Review of Toy Story 4 (2019) by Murlac — 25 Jun 2019

Toy Story 4 fails to convey the nice universe of our favorite toys. For starters, the writers seem to have forgotten the personalities of the original characters and the bond they share or simply they didn't care about it. It's a shame how they portray characters like Buzz as dull and plain dumb, just following a very forced narrative. Jessie hardly makes any statement nor she shows the least interest in Woody anymore. Woody easily forgets about Bullseye and I can't get the picture of him not having a leader spirit anymore. He's relegated by Dolly taking his place. He used to be the one that gave purpose to the group, instead this film wants to make him the forgotten toy that has lost all true essence. Not a single toy he lives with tries to help him out. The rest of the characters just lay aside, briefly shown and without any engagement. They focus a lot on the new characters, which is not a bad thing but the problem is how they disregard everything else, losing all logic and trying to force the plot.

To be honest, it feels like a lot of short films were made and they tried to put them together through a general line that doesn't get through. It goes without saying that it has its moments though not enough to accomplish the pixar film element, also, not enough for the Toy Story quality. There's a lot of references that may be a lot for children, making it weird sometimes.

Visually stunning, great music, a few funny jokes... entertaining in general. But lacking plot, quite bad old characters' development and ok new characters but not remarkable.

This film shouldn't had been made, not with the Toy Story name on it. If they wanted to make a story of some new toys it could have been a fine spin-off but not involving the original story line. I'm sorry to give it such a low review as Toy Story was of such a big influence to me. This might be the worst movie Pixar has developed and biggest mistake.