But The Pixar Theory is the most popular version, and it's the one we've chosen to feature, though you may notice some differences, which we explain. There are so many existing theories that try to make several connections and squeeze every film into one universe. The PCU is a tangled mess of stories, puzzles, and hints that traverse time, from the dinosaur age to the year 5000 on Earth. What order should you watch the Pixar movies and why? We also included an at-a-glance list version at the bottom that's free of spoilers.

If you'd like to experience it yourself, we've outlined the correct order to watch all the Pixar films and why. What order should you watch every Marvel movie and TV show?įrom then on, Earth becomes controlled by dinosaurs, then humans, followed by machines, and finally, intelligent animals - all over the course of millions of years in the PCU.Disney+ streaming service: Everything you need to know.But we’re getting several thousand animated years ahead of ourselves. It’s in Brave, set in the Middle Ages, where moviegoers find a character that they first met more than a decade before in a seemingly unrelated film set several millennia in the future, at the far end of the Pixar timeline. The theory begins and ends with Brave, the studio’s 13th feature film and one that falls at the very beginning of the animated universe’s chronology as we know it. The Grand Unified Theory of Pixar is a long tale, spanning centuries, of a struggle for the domination of Earth among humans, animals with humanlike consciousness, and sentient inanimate objects-AI machines. (A longer version of this article originally appeared on Negroni’s personal blog.

Negroni has condensed his original theory for Slate. Back in July, Jon Negroni went down an animated wormhole with his Grand Unified Theory of Pixar, an absurdly close reading of the studio’s canon that weaves together each of its 14 feature films to create a world that stretches several thousand years into the future only to eventually loop back upon itself.

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