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Monsters, Inc. (also known as Monsters, Incorporated) [1] is a media franchise produced by Pixar and owned by The Walt Disney Company. [2] The franchise takes place in a fictional universe where monsters are the primary citizens of society and harness the energy of human children to power their cities.
Monsters, Inc. premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on October 28, 2001, and was released in theaters in the United States on November 2. Upon its release, it received critical acclaim and was a commercial success, [3] grossing over $528 million worldwide to become the third highest-grossing film of 2001. [1]
- Here's how to watch the Pixar movies in chronological order...theoretically.
- How Many Pixar Movies Are There?
- 1. The Good Dinosaur (2015)
- 2. Brave (2012)
- 3. Luca (2021)
- 4. The Incredibles (2004)
- 5. The Incredibles 2 (2018)
- 6. Lightyear (2022)
- 7. Toy Story (1995)
- 8. Toy Story 2 (1999)
By Cristina Alexander
Updated: Jan 22, 2024 5:15 pm
Posted: Jan 21, 2024 10:30 pm
You know how there are a ton of Easter eggs from one Pixar movie littered throughout other Pixar movies? For example, there are toys of Jessie, Nemo, and the Luxo ball in Boo’s bedroom at the end of Monster’s Inc.; a child is seen carrying Buzz Lightyear at the dentist’s office in Finding Nemo; and Dinoco, the gas station in Toy Story, is a corporation sponsoring racecars in Cars.
They’re all part of what Jon Negroni calls The Pixar Theory, a working theory that explains how all Pixar movies exist in a shared universe tied into one cohesive timeline. Negroni got inspiration for the Pixar Theory after watching a video on Cracked in 2012 introducing him to the same idea that all the Pixar characters and their worlds are all connected.
The Pixar Theory isn’t officially confirmed by its namesake animation studio, but many fans have come to accept it as gospel… to some extent. Here are the Pixar movies in chronological order and how they fit into the theory. You can also jump to the Pixar movies in order of release for the standard movie timeline.
Pixar has produced a total of 27 feature films so far. There are also quite a few officially announced upcoming Pixar Movies in the works, with Elemental being the latest.
The Good Dinosaur is set in an alternative prehistoric time where the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago in the real world changed course and allowed them to live alongside humans. Some few million years later, Arlo, a young and timid Apatosaurus, befriends a cave boy he names Spot to help him find his way back home after being washed downriver during a rainstorm.
According to the Pixar Theory, because the meteor didn’t cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, they evolved much further than expected, becoming highly intelligent and thus kicking off the Pixar universe. A stuffed Apatosaurus, likely resembling Arlo, can be seen in a child’s bedroom in Monster’s University. Forrest Woodbush makes a cameo appearance in Riley’s memory as a statue she visited in Inside Out.
Flash forward to the Middle Ages in the Scottish Highlands, Merida defies the age-old tradition of marrying the son of one of her father’s allies, causing strife between her and her mother, Queen Elinor. After a heated argument, Merida seeks help from a witch, who gives her a cake that turns Elinor into a bear, and now she has to undo the curse before it’s too late.
The witch is the bearer of the magical entity Merida discovers early in the movie called the will-of-the-wisps. The Pixar Theory states that the witch uses magic to turn animals and inanimate objects into sentient beings with human-like behavior, turn humans into animals (as she did to Elinor with the cake Merida offers her as an apology), and travel back in time by conjuring portals via wooden doors, which explains is why she disappears every time Merida comes to her for aid.
In the Italian Riviera in 1959, Luca is a sea monster that can turn into a human on land who becomes best friends with a human boy, Alberto, who is also a sea monster. They spend the entire summer running around Portorosso with Giulia — eating pasta, riding Vespas, and competing in the triathlon — as humans ensuring no one finds out their secret if they get wet.
Luca is littered with Easter eggs not only frm other Pixar films, but Disney films as well. The Luxo is spotted on a roof, and a boat that sails past Luca at the beginning of the film is named Elena, a reference to Miguel’s grandmother in Coco. Giulia owns a stuffed Donald Duck, and she reads the book “Le Avventure di Pinocchio” by Carol Collodi, which served as an inspiration for the 1940 Disney classic, Pinocchio.
In one of the best superhero movies ever made, Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl (aka Bob and Helen Parr) are forbidden by law to use their superpowers in public, forcing them into hiding and assuming mundane lives as regular people following a string of lawsuits against superheroes claiming their powers have caused more harm to society than good. Fifteen years later, Bob gets a chance to relive his glory days as Mr. Incredible, but when he lands in trouble with the supervillain who wanted to be his sidekick as a boy, Elastigirl and their superpowered children, Violet and Dash, jump into the action to save him.
Though the film takes place in 1962, superheroes maintained order in the world. However, the Pixar Theory states that Syndrome, Mr. Incredible’s former fan, created two things to render supers irrelevant: AI robots like the Omnidroid high-tech Zero Point Energy, electromagnetic energy that travels in wavelengths. The theory points out that toys and other inanimate objects absorbed residual Zero Point Energy after the Omnidroid was destroyed, thus becoming animated.
After The Incredibles defeat the Underminer, the battle that started just after the first movie ended, the government cuts the superfamily off from assistance they’ve given them through the Superhero Relocation Program for causing damage to the city. This leads them to work for a wealthy magnate named Winston Deavor, who works to regain the public’s trust in the supers using Elastigirl, who takes the leading role while Bob transitions to his new role of the stay-at-home parent.
According to the Pixar Theory, the public’s distrust of superheroes leads to their extinction. The sequel not only focused on the consequences of society’s unfavorable views of super-powered humans, but also the rise of supercorporations, such as Deavor’s telecommunications company DevTech and Buy n Large (BnL).
Lightyear is a sci-fi movie within the Toy Story universe that centers on the legendary space ranger the Andy’s Buzz Lightyear action figure is based on. Buzz and his Star Command troops are marooned on a planet 4.2 million light-years from Earth, and he takes several test flights to achieve hyperspeed over several years (which hasn’t aged him a day due to time dilation). After several failures and the deaths of his friends, he recruits Izzy, Mo, Darby, and robot cat Sox to defeat Emperor Zurg and utilize time travel to find a way back home.
Because Lightyear is a movie within a movie, the film likely made Andy want to get the Buzz Lightyear action figure — that’s how marketing works. Because of this, Lightyear is slotted before the events of Toy Story despite it taking place in the extremely distant future.
Toy Story is the first movie that explored whether inanimate objects, let alone toys, had emotions. The titular toys come alive and act on their emotions while their human owners are away — something children think about when they go to school. Woody goes through a rollercoaster of emotions when Buzz Lightyear overshadows him as Andy’s new favorite toy.
The movie is set in 1995, the same year it was released in theaters, and over 30 years after the events of The Incredibles. Per the Pixar Theory, BnL created toys to harvest the power of human emotions, which the toys thrive on when humans are not in the room.
Set in 1999, Toy Story 2 deals with Woody’s fear of mortality (or obsolescence) when Andy tears his arm by accident and abandons him when he goes to summer camp. When Woody gets kidnapped by an avid toy collector, who just so happens to be the owner of Al’s Toy Barn, he meets with toys from Woody’s Roundup Gang.
According to the Pixar Theory, the toys begin questioning their purpose in life and resent the humans who abandon them. Jessie resents her previous owner Emily for outgrowing and abandoning her, causing Woody to do the same with Andy briefly out of fear that he’ll abandon him, too. Toys not only experience resentment towards humans but animals as well.
- Cristina Alexander
Monsters, Inc. is a media franchise owned by The Walt Disney Company that consists of two computer-animated films produced by Pixar Animation Studios, a television series, and several short films and video games.
Jan 20, 2023 · Negroni argues that in the world of "Monsters Inc.," humans no longer exist in the present timeline. He posits that "Monsters Inc." takes place somewhere between 3100 and 5201, during...
