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This may be Andy’s favorite movie, but will this be your favorite movie too with this new version of Buzz Lightyear?

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Is Lightyear A Worthy Origin Story for Buzz? | The Review of the Toy Story Spin-Off

This may be Andy's favorite movie, but will this be your favorite movie too with this new version of Buzz Lightyear?

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Hunter O'Laughlin

Glad to hear you had an enjoyable time with the film considering most of the reviews I’ve been hearing are average or mediocre. I do agree that this is worth seeing on the big screen and think people should see this more than Jurassic World: Dominion.

Anonymous

11:48 - 12:04 The reason why Lightyear was banned in my country. I wanted to see this film so badly but nope. The stupid censorship of Malaysia had to pull it off just days before it could be released where I live. Yet, they allowed Beauty and the Beast 2017 and Onward in cinemas uncut with those LGBT moments and they did allow the Owl House episodes with Amity kissing Luz on the cheek on Disney plus.

Justin Monti

As someone who is a huge fan of the Toy Story movies, I really enjoyed this movie and definitely thought it was a lot of fun, while definitely not as good as the Toy Story and not one of Pixar’s best animated films, it does work well as a Toy Story spin-off. I do agree that the story is a little weak and isn’t really the best, and what they did with Zurg in the movie did confuse me a bit, I still liked a lot about it, the animation is amazing as you would expect from a Pixar film, the humor is pretty decent, the action scenes are awesome, and the characters are really enjoyable, I’m also really impressed by Chris Evans’ performance as Buzz himself and he ended up being a great successor to Tim Allen. So overall, Lightyear is not Pixar’s strongest animated feature, but it still ended up being a really fun and enjoyable film, so I would give it an 8/10 as well, also I’m just really happy over the fact that this is the first time we finally have a Pixar animated film released exclusively on the big screen in over 2 years since the last one released exclusively in theaters was Onward back at the beginning of March of 2020 right before the pandemic hit, since Soul, Luca and Turning Red were released exclusively on Disney+ for obvious and understandable reasons, however I am hoping that despite the films underperforming opening weekend, we will still see Pixar films release exclusively on the big screen like next year with Elemental.

Russell Ray Young

I like Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins better, but this movie is still great as a summer blockbuster as a Pixar Movie, it 's good not great but good I'm glad I saw

Kenneth Stoddard

While I don’t agree with people’s rating like you and Justin Monti in giving an 8 or higher since it is more of a 7 or 6 range to me, but I can agree that this is one of Pixar weaker films and weakest of the Toy Story franchise. Don’t get me wrong my anticipation was this high ever since Across the Spiderverse was pushed to next year as Lightyear is now my only anticipated animated film of this year due to my connection with the Toy Story franchise, but I ended up feeling disappointed with how the movie turns out. I think the animation, voice acting, action scenes, score, visuals, and a few characters like Sox the cat was good, but everything else falls apart after the first act. I enjoy what it is pretty much an animated version of Interstellar of the first act, but when we get to Buzz Lightyear’s new team, that when it lose interests from me with how weak the script is. As for Zurg’s twist villain, this has to be one of the worst Disney Pixar villain twists I ever seen because while I get what it trying to do with it themes, it makes no sense as this as raises for questions than it answers. Also, without going into spoilers, I’ll give a hint that it reminds me of Lego Movie 2, but much worst. Overall, do I feel disappointed? I do but this isn’t to say I didn’t have a good time with because if it weren’t for the action scenes and Sox the cat alone, then it would’ve been a boring movie to watch not to mention watching it in IMAX because that was a great format to watch. By the way, if this is a movie that Andy watch back in 1995 in theaters that made him want him to get a Buzz Lightyear toy, then where are the Sox the cat toys and Hawthorne toys in the Toy Story universe because it create a lot more plot holes than it has to along how they handle Zurg as well? Not to mention the tone and contemporary setting because if this was released in 1995, then wouldn’t this go for something stylistic such as keeping 90s aesthetic or references other early 90s action films? I’m sorry but this movie raises more questions than it has to be.

Lady Tyler Bio Rodriguez

Yeah that's about where I am. Not great and on the lower end of the Pixar totem pole but not the worst

Hunter O'Laughlin

Where are the Mira Nova toys or the Booster toys or the XR toys before Lightyear ever came out? I know the cartoon series isn’t considered canon due to Pixar’s dislike of the show, but you’d think in the universe of Toy Story in the show there’d be toy versions of the characters from the show itself.