1995: Oh my God, is this real? 2016: Oh my God, what am I looking at?

Rating: 8/10 (21 May 2016)

Toy Story, as the first completely CGI animated movie, is still timeless in plenty of ways and is enjoyed by anyone who can say they like animation. I am one of them. The animation is of course crude by today's standards, but it was made in a way that makes it seem like 1995 wasn't that long ago. As dated as it looks, we can still appreciate it for being more than just a test of what computers could render. As for complaints, the jokes could have been funnier and the story could have less instances of convenience, like how Buzz and Woody enter the Pizza Planet Truck and come across a nice, high pile of pizza boxes to hide behind. There were also some errors in the anatomy of some toys, like RC. I won't take points off for the animation because hey, it was 1995 and Pixar had up to that point only been making shorts for 11 years, so it isn't something to grouch over (even though there were some superficial glitches like disappearing lights between scenes). All I can say is, see it soon and brace for a higher intrigue of the early history of CGI.