Pixar movies that made you cry

[DokiDokiTsuna]

First of all, I'm not the type to cry over a movie. Even Life is Beautiful didn't make me cry, although it DID make me extremely depressed. I kinda wish I could cry at moments like that...lets the emotions out, y'know. It's gotten to the point where, if tears come out when I yawn, I just pretend I'm sad to take advantage of the "cry moment"...but I digress...

I'm sweet on a lot of Pixar movies...I've watched Wall-E about 10 times, I really love Up and Inside Out, and I think the Good Dinosaur is vastly underrated. But for some reason, the one that brought me closest to actual tears was Monsters, Inc., a few months ago.
I've watched it a few times before, but I guess I never really paid attention to it. That time, I watched the whole thing, from beginning to end, and I just...oh...KITTY!!!!!

[Azifri]

Up is my favorite tearjerker from Pixar. The first time I saw it I was traveling on a bus, on a 6 hour trip to my University after spending a long weekend at my parents place. They started showing the movie, and even though most people didn't have their earbuds on, after some minutes the bus went quiet, and after that super sad intro I heard sobbing. It was kinda adorable how just that part of the movie made half of a bus cry. What's also cool is that you didn't need the audio to understand the message of that segment.

[ForLackOfStars]

I watched Finding Nemo in theaters as a kid, and the opening scenes with Nemo's parents turned me into a sobbing mess.

Now that I'm older, it's also definitely the intro of Up. Every time I watch it, it hits me a little harder.

[bear1]

Wall-E is my favorite pixar movie and also the one that always makes me cry, several times in the movie. The loneliness Wall-E exspiriences in the beginning, the beautiful space scenery in the middle and of course the scenes close to the end (no spoilers on my side. Those who know the movie know what I mean. Everyone else, go watch it ). I’m just sobbing all the way through.

I also can’t help it in ‘Toy Story2’, Jessie’s flashback always shreds my heart (just thinking of it brings tears into my eyes ;A;)

[Penni]

The Lava short I know that's not a move but damn did it hit my feels. As far as movies go...Brave and Coco

[AmysGames]

It's pretty rare for me to actually cry at movies. The only Pixar movie that actually got me to tear up was Inside Out. (Up and Coco got close though.)

[lil-sea-salt]

1. That short about the mom eating the dumpling always makes me cry. I relate so hard as it reminds me of my siblings and some of my struggles with my parents. (Bao)

2. Inside Out made me cry.

3. Ratatouille when everyone finds out it's a rat and leaves.

4. A Bug's Life when the grasshoppers fight

5. Monsters Inc when they leave the kid in the real world and she opens the door and it's her closet

[dawgofdawgness]

I don’t know why but Bao (short film before Incredibles 2) made me cry like a little bitch. Probably because I’ll be leaving for college pretty soon. And maybe because the characters were Asian or something

[spadesart]

coco was the only one to make me cry

[Kura]

Pixar is not really good at making me cry, I mean there are plenty of movies that have made me cry, but pixar titles are never one of them.

I think the closest they got was probably Coco and that's more because my grandmother died to cancer recently then the movie's scene.

And no, I'm not trying to sound tougher than I am, I fukin cried at the stupid ass Bolt movie. I still cry at that damn movie cause Bolt looks like a mini version of my old dog.

[ar-ninetysix]

Treasure Planet will always have my heart here. It's the Disney movie that makes the most emotional, as part of it deals with parental figures.

Treasure Planet spoilers for those who haven't watched it~

More specifically, Jim's father abandoning the family and leaving his mom to take care of her son. We can kinda assume that it takes a toll on her eventually, and while we don't see it much, we can feel how that mother/son dynamic is strained. He's rebellious, and he nearly gets arrested at the beginning of the movie! Through some events out of his control, the inn where he and his mother live in and work at gets burned down.

He feels like a failure, and once a map to the fabled Treasure Planet appears (a planet in a story his mother read with him when he was younger!) he sees it as a chance to finally prove himself to her and make her proud. Flash forward and he bonds with a crewmate who acts as his father figure, only to have that relationship betray him. Of course, with it being a Disney movie, Silver turns back around and becomes good again, but still! It was a heavy blow.

Especially after that montage and that heartbreaking scene in it.

My dad stuck with me, but my mom left the family when I was 5 and I remember crying a bunch then and having the occasional nightmare about it. My situation's different, but I knew exactly how he felt in that moment.

If you flip the parental roles around, with the birth mother leaving instead, the distant father, and Jim getting a mother figure, well.. that's pretty close to my family situation. It's why the movie resonates with me so much. I don't cry at movies like at all, but this movie catches me off-guard sometimes and gets me teary-eyed so.. close enough lol

I just realized I'm talking about a Disney movie and not a Pixar movie, but.. I wrote a good comment, and I don't wanna delete what I wrote, so I'm recommending it now lol

Ok, so how about Pixar then???

I'd have to say.. Ratatouille and maybe WALL-E are the closest ones to making me cry, like on a scale of 1 to 10, these are a.. 6? (I know, I'm a monster for not crying at the first 8 minutes of Up! I'm sorry!) Ratatouille has this attitude of "anyone can do it!" and again.. that resonates with me, considering my upbringing.

WALL-E has this lonely feel to it for quite a bit of the movie, and this scene..

..speaks volumes about how he's not just a robot. He's got feelings too. He constantly watches a couple dance while he's the last of his kind on a deserted planet. He just wants to have a connection with someone. I mean, same, dude.

[Shanny8]

Only one scene got me- in Up when Ellie died...

@Kura Bolt wasnt Pixar- that was Disney using some other animation studio.

[Kura]

@Kura Bolt wasnt Pixar- that was Disney using some other animation studio.

I'm aware???

I mentioned it as in 'there are other animated movies that have made me cry' kind of manner because pixar has yet to do it.

[Penni]

I'm not going to lie, I almost freaked out towards the end there.

[MuffinMusing]

WALL-E really gets me too. Watching it, you just want that little robot to be happy.

BTW: I know it's not related to this forum, but treasure planet also messes me up every time I watch it. I love that move. The themes about family and belonging are just, UGH!

[mrtoontastic]

No other Pixar movie made me cry except Toy Story 3. That's it. Why?

Well its the only movie franchise I continually watched even after all these years. I've been a big Toy Story fan since I had the VHS of the first movie and watched it until I nearly warped the tape. XDD I've memorized almost every line from all three movies, I've played all the games (especially mother humpin, Toy Stoey F**KIN' 2, baby. YEAH!)

But why the third movie? Well, when you're me, and these movies connected with me more than any other movie, game, or show than anything else, I thought it was all over when I saw Andy go away. Like a part of me was slowly leaving all that I've enjoyed behind, all while the soon-to-be adult me was beginning something anew. It didn't help that the movie came at a time when I was nearly getting ready to go to college myself. At that point, I just wanted to get with everything I used to have fun with, and go out with a bang. Like Buzz said in the movie, "Let's get our parts together, get ready... and go out on a high note!" And boy a high note it did.

In the back of my mind, I slightly felt it wasn't over-over and instead a big chapter coming to a satisfying end. But dang, even watching it now, I still get that feeling time and time again. It was just a really good ending to a beloved childhood trilogy. I loved Toy Story 2 to death, but I always felt that ending with Buzz and Woody talking about Andy was always somewhat foreshadowing to me. Heck, I would have been more downtrodden if we lived in a world and didn't get the Toy Story 3 we have now, and instead got the one where Buzz gets shipped to Taiwan for repairs, only to risk being destroyed.

But yeah, Toy Story 3 is the movie that's made me cry, especially in a franchise I've never given up on from day one.

[spenserw0042]

@mrtoontastic I was surprised no one else mentioned toy story 3! (Although it does warm my heart to see so many people mention Ratatouille, the best Pixar movie )

But for me it’s also Toy Story 3. I grew up watching those movies, and they targeted my nostalgia with a damn sniper rifle in the third one.

I was with new-ish friends when i saw it in theaters, and pretty much after the escape scene i was holding back tears for the rest of the movie. But when Andy has to say goodbye? I openly WEPT. And I’ve cried every time I’ve seen it since.

[NickRowler]

Coco made me cry even tho I didn't like the film.

Inside Out was sad, I suffered from childhood depression starting at age 9 or 10. It happen not long after my family moved, so I sort of related to Riley's struggle. However, I wasn't that emotional when it came to Bingbong.

The 3D animated film that really makes me cry is Meet the Robinsons. It's more of a happy cry.

[60Six]

Toy Story 3 hit me hard, but not in the same place as most people. Andy saying good bye to the toys was sad and made me tear up a little, but what actually made me lose it was a few minutes earlier in the movie when Andy was saying good bye to his mom and dog. Because I pretty much grew up with Andy, I was his age in all 3 movies and I was going to college in just a few months when Toy Story 3 came out, so when I saw him saying good bye to his mom and dog, I knew I'd be doing the same thing soon and boy that hit hard.

Inside Out hit kind of hard too, because I've also been that kid that moved across the country and left all my friends behind. I went through the same thing of trying to tough it out and tell myself everything was ok, but in the end, I had a similar break down of admitting I missed everyone and everything I knew back in my home town.

[redmancomics]

Wall-E is the closest I've come to crying watching a Pixar movie.
A WHOOOOOOOOOOOLE LIIIIIIIIFFFEE LOOOOOVVEEDDD!!!
Runner up: Up.