15 Highest Grossing Movies Of The Decade: Ranked Worst To Best

7. Toy Story 3

Worldwide Box Office: $1.063 billion

All-Time Ranking: #18

2010s Ranking: #14

Children's animation always does well at the box office, especially if they have the Pixar stamp of quality, but Toy Story 3 had the added bonus of also playing to an entire generation of teenagers conditioned to already be nostalgic for their own childhoods; no wonder it became the highest grossing animated movie ever for a time.

But here's the thing; the rounding off of the Toy Story trilogy isn't quite as perfect as its lofty reputation would suggest. It is a Pixar movie, so brings with it a professional sheen, and it does a solid job of capturing that feeling of late-in-the-day recollection, but it never quite hits the heights of the previous two films. The jokes are more obvious (Mr. Potato Head as a tortilla is particularly egregious), the daycare plot has minimal impact on the wider story and its emotional beats are, if we're being honest, a tad manipulative.

What really holds it back is that, when distilled down, it's really just repeating a lot of prominent elements from Toy Story 2 - the situation with Lotso is a direct repeat of Al and Stinky Pete, and the whole idea of the toys accepting Andy growing up was the emotional crux of the first sequel.