Toy Story 4 review

Disney and Pixar have certainly done the cash grab sequels(TWO Cars sequels?), but the Toy Story ones didn't feel like them. They also are the only Pixar sequels that are better than the original, although I liked Finding Dory and Monsters University fine.

The almost 10 years later Toy Story 4 screamed cash grab. 3 ended the story very well. And since 3 we have seen all the sequels to other movies that failed to recapture the magic. Plus the trailers looked very average.

But thankfully Toy Story 4 is good. It's not great. It's easily the weakest of the series, but even if it was created as much for financial reasons as artistic ones they found a solid story worth telling.

1-3 are really works of art. 4 is more of just a fun little adventure. It lacks the depth and laugh out loud humor of the others.

It introduces quite a few major new characters that take up a bulk of the screen time. I liked the stuffed animals voiced by Key and Peele. The stuntman figure voiced by Keanu Reeves was fun. The de facto villain Gabby Gabby has a good arc. And Forky, the decorated spork who sets the story in motion, is amusing.

Problem is that really sidelines all the familiar characters other than Woody. Buzz is very much a secondary character here, and as for Ham and Rex and all them, they barely show up at all.

The movie still almost gets all the feels at the end (and bizarrely has one part nearly identical to the finale of Endgame).

I'd rank the series 2-1-3-4

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