Toy Story 5 (2026)
Animation, Family, Comedy, Adventure
The Kernel take
Toy Story 5 posted the lowest Metascore of the five-film franchise (73, generally favorable, versus Toy Story 4's 84) yet still opened to the second-biggest weekend in Pixar history and crossed $958M worldwide, showing that for an established family franchise, brand loyalty and built-in audience turnout can decouple commercial outcomes from critical consensus.
Director track record: Andrew Stanton
Toy Story 5 (73) sits modestly above Andrew Stanton's 70.5-point career average across six films — solid, though nowhere near his career-best WALL·E (95) or Finding Nemo (90).
Lead track record: Tom Hanks
Toy Story 5 (73) is comfortably above Tom Hanks' 65.7-point average across 28 scored film roles, in a filmography that spans everything from Toy Story's own 96-point original to lower-scored studio comedies.
Box office
Budget $250M · Box office $958.4M
The film front-loaded hard, with weekend-over-weekend drops of -55.6% and -57.2% in its second and third weekends, but the decline moderated to -37.3% and -27.6% by weekends four and five, indicating a steadier long-tail hold typical of a summer family tentpole once the opening-driven rush subsided.