Pixar Takes A Year Off To Do Some Soul Searching

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It’s a common lament these days that Pixar just isn’t living up to the creative standards of its hayday (which ended with Up in 2009). Brave, Monsters University, Cars 2, Planes. Only Toy Story 3 in 2010 has really stood out, and that movie, while emotionally masterful, blatantly ripped off the story from Brave Little Toaster.

So it’s not a bad thing to hear that 2014 will be the first year without a Pixar movie in nearly a decade.

The news comes after Pixar fired director Bob Peterson from the upcoming feature The Good Dinosaur, which presumably set the picture back.  In a reshuffling of release dates, The Good Dinosaur will move from Summer 2014 to November 2015, taking Finding Dory‘s release date which moved to Summer 2016.

Now The Good Dinosaur will be released the same year as Pete Docter’s next film Inside Out, which takes place entirely in the mind of a little girl. Maybe that extra year and a half for The Good Dinosaur will give the picture time to reach the quality we used to expect from Pixar. Plus, with Inside Out as the lead in picture (releasing in Summer 2015), we’ll have two original movies from Pixar released in the same year for the first time ever.

Could we be in for a return to creative form? Let’s hope so. I really want a reason to actually see a Pixar movie in the theater again, something I haven’t done in three years.