Lightyear (Pixar, 2022)

It really is odd, are there any plans for a similar treatment of Woody's Roundup?

Buzz Lightyear has hair 

I disagree. It’s a novel approach to extending the franchise which came to an end. Puts a twist on it & makes it interesting to both an existing and new audience without detracting from the original movies.

And they absolutely should do a Disney+ TV series of “Woodys Roundup”. Amazed they haven’t to be honest.

I'm sceptical of him only having one word in the trailer.

Presumably they don't want anyone to know its not Tim Allen doing the voice

Just because someone made those interpretational connections doesn't necessarily mean they were at all in the minds of the creators... For instance Woody has always been seen as a reference to Woody Strode, the actor famous for Westerns, while Buzz was always seen as a reference to Buzz Aldrin for obvious reasons.

"There's a snake in my boot", also long predates Toy Story as a western/cowboy term, was apparently a way of saying something felt wrong, like a sense of foreboding. And apparently was even used as an equivalent to the way we talk about 'the fear' after drinking. (and also just the very literal and rational fear of, y'know, being out in the wilderness and finding a snake in your boot...)

Dude, you’re doing yourself a disservice

Toy Story 6 is the super rare “Godfather 2 of animation”.

A sequel so good it surpasses the original.

I was kind-of shocked by the “hooker” joke in the first Toy Story movie. But I would never have seen it without it being pointed out. It’s normal to have some adult jokes in animation. Monsters vs. Aliens is full of them.

ewe 😁

Saw this earlier and it starts off really well, for the first half hour or so it's a cracking film. But it just loses momentum after that and I found my attention drifting and by the end I'd kind of checked out. It's a shame because like I said it starts off so well and there was real potential for something special here. After the success of Top Gun Maverick I think disney will need to reconsider their "Woke" approach, its not working. People know instinctively when they're being lectured to and told what they should like and dislike and that expression "Go woke, go broke" has some validity to it. Anyway its an Ok film all in all but it could've been a lot better.

A solid flop by all accounts, seems like the money men at Disney will need to take the creatives out to the wood chipper lol

Yeah, that's a CRAZY quick turnaround. TBH though, once upon a time this would have been a straight-to-video/DVD release. Not saying that is a cheap and nasty poorly-animated product to churn out just to make a few bob..... Well... Not EXACTLY saying that.

I mean this did smack of an easy, if not stellar (No pun intended) cash-in. Sort of like the stuff Disney used to churn out: Sequels concentrating on side characters or retelling the same story from different points of view (So they can re-use/copy animation from original).Which is a pity because there are obviously some very talented animators/technical teams involved.

Pixar just about got away with Toy Story 4: It wasn't needed but it didn't tarnish the brand (And Keanu Reeves was hilarious). But come on now."Live action" remake after remake, inferior sequel after sequel (Monsters University was a SPECTACULARLY missed opportunity. So much potential but barely touched).

In the breath of 15 years Pixar gave us:

• A perfect Toy Story trilogy with a very definite start, middle and finish. A heartbreaking but uplifiting trilogy that aged along with its audience.
• An insect version of The Magnificent 7 (My least favourite of early Pixar)
• A story about blue-collar 9-5 workers who just so happen to scare kids for a living
• A very simple story about family and loss and moving on... with fish
• A superhero movie
• A story about the benefits of slowing down and appreciating life... as a car
• A chef rat (I must watch that again. Haven't seen it in years)
• A lost and abandoned robot who finds love
• Another heartbreaking story about loss and moving on but at a VERY human level.... plus talking dogs

I'm not gonna go all Scorsese and shake my fist as sequels and remakes..... Just POINTLESS sequels ad remakes 😀. I mean, honest to god, did we NEED a "live action" version of The Lion King? THE LION KING!!!! IMHO, the pinnacle of Disney. I remember seeing first time round and then a few years ago when re-released. The cinema was packed even second time round. Kids clung to the seat in front. More than a few sniffles (From kids and adults) when Mufasa died. Really? You want to remake that with uncanny-valley digital animals?

And they (And Disney) have released some great animated movies since, of course. Turning Red, Frozen (OK, OK, we know "that" song was played to death but it is still a good movie with a nice message), Moana.

But.... I don't know, there sems to be a stagnation at the moment. Maybe it IS just cheap-and-nasty stuff to fill in the Disney+ hours.....

TLDR: Old man (me) bemoaning the latest stagnation of Disney/Pixar