Every Toy Story Movie Ranked from Worst to Best

Toy Story 4 (2019)
Toy Story 4 (2019)

Here is Cinephile Corner’s ranking of every Toy Story movie from worst to best:

5. Lightyear (2022)

Lightyear (2022)

There’s a lack of interesting, personable characters within Lightyear, as if they were all typecast from other Pixar movies. They’re either sentimentally sweet, aloof, or arrogant. And maybe the movie could’ve been saved had these characters had more time to develop and interact, but that aspect of the film is tossed aside frequently for big action set pieces and rambunctious chase sequences.

Read our full review of Lightyear

4. Toy Story 2 (1999)

Toy Story 2 (1999)

3. Toy Story 4 (2019)

Toy Story 4 (2019)

I was certainly in that camp in 2019, always favoring original stories over rehashes of the same material over and over (I’ll probably act the same way when Toy Story 5 nears because I clearly haven’t learned my lesson). Toy Story 4 quickly expels any notion that it shouldn’t exist – the different themes and new characters actually make the franchise as engaging as ever.

Read our full review of Toy Story 4

2. Toy Story (1995)

Toy Story (1995)

1. Toy Story 3 (2010)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

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