We’ve got some good news for anyone who missed out on the chance to see Toy Story 5 in cinemas over the summer.
On Wednesday, the fifth instalment in the award-winning animated film series began streaming exclusively on Disney+, following its huge box office success earlier in the year.
Toy Story 5 first hit cinemas in June, earning mostly positive reviews from critics, with HuffPost UK’s take calling it “not just a return to form for the beloved animated series, but for Pixar in general”.
Compared to the first four films in the franchise, heroes Woody and Buzz Lightyear take something of a back seat in Toy Story 5, allowing Joan Cusack’s character Jessie to step into the foreground.
Thematically, the movie explores the various pitfalls of modern technology, particularly in the family home and among young people, thanks to the introduction of LilyPad, a learning tablet who poses a threat to the toys we know and love.
At the box office, Toy Story 5 was a hit for Disney and Pixar, grossing more than a billion worldwide to become the highest-grossing animated movie of 2026 so far, as well as the year’s third-highest-grossing film overall (behind only Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey).
It also featured a new song from Taylor Swift written just for the movie, titled I Knew It, I Knew You, which reached number one on both sides of the Atlantic upon its release.
While a sixth Toy Story movie is yet to be officially announced, writer-director Andrew Stanton did suggest that it could happen at the latest film’s premiere. He claimed that while the first three films in the series represented “the Andy years”, a new “trilogy” had been set in motion with the introduction of Bonnie.
Other forthcoming films currently in the works at Pixar include new sequels to The Incredibles and Coco.
