The accolades are pouring in.
Toy Story 5 earned the Critics Choice Seal of Distinction. Given to new movies receiving a high Critics Choice rating score in the weekly voting by the Critics Choice Association. It is a presggious mark of quality awarded to select films that achieve excepgonal ragngs and strong support from its professional membership. It funcgons as a trusted “must-watch” indicator for audiences.
Toy Story 5 also received a Certified Fresh 94% critics score and a 95% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
CinemaScore has given it an A. This is the market research firm that surveys opening-night moviegoers in North America to gauge audience reaction and predict box-office success. Theatergoers are given ballots to grade the film from A+ to F. The company then averages the ratings to establish an overall letter grade.
In Toy Story 5, director Andrew Stanton again combines the laughs with real emotion. This is Pixar’s biggest franchise and it knows how to create nostalgia with a modern story now about children becoming attached to technology instead of their toys. It leaves Woody, Buzz and Jessie evaluating their own lives.
Visually, Pixar has never been better. Every detail shows animation at its highest execution. Superb. (see other Toy Story story)
It opened to an estimated $312 million worldwide. $160 million was domestic, making it the biggest opening weekend of 2026 and the highest in the Toy
Story history. Just five days after release, it made a whopping $200 million domestically. Pixar reportedly spent around $250 million to produce it and that is before marketing costs.
Reviews have been great, word of mouth strong and school is still letting out!
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