Ten years after its release, The Good Dinosaur looks weirder and better than ever

Pixar prepared an unusual anniversary gift for itself in 2015. Twenty years after the release of Toy Story, a landmark feat of computer animation and the first in an unprecedented string of successes that turned Pixar into the most successful American animation studio of all time, the studio was set to release two movies — both originals. The first, Inside Out, was a critically beloved smash that summer. The second seemed like a slam-dunk, too, tackling a child-beloved subject new to Pixar — dinosaurs! — that saw a big-screen resurgence with the recent success of Jurassic World. Then the company actually released The Good Dinosaur, and celebrated 20 years since Toy Story with its first-ever box office bomb. Another decade later, that movie stands out as perhaps the most honorable and worthwhile of Pixar’s most notorious underperformers.