Film Summary CDIII (Toy Story)



A rare film in where I feel a sense of nostalgia while watching it. Or at least that used to feel a sense of nostalgia. Now because new Toy Story movies come out every couple of years and everything that used to be nostalgic gets rewashed every 10 minutes the whole feelings kind of dissipated.

I'm honestly happy about that. I've never liked the idea of nostalgia. I find it kind of blinding and people are willing to needlessly praise or even demonise something because of their opinions from when they were far younger.

So looking at this film for what it is, it's fine. It's a typical Pixar film which sounds kind of strange to say given that it was Pixar's first film. But it hits all those typical story arcs that you would expect from a Pixar movie and it kind of just goes on its own course.

It has some amusing comedic moments both for children and adults and some small talk which I found more amusing than anything else in the movie. I kind of want to see the production history behind all these little toys. Where they all came from, how they started their careers, what it was like interacting with all the other toys being created the same time as them. Just the idea that there's this longer histories all these little plastic creatures that we know nothing about. It's a fun concept to play with in your head.
Of course I don't actually want a movie based on any of that is it would just be needless filler answering questions that never needed to be answer.

Here's something I've always wanted to know. How much of a toys history do they remember. Because you look at a character like Woody who in the second movie is revealed to have a far bigger background but it's clear he doesn't know any of it. And Buzz Lightyear seems to have no comprehension of his own creation or what his actual life was like before he was throwing on Andy's bed. He thinks he was part of a fictional universe and is now trying to reconnect with it.

The animation is a bit flip floppy. Some scenes involving the toys looks fantastic, other scenes look slightly unfinished and the humans are all over the place. Sometimes Andi looks like a semi realistic Barbie doll. Other times he looks like a monstrosity. He's worst animated than Sid and Sid is supposed to look weird. Actually everything revolving around Sid seems to look better than Andy. His house is better animated, his bedroom is far better animated and just a general movement seems to be more natural and flowing.



Like any of the more spacious animated films it's fun to look at the background and try and pick out all the little details. Like awkward looking posters or seeing a pair of pliers on the TV in place of the knob.

There's nothing else I can say about this film. You've all heard it before, the stories been analysed to death. Which is funny given how simplistic it is. And we all understand impact for good and worse.  It's weird looking back at this film now and trying to imagine it as a piece of art first before being a product. Because you look at Toy Story now and every time they bring it out they resell all the toys, get all the branding, create new toys to purposely sell in shopping Marts in the lake.

I remember when this movie came out. I actually owned a Woody doll. One of my cousins owns the Buzz Lightyear they were proportionately made from how they were in the film with the same material Plastics and little gimmicks. The Woody doll I owned was mainly soft with a plastic head and a little pole rope that would have Woody spouting off little cowboy dialogues. While the Buzz Lightyear had all the laser beams, voice-activated push buttons, the big expandable Wings, the helmet thing and it was made of complete plastic.
I have no idea what happened to either of those toys. Probably in a dumpster now. Thus the greatest irony given this films General theme.

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