Nine years after the first film, Inside Out 2 turned the global box office on its head. It doubled the take of the first movie, racking up a phenomenal $1.7 billion (£1.3bn) worldwide, and it rapidly became Pixar’s biggest box office hit and the highest-grossing animated feature of all time. It ended 2024 as the highest-grossing film of the year and the eighth highest-grossing movie of all time.

Despite missing out at the Oscars, Inside Out 2 was seen as something of a comeback for Pixar, coming after several years of mixed commercial results and the upheaval of the pandemic. It currently stands as Pixar’s biggest commercial success.

Remarkably, it lost its highest-grossing animated movie crown the very next year, when it was leapfrogged by Zootopia 2 (Zootropolis 2 in the UK) and Ne Zha 2. Time will tell if Toy Story 5 can put Pixar back on top.

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