‘Toy Story 5’ trailer actually looks pretty great?
Toy Story sequels carry some of the most enormous risk in all of continuing cinema, as not a single furthered installment in the saga of Woody and Buzz has hit a false note.
Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 are genre masterpieces, arguably surpassing the original in certain ways in emotional depth and sheer creativity in storytelling. Plus, Toy Story 3‘s ending is unimpeachable for tying together the Andy trilogy with as resonant a bow as you could find. It always felt incredibly dangerous to tamper with its finality.
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Toy Story 4 took a wee bit of a step down, but it still clobbered you in the jaw right when it needed to more than justify its existence. Pixar got lucky by reopening the sacred door; Toy Story movies remained pretty great.
However, what happens when you hit a false note with one of the most sacred film series of all time just in the name of studio capital? Blessedly, our first glimpse at Toy Story 5 assuages a bit of that concern… for now.
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The new film will have to explain how Woody returns to Bonnie’s room after leaving the toy gang at the end of Toy Story 4 to reunite with Bo Peep. However, diving into the world of iPad kids from the view of the most iconic toys in movie history is a pretty ingenious concept to warrant a fifth Toy Story film.
Pixar legend Andrew Stanton, the mastermind behind classics like Finding Nemo and Wall-e who also worked on all the previous Toy Story films, writing and directing Toy Story 5 is a huge boost for confidence. Stanton hasn’t missed as a filmmaker (John Carter forever), and he’s the perfect person to prevent the world from suffering the unshakable sorrow of a bad Toy Story movie. Few things could be so cruel as to endure such a nightmare.
The voice cast adding names like Greta Lee and Conan O’Brien holds plenty of intrigue, too, with Lee voicing what seems to be a rather villainous tablet named Lilypad. Screens have largely captured the imaginations of children across the globe, and the Toy Story world seemingly taking that pernicious trend to task presents ample possibility.
While we’ll wait with the sheepish anxiety of Rex the dinosaur for the film’s June 19, 2026, release, we’ll take heart that this brief tease hits with the same marketing command of the first two Toy Story films — confident taglines in big, bold letters heralding the arrival of something special and unique. Land the plane, and we’ll all be peachy.
Also, can we check back in with the new film’s army of Buzz Lightyear toys?
This already looks better than Lightyear; that’s for sure.
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