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Pixar will always be known as a box office behemoth. From the heights of the mid-noughties to the recent huge success of Inside Out 2, which was the highest-grossing animated movie of all time until that record was recently broken by the Chinese blockbuster Ne Zha 2, Pixar has often drawn in huge audiences and made many of the highest-grossing movies of all time. However, through poor marketing and the lack of a big-name IP to attach it to, their latest effort, Elio, has failed to match the success of last year’s Inside Out 2, officially delivering the lowest box office opening in Pixar history.
However, despite a stuttering start to financial life, Elio has kept up Pixar’s tradition of proving popular with both audiences and critics, with an A CinemaScore and 84% critics’ Rotten Tomatoes score, hoping to push word-of-mouth and help the film bounce back from its poor $34 million opening weekend. Those who did venture out to see the film, however, are glowing in their feedback, with the movie now boasting a huge 91% audience score on the aforementioned review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. In Collider’s Ross Bonaime‘s 7/10 review of the movie, he wrote that it represents “the imagination, inventiveness, and emotion that the studio has become well-known for.”
Although falling just short of recent projects such as Inside Out 2 and Onward‘s 95%, Toy Story 4‘s 94%, and Coco‘s 94%, this huge reception from audiences is even higher than a host of beloved Pixar projects. For example, Elio already boasts a better score than the likes of Toy Story 2 (87%), Finding Nemo (86%), the original Inside Out (89%), Toy Story 3 (90%), Up (90%), Ratatouille (87%), Monsters Inc. (90%), and, remarkably, 16% higher than 2004’s The Incredibles (75%). This strong early reaction will likely boost Elio‘s chances of returning some of its reported $150 million, but a terrible start is more likely to hinder its chances of success entirely.
What Box Office Competition Does ‘Elio’ Face?
Although there are many internal factors concerning Elio‘s poor start, external issues also affect the movie. Perhaps none more so than the competition it currently faces at the box office, with a number of high-profile releases taking up theatergoers’ attention, most of which are either sequels or remakes. Among these, and topping the most recent weekend box office charts, are the likes of Tom Cruise‘s last outing as action hero Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland‘s 28 Years Later, Disney’s Lilo & Stitch remake, and Universal’s How to Train Your Dragon remake, which topped the domestic charts with $37 million.
Elio is currently available to watch in theaters.
- Release Date
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June 20, 2025
- Runtime
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99 minutes
- Director
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Adrian Molina, Domee Shi, Madeline Sharafian
- Writers
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Adrian Molina
- Producers
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Lindsey Collins, Pete Docter
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Yonas Kibreab
Elio Solis (voice)
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