Lynne Bell

WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD: I dearly have loved and enjoyed the Toy Story trilogy time and time again. I remember being worried when Disney/Pixar announced that they were doing Toy Story 3, when Andy was going off to college, but it turned out to be one of my favorite movies of all time. I cried when Andy's mom gasped at the empties of her grown son's room. I was terrified and emotional as all the toys took hands, knowing that they were about to face death by falling into the incinerator, and then I cried uncontrollably as Andy gave his toys to Bonnie, even Woody, seeing how much Bonnie loved him. Then his car drives off into the sunset. I thought that wrapped up Toy Story into a neat, beautifully created trilogy. I was both disappointed and excited when I heard they were going to do Toy Story 4, but since TS3 wrapped up everything so beautifully, I could not imaging what else needed to happen. Toy Story 4 is an awesome movie and I highly recommend seeing it. If you like comedy, it is my opinion that 4 is the most comical of the series, especially with the plush toys from the carnival. Forky is an endearing, comical new addition to the Toy Story Crew and it is nice to see him growing and developing as the movie goes along. However, Toy Story 4 leaves me now needing a Toy Story 5 to wrap everything back up again. Bonnie, the charming little girl to whom Andy entrusted his most beloved toys, seems to have little regard for them (except Forky) in Toy Story 4. Woody, who has maintained throughout the series that toys serve their children no matter what, has a change of heart and ends up leaving Bonnie for good at the end of the movie in order to go help Bo match carnival and lost toys with loving children. Though we are not shown directly, it is implied that Bonnie thinks very little of Woody's disappearance and goes on about her life like he was never there. I was left thinking, "What is Andy going to think and say if someday he comes back to visit Bonnie and his beloved toys?"...Yeah, I don't think that would go too well. (Toy Story 5 - The gang has to defend Andy and help break him out of prison after he goes psycho on Bonnie.) Okay...his reaction wouldn't be that serious, but you get my point, there are loose ends again. Also, when I realized that Woody was going to stay with Bo, I was expecting tear-jerking, heart-wrenching goodbyes with Woody and his long-time friends, especially Buzz. However, this too was anticlimactic, as they all just look at him lovingly and watch him walk away. Woody doesn't seem to show much emotion about leaving, either. I mean, come on...these were your family, you best friends and allies and you are never going to see them again!! I also found the Buzz and the conscience/little voice to be inappropriate. Buzz is a smart toy and you can't get me to believe that he had never heard of or felt a conscience and then believes that it is his prerecorded statements a child gets when he/she presses a button. The villains were creepy (especially for my 15-year-old son who HATES old, creepy dolls). I was too busy laughing at him, to be honest, to fully engage in the darkness being portrayed. However, Gaby Gaby actually turns out to be a nice toy who just wants a child to love. I even felt sorry for her when her beloved Harmony rejects her and literally throws her into a box. So, overall, Pixar did not do the Toy Story saga an injustice. It is a great, great movie. But something that had been wrapped up with such a beautiful and endearing bow now has been untied and unwrapped and I hope that there is a Toy Story 5 so those loose ends can be tied together.