Toy Story 2-amazingly builds a better sequel on top of a great original.

Rating: 10/10 (3 December 1999)

It's not often that a sequel can match, let alone outperform an original hit movie, but this is one of those situations. As usual, the viewer is quickly pulled into the fast-paced story and fun characters. Even though it had been over a year since I last saw Toy Story, the excellent character development (that would work well even if you hadn't seen Toy Story ) was fabulous when building on the original. The movie managed to re-use some gags from the original movie quite effectively, too. In our packed movie house in KC, the movie earned a hearty round of applause from the audience, and I second the motion.