![]() ![]() When Buzz finally finds out that he is a toy, he becomes too depressed to help Woody, but Woody gives him words of encouragement (while also confessing how inferior he feels because of how Buzz can do so much more than him, briefly becoming depressed himself), and Buzz gradually comes to terms with what he truly is. ![]() Their misunderstanding of each other eventually leads them to being separated from Andy, captured by Sid, and subsequently taken to his house. Toy Story 4 leaves me worried about Woody out there in the world, far from the playroom, without a kid to love, and without a kid to love him.At the beginning of Toy Story, Woody and Buzz were originally rivals with Woody showing jealousy toward Buzz for apparently being replaced as Andy's favorite toy and Buzz thinking himself to be a real space ranger. ![]() There was sadness, as well as deep satisfaction. (Think again about Forky.) Toy Story 3 left me feeling that although things had hugely changed and difficult goodbyes had been said, Woody’s world was also continuing on as it had before. His place is the ranch-more specifically, the corral, where lost toys could be gathered and given purpose and community. Bo may thrive out on her own, but Woody was never meant for the Wild Wild West. It also strikes me as a strangely square move for the series to make, a sudden embrace of traditional romance (if not a pint-sized nuclear family, if you count the sheep) over the communal vision these movies have always painted. Bo Peep bats her eyes-well, she also saves his butt-and Woody no longer cares about any of that? Woody and Bo’s relationship has never been as foundational to this series as the other things Woody has always stood for: the nobility of one’s purpose as a toy the love between plaything and child (what about Bonnie!?) the cultivation of a healthy, playroom community. It’s a decision set up by the screenplay (written by Andrew Stanton and Stephany Folsom), but one that still seems to come out of nowhere. In Toy Story 4 ’s final moments, after all the missing toys have been gathered and they’re about to head home with Bonnie’s family, Woody suddenly chooses to stay with Bo Peep to travel wherever the carnival takes them. I loved this vision of Bo Peep I don’t love how she’s involved in the film’s frustrating ending. Wielding her shepherd’s crook like a lance and rumbling across the terrain with furrowed determination, she’s like a miniature Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road. Now living a free existence as a “lost toy,” Bo Peep and her three sheep careen around town in a remote-controlled car that’s disguised to look like a skunk. A flashback prologue reveals how they were separated, and later we discover that she ended up, then escaped from, the antique shop. Toy Story 4 also reunites us with Bo Peep (Annie Potts), Woody’s one-time paramour, who was missing from Toy Story 3. Compared to this, 1995’s Toy Story looks like it was made by Etch A Sketch. (The director, Josh Cooley, is making his feature debut.) With each new picture from the studio, the combination of realism and imagination is freshly astonishing-from the grit on this roadside to the rain in an earlier scene to the way Forky’s movements have both the awkwardness of a hodgepodge, kindergarten craft and the intentionality of a sentient being. This moment takes place as dawn breaks behind the pair, and the exquisite animation is evidence that Pixar has yet again moved the bar in terms of visual design. Finally convinced by Woody of his purpose as a toy-and struggling to keep up with popsicle-stick feet that make him walk like a penguin on crutches-Forky turns to Woody and asks, “Carry me?” But Woody (Tom Hanks) insists he’s a toy, in fact “the most important toy to Bonnie right now.” The film’s sweetest scene takes place after Woody and Forky have fallen out of an RV on a family vacation and are slowly walking their way back toward Bonnie along the side of the road. Literally made from scraps that Bonnie scooped out of the garbage, he’s obsessed with returning to trash cans once he gains consciousness. Voiced by Tony Hale, Forky is at once very funny and existentially distressing. Depending on which eye is looking at you, Forky is either adorable or horrifying, a cross between Gumby and Frankenstein’s monster. Sitting alone at a table on her first day, she crafts a new friend out of a spork, popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, and a mismatched pair of googly eyes. At the movie’s start, little Bonnie-who inherited Woody and the gang from a college-bound Andy at the end of Toy Story 3 -heads to kindergarten. Does it end in a way that’s worthy of the series, and Woody in particular? We’ll get there.įirst the fun, and his name is Forky. ![]()
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