Mother-in-law jokes a thing of the past? Not at Pixar | Hadley Freeman

The studio's new movie Soul, starring an annoying' Tina Fey, has just updated them for a new generation

It's always weird when a good film suddenly lets you down - like meeting someone at a party who you think might become a proper friend, and then they turn around, bend over and fart. Like, really? I expected better of you, man.

For me this happened (almost literally) with Bridesmaids, a terrifically smart comedy about female friendship, aside from the scene in which all the women develop chronic - and public - diarrhoea. And it happened with Booksmart, which zings with subtle truths about dorky teenage girls, aside from the pointless running joke about a female teacher sleeping with a student. Dontcha love movies that celebrate women, but also gratuitously humiliate them?