Having mastered the anthropomorphic, Pixar’s attempts to bring people to life have always been so-so. Sid from Toy Story was far less lifelike than his plastic co stars, and it took until The Incredibles for the artists to realise that full on realism was to be avoided, instead going for a kind of Muppet influenced characterisation that was rounded out in Ratatouille, and is finally perfected here.
