Only 3 Pixar Movies Are Better Than 'Toy Story'

There was a time when Pixar, as an animation studio, could pretty much do no wrong, and what a time it was. The run of movies from 1995 to 2010 was, for the most part, excellent, and Pixar was releasing almost a movie a year (well, 11 in that span of about 15 years, so not too far off). This golden run was bookended by Toy Story films, and that felt fitting. Toy Story (1995) wasn’t only Pixar’s first feature film, but also the first feature-length narrative film to be done solely with computer animation, and that does forefront just how recent the idea of a feature film done in such a way is, in the overall scheme of things. In 2010, Pixar released Toy Story 3, and it felt like a remarkable finale for Toy Story, at the time. As the releases of Toy Story 4 and the upcoming Toy Story 5 show, it wasn’t a literal finale, but maybe the end of an era; the end of the story in Toy Story regarding Andy. It’s potentially a wild comparison, but it’s a bit like Godzilla vs. Destoroyah feeling like the final Godzilla movie, or a finale of sorts, but not literally being the final Godzilla movie.