Every Pixar Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

2. Up

About 75% of Up is a great film: the story of a cantankerous widower forced to coexist on a road trip with an attention seeking, slightly bumbling pre-teen. Again it's about getting home and the steps on that journey throwing up weird and wonderful characters, but it's most successful because of the relationship of Carl and Russell, which is broken from the off.

It's the other 25% of the film that elevates the film beyond simple greatness. The opening ten minutes is some of the most devastating and beautiful film-making ever and the emotions are off the chart. But it's not just the montage that matters: the backstory provides balance and poignancy to Carl's demeanour and frames him as something other than a caricature.

And then when you find out slowly that Russell is the way he is because of an absent father you get a second gut punch that makes the need for their blossoming relationship to succeed singularly important.