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I wonder how Roger Ebert (my idol movie critic) would react to his own review of Cars after the film went on garnering awards. He said Cars was the least beautiful of John Lasseter’s earlier works, Toy Story and A Bug’s Life. I tend to disagree since there are lots of factors that make this movie beautiful. First, the computer filmmakers excruciatingly put the once-glorious Route 66 into detail. To make the movie a comic relief, they cast Owen Wilson. Also, this is the very first movie that I saw which featured cars in lieu of animals as a fable. Even cows were replaced by tractors. Also, I like Paul Newman’s voice performance in this movie. He had really perfected his role as Doc Hudson, the old wise racing car.

In 1998, A Bug’s Life was Disney’s November answer to the September release of Dreamworks Pictures, Antz. When Disney was still a separate entity from Pixar Animation Studios, the former contracted the latter to come up with another interesting CGI film, as follow up for Toy Story. Yes, Pixar was also the force behind Toy Story phenomenon, which practically started the whole CGI trend.

A Bug’s Life is a funny movie with interesting characters and heartwarming story, typical of a Disney movie. Watching this film will also make you appreciate the musical scoring and the amazing computer animation work of course.

It’s a movie for all ages. Kids will surely love to watch it many times over. By the way, Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet of Heroes) did the voice of DOT. Her voice must be something that grown-ups can look forward to hearing.

Toy Story was the revolutionary 1995 computer-animated hit that started it all. It was Pixar’s first feature film, and it’s said to be the first computer-animated film to be completed. This was surely a new adventure for Tom Hanks, who did the voice of “Woody” the lead character. He was on top of his career (he did the Oscar-winning Forrest Gump and Apollo 13 prior to this.), and doing something new, like voicing a CGI character was a fresh break from his serious acting jobs.

Just thinking of the action sequences in this computer-generated movie brings much grin, and I’m sure that a lot of people who have seen this movie can relate with me. John Lasseter, the director, truly presented cleverness.

This movie goes down in history as one of the best CGI films ever produced. The fusion of Pixar Animation and Disney proved to be a good move. Worldwide, this movie earned $358,100,000 worldwide. It’s time for you to get a taste of CGI greatness. Watch Toy Story, and see what goes on in the toy kingdom when the humans are not looking.