I know "newt" wasn't technically shelved because of Rio/Alpha&Omega but what about this?

The trailer is out, and while it looks of dubious quality, you cannot say the animation does not have its charm. Maybe that's what the celebrations are really like, I wouldn't know, but still it has a lot of character.

We haven't heard much from Pixar about this flick since it was announced. Technically, they still have like 2 or 3 years before it releases so it'll be a long time since this movie but still you never know.

Yes, it has
Pixar is doomed

I watched the trailer. Book of LIfe looks boring TBH (and looks like one of those $40-70m grossers). I don't think this matters much for Dia de los Muertos.

It didn't.

Thank God. Book of Life was beautiful but crappy.

Good Dinosaur, as you mentioned in the other thread, should have never seen the light of day.

The Good Dinosaur is one of the rare times Pixar actually pushed the envelope in the past decade - while it wasn't perfect, it at least gave their artists something to stretch their wings on, rather than yet another production line cash-in sequel. Pixar needs to at least try to do something original every 10th movie or so.

It came out five months after another Pixar original, Inside Out, which was far superior. There's only been one time where Pixar made back to back sequels too, with Toy Story 3 and Cars 2 in '10/'11.

At the time, Inside Out was only Pixar's second original movie since 2009. Although I liked that it tells a story only animation can tell, Inside Out is overly precious and relentlessly dull - it is easily Pixar's weakest non-sequel. The 'structure of memory' conceit is tiresome in both in its visualization and as a setting for the interminable second act. Though the message (sadness is a necessary emotion) is admirable, it casts a pall over the inane story used to fill out the too long running time. Even the external family plot is banal. *C*

They're gonna do it twice more in the future now.