The third film in the Toy Story franchise is even more of an ensemble film than the second, but Woody and Buzz, now iconic Pixar characters, still dominate the show. To measure just how rare it is in the Pixar canon, I decided to take a look at just how many of the studio’s feature films thus far (not including the upcoming Incredibles 2) have had female main characters. Focusing on Elastigirl instead of her husband seems to make Incredibles 2 a rare female-led Pixar film. According to reviews, the storyline deals with Elastigirl heading back to work as a superhero while her husband, the protagonist of the first movie, stays home with the kids. The new Incredibles 2 focuses on the mom of the film’s central superhero family: Elastigirl, voiced by Holly Hunter. Rashida Jones told the New York Times in 2017 that she and her writing partner Will McCormick - who had, at one point, been working on the screenplay for Toy Story 4 - parted ways with the studio because of, as Jones put it, “a culture where women and people of color do not have an equal creative voice.” A 2017 Vanity Fair story was headlined, “Pixar’s Had a Problem With Women for Decades,” and cited allegations of inappropriate behavior against studio co-founder John Lasseter and the startlingly low percentage of major writing credits on Pixar films that have gone to women. But when it comes to female characters, Pixar has seemed to struggle.
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