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. This was Pixar's biggest Brave risk, taking a film that reads fairy tale into such untested terrain.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.
It's unlike most fairy tales where mother figures are either absent ( The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast) or of the evil stepmother variety ( Cinderella, Snow White).
Not just one where a princess must undo the horrific-though unintended-consequences of her impetuous actions, but also one in which the princess's relationship to her mother is the central focus. Yes, this twist turned off many moviegoers, but I enjoyed it, as it offered a story unlike I'd ever seen before. "Her mother turned into a bear!" moaned The Huffington Post's Mike Ryan, with a rattling tenor of profound disappointment. And in all this squabbling one moment was repeatedly harped upon. The debate continued on down the escalators to the lobby, out theater's doors, through the crowds of Times Square and even onto the subways back to our respective boroughs. Following the press screening here in NYC, I stumbled out of the theater, brushing tears from the corners of my wide, satisfied grin, only to hear some of my fellow critics bellowing about what a "miss" and "failure" Brave was.
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