Every Highest Grossing Film Since 2000 Ranked

14. Toy Story 3

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Year: 2010

Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Inception, Shrek Forever After, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Iron Man 2, Tangled, Despicable Me and How to Train Your Dragon.

This is going to be an enormously unpopular opinion, but Toy Story 3 is arguably one of Pixar's lower-tier offerings.

Pixar's widely-anticipated threequel has lost its magic on subsequent viewings. You could watch the other Toy Story films 50 times and get something new out of them every time, but this one dropped enormously after only two viewings.

Looking at it now, aside from the great animation and some terrific scenes it just doesn't have that same punch. It feels more like a generic prison-break movie and never feels as powerful as the first two, with the action sequences in particular being seriously underwhelming.

It definitely has its issues, but it's still overall a good film. There are some seriously beautiful scenes in Toy Story 3 and it does succeed as a meditation on the poignancy of aging, with the final scene in particular being a real tearjerker.

And hey, at least Alice in Wonderland wasn't the year's biggest hit.

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