Currently sitting on $444M paying $2.22

Profitable, but barely — I'm not sure this measures up as a "comeback", but how do you measure it?

Eileen Jones from Jacobin called the film "so boring and unmemorable that it seems like a new low for the famed animation company" in an article titled "Elemental Takes Pixar’s Propaganda to a Whole New Level."

So, finances aren't stellar, and reviews like this are hardly sparkling. If this is a comeback, I'd be interested in the benchmark by which it was determined as such.