Last year, an ingenious idea fleshed out by Jon Negroni and was spread around like crazy! Negroni blew the Internet’s collective mind by detailing what he calls “The Pixar Theory,” which covers every Pixar production since Toy Story: A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Brave and Monsters University.
The theory figured out a way to tie all the narratives of each and every Pixar Animation story into the same universe from Toy Story to Brave and everything in between. The meta-narrative is pleasantly crazy, involving an escalating conflict between humans, animals, and machines. There are holes in this theory big enough to drive a Cars-sized truck through, but part of the fun is spotting them.
While this undoubtedly wasn’t the intention of the filmmakers, the fact that someone took the time to figure out a way to connect these films, and it all eerily makes perfect sense, is pretty cool.
Check out this short movie: