Toy Story 5

[Barry]

Toy Story 5

This is a good movie, but not an outstanding one. We have met most of these characters before and most of them are in the background of this movie. Buzz and Woody are supporting players here, mostly in the background.

The main character here is Jesse. If you recall in Toy story 2, there was a sad song about how she was played with when her owner was young and abandoned when her older grew older. That is really the centerpiece of this movie which relates to that scene very often.

The premise of the movie is that tablets and iPads isolate children, and they don’t learn to play with each other. Their lives become rather solitary. Toys, invites interaction, and therefore creates friendships, something that may be missing from their lives.

I enjoyed the movie and the animation is incredible. My 10-year-old nephew gave it a six out of 10, which is about right. Well, I would give it a seven. But there was really nothing new here or innovative, but it is very watchable and there is a good lesson here.

Just stay to the very end there is a scene after the closing credits.

[bmoney]

I stopped seeing these at 3. Wonder if it’s worth seeing 4 and 5

[SRW1000]

We watched this tonight and share Barry's view; it was OK and not on par with the first three.

The plot doesn't feel very well put together.  This is partially explained in the extras where one of the writer/directors talked about how he always thought it would be cool for a specific group of characters to all do something and that got inserted into the script.  The other writer/director wanted to see a scene where two characters kiss, and that was inserted into the movie.  Both of those sequences feel tacked on, with the later happening at a key point of the movie that should be devoted to other things, feeling clunky.

I did like the message of the movie, but it was a little too obvious and didn't really offer any solutions to what is a growing problem.

Worth a watch for fans of the series, but nothing special.

[David Vaughn]

I was the only one in the family that enjoyed #4...both my wife and daughter didn't care for it at all. As for #5, we haven't even taken the time to watch it (it's available on Disney+). When you won't even watch a "free" movie, that says a lot about how one feels about it. At some point we will get around to watching it, but I've said the same thing about The Mandalorian and Grogu and still haven't watched that either (or the last Avatar movie). They all have one thing in common...they come from the House of Mouse!