Toy Story is an amazing film that everyone can enjoy and that has aged far better than many of its contemporaries

Rating: 10/10 (1 June 2015)

Toy Story was the very first movie I actually sat down and watched as a child. I'm sure that there were many films I had passively experienced beforehand, but this picture was the first time I found myself engaged in the experience. It was the first one to actually catch my attention, as well as the first that I actually enjoyed. Nearly two decades later, it still holds up in my eyes. While I still occasionally watch other features from my childhood, none of them ever take me back like Toy Story manages to do every single time, and while my opinion of a lot of them changed over the years, Toy Story has always been ten stars, and one of the few I've grown to appreciate even more so as my tastes matured.
But this movie has managed to best the test of time so far in other ways too. Nearly two decades later and most of the movie still looks beautiful. The now dated animation techniques being used at a few points and the slightly "shiny" human character models are noticeable on occasion, but they're all forgivable thanks to the focus on the toys and interiors rather than the people and the outdoors. But even in scenes where those two are central, such as the ending sequence with Buzz and Woody following the moving truck, you find yourself paying no attention to them because you're so engrossed in what's going on in the tightly written narrative that you can't pick apart the trivial things.
All in all, Toy Story is a movie that's stood the test of time for me and an entire generation, and will likely find itself being watched for decades to come and, to quote Buzz Lightyear, "To infinity, and beyond!"