Too many cooks / crooks or the sequel that shouldn't have been made.

Rating: 5/10 (25 June 2019)

Toy story 4 is about as entertaining as watching a strong franchise get mutilated and twisted which can be akin to how Cid treated his toys in the first movie.
The movie starts off with a quick recap of the first 3 movies which was well done, but everything falls downhill after that. We are exposed to a scenario where Andy in good faith donated his toys to a young girl who he thought would treat his toys with just as much love as he did.
This turns out to be far from the truth, Woody who was the leader and moral support for the team while they were under Andy's care, is frequently left in the closet and left to feel useless by his new owner and the new toy team that he's been apart of.
Putting that aside for the moment the character of Buzz has been dumbed down to a shell of the character he became over the last 3 movies He is incapable of being able to think for himself and having to use his canned voice box in order to get direction. It's heart breaking to see two strong characters get mutilated for the sake of poor story telling.
On the note of mutilation the story takes a turn our boy Woody is put into a scenario to search for BoPeep, while searching he is introduced to a girl doll who's sole purpose as I can tell is to manipulate Woody into giving up his pull string voice box so she could have a chance at getting a new owner. She does this by listening to forky the crafted trash toy and learning just what to say in order to convince Woody to willingly give up his voice box. Then afterwords everyone is friends and works to getting the girl doll an owner after the one she chose throws her away. Confused, so was I.
Afterwords Woody decides to stay with BoPeep in the land of lost toys because he felt useless in Bonnie's world mutilated and alone, Buzz seeing this in his eyes tells him as such giving him an ok to go.
The movie is dark and an unfitting ending to the franchise. I went in cautious with high expectations and left concerned and disturbed at what I saw. I would prefer them rewrite 3 to have Andy keep his toys and look at them lovingly and have them for his children when he gets older.