The Best Present to moviegoers this holiday season!

Rating: 10/10 (5 December 1999)

I keep hoping against hope that the dynamic duo of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen would make a live-action movie together! I mean, after all...if their VOCAL chemistry works as well as it does...imagine how well it would work in a "real" movie! Seriously, this is one of the rare instances where the sequal is actually better than the original...though this is meant as no slap at TS1. The original Toy Story was a very good picture. But in #2, we find characters showing both greater depth and fresher wit. Add several brand new characters, along with some unique plot twists, and you have a very solid result. There simply isn't any weakness here. Here's a thoroughly entertaining and heartwarming movie, without false notes or clinkers. Yes, the computer animation has improved; but it seems to me that that is the least of the improvements. I hate to sound trite...but this IS the one movie you should take the family to see this holiday season.