Billion Dollar Toys Club
Whether or not fans feel the Toy Story series should have ended at Toy Story 3 or Toy Story 4, the franchise has not shown the slightest bit of decline — critically or financially. This year’s newest installment has shown that the revolutionary Pixar franchise still has legs with its strong box office showing. Now, according to The Wrap, Toy Story 5 has become the third film this year to make over $1 billion worldwide, as well as the third film in the franchise to cross that total. The fifth film joins Toy Story 3 from 2010 and Toy Story 4 from 2019 in this milestone. Toy Story 5 would also surpass the other two giant billion dollar hits of the year — The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and Michael.
Additionally, the newest toy adventure that sees our favorite characters take on smart tech is also the sixth movie to cross a billion dollars in Pixar history. The other Pixar films to pass this threshold include Finding Dory, Incredibles 2 and Inside Out 2. It is not predicted to overtake Inside Out 2, but it is on track to best the $1.07 billion unadjusted global total that Toy Story 4 had earned.
What did we think of Toy Story 5?
The film was getting good buzz (no pun intended) prior to its release and our Chris Bumbray echoed the positive reactions with an 8/10 review, where he says, “Toy Story 5 is terrific and, at certain moments, comes close to equaling the original trilogy. In fact, the first half hour of the film may be the strongest in the series to date, even if it begins to spin its wheels a bit later on. Ultimately, the film winds up just a notch below the original trilogy, but well ahead of the fourth movie and easily Pixar’s strongest overall film since its heyday.”
He also stated, “In the end, I had a wonderful time with Toy Story 5, which benefits from having the director of Finding Nemo and WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, at the helm. It genuinely feels designed as a full-circle experience for the kids who grew up with the original trilogy and are now in their thirties or forties, facing many of the same issues Jessie is. It’s bittersweet, often moving, and much closer to the brilliance of the original trilogy than you might expect.”
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