Disney-owned Pixar’s latest animated film “Lightyear” was expected to blast off last weekend, but ended up falling way short of box office expectations.
Box office analysts expected the “Toy Story” spin-off to gross $70 million and $85 million domestically and $50-60 million in offshore markets, despite having been barred in at least 14 countries over a controversial same-sex kissing scene, but the film’s total haul worldwide wound up at $85.6 million.
Earlier this year, the controversial kissing scene was apparently cut from the film, but the Disney corporation made a show of reinstating it in March amid outrage over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ (R) Parental Rights in Education bill.
Now, why would such a woke movie flop at the box office on its opening weekend?
“Blame the fact that it doesn’t appeal to girls, blame Disney+ for stealing family moviegoers, blame the lack of an ensemble Toy Story cast, heck, blame everything as Disney/Pixar’s Lightyear didn’t do its magic by internal studio or industry standards this weekend with $51M, close to a third below its lowest $70M pre-release projection,” said Deadline.com.
“Variety” lamented that the film’s lofty “ambitions were thwarted by heightened competition from Universal’s behemoth ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ and Paramount’s high-flying ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ as well as little intrigue to watch a slightly esoteric origin story about Buzz Lightyear.”
AV Club guessed that maybe “longtime fans have simply grown up and moved on and/or gotten tougher to please.”
Both Vanity Fair and Movie Web seemed to think the problem was with the movie’s “high concept premise” of making a film based on a film that was supposed to have inspired the Buzz Lightyear toy in “Toy Story.”
On the radio program Monday, Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Pat Gray weren’t afraid to call out the obvious reason Disney’s latest film fell flat: Parents are just tired of woke politics in their children’s movies. It’s really not that hard to figure out, Disney.
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