What it was like
Pixar built an entire generation's imagination. The Toy Story films taught children how to feel things before they had the vocabulary for it — what it means to be loved, to be left behind, to grow up, to let go. Toy Story 5 opens June 19th, 2026 at theaters nationwide, from $15, and it is arriving into a world where the people who grew up with Woody and Buzz are now the ones buying the tickets.
There is a specific experience that happens in a theater during a Pixar film that doesn't exist anywhere else. Adults who thought they were just bringing their kids find themselves caught completely off guard at the end of act two. The person next to you laughs at the same moment you do. Someone in the back left section cries and makes everyone else feel something too. The shared reaction is part of the film.
Opening weekend is when that energy is fullest. The theater is full of people who waited, who have opinions already, who will want to talk about it immediately after. From $15 at theaters everywhere. See it with someone who will need to process it afterward. That's the right way to watch a Pixar film — not later, not at home, in the room with everyone else while it's still new.