The Pixar guys only run the animation division. Lasseter, the chief creative officer for the Disney and Pixar names, is the one who directed the Toy Stories, Cars and Bug’s Life, and produced all the Pixar movies.
Yes, they run the animation division and please show me one Disney movie since the merger that didn’t have the PIXAR name explicitely attached to it that was worth a damn?
In fact show me one DISNEY animated movie period worth a damn since Beauty and the Beast?
Sorry but if it doesn’t have PIXAR’s name explicitely attached to the movie, don’t hold much hope for anything out of Disney. Yes I know they are supposed to be running the animated division, but again short of the explicite Pixar movies since the merger, name me one animated movie out of Disney studios that hasn’t been crap?
There have been a few since B&B that haven’t been complete turds, but even those have been few and far between.
Eisner ran the Disney brand into the mud, and its not going to turn around anytime soon.