And I predict Pixar's winning streak will end with Toy Story 3. They're pushing their luck on that one-the trailer looks really bad.

I also thought it was very graceful how they show the love of his life, how close they were, the tough times they went through and then losing her; effectively setting up his mind set for the remainder of the movie.

There really aren't too many movies out there that do it that seamlessly. And the ones that do take the first half of the movie to do it. This movie was under 2 hours and made you care before ripping your heart out in the first 15 minutes.

I like most Pixar movies so I won't do a breakdown of everyone but I thought I at least defend the most recent installment :)

I haven't seen WTWTA yet but I read the book a billion times as a kid learning to read so I will have some nostalgic attachment to it regardless. For the record, the book has no plot. So if the movie doesn't either, then its right on.

P.S. Moralistic? I don't necessarily take that as a criticism for a movie… Nothing wrong with having a message.

It's just a matter of taste. And there's no accounting for taste.

It's all-ages because it doesn't dumb things down for the audience. I'm not saying it's like high-lit or something, but generally it presents things that can still be resonant in some way to adults.

Not like Shrek, which is like fart-fart-fart, let's save the princess. I like the first Shrek, btw.

Yeah, it's no use arguing with those hipsters, but it isn't very good.

I'm kinda cold to Where the Wild Things Are though – it seems like it's a small art film that was lucky enough to get a huge budget because of the book.

Hipsters are all like “it's the best thing ever invented” also, which makes me want to watch Bad Boys II.

Bear in mind that I 1) hate kids movies, books, lives in general; 2) have no affection for the book from my own childhood – don't think I ever read it; ) and yet absolutely love Spike Jonze.

The movie was either cheesy or violent or boring, the dialog was too smart for its own good, and it had no real plot (which I don't mind except that this needed one to make up for the other shortcomings).

However, I saw Antichrist, Blue Beard, and The White Ribbon at the NYFF last week – all awesome if they're the kind of movies you dig (you meaning probably not Brian, though you might find the first one interesting simply for the hype surrounding its violence).

That is all.

Oh, thanks LBJ for precipitating Edwards' trade to the Jets.