The theme is at its most poignant in Toy Story and its two heart-wrenching sequels, but it crops up elsewhere in the company’s canon. Finding Nemo is built on the anxieties of Nemo’s father, a widower packing his son off to school. In Monsters, Inc., Sulley and Mike are regular Joes who clock into work in a factory every morning, while the child in the film, Boo, is a problem they have to deal with. In Up, Carl Fredricksen is an embittered widower who never managed to go on the globe-trotting adventures that he and his wife always planned; and he, too, is landed with a small child to look after.

And in The Incredibles, Mr Incredible is forced to abandon his crime-fighting exploits and get an office job. It says a lot about the Pixar mindset that the one character in The Incredibles who has tried to fulfil his childhood dreams is Syndrome, the psychotic villain – and he ends up being sucked into a jet engine. His mistake, as Buzz could have told him, was thinking that he could fly, whereas the best we can hope for is “falling with style”.