I did not enjoy this essay. Dennis Tyler may have thought his argument was clear and I would have agreed since he started it off nicely. He clearly stated in two questions what he was going to be inspecting: "First, how has Pixar achieved [their] success? [...] Second, what reality is Pixar presenting?". Yet it felt like he diverged from these questions.
I was following his statements about Pixar's ability to animate but once he began comparing Pixar to Disney it seems like he became passive aggressive. The way he talked about Lasseter, it's like Tyler was saying Lasseter didn't give Disney animators the credit they deserve. Yet he would turn around and seem to give Lasseter a (still condescending) pat on the back for his work. Honestly, I think it took away from his argument when he went through the whole essay without stating whether he liked or hated Up/Pixar.
He then went on to talk about Carl and his "suppression" of Ellie's personality which I just did not see at all. Tyler talks about Carl's concern for Russel, Kevin, and Dug as if it were not real or enough. He made it seem like Carl was being superficial and I think Tyler's final sentence seemed to think a "family of choice" is no good if it's patriarchal because that's too comforting. I don't understand how the message of wanting a typical patriarchal accepting family is worse than the "damsel in distress" message that Disney's princess movies present to their audience.
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