Toy Story 4, Finding Dory, Monsters University and now Lightyear: all Pixar sequels that are perfectly pleasant, reasonable and utterly superfluous films. The high-concept at play here is that this is the film that was Andy's favourite movie that led to his desire for a Buzz Lightyear toy in the original film, and it feels like a meta-step too far. Whereas properties like WandaVision and Obi-Wan work because they weave their stories into the the established worlds and characters whilst at he same time give them development and purpose, Lightyear clearly misses the ensemble of the Toy Story films and Buzz's team here feels a poor substitute and sends him on a lacklustre mission. The original Toy Story films also had a knowing eye on its adult audience, whereas Lightyear does seem to target the Saturday-morning-TV children's audience in a rather straightforward manner. Apart from the occasional dull patch, there is nothing particularly bad about this film, but it adds very little to the character or the mythos that feels meaningful.
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