FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
You know why Pixar wins over and over again while Disney struggles over and over again? Pixar doesn't repackage adult love stories (Hamlet, Macbeth, etc.) and dumb them down for children. Pixar understands that the way to win over a young audience is to make the cinematic world the muse of its characters, NOT the characters the muse of other characters. Expecting children to relate to films that place the romantic escapades/trysts/rivalries of adults at their center is retarded. Children enjoy seeing a world they've never seen before (Wall-E) and gradually making sense of it, a parallel world that explains something about their own world (Monster's Inc, Inside Out), a world they are innately familiar with (Toy Story) being given new depth, etc. Children already imagine the world around them to be bigger and more fantastic than it is in reality anyway: Pixar gives these kids a vehicle to explore the world around them in ways that they already entertain. On top of that there's enough intelligent writing under the hood for adults to stay for the ride.
Disney conversely takes adult stories and makes them unwatchable for adults. I just watched Frozen on TV with my sister
I made an off-handed comment that Disney sells sex in every movie and only the attributes (race, gender, sexuality) of the lovers change for the agenda du jour... literally two minutes later after they fall off the cliff and walk into the troll garden the trolls start sizing Anna up like some thirsty nikkas whistling at every piece of ass on the block 
Disney's only animated HIT from the last 5 years (not counting Pixar) is Zootopia. Once again, the focus of the movie was the world, not Nick and Judy's sexual tension. I'll bet my left nut that this is literally the winning formula for every single animated hit from the last 3 decades from The Nightmare Before Christmas to The Incredibles. Obviously writing is a huge factor but it really does come down to what you're writing about to begin with... Trying to dumb down 16th century adult plays for children is doing a disservice to BOTH of the intended demographics (children and adults). Adults will cringe at the oversimplifications of the source material/shytty writing and young children will cringe at the relationship drama that they don't understand nor give a flying fukk about.
to Pixar for captivating the imaginations of children and adults alike for 3 decades.
Disney conversely takes adult stories and makes them unwatchable for adults. I just watched Frozen on TV with my sister
I made an off-handed comment that Disney sells sex in every movie and only the attributes (race, gender, sexuality) of the lovers change for the agenda du jour... literally two minutes later after they fall off the cliff and walk into the troll garden the trolls start sizing Anna up like some thirsty nikkas whistling at every piece of ass on the block Disney's only animated HIT from the last 5 years (not counting Pixar) is Zootopia. Once again, the focus of the movie was the world, not Nick and Judy's sexual tension. I'll bet my left nut that this is literally the winning formula for every single animated hit from the last 3 decades from The Nightmare Before Christmas to The Incredibles. Obviously writing is a huge factor but it really does come down to what you're writing about to begin with... Trying to dumb down 16th century adult plays for children is doing a disservice to BOTH of the intended demographics (children and adults). Adults will cringe at the oversimplifications of the source material/shytty writing and young children will cringe at the relationship drama that they don't understand nor give a flying fukk about.
to Pixar for captivating the imaginations of children and adults alike for 3 decades.
