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Pixar movies used to have a very high standard for film critics. Rotten Tomatoes has Lightyear ranked as the 3rd worst Pixar movie behind Cars (https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/all-pixar-movies-...)

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The difference being that Cars cost 70m (around 100m in 2023 dollars) and made 460m (half of that in the US).

Lightyear cost 200m and made 220m. It didn't even make a profit in the US market.

It's hard not to consider it a massive flop.

Cars was pretty great, too, so if Lightyear is less "bad" than Cars then that seems like glowing praise if anything.

You've misundertood the list, Lightyear ranks one place below Cars, so (on this list at least) it's viewed as worse than Cars. But better than Cars 3 and Cars 2.

Cars 2 was also pretty great, so my point still stands.

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