

China Beats Pixar | (Ep. 188)
Jul 14, 2025
47:48
Brian forces Nate to watch two new kids movie trailers... one from Pixar, and one from China.
- Pixar's new movie Elio flopped harder than anything that's come before.
- The top-grossing animated movie this year comes from China... it's Ne Zha 2, and it's made 2.2 billion (!) dollars.
- The guys talk about why Ne Zha 2's trailer is better than Elio's.
- But it still kinda stinks: The last couple years for children's animation has been very poor.
- Artificial Intelligence makes you dumber, but it will soon replace this level of bad production.
Find out what an AI future might look like on this episode of Stories Are Soul Food.