Pixar have recently released their 17th feature film, Finding Dory, the much-anticipated sequel to their 2003 instant classic Finding Nemo. The studio’s longevity is due to the impressively consistent quality of their movies, each of them getting you emotionally invested in the animated antics of the characters – be they toys, fish, robots, superheroes etc.
Just about every Pixar film contains at least one scene that is guaranteed to reduce the hardest audience member to a sobbing wreck; Ellie’s posthumous note to Carl in her book, the final time Andy plays with Woody, when Merida thinks her mother is stuck as a bear forever. Those are just some of the moments that didn’t quite make it onto our list.
So, without further ado, get ready to cry your eyeballs dry over inanimate pixels as we count down the top 10 Pixar movie moments that reduced us to tears. You might want to have a box of tissues standing by…