By the way, I LOVE tomatoes! *Don't throw me in the briarpatch! hahahahhaa*
So I'm making soup and doing a dozen other things, and I'm thinking about my statement about age/girl thing...and I realize that rotten tomatoes might start coming my way. Let me try to explain without digging my hole deeper. For me, personally, TS was barely a blip on my radar. I was 24 when it came out, and still a little suspect, frankly, of computer-generated animation. I had seen bad cg animation, and I thought that it was the wave of the future I suppose, that it would forever replace the art of hand drawn animation. It looked clever enough, but that just wasn't enough to get my notice at the time. In fact, I would say that I didn't really fall in love with Pixar until Nemo, and then I went back and loved predecessors. (I saw TS2 well after its release, well after Nemo, and then watched TS.)
Now, credit DH for exposing me to TS and keeping the love alive. He is 6 years my junior, and actually saw TS at its release. My daughter, has a healthy appreciation for fairy tales and other genres, including the TS franchise.
Hope this explains a little. OH - and since I'm here, I'll bring up something else I was thinking about. I think the themes of Cars - no man is an island, the pillaging of our small towns and small businesses by interstates and big box stores - really resonated with me. Supporting local business is something that's important to me.
Hmmm...maybe I should do a research paper and stop boring all of you with my musings. 