Stephen Thompson

Squirrel!

The character of Doug, the sweet comic relief talking dog, that understands dogs in a way that I think very few movies do.

There is a sweetness to this film.

There's some deep messaging in this film, not only about grief, but about how you honor your loved ones by the way that you live your life going forward that I found enormously powerful.

Genuinely, when it came out and for a long time thereafter, I would say it was one of my favorite movies, period.

I really deeply love this film.

And think about how novel and what a huge risk it was

to make inherently a kid-friendly type animated movie about an old person.

Yes.

And an old person as an action hero, an old person with an interior life, an old person with life ahead of him, an old person paying tribute to a loved one who has died, who is also a deeply fleshed-out, warm character that you care about, who has a presence throughout this film.

This movie...

is such an object lesson in the fact that, like, you can make a kids movie about almost anything if you have enough of an appreciation for the characters that you're talking about.

Ayesha, Up is not my number one favorite Pixar movie, but it is one that I feel really, really passionately about, and I'm so glad it made this list.

Not the Pixar movie with the best grasp of physics, but I'll allow it.

All right.

Ayesha, hit us with number three.

I don't know.

I don't know that there was a legal ceremony.

Maybe not.

Maybe not.