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RSS FeedsOpinion: There's Something Wrong With Toy Story 4
(GameSpot PS3 News)

 
 

27 june 2019 03:25:25

 
Opinion: There's Something Wrong With Toy Story 4
(GameSpot PS3 News)
 


Toy Story 4 currently has a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an 84 on Metacritic, which makes it universally acclaimed. It made $118 million in its first weekend, which set a record for the franchise. But something about this fourth outing rings hollow. In the process of putting a bow on things (assuming this is the last Toy Story film), Pixar has simplified the story to its detriment.To explain what is wrong with Toy Story 4, and why it retroactively mars the prior three films in the franchise, we must first establish a good-faith premise: that these films aspire to be more than `just kid films.` If these were `just kid films,` they would not have endured, across generations, for close to 25 years. They would not elicit uncontrollable weeping from adults.Beneath the main conceit of toys coming to life, the first three movies wrestled with deeper, more existential questions. Woody, Buzz, and company were toys, first and foremost, designed and conceived from the outset to be played with and loved by children. This is the reason why they freeze or go limp when humans are present; their toy nature overrides all other impulses, even that of self-preservation.Toys universally desire to be owned and loved. It`s why Sid`s toys don`t just hop over the fence and say, `Screw this.` On some level, they have no choice but to love Sid despite his mistreatment, because they are his. Even when they break the rules at the end of the first movie, it`s to correct Sid`s treatment of them. There`s no effort or plans to escape from the house. They only break the rules to help everybody, so that they can continue to live under Sid`s care.And when Woody convinces Buzz that he`s better off as a toy than as a space ranger, he makes his meaning plain: Bringing a child joy is the peak of a toy`s existence. Hs speech is framed in such a way that we accept it as a truth:`Being a toy is a lot better than being a Space Ranger.. look, over in that house is a kid who thinks you are the greates ...


 
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