Toy Story 4: Just When You Thought Woody's Story Was Over

Toy Story 4 is the fourth movie in the beloved Pixar series Toy Story. When Toy Story 3 had come out we thought we were done with the journey of Woody, Buzz, and the rest, but apparently there was more to tell.

It’s been a few years and Woody and the gang have been living with Bonny for awhile now but not being played with as much. Bonny goes to kindergarten and makes a new toy out of a spork, pipe cleaners, and popsicle sticks. Bonny names him Forky and he comes to life but since he's made of trash, he thinks he is trash. For a kids movie, a character questioning his own existence is very adult and mature but in a good way. Forky acts as the newcomer to toy story for audiences as Woody explains things about the life of toys. When Forky runs away, Woody makes it his mission to protect Forky for Bonny because he doesn't have Andy anymore or a purpose in life now. All the other toys question Woody's drive to protect Forky. This is really Woody's movie as we see how he deals with becoming obsolete.

While Woody and Forky have so much character development, Buzz has very little. It's almost as if he is dumbed down to the first Toy Story. Since Woody is off dealing with Forky, Buzz has to become a leader and Woody tells him to listen to his "inner voice." This is Buzz's voice recordings which he thinks is his inner voice.

While Toy Story 4 continues the story and gives the characters so much closure, Toy Story 3 already did that. Andy was going to college and the toys didn't know what to do. But when Andy gave them to Bonny, they found a new purpose and had a new kid to play with. While Toy Story 4 was a great movie with important issues, it was an unnecessary movie to make. The fans would have been satisfied with the way things ended with Toy Story 3.

Every Toy Story movie has its villain, whether it's Sid, Stinky Pete, or Lotso Huggin Bear. They all get their comeuppance. Toy Story 4 had Gabby Gabby and she wanted Woody's voice box for her own. She literally rips Woody's voice box out of him. But, at the end she gets redeemed and gets a child of her own. Now all the villains did terrible things to the toys and i don't think Gabby Gabby deserved redemption. I guess the writers wanted all the characters to be redeemable this time but what she did was barbaric. She even has an army of ventriloquist dummy henchman that moved around like a zombie hoard.

Each of the previous Toy Story movies were a technological feet. The was Pixar's first feature film and the first all CGI movie. The second was a more clean and streamlined movie in terms of effects. When the third movie came out twelve years later, the audience finally got to see their beloved characters in high definition and it was the best they ever looked. When Toy Story 4 came out, the computer graphics and photorealism was unlike anything we've ever seen. When water is shown it looks real. When any character moves, especially the dummies, it's incredible and so life like.

All the voice actors bring their top game whether it's Tom Hanks as Woody, Annie Potts as Bo Peep, or Tony Hale as Forky. Toy Story 4 was the continuation we didn't know we needed. We thought the Pixar had taken the characters as far as they could go but we were wrong. Toy Story 4 is the best unnecessary movie ever made. This is the most closure movie characters have ever gotten in a kids movie. Now there doesn’t need to be anymore Toy Story movies and it's time to end on a high note after four great movies. 🍔🍔🍔🍔