Quentin Tarantino loves to share his very honest thoughts on movies. He sparked backlash last year when he insulted Paul Dano and his performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood on a podcast where he also berated “stupid book critics” for not calling out Suzanne Collins for the similarities between the Hunger Games and Kinji Fukasaku’s 2000 dystopian film Battle Royale. In that same interview, he named Lee Unkrich’s Toy Story 3 the second best film of the 21st century, trailing only Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down. But that praise comes with a catch.

Tarantino has refused to watch further Toy Story films, convinced they could only mar what he considers a perfect trilogy. Even a direct plea from Toy Story 5 director Andrew Stanton and producer Lindsey Collins to reconsider isn’t likely to shake Tarantino’s resolve.

After watching Toy Story 4 and 5, I feel like he’s right about the Pixar series.

[Ed. note: This article contains spoilers for the full Toy Story series]

John Lasseter’s Toy Story was revolutionary when it premiered in 1995 as Pixar’s first feature film and the first major film made entirely with computer animation. Toy Story 2 followed in 1999, but Pixar had its hottest streak in the 2000 with a run including Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars and Up that was capped off by the release of Toy Story 3 in........

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