Director Andrew Stanton (1965)

Finding Dory (2016) is a humorous and heartwarming animated film from Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures. The story follows Dory, a regal blue tang who was separated from her parents, Jenny and Charlie, as a child due to her short-term memory loss. She soon meets Marlin, a clownfish searching for his son Nemo, and they become close friends. Now living as neighbors in the reef with Marlin and Nemo, one day Dory suddenly remembers her parents and their home in the “Jewel of Morro Bay, California”. Determined to find them again, she sets out on a journey with Marlin and Nemo by her side. Along the way, they meet Crush, a helpful sea turtle who ...

A movie John Carter (2012) tells the story of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ uncle who passed away unexpectedly. The film was directed and written by Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews, and Michael Chabon respectively, and is based on the Barsoom novel series. At the time of his uncle’s death in 1881, Burroughs learned that John had requested to be buried in a tomb that only he could open from inside. He was also given John’s personal journal to read by his lawyer. The plot then rewinds back to 1868 when Carter ...

The film WALL-E (2008) is an American animated science fiction romance produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Set in the 29th century, Earth has become a wasteland due to an ecocide caused by rampant consumerism, corporate greed, and environmental neglect. Humanity was evacuated to space by the megacorporation Buy n Large (BnL) 700 years ago, leaving only trash compacting robots to clean up the planet. However, this cleanup effort has failed and only one active robot remains – Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth Class (WALL·E). He survives by salvaging parts from other inactive robots and lives with his pet cockroach in a large truck ...

Finding Nemo (2003) is a heartwarming and humorous adventure from Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures. Marlin, a clownfish living in the Great Barrier Reef with his wife Coral, anxiously awaits the arrival of their eggs. However, their joyful anticipation is cut short when they are attacked by a barracuda, leaving Marlin as the sole protector of their only surviving egg. Fast forward six years and Marlin’s overprotective nature has only grown as he sends his son Nemo off to school. But Nemo’s rebellious streak leads to him getting captured by scuba divers. Desperate to find his son, Marlin meets Dory, a blue tang with a forgetful memory who ...

An American animated comedy film, A Bug’s Life (1998), was produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It follows the story of a colony of ants, led by the elderly Queen and her daughter Princess Atta, who reside in a dry creekbed on ‘Ant Island’. The ants are forced to give food every summer to a gang of grasshoppers, headed by Hopper. One fateful day, Flik, a clumsy inventor ant, accidentally ruins their offering with his grain harvester. When Hopper finds out, he demands double the amount as compensation. Flik suggests enlisting bigger bugs’ help to fight the grasshoppers, prompting Atta to send him away. Flik then heads ...