Growing Pains: In the wake of Finding Nemo 2, just what is phase two of Pixar animation, and is it something to fear?

Is Pixar as we know it finished?  Has a fifteen-year run of uniformly fine cartoons given way to an act two filled with half-hearted misses ...

Finally, a Pixar film that won't make you cry: Cars 2 gets photo, synopsis.

I was not a fan of the first Cars (it was a remake of Doc Hollywood with the sensibility of something like A Shark Tale ), but the merchan...