I remember the seeing the first Toy Story in the cinema 31 years ago. It feels slightly weird that after all these years I am back in a cinema watching the latest Toy Story film. There is a valid question as to whether they should make any more but as they keep making money they will keep being made. Seven years after the fourth instalment Jessie has now become the head of the group but things start to go wrong when Bonnie gets a tablet called Lilypad who is forcing her to make friends via the tech instead of in person.
There are aspects of the plot which do feel like they are borrowed from the first Toy Story film. A new toy comes into the establish world of the toys already there and as the film progressed they learn t put their differences to one side. It’s not the most blatant reuse of a plot but it was an interesting observation. I do like how the message about being mindful with tech is quite relevant in today’s world and the film manages to not go overboard with the message and instead of saying tech is bad it says that tech could be bad.
I thought that Smarty Pants was the best character in the film. There were a lot more jokes aimed at the adults that there seems to have been recently and they were quite funny. All the tech toys were quite good and used in the story well enough to justify being there. The romance between Buzz and Jessie was nicely done in the story and added a bit of romance to the story. The story itself was probably the main issue with the film. It felt like there was a lot of baggage to what was going on. The first one was quite simple in comparison but this one felt like there was a bit too much going on and the whole bit with all the buzz’s felt like that could have been reduced to 60 seconds instead of cut and spread through the first half of the film.
It is weird to see Woody reduced to an almost cameo role in the film given how integral to the series but I suppose its the gradual progression in this series to keep the films interesting. It would have been nice to have Duke Caboom in it a bit more. Any excuse to have more Keanu Reeves in a movie is always good and its a shame that he is tagged with Bo Peep cause he gets about 10 words in the entire film. A lot of the characters were reduced to cameo roles which is a shame but inevitable when you have the bloated plot and a high number of characters with a lot of them quite popular.
I thought that with the fourth one, they got away with it and that there shouldn’t be any more and with this they just about got away with it and i hope that they dont do anymore but with Disney being short of hits nowadays its seems like sooner or later we will get a sixth outing. It’s not a terrible film by any means but it certainly lacks the magic that the original gave us and even the second and third ones. I think when the sixth one comes out, they need to try and inject the story with the magic that has made this franchise as loved as it has.
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