Inc. -- 7.9/10 (95%)
8. The Incredibles -- 8.3/10 (97%)
7t. WALL-E -- 8.4/10 (96%)
7t. Ratatouille -- 8.4/10 (96%)
5. Finding Nemo -- 8.5/10 (98%)
4. Up -- 8.6/10 (98%)
3. Toy Story 2 -- 8.6/10 (100%)
2. Toy Story 3 -- 8.8/10 (99%)
1. Toy Story -- 9.0/10 (100%)

What does all this mean? Really, not that much. The one thing it seems everybody agrees on is that the "Toy Story" franchise is wonderful. That's about it.

I still wonder what it is about "Cars" that enchanted audience and turned off critics. It's the one Pixar movie that really shows a major schism.