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It is hard to move past Toy Story 3, because it was such a completely perfect ending to a trilogy. After genuinely making you feel that the complete set of main characters were really in real peril, and that Pixar might actually go through with it, a tremendously deployed callback to an earlier movie triumphantly saves the day.
This is followed by a similarly perfect bookend, one that sadly underpins childhood’s end, but also reminds everyone that childhood imagination perhaps never dies. It is why an entire generation of parents who took their kids to see it left the theater with just a bit of dust… or something… in their eyes.
So, for many of us, Toy Story 4 felt kind of redundant. That didn’t stop it, though, and it powered to over $1 billion at the box office. Fromt his point, Toy Story 5 was inevitable.
Now Pixar has premiered the full-length trailer.
The new movie sees Buzz, Woody, Jessie, and the rest of the gang’s jobs challenged after the arrival of something truly terrifying – a screen! It comes in the form of the villain Lilypad, a high-tech, frog-shaped smart tablet voiced by Greta Lee. Lilypad threatens to take all of Bonnie’s attention away from the toys during playtime.
Along with the usual suspects like Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, and Joan Cusack as Jessie, the new film also stars Ernie Hudson as Combat Carl, Tony Hale as Forky, and Conan O’Brien as toilet training tech toy Smarty Pants.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton and McKenna Harris co-direct the film, which is produced by Jessica Choi.
OK, not going to lie. This one actually got me right in the feels. Being a father to two young kids under the age of ten, I have seen their wonderful playtimes slowly disappear and be replaced by screens. Minecraft and Roblox obsessions are now the order of the day. If not playing one of the infernal games, they are on YouTube watching other people playing them.
If I don’t make them shut down the laptop or put the iPad down, they would happily spend 12 hours a day on them. Dragging them outside to kick a ball around the garden, or taking them out to experience something else, is normally done under some kind of protest from them for being separated from their screens. I dread the day they want a smartphone.
So once again, the Toy Story crew might have just hit the emotional beats of the many of the parents out there.
Toy Story 5 opens on June 19th.
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