Pixar recap: the story so far

No. 01 · 1995 · Film

Toy Story recap

Andy's toys come to life when no one is watching, and his favorite, the cowboy doll Woody, leads them. At Andy's birthday party, Andy gets Buzz Lightyear, a space ranger action figure who believes he really is a space ranger, and Buzz quickly takes Woody's place as favorite. Jealous, Woody tries to knock Buzz behind the desk, but Buzz falls out the window, and the other toys turn on Woody. Woody and Buzz end up lost at a gas station, ride a pizza truck to Pizza Planet, and are won from a claw machine by Sid, Andy's toy-torturing neighbor. In Sid's house, Buzz sees a TV advert and realises he is just a toy; he loses an arm trying to fly. Sid plans to strap Buzz to a rocket and blow him up.

How Toy Story ends

Woody rallies Sid's mutant toys, who come to life in front of Sid and scare him out of torturing toys forever. Woody and Buzz chase Andy's moving van, and when they cannot catch it, Woody lights Buzz's rocket; they launch into the air and Buzz opens his wings to glide them into the car. At Christmas in the new house, Andy gets a puppy, and Woody and Buzz are now friends.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene; sketches of objects from the film scroll during the credits.

No. 02 · 1998 · Film

A Bug's Life recap

Every year a colony of ants on Ant Island must gather food for a gang of grasshoppers led by the cruel Hopper. The clumsy inventor Flik accidentally knocks the offering into a stream, and Hopper demands double by the end of the season. Flik volunteers to find warriors to fight the grasshoppers. In the city he hires a troupe of out-of-work circus bugs, including a ladybug, a stick insect, a black widow and a caterpillar, who think they are being booked for a show. When they all realise the mistake, the circus bugs stay anyway after saving Princess Dot, the queen's youngest daughter, from a bird. Flik plans to scare the grasshoppers off with a fake bird, and the colony builds it instead of gathering food. The circus bugs' real identity comes out, and the colony turns on Flik.

How A Bug's Life ends

Dot persuades Flik to come back when Hopper takes over the colony. The fake bird almost works until it catches fire. Flik stands up to Hopper and tells the ants they outnumber the grasshoppers, and the colony fights back. Hopper chases Flik into a real bird's nest, and the bird feeds him to her chicks. Princess Atta becomes queen, Flik's inventions are celebrated, and the circus bugs leave.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, the characters play out fake bloopers, as if the film were shot with real actors, including a cameo from Woody. There is no scene after the credits.

No. 03 · 1999 · Film

Toy Story 2 recap

Andy leaves for cowboy camp, and Woody, his arm torn, is put on the shelf. Woody rescues the penguin Wheezy from a yard sale and is stolen by Al, a toy collector who owns Al's Toy Barn. In Al's apartment, Woody learns he is a valuable collectible from a 1950s TV show, Woody's Roundup, and meets the rest of the set: the cowgirl Jessie, the horse Bullseye and the Prospector, still in his box. Al plans to sell them to a toy museum in Japan, and they can only go as a complete set. Jessie tells Woody how her owner Emily outgrew her and gave her away. Woody decides to go to Japan to be admired forever. Buzz leads Rex, Hamm, Mr. Potato Head and Slinky across town to rescue him, getting mixed up with a new Buzz Lightyear toy and Emperor Zurg at the Toy Barn.

How Toy Story 2 ends

Buzz reminds Woody that he is a toy meant to be played with, and Woody chooses Andy. The Prospector, who has never been played with, stops him, but the toys stuff him into a little girl's backpack. At the airport, Woody and Buzz rescue Jessie from the plane as it taxis, and they ride Bullseye home. Andy accepts Jessie and Bullseye, and Woody is at peace with the fact that Andy will one day grow up.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, a reel of fake bloopers plays, including the Prospector chatting up two Barbie dolls. There is no scene after the credits.

No. 04 · 2001 · Film

Monsters, Inc. recap

Monstropolis is powered by children's screams, collected by monsters who sneak into bedrooms through closet doors, and children are believed to be toxic. James P. Sullivan, known as Sulley, is Monsters, Inc.'s top scarer, and his best friend Mike Wazowski is his assistant. The city faces an energy shortage because children are getting harder to scare. Sulley finds a door left out on the scare floor, and a little girl follows him into the monster world. He names her Boo and, with Mike, tries to hide her and send her home. They discover that their rival, Randall, and the company boss, Henry J. Waternoose, are building a machine to extract screams from kidnapped children. Waternoose banishes Sulley and Mike to the Himalayas, where they meet the Abominable Snowman.

How Monsters, Inc. ends

Sulley and Mike return, rescue Boo from the machine and chase her door through the vast vault of doors, sending Randall to a human world where he is beaten with a shovel. Mike and Sulley trick Waternoose into confessing on camera, and he is arrested. Sulley returns Boo home, and her door is shredded. Sulley realises laughter makes more energy than screams and turns the company to comedy. Mike rebuilds Boo's door, and Sulley walks through to see her again.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, fake bloopers play, followed by a company stage musical Mike puts on about the events of the film. Nothing sets up a sequel.

No. 05 · 2003 · Film

Finding Nemo recap

A barracuda kills the clownfish Marlin's wife and all but one of their eggs, and Marlin raises the surviving son, Nemo, born with a small fin, with constant worry. On Nemo's first day of school, Nemo swims out to touch a boat to defy his father and is captured by a diver. Marlin sets out to find him and teams up with Dory, a blue tang with short-term memory loss. They survive a group of sharks trying to give up eating fish, an anglerfish in the deep, and a forest of jellyfish, ride the East Australian Current with sea turtles, and are swallowed by a whale. Nemo lands in a dentist's aquarium in Sydney, where the Tank Gang, led by Gill, plans to escape before Nemo is given to the dentist's niece Darla, who kills her pets.

How Finding Nemo ends

The pelican Nigel carries Marlin and Dory to the dentist's office, and Nemo plays dead and gets flushed down a drain to the sea. Father and son reunite, and when Dory is caught in a fishing net, Nemo leads the fish to swim down and break it. Back at the reef, Marlin lets Nemo go to school. The Tank Gang escape the office, still in their plastic bags, and float in the harbor.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, sea creatures swim across the screen with small gags, including a cameo from Mike Wazowski in scuba gear. There is no scene after the credits.

No. 06 · 2004 · Film

The Incredibles recap

Fifteen years after lawsuits forced superheroes into hiding, Bob Parr, once Mr. Incredible, is stuck in an insurance job, while his wife Helen, once Elastigirl, raises their children, Violet, Dash and baby Jack-Jack. Bob secretly does hero work with his friend Lucius, Frozone. A mysterious woman, Mirage, hires Bob to defeat a rogue robot on a remote island, and he gets back into shape, ordering a new suit from the designer Edna Mode. His employer is Syndrome, once Buddy, a boy fan Bob rejected, who has been killing retired heroes while perfecting his Omnidroid robot. Bob is captured. Helen finds out what he has been doing, flies to the island, and Violet and Dash stow away.

How The Incredibles ends

The family escapes and returns to the city, where Syndrome stages a fake attack with the Omnidroid so he can save the day. The Omnidroid turns on him, and the Parrs and Frozone destroy it together. Syndrome tries to kidnap Jack-Jack, who shows powers of his own; his cape is sucked into a jet engine and he dies. Months later, the family is at a track meet when a new villain, the Underminer, rises out of the ground, and they put on their masks.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene; the credits replay moments from the film in a retro animated style.

No. 07 · 2006 · Film

Cars recap

Lightning McQueen, a cocky rookie race car, ties for the Piston Cup with the veteran The King and the dirty racer Chick Hicks, forcing a tiebreaker race in California. On the way, he falls out of his transporter, Mack, and gets lost on Route 66, tearing up the main road of Radiator Springs, a forgotten town. The town's judge and doctor, Doc Hudson, sentences him to repave it. McQueen makes friends with the tow truck Mater and falls for Sally, a Porsche who left the fast lane for the town. He discovers that Doc is the Fabulous Hudson Hornet, a three-time Piston Cup champion whose career ended in a crash. He learns to slow down and helps bring the town back to life.

How Cars ends

In the tiebreaker, with Doc and the Radiator Springs cars as his pit crew, McQueen leads until Chick sends The King into a violent crash. McQueen stops just short of the finish line, goes back and pushes The King over the line so he can finish his last race. Chick wins the cup to boos, and McQueen wins respect. He turns down the Dinoco sponsorship and makes Radiator Springs his racing headquarters.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, an epilogue shows Radiator Springs thriving, and the cars watch car versions of Toy Story, Monsters, Inc. and A Bug's Life at the drive-in. The tourists Van and Minny are still lost in the desert. Nothing sets up a sequel.

No. 08 · 2007 · Film

Ratatouille recap

Remy, a rat in the French countryside, has a gift for taste and smell and idolises the late chef Auguste Gusteau, whose motto is "Anyone can cook". Separated from his colony, Remy ends up in Paris at Gusteau's restaurant, now run by the greedy head chef Skinner. Remy saves a soup ruined by the clumsy garbage boy Alfredo Linguini, and the two form a partnership: Remy hides under Linguini's hat and steers him by pulling his hair. The soup becomes a sensation, and the cook Colette trains Linguini. Skinner discovers that Linguini is Gusteau's son and rightful heir; Remy finds the proof, and Linguini takes over the restaurant. Linguini, getting famous, pushes Remy away, and Remy lets his family raid the kitchen.

How Ratatouille ends

The critic Anton Ego, who gave Gusteau's a bad review, comes to dinner. Linguini reveals the truth about Remy, and the staff walks out. Remy's family cooks, Colette returns, and Remy serves Ego ratatouille, which reminds him of his mother's cooking. Ego writes a glowing review, but health inspectors close the restaurant. Ego invests in a new bistro, La Ratatouille, run by Linguini and Colette with Remy as chef.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene; a hand-drawn Remy and other rats animate during the credits, ending with a rat on the Pixar logo.

No. 09 · 2008 · Film

WALL-E recap

In 2805, Earth is a deserted landfill, abandoned by humanity seven hundred years earlier, and a single trash-compacting robot, WALL-E, still works, collecting trinkets and watching an old musical. A sleek probe robot, EVE, lands searching for plant life, and WALL-E falls for her. When he shows her a seedling he found, she stores it and shuts down, and her ship takes her back with WALL-E clinging to the outside. They reach the Axiom, a luxury starship where generations of people float on hover chairs, overweight and absorbed in screens. The captain learns from the plant that Earth can support life again and wants to go home, but the autopilot, AUTO, is following a secret order never to return and tries to destroy the plant.

How WALL-E ends

WALL-E is crushed getting the plant into the holo-detector that will send the ship home, and the captain stands up and switches off AUTO. The Axiom lands on Earth. EVE repairs WALL-E, but his memory is lost until she kisses him and his personality returns. The humans step out onto the ground for the first time, plant the seedling, and begin farming and rebuilding with the help of the robots. WALL-E and EVE hold hands.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, still images in changing art styles show the humans and robots rebuilding Earth over generations. At the very end, WALL-E changes the bulb of the Pixar lamp. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 10 · 2009 · Film

Up recap

Carl Fredricksen and Ellie meet as children who idolise the explorer Charles Muntz and dream of Paradise Falls in South America. They marry and grow old together but never make the trip, and Ellie dies. Facing eviction, Carl, now 78, ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies off, with a stowaway: Russell, a Wilderness Explorer who needs a badge for helping the elderly. They land near the falls and walk the house the rest of the way, meeting a giant flightless bird Russell names Kevin and Dug, a talking dog with a collar that translates his thoughts. Dug belongs to Muntz, who has spent decades trying to capture the bird to clear his name. Muntz learns Kevin is with them and turns hostile.

How Up ends

Muntz captures Kevin and sets the house on fire, and Carl chooses to save the house. Settling it at the falls, he finds Ellie's adventure book, filled with their life together and her note telling him to have a new adventure. He throws his furniture out to fly the house to Muntz's airship, where he saves Kevin and Russell; Muntz falls to his death. Carl attends Russell's badge ceremony, and the house lands at Paradise Falls.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, still pictures show Carl, Russell, Dug and the other dogs enjoying life together afterward. There is no scene after the credits.

No. 11 · 2010 · Film

Toy Story 3 recap

Andy is seventeen and leaving for college. He packs Woody for college and puts the other toys in a bag for the attic, but his mother mistakes it for trash. The toys escape and, feeling abandoned, climb into a donation box for Sunnyside Daycare; Woody follows to bring them home. Sunnyside is run by Lotso, a strawberry-scented bear who welcomes them, then assigns them to the toddler room, where they are battered. Woody escapes and ends up with a little girl, Bonnie, where he learns that Lotso turned bitter after his owner replaced him. Lotso's gang resets Buzz to his factory demo mode and imprisons the others. Woody returns and leads a breakout, which ends with everyone in a dumpster bound for the landfill.

How Toy Story 3 ends

At the landfill, the toys save Lotso from a shredder, and he abandons them on a conveyor to an incinerator. They join hands, accepting death, until the aliens rescue them with a crane. Back home, Woody writes Bonnie's address on the box, and Andy gives his toys to her, then, after a pause, Woody too. Andy plays with them one last time and drives away.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, an epilogue shows Sunnyside turned into a happy place under Ken and Barbie, and Andy's old toys settling in at Bonnie's, with Buzz still dancing Spanish-style with Jessie. There is no scene after the credits.

No. 12 · 2011 · Film

Cars 2 recap

McQueen agrees to race in the World Grand Prix, set up by the oil baron Sir Miles Axlerod to promote his new alternative fuel, Allinol, and takes Mater along. In Tokyo, British spy Finn McMissile and the rookie agent Holley Shiftwell mistake Mater for an American agent and recruit him. Mater embarrasses McQueen, who snaps at him, and Mater leaves. The spies discover that the German scientist Professor Zundapp and a crew of old, unreliable cars are using a camera disguised as an electromagnetic pulse weapon to make Allinol cars explode, to discredit alternative fuel. Mater infiltrates the gang's meeting in Italy, where Grem and Acer try to take out racers, and learns they plan to kill McQueen at the London race.

How Cars 2 ends

In London, the lemons fit a bomb to Mater, which only the mastermind can switch off. Mater realises the mastermind is Axlerod himself, who planned to discredit Allinol so he could keep profiting from oil, and forces him to disarm it. Mater is knighted, and McQueen apologises. The racers come to Radiator Springs for a friendly Grand Prix, and Finn and Holley invite Mater on another mission.

No. 13 · 2012 · Film

Brave recap

In medieval Scotland, Princess Merida, daughter of King Fergus and Queen Elinor, loves archery and riding and resents her mother's lessons in being a lady. Fergus lost a leg to the demon bear Mor'du. When the heirs of three allied clans come to compete for Merida's hand, she enters the archery contest herself, wins her own hand, and fights with Elinor, slashing the family tapestry. In the forest, wisps lead her to a witch, and she buys a spell to change her mother. The cake turns Elinor into a bear. Merida learns that unless she mends "the bond torn by pride" by the second sunrise, the change will be permanent, and that Mor'du was a prince who took the same kind of spell. Merida's brothers, triplets, eat the cake and turn into bear cubs.

How Brave ends

Merida persuades the clans to let the heirs choose their own wives and mends the tapestry. Fergus, not knowing Elinor is the bear, corners her; Merida defends her, and Mor'du attacks. Elinor fights Mor'du, who is crushed under a falling standing stone. Merida wraps her mother in the tapestry and apologises, and at sunrise Elinor and the triplets become human again. Mother and daughter ride out together.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. After the credits, the castle guard with the half-cut mustache is woken by the witch's crow, which is pulling a cart of the wooden carvings Merida bought. It is a gag, not a setup.

No. 14 · 2013 · Film

Monsters University recap

As a boy on a school trip to Monsters, Inc., Mike Wazowski decides to be a scarer. Years later, he arrives at Monsters University, studies hard, and clashes with James P. Sullivan, a lazy student from a famous scaring family. Their feud breaks a canister belonging to the strict Dean Hardscrabble, and she drops both from the scaring program; Mike, she says, is simply not scary. Mike joins the misfit fraternity Oozma Kappa, and they enter the Scare Games for a chance to be readmitted, with Sulley joining when no one else will have him. Oozma Kappa, coached by Mike, keeps surviving and wins the final. Mike discovers that Sulley rigged the simulator so he would succeed.

How Monsters University ends

Hurt, Mike breaks into the door lab and goes into a real human world, a summer camp, where he fails to scare the children. Sulley follows, and together they produce a scream so big it blows the door off from the other side. Both are expelled, but Hardscrabble is impressed. They take jobs in the Monsters, Inc. mailroom and work their way up to the scare floor as a team.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, trading cards show the Monsters, Inc. scarers. After the credits, Squishy's slow-moving classmate, the slug, finally arrives for the first day of class, only to be told the school year is over.

No. 15 · 2015 · Film

Inside Out recap

Inside eleven-year-old Riley's mind, five emotions run her headquarters: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust. Joy is in charge and does not understand what Sadness is for. Riley's family moves from Minnesota to San Francisco, and on her first day at a new school, Sadness touches Riley's happy core memories, turning them sad. Joy and Sadness struggle over the memories and are sucked out of headquarters, leaving Fear, Anger and Disgust to run Riley. With her core memories gone, Riley's personality islands, family, friendship, hockey, honesty and goofball, start collapsing. Joy and Sadness travel through long-term memory, Imagination Land and the train of thought, helped by Bing Bong, Riley's forgotten imaginary friend. Anger puts the idea of running away to Minnesota into Riley's head.

How Inside Out ends

Joy and Bing Bong fall into the memory dump, where Bing Bong lets himself fade so Joy can escape. Joy understands that Sadness is what lets Riley's parents know she needs help. Back at headquarters, Joy hands over the controls; Riley gets off the bus, goes home and cries to her parents, and a new core memory forms that is both happy and sad. The emotions get a bigger console, with a button labeled puberty.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, the film peeks inside the heads of other characters, including Riley's teacher, a bus driver, a dog and a cat. There is no scene after the credits.

No. 16 · 2015 · Film

The Good Dinosaur recap

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs misses Earth, and millions of years later dinosaurs farm the land. Arlo, the youngest of three Apatosaurus children, is scared of everything and struggles to make his mark on the family's silo. His father Henry sets him to catch a creature stealing corn: a feral human boy. Arlo lets him go, and as Henry takes him after the boy, Henry dies in a flash flood. Later Arlo chases the boy, falls into the river and is swept far from home. He and the boy, whom he names Spot, become friends. On the way back they meet a Styracosaurus who collects animals, a gang of storm-chasing pterodactyls led by Thunderclap, and a family of T. rex cattle drivers, Butch, Nash and Ramsey, whom they help recover their herd from rustlers.

How The Good Dinosaur ends

Close to home, Thunderclap's pterodactyls attack and carry off Spot, and Arlo fights them in a storm and saves him from a flash flood, overcoming his fear. Spot finds a human family and, with Arlo's blessing, leaves to live with them. Arlo returns home to his mother and siblings and adds his footprint to the silo beside his family's.

No. 17 · 2016 · Film

Finding Dory recap

A year after Nemo's rescue, Dory recovers a memory of her parents, Jenny and Charlie, and of the "Jewel of Morro Bay, California". Marlin and Nemo go with her across the ocean. At the Marine Life Institute in California, Dory is caught and tagged for transfer to an aquarium in Cleveland, and meets Hank, a grumpy septopus who wants her tag so he can live in a tank in Cleveland instead of being released. Hank helps her through the institute, where she meets the near-sighted whale shark Destiny, her childhood friend, and the beluga Bailey, who uses echolocation. Marlin and Nemo get in with the help of two sea lions and a loon. Dory learns her parents went to quarantine to look for her, years ago, and her search leads her to believe they are gone.

How Finding Dory ends

Alone in the open ocean, Dory follows a trail of shells and finds her parents, who had laid shell trails for years hoping she would return. Marlin and Nemo are loaded onto the truck bound for Cleveland, and Dory and Hank hijack the truck and drive it into the sea, freeing the fish. Dory, her parents, Hank, Destiny and Bailey settle at the reef with Marlin and Nemo.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. After the credits, the Tank Gang from Finding Nemo, still floating in their plastic bags a year later, reach California and are scooped up by the Marine Life Institute. Bloat asks "Now what?"

No. 18 · 2017 · Film

Cars 3 recap

Lightning McQueen is being overtaken by a new generation of high-tech racers led by Jackson Storm, and pushing himself too hard, he crashes badly. Months later, he returns to train at the Rust-eze Racing Center, now owned by the businessman Sterling, under the young trainer Cruz Ramirez, who once dreamed of racing herself. McQueen wrecks a simulator, and Sterling wants to retire him and sell his brand, so McQueen makes a deal: if he wins the Florida 500, he decides when he retires. He and Cruz train on beaches and at a demolition derby, where Cruz wins, and McQueen snaps at her. In Thomasville, they find Doc Hudson's old mentor Smokey, who teaches McQueen how Doc found new joy in training him.

How Cars 3 ends

In the Florida 500, McQueen pulls over and lets Cruz finish the race in his place, using Doc's old trick to flip over Storm and win, with both credited. Cruz joins Tex Dinoco's team, and McQueen becomes her crew chief, painted in Doc's Fabulous Hudson Hornet colors, still racing for fun. Back in Radiator Springs, McQueen and Cruz race each other on the dirt track, the way Doc once raced him.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. After the credits, Mater sings in his shack until a ringing phone startles him, part of the roof falls, and he says "Technology." It is a gag, not a setup.

No. 19 · 2017 · Film

Coco recap

In Mexico, twelve-year-old Miguel Rivera dreams of being a musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz, but his family has banned music since his great-great-grandfather left to play and never returned. On the Day of the Dead, Miguel becomes convinced that Ernesto is that ancestor, and steals Ernesto's guitar from his tomb to play in a talent show. This curses him into the Land of the Dead, where he meets his dead relatives, led by his great-great-grandmother Imelda, who will only send him home if he gives up music. Miguel runs off to find Ernesto and meets Hector, a trickster who is fading because no one living remembers him. Miguel finds Ernesto, who poisoned Hector years ago and stole his songs, including "Remember Me". Hector is Miguel's real great-great-grandfather.

How Coco ends

Imelda and the family help expose Ernesto, who is crushed by a giant bell before a cheering crowd. Imelda blesses Miguel with no conditions, and he returns home just in time to sing "Remember Me" to his great-grandmother Coco, Hector's daughter, who remembers her father and saves him from fading. A year later, Coco has died, the family has welcomed music back, and Hector visits the family altar with Imelda.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no story scene after the credits; the credits end with a photo tribute to people the filmmakers lost.

No. 20 · 2018 · Film

Incredibles 2 recap

Moments after the first film, the Parrs fight the Underminer and fail to stop him, and superheroes remain illegal. The telecom tycoon Winston Deavor and his sister Evelyn, an inventor, want to restore their legal status with a publicity campaign, and choose Helen, Elastigirl, as its face. Bob stays home with Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack, struggling with homework, Violet's broken heart, and Jack-Jack's growing list of powers. Edna Mode helps him with a suit to control the baby. Helen fights a villain called the Screenslaver, who hypnotises people through screens, and catches a pizza delivery man in his costume. Helen realises he was being controlled himself, and the real Screenslaver is Evelyn, who hypnotises Helen.

How Incredibles 2 ends

Evelyn uses the hypnotised heroes to crash Winston's ship into the city to make supers look dangerous forever. Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack, with Frozone, free their parents, and the family steers the ship to safety. Evelyn is arrested, and superheroes become legal again. The family takes Violet on her date with Tony, then drives off to stop a car chase.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no story scene after the credits; the credits show bonus art of the heroes and the Underminer's drill.

No. 21 · 2019 · Film

Toy Story 4 recap

Years after Andy, Woody is often left in the closet at Bonnie's. On her first day of kindergarten, Bonnie makes a toy out of a spork, Forky, who sees himself as trash and keeps trying to throw himself away. On a family road trip, Woody chases Forky and finds an antique shop, where Gabby Gabby, a doll with a broken voice box, wants Woody's working one. Woody escapes and finds Bo Peep, who was given away years earlier and now lives as a lost toy with her sheep in a carnival nearby. Buzz goes after Woody and meets the carnival prize toys Ducky and Bunny, and the group recruits the Canadian stuntman toy Duke Caboom. A rescue from the antique shop goes wrong, Bo is hurt, and Woody and Bo argue.

How Toy Story 4 ends

Woody trades his voice box to Gabby Gabby for Forky, and Gabby, rejected by the girl she wanted, finds a lost girl at the carnival and comforts her. Woody returns Forky to the RV, then, with Buzz's blessing, chooses to stay with Bo as a lost toy and helps find children for toys at the carnival. He gives his sheriff badge to Jessie and says goodbye to his friends.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, short scenes show Ducky and Bunny imagining themselves as giant monsters, Forky meeting a new friend, and life at the carnival. At the Pixar logo, Duke Caboom jumps in, and the Combat Carl toys finally get the high-five they were missing. Nothing sets up a sequel.

No. 22 · 2020 · Film

Onward recap

In a modern fantasy world where magic has been replaced by technology, the elf Ian Lightfoot turns sixteen, shy and unsure, with an older brother, Barley, obsessed with magic and history. Their mother gives them a gift from their father Wilden, who died before Ian was born: a wizard's staff and a spell to bring him back for one day. Ian has the magic, but the spell fails halfway, restoring only their dad's legs. With less than a day, the brothers set off in Barley's van, Guinevere, to find another phoenix gem. They visit the Manticore's tavern, now a family restaurant, and set off a curse; their mother and the Manticore follow. Barley's quest instincts keep saving them, and the map leads back to Ian's high school.

How Onward ends

The gem sits in the school, and its curse forms a dragon from the rubble. Ian finishes the spell while Barley holds off the dragon, then lets Barley be the one to meet their father, realising Barley was the father figure he needed. Ian watches from a distance as Barley says goodbye. Afterward, Ian is more confident, and Barley gets a new van.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 23 · 2020 · Film

Soul recap

Joe Gardner, a middle school band teacher in New York, finally lands a gig with the jazz saxophonist Dorothea Williams, then falls down a manhole. His soul flees the way to the Great Beyond and ends up in the Great Before, where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Posing as a mentor, he is paired with 22, a cynical soul who has refused to go to Earth for thousands of years. They try to get Joe back to his body, but on Earth 22 lands in Joe's body and Joe in a therapy cat. Living as Joe, 22 enjoys pizza, music and talking to people, and starts to want to live. Terry, a soul counter, tracks the missing Joe.

How Soul ends

Joe gets his body back and plays the gig, but feels empty, realising the small moments 22 enjoyed were what mattered. He returns to the soul world, finds 22 lost and helps her to Earth by giving back the badge she earned. The counselor Jerry gives Joe another chance at life, and he steps back into his body determined to live every minute of it.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. After the credits, Terry the soul counter tells the audience the movie is over and to go home.

No. 24 · 2021 · Film

Luca recap

Luca Paguro is a young sea monster who lives off the Italian Riviera and has been told humans are dangerous. On land, sea monsters look human while dry. Luca meets Alberto Scorfano, a sea monster living alone on an island, and the two dream of owning a Vespa. When Luca's parents threaten to send him to the deep, he runs away with Alberto to the town of Portorosso. They team up with Giulia Marcovaldo, a girl who wants to beat the local bully, Ercole, in the Portorosso Cup, a triathlon of swimming, pasta eating and cycling, to win money for a Vespa. Luca falls in love with the idea of going to school after Giulia shows him astronomy. Jealous, Alberto reveals his sea monster form to Giulia, and Luca pretends not to know him.

How Luca ends

Luca races in the rain, and Alberto, caught by Ercole, is saved by Luca and Giulia; both boys are revealed as sea monsters. Giulia's father and the townspeople accept them, and they share the win. Alberto sells the Vespa to buy Luca a train ticket to go to school in Genoa with Giulia, and Alberto stays in Portorosso with Giulia's father.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. After the credits, Luca's uncle Ugo talks to a stray goatfish about his happy life in the depths of the ocean. It is a gag, not a setup.

No. 25 · 2022 · Film

Turning Red recap

In Toronto in 2002, thirteen-year-old Meilin Lee is a confident student who helps run her family's temple and obeys her overprotective mother, Ming. After an embarrassing night, she wakes up as a giant red panda. Ming explains that the women of the family transform whenever they feel strong emotions, an inheritance from an ancestor, and that a ritual on the next red moon will seal the panda away. Mei learns to control the panda by thinking of her friends Miriam, Priya and Abby. The friends use the panda to raise money for tickets to see the boy band 4*Town, whose concert falls on the night of the ritual. Mei performs at a party, quarrels with her friends, and Ming finds out about her scheming.

How Turning Red ends

At the ritual, Mei chooses to keep her panda and leaves for the concert. Ming's own talisman breaks and she becomes a gigantic panda, rampaging into the stadium. Mei, her friends and 4*Town confront her, and the family women perform the ritual there. In the spirit realm, Mei meets her mother as a young girl and they make peace. Mei keeps her panda, and her friends become regular visitors at the temple.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, scrapbook illustrations show Mei and her friends. After the credits, Mei's father secretly dances to 4*Town while his wife calls for him.

No. 26 · 2022 · Film · optional

Lightyear recap

Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear crash-lands an exploration ship on a hostile planet, stranding a thousand crew members. Blaming himself, he spends years test-flying a hyperspace fuel crystal, and each four-minute flight costs him four years. His commander and best friend, Alisha Hawthorne, grows old, marries and dies. Thanks to his robot cat Sox, Buzz finally succeeds, but returns to find the colony under siege by Emperor Zurg's robots. He joins a ragtag team of trainees: Alisha's granddaughter Izzy, Mo Morrison and the elderly parolee Darby Steel. They fight their way to Zurg's ship, where Zurg is revealed to be an older Buzz from an alternate future who wants the crystal to travel back and prevent the crash.

How Lightyear ends

Buzz refuses to erase the life the colonists built and destroys the crystal. The team defeats Zurg and his ship, and they return to the colony, which has learned to defend itself. Commander Burnside lets Buzz and his team form a new Space Ranger corps. The film opens with a note that this was Andy's favorite movie in 1995.

Post-credits scenes

There are three. During the credits, Commander Burnside brags about his laser shield after it vaporises a space bug. After the credits, DERIC, the ship's computer voice, finds everyone has left. At the very end, Zurg's lifeless body drifts in space and its eyes light up, hinting he may return.

No. 27 · 2023 · Film

Elemental recap

Fire elements Bernie and Cinder Lumen immigrate to Element City, where the water, earth and air elements live, and open a shop, the Fireplace. Their daughter Ember grows up to run it, though her temper keeps flaring at customers. During one outburst she bursts a pipe in the basement, and Wade Ripple, a sensitive city inspector made of water, gets swept in and writes up the shop, which would close it. Ember follows him to City Hall and convinces his boss, Gale, to drop the tickets if they find the source of leaks threatening Firetown. Ember and Wade fall in love, though fire and water cannot touch, and Ember realises she wants to be a glassmaker rather than take over the shop. They discover a broken floodgate is to blame.

How Elemental ends

Bernie retires and hands Ember the shop, but she pulls away from Wade. The floodgate gives way and floods the Fireplace, and Wade evaporates protecting Ember. Ember brings him back by making the family cry with memories, and Wade re-forms. Ember tells her parents she wants to leave the shop; they accept Wade and her choice, and she leaves for a glassmaking internship, bowing to her father as he once bowed to his.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 28 · 2024 · Film

Inside Out 2 recap

Riley is thirteen, and her emotions have built her sense of self from her good memories: "I'm a good person." The night before a hockey camp where Riley hopes to impress the high school team, the Firehawks, a puberty alarm goes off and four new emotions arrive: Anxiety, Envy, Ennui and Embarrassment. Riley learns her best friends, Bree and Grace, will go to a different school, and Anxiety takes over to make her fit in with the older players and her hero, Val. Anxiety bottles up the original emotions and sends Riley's old sense of self to the back of her mind, building a new one that says "I'm not good enough". Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust travel through Riley's mind to get her old sense of self back.

How Inside Out 2 ends

They return to headquarters during the final game to find Riley having a panic attack and Anxiety unable to stop. Joy lets Riley's good and bad memories together form a new, more complicated sense of self, and Anxiety lets go of the console. Riley calms down, makes up with Bree and Grace, and is treated as part of the team by the Firehawks. The emotions, old and new, learn to work together.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, Riley eats dinner with her family as her emotions work together. After the credits, Joy finds Riley's Deep Dark Secret in a vault. It is a joke and sets up nothing.

No. 29 · 2025 · Film

Elio recap

Elio Solis, an eleven-year-old orphan, lives with his aunt Olga, an Air Force major who gave up her dream of being an astronaut to raise him. Lonely and fascinated by the Voyager probe, he wants to be abducted by aliens. After a fight with a bully, he sends a signal from the base that causes a blackout, and Olga sends him to camp. The aliens answer, and Elio is beamed up to the Communiverse, a gathering of alien civilizations, where the ambassadors mistake him for Earth's leader. The warlord Lord Grigon threatens to take the Communiverse by force, and Elio offers to negotiate in exchange for being made an ambassador, while a clone takes his place at home. Elio takes Grigon's son Glordon hostage, and the two boys become friends; Glordon does not want to be a warrior.

How Elio ends

Grigon sees through Elio's trick with a cloned Glordon, and a mind-reading ambassador realises Elio is just a kid and sends him home. Glordon accidentally launches toward Earth and is captured at the base. Elio and Olga, reconciled, rescue Glordon and fly him back to the Communiverse, guided through debris by radio operators around the world. Grigon saves his freezing son and apologises. Elio turns down the ambassador seat and returns to Earth with Olga.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In a mid-credits scene, Elio and his bully-turned-friend Bryce reach Glordon by ham radio, and Glordon asks Elio to explain everything since he went home. After the credits, a lizard taps a lizard emoji on a phone, a tease for Pixar's next film, Hoppers.

No. 30 · 2026 · Film

Hoppers recap

Mabel Tanaka grew up loving the glade near her grandmother's house, and as a college student she fights the mayor of Beaverton, Jerry Generazzo, who plans to run a beltway through it. Her biology professor, Dr. Sam Fairfax, has built Hoppers, technology that lets a human mind control a robotic animal. Mabel hops into a robotic beaver, escapes the lab, and is taken to George, the beaver king who leads the displaced animals. She discovers that Jerry is driving the animals away with fake trees that emit sounds only animals hear, and she grows close to George. She persuades the Animal Council, made up of the monarchs of the insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds, to act against Jerry, but they decide to assassinate him. Trying to stop them, Mabel accidentally kills the Insect Queen, and her son Titus takes over the Council. Mabel is unmasked to George, and Titus forces the scientists to build a robot copy of Jerry for him to control.

How Hoppers ends

Titus, posing as Jerry, plans to use the sound trees to kill the crowd at Jerry's re-election rally. Mabel and Jerry make peace and work with the animals and scientists to stop him. Mabel unmasks his robot, the Council turns on Titus, and the Amphibian King eats him. The animals break the dam to put out a wildfire. Jerry reroutes the beltway, the glade becomes a preserve, and Mabel graduates and works for Sam, still texting George.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In a mid-credits scene, Loaf, Ellen and Tom pass Jerry's face mask around until a bird carries it off. After the credits, an old man who signed Mabel's petition opens his door to the new insect queen, whose ants deliver his groceries. Neither sets up a sequel.

No. 31 · 2026 · Film

Toy Story 5 recap

Bonnie, now eight, gets a frog-shaped tablet called Lilypad, Lily for short, and spends all her time on it, neglecting her toys. Jessie, now leading the toys, radios Woody for help, and Woody returns. When Bonnie is invited to a sleepover, Jessie and Bullseye stow away, and Bonnie is mocked for still playing with toys. Jessie and Bullseye end up at the farmhouse where Jessie's first owner, Emily, once lived, where forgotten toys and a new girl, Blaze, live. Lily gets the other toys locked away, and a crate of high-tech Buzz Lightyear toys, shipwrecked on an island, makes its way across the sea, believing Jessie is the leader of Star Command. Jessie's plan to bring Bonnie and Blaze together backfires when Bonnie's classmates mock a photo of her online.

How Toy Story 5 ends

Jessie finds a time capsule showing that Emily grew up and named her daughter after her, and regains her faith in Bonnie. With the Buzz units and Lily, who has a change of heart, the toys arrange a new meeting, and Bonnie and Blaze become friends over their love of toys. Buzz declares his love for Jessie and they kiss. Woody leaves again with Bo Peep, and the Buzz units are adopted by children at a school.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. There are two credits scenes. In one, the stranded Buzz Lightyear units reach a school playground, a lonely boy is the first child to get one, and another child pulls a high-tech Emperor Zurg toy from a backpack. A second, shorter scene follows the credits.