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Buzz lightyear spaceship8/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Each trial takes a day but, back on the faraway planet, everyone else has lived through years. Every time Buzz attempts to rocket into light speed to get help back on Earth, something goes wrong. It’s a surprisingly self-contained film - that opening title card is one of the only tethers to “Toy Story” - in which the “real” Buzz (drawn more human-like and voiced by Chris Evans, stepping in for Tim Allen), not the toy version, is marooned on a distant planet with fellow Space Ranger Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) and a spaceship full of people. So it may be a bit of a buzzkill to call “Lightyear” - the biggest kids movie to come along in a while - a failed mission. During the pandemic, “Luca,” “Soul” and “Turning Red” were all routed instead to Disney+, sometimes reportedly against the objections of Pixar’s own animators.īut “Lightyear,” helmed by “Finding Dory” co-director Angus MacLane (who made some of the “Toy Story” shorts and TV specials that have expanded the film series), arrives in theaters just as summer movies are reaching the stratosphere again. And, ironically, it’s the first Pixar film in more than two years to debut exclusively in theaters. Yet unlike that “Cars” detour, “Lightyear” bears the Pixar imprimatur. What’s compelling “Lightyear” is harder to say, but there is a bland, vaguely “Planes” feeling here that smacks of a straight-to-video spinoff. READ MORE: United Arab Emirates bans Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ from showing The “Toy Story” films, once an almost perfect trilogy, were already stretching toward infinity and beyond with “Toy Story 4,” a nine-years-later-sequel that was perhaps propelled less by a need for narrative closure than it was box-office imperatives. So should “Lightyear” have been a feature film or a Pixar short? The answer, I think, is very much the latter. Who hasn’t watched “Seinfeld” and been curious to actually see “Rochelle, Rochelle” or “Sack Lunch”? Or those pseudo Adam Sandler movies like “Mer-man” in Judd Apatow’s “Funny People”? I’ve seen the “Home Alone” movies enough to almost convince myself that “Angels With Even Filthier Souls” is a real gangster flick.īut the truth is, the appeal of all these faux-film cameos - like those that adorn Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” - is predicated on their brevity. It’s honestly a gambit - taking a fictional movie-within-a-movie and making it real - that I’ve wanted to see attempted before. We aren’t exactly through the looking glass, but we may be through the Happy Meal. It’s a potentially clever bit of reverse engineering by the Walt Disney Co., which, after decades of growing merchandizing out of its films, has reversed course. It isn’t a prequel to “Toy Story,” exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz Lightyear toys in the first place. So begins “Lightyear,” a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to the animation studio’s flagship franchise. “In 1995, Andy got a toy from his favourite movie. Agassiz Secondary Senior Boys Basketball. ![]()
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