More from a Golden Age

Rating: 9/10 (14 December 1999)

With top-notch work from Pixar, Disney, the Simpsons and South Park production teams, Mike Judge and others, the 1990s were the best decade for animation since the 1950s, and maybe the best ever. And "Toy Story 2" continued that hot streak, with outstanding technical work, a clever and thought-provoking story, and an Oscar-worthy score by Randy Newman.
Technically, TS-2 aims higher than the original, and succeeds brilliantly. Yet I slightly prefer TS-1, because I favor the relatively simple charm of TS-1's plot to the more helter-skelter vibe I got from TS-2. (Also, as a sequel it lacked the inspired originality of TS-1.) That said, I did one part of TS-2's script that eclipsed TS-1's.