Pixar Movie Comparison Guide

Explore the Data

The movies below are sorted from highest to lowest by Rotten Tomatoes score. The yellow column is the core comparison column for this page.

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Movie	Year	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic	Worldwide Box Office	Budget
Toy Story	1995	100%	96	$401.2M	$30M
Toy Story 2	1999	100%	88	$511.4M	$90M
Finding Nemo	2003	99%	90	$871.0M	$94M
Up	2009	98%	88	$735.1M	$175M
Toy Story 3	2010	98%	92	$1.067B	$200M
Inside Out	2015	98%	94	$857.6M	$175M
Ratatouille	2007	96%	96	$623.7M	$150M
Toy Story 4	2019	96%	84	$1.073B	$200M
WALL-E	2008	95%	95	$521.3M	$180M
Inside Out 2	2024	91%	73	$1.699B	$200M

Figure 1. Ten selected Pixar movies compared by critical reception, worldwide box office performance, and production budget.

Movie Summary

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How to Use This Data

The table can help us look beyond a movie's individual numbers and compare how different measurements of success relate to one another. Click either example below to highlight the movies being discussed.

Example 1: Does the best-reviewed movie make the most money?

Toy Story has a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, making it one of the highest-rated movies in this dataset. However, its worldwide box office total is about $401.2 million. Inside Out 2 has a lower Rotten Tomatoes score of 91%, but earned approximately $1.699 billion worldwide. This comparison suggests that being the most critically successful movie does not automatically mean being the most financially successful movie.

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Example 2: Similar reviews, different financial results

Ratatouille and Toy Story 4 both have a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score, meaning critics responded very positively to both movies. However, Ratatouille earned about $623.7 million worldwide while Toy Story 4 earned more than $1.07 billion. Their similar critic scores but very different box office results show that factors other than critical reception, such as franchise popularity, release timing, and audience interest, may influence commercial performance.

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Glossary

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Rotten Tomatoes Score: The percentage of professional critic reviews categorized as positive by Rotten Tomatoes. For example, a score of 96% means that 96% of the counted critic reviews were positive.
Metacritic Score: A weighted score from 0 to 100 based on reviews from professional critics. Unlike Rotten Tomatoes, which focuses on the percentage of positive reviews, Metacritic attempts to represent the overall strength of those reviews.
Worldwide Box Office: The amount of money a movie earned through theatrical ticket sales around the world. This includes both domestic and international theaters.
Production Budget: The estimated amount of money spent producing the movie. This generally does not represent every additional expense, such as worldwide marketing.
Critical Success: How positively a movie is evaluated by professional critics. On this page, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores are used as measurements of critical success.
Commercial Success: How strongly a movie performs financially. On this page, worldwide box office revenue is used as the primary measurement of commercial success.

Data Sources

Movie ratings, budgets, and box office information were compiled using Rotten Tomatoes and published Pixar film data.

Rotten Tomatoes: All Pixar Movies Ranked
List of Pixar Films