Again good life lessons and answers to unanswered questions in Toy Story 4

Rating: 8/10 (27 June 2019)

Toy Story 4 is the newest part of the Toy Story film series. The film is directed and partly written by Josh Cooley, who previously only directed two other short Disney movies.
In the film, Woody (voice of Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen) and the rest of the toys are now from Bonnie (voice of Madeleine McGraw). Their job is therefore to be there now for Bonnie during her good and bad days. When Bonnie goes to kindergarten for the first time, Woody sees that she is unsure about this and tries to be like a toy to her. At school, Bonnie makes a new friend called Forky (voice of Tony Hale) during manual labor. Woody sees that Bonnie sees Forky as her new best friend and that means he means a lot to her. Forky himself does not understand anything of life as a toy and thinks he belongs to the garbage. Woody must try to explain to Forky what it means to be a toy in the life of a child and to ensure that Forky does not place itself in the garbage.
When Bonnie and her parents go on a family trip and Forky leaves their camper on the way, Woody has to find him again and convince him how important he is to Bonnie. During this search, Woody is reunited with his old lost friend Bo Peep (voice of Annie Potts) who has changed a lot since Woody last saw her. Together with Bo and some of her new friends, Woody tries to bring Forky back to Bonnie.
After the successful completion of the Toy Story trilogy with the end of the third part from 2010, the news of a fourth part was a bit shocked and used by fans of the series. Many thought that this fourth part would only be an attempt by the film studio to only earn money with it, because this is usually the case when film studios try to add a fourth or more films to their film series after a trilogy. . This was also the case with the Indiana Jones films, for example.
Fortunately, this is not the case here, because this fourth film answers the unanswered questions of the first trilogy about what happened to the character of Bo Peep, for example. Just like in the other Toy Story films, these films contain good life lessons, which in this film is mainly about missed opportunities in life and that change in your life can be difficult, but also good.
What also returns a bit in this fourth part is a slightly creepy aspect, because there are belly puppets in this film, which can seem scary to young children. These puppies run in a scary zombie-like way. Despite the fact that these dolls can be a bit of a fright, they are used more in a comical way and the film remains a beautiful family film for young and old.
The animation quality of the Disney Pixar animation studio has also improved. The backgrounds and environments in which the toys roam around seem as if they are walking around in the real world. For example, in some scenes the film appears as if you are watching a live-action film.
The voice acting is also done properly and appropriately by the cast. The returning cast from the previous films are doing great again in their familiar roles, but unfortunately most do not have such a big role as they did in the other films. Especially Tom Hanks, Time Allen and Annie Potts their characters get the most time in this movie. In this film many new characters are also introduced such as Tony Hale's character Forky. Comedy duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele also get a lot of time in this film and record many comic moments. Action actor Keanu Reeves also has a role in this film as an action figure.