The film that brought computer-animation into the world, with style!

Rating: 10/10 (29 November 2018)

Having recently viewed the Toy Story 4 teaser on YouTube, I felt the need to revisit these movies. I can honestly say that Toy Story is as important to animated cinema as Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in that both movies were the first feature length animated productions ever done in their respective mediums: Toy Story being the first computer-animated feature and Snow White being the world's first traditionally-animated feature.
Toy Story is as synonymous with cinema as the works of Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Hayao Miyazaki and Chuck Jones: it's a film that shows the best of every world in the imagination. There are toys that embody cowboys, spacemen, wrestlers, dogs, potatoes and figures that resemble the uber-edginess the mid-90s garnered thanks to hit video games like Doom and Mortal Kombat. Toy Story is a film that knows exactly what makes kids movies resonate with adults: having an emotional bridge that's built into the story itself where playtime and wisdom, as the fundamental themes to the film, is symbolic of the concept of people growing up and how that can change the world around you. You can still mature in ways that still keep you young and hopeful at heart even when everything around you is totally unpredictable and volatile.
This film is a zeitgeist movie for the 90s and it's still technically very impressive to this very day. I'm struggling to find faults with this movie: it's one of those special movies that you can watch repeatedly and still find something new every time you watch it again.
Toy Story is a 5/5 star masterpiece.