Inside Out has passed Incredibles 2 to become Pixar’s top-grossing movie of all time, with global box office ticket sales reaching $1.251 billion.
Based on the most recent numbers, Inside Out 2 has jumped past Incredibles 2’s $1.242 billion and now only sits behind Frozen’s $1.274 billion, The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s $1.361 billion, and Frozen 2’s $1.451 billion on the list of the top-grossing animated films of all time.
This sequel to 2015’s Inside Out 2 was also the fastest animated film to reach $1 billion worldwide, the first film since 2023’s Barbie to earn $1 billion, and is the top-grossing movie of 2024. Regarding that last accolade, it has a big lead in front as Dune: Part Two is in a distant second place at $711.844 million.
Domestically, Inside Out 2 has brought in $543.5 million and has taken third place on the list of the top-grossing animated films in North America. It only has The Lion King’s $543.638 and Incredibles 2’s $608.581 million to try and overcome.
When comparing Inside Out 2 to all other films, it is currently at 17th domestically and 23rd globally.
This is a big win for Disney and Pixar, especially after the rough few years the animation studio faced beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic and the decision to release Onward digitally just two weeks after it was released in theaters. .
Soul, Luca, and Turning Red would follow and all were released exclusively on Disney+, and there wasn’t a Pixar film in theaters until 2022’s Lightyear. Elemental started a bit of a resurgence for Pixar, however, as it grossed nearly $500 million globally and was the biggest original animated movie since 2017’s Coco. Despite that good news, the studio was hit with layoffs in the past year
In our Inside Out 2 review, we said, “While its chaotic new cast serves a clear purpose, Inside Out 2 is more metaphor than meaning. It explains plenty about the confusing emotions associated with puberty, often in intelligent ways, but it rarely lets them be felt or experienced, the way its predecessor did. It also fails to live up to Pixar’s own high watermarks for emotionally driven tales of adolescence – movies like Luca and Turning Red – so it feels like a step down in several regards.”
For more, check out our behind-the-scenes tour of Pixar’s studios, our rankings of the best Pixar movies, and why Pixar’s Pete Docter doesn’t want the studio to do live-action remakes.
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