Elio Review: Pixar's Biggest Flop Does Serve Us Some Originality For Once
Copyright © Walt Disney, Pixar Title : Elio Director : Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina Release Date : June 20, 2025 Just a year after Pixar made a box office success with Inside Out 2 , it is a shock to see that they have made their biggest flop yet. Of course, the animation is still beautiful as expected, but almost no one watched it because of the "loss of originality" excuse. Today's film is called Elio , the Pixar film entry of this year. The approximately bloated $150-200+ million, consisting of too many rewrites and reanimations to get things right, caused this movie to unbelievably flop at the box office with $154 million worldwide. To add insult to the injury, the $21 million opening weekend was the worst for Pixar, and Disney barely advertised this movie anywhere other than just a hated trailer. Even if it did flop at the box office, it did get good reviews from critics for its imaginative appeal, but audiences were divisive for its lack...