Fun for all ages

Rating: 9/10 (19 October 2015)

Toy Story is a classic among kids and adults, a classic among animation and simply one of the highest rated movies of all time. At first thoughts I felt yeah sure it is great but then after a little more time I came to realise this is incredible, I won't say it's 100% perfect but still it just exudes this feeling of well, fun. It's the kind of movie that only after do you really understand how Woody feels and how Buzz feels, you also realise how easy it would be to watch it again because it's really a calm but also an exciting watch. It's hard to call this a kid's movie owing to the fact that all fans of this back in the day are fully grown adults now, but the fact that they still return to this and say it is a masterpiece even today, well it shows how impressive this really is as well.
The story is of course about toys, and in particular a new toy arriving because Andy the toys owner got a new Space Ranger named Buzz Lightyear for his birthday. Woody the favourite toy of Andy is jealous of Buzz's new found fame among all the other toys and starts to both feel angry but also kind of obsolete as well. The story moves along at a frantic pace, the amount of things that happen though to say this has an 81 minute run time is amazing and the timing is absolutely wonderful. Another point I found only after thinking back on the movie was the humour and how is just really good, one moment in a certain pizza restaurant arcade where we see a "Whack-a-Alien" game in reference to "Alien" sums up the overly kidult tone this movie possesses.
Among the voices we have Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim Allen as Buzz, Don Rickles as a small potato toy, Wallace Shawn in his trademark voice as Rex the dinosaur toy and the smoky voice of Jim Varney as Slinky the well, slinky toy dog. The voices are very memorable and the voice cast are perfectly picked, none seem out of place and maybe that is because of how much this movie has dug itself into film culture. I found Hanks and Allen's voices to be at the same level as each other only because they are both so great, Buzz is made even more courageous sounding by Allen and Hanks provides a kind of cool kind of toy voice but also brings out Woody's scared side or angry side well.
John Lasseter the director is among many names behind this movie who seem to all hit the right spot with this, they create the first animated feature length picture and turn it into one of the still most popular of them all. The writers hit the movie from another flank, Lasseter brings humour out from his vision but I think the writers, Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow really bring another face to the movie where the humour but also the emotion can mix really well. As animation goes it of course does not look as it maybe did back then (still isn't bad though), although it doesn't matter anyway because it is the storytelling that blows you away and the characters really grab your attention.
Pixar kicked off their stellar works in animated movies in style and brought not only a new way of making a movie, but also a fine way of telling a story and not making it over the top or just for kids, this is for everyone. There isn't too much too find wrong with this I mean, maybe some of the jokes aren't great, but really they may be still good anyway, it is kind of a movie that you can easily watch again without feeling it will quickly become boring, the kind of movie that is fun for quite literally, all the family.