Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins (2000)

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins (2000)
Rating: ★★
Aug 18, 2000Space Hero/Animation
Video-released spinoff of the Toy Story films featuring Buzz Lightyear in an adventure. Although released under the Pixar name, the animation is all cheaply produced by a Chinese studio

Finding Nemo (2003)

Finding Nemo (2003)
Rating: ★★★★
Sep 11, 2003Pixar Animation/Talking Fish
An unabashed delight among the Pixar films about a fish parent on a quest to find his missing son. This comes with an extraordinarily vibrant palette of colours and a line-up of winningly eccentric characters

Ratatouille (2007)

Ratatouille (2007)
Rating: ★★★½
Sep 9, 2007Pixar Animation/Talking Rat Chef
The eighth film from Pixar and Brad Bird's follow-up to the hit of The Incredibles. Telling the story of a rat that becomes a gourmet chef, this is slightly the lesser among the high standard that Pixar have set nevertheless still immensely enjoyable

Brave (2012)

Brave (2012)
Rating: ★★½
Jun 21, 2012Pixar Animation/Animal Transformation
A real head-scratcher from Pixar that seems to have been pitched as a cross between Braveheart and Disney's Brother Bear. The usual Pixar humour and polish makes for a mostly amiable film but never lifts the show out of a lame duck premise

Monsters University (2013)

Monsters University (2013)
Rating: ★★
Jun 21, 2013Pixar Animation/Monsters in the Closet
Pixar's creative decline has been the point they started making these sequels to their hits. This is a disappointing prequel to Monsters, Inc. that largely recycles the cliches of the Revenge of the Nerds films and seems lacking in any of the wacky humour or moments of cuteness we expect of a Pixar film

The Good Dinosaur (2015)

The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 6, 2015Pixar Animation/Dinosaur Befriends Caveboy
Pixar have never been the same since they slipped into the easy familiarity of sequelitis. This is essentially a boy and his dog story but played out with a dinosaur and a caveboy, but also an alternate history tale

Inside Out (2015)

Inside Out (2015)
Rating: ★★★½
Jun 20, 2015Pixar Animation/The Personalities Inside a Girl's Head
Pixar have slumped into terminal sequelitis during the 2010s – this was only the second original work they have made during that time. While not perfect, it goes regains the creative heights from five years earlier

Finding Dory (2016)

Finding Dory (2016)
Rating: ★★★½
Jun 25, 2016Pixar Animation/Talking Fish
Pixar have never been the same since giving in to sequelitis but this sequel to Finding Nemo does recapturing some of their heyday. Not perfect but this has a winning array of new characters and some delightfully madcap comic set-pieces

Coco (2017)

Coco (2017)
Rating: ★★★½
Feb 10, 2018Pixar Animaton/Mexican Afterlife
Pixar's 19th film. Set on the Mexican Day of the Dead and then venturing into the afterlife, this is a celebration of all things Mexican, which Pixar conduct without any wrong steps. A film made in vibrant colours

Onward (2020)

Onward (2020)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 5, 2020Pixar Animation/Alternate Present Inhabited by Magic Creatures
The 22nd animated film from Pixar and also the least successful (being released only a week before theatrical chains closing down due to Coronavirus). This has an appealingly quirky and original concept not unakin to Bright that takes place in an alternate reality where magic creatures live in a world akin to our own

Inside Out 2 (2024)

Inside Out 2 (2024)
Rating: ★★
Aug 31, 2024Pixar Animation/The Personalities Inside a Girl’s Head
Inside Out, set around the personified emotions in a girl’s head, was one of the breaths of fresh air among Pixar’s slip into terminal sequelitis during the 2010s. Now it gets its own sequel

Hoppers (2026)

Hoppers (2026)
Rating: ★★★
May 9, 2026Pixar Animation/Robot Beaver Among the Talking Animals
The 30th film from Pixar, a strange take on Avatar where a young conservationist enters a robotic beaver body in order to venture out among the animals. Directed with a good deal of likeably snappy humour