Most fun adventure they've been on yet!

Rating: 9/10 (20 June 2019)

I like many many other people thought the announcement of a 4th movie was a bad idea. It seemed like Disney forcing Pixar to churn out another one after the 3rd made 400 million at the domestic box office. The 3rd one closed out the series in a spectacular fashion. I was skeptical, but the creative team behind it seemed pretty damn stellar.
Safe to say, this movie turned out quite fantastically! I thought I would hate Forky, but he's honestly one of the best parts about it. The return of Bo Peep is fantastic and it is really cool to see how she turned out. The villain has a nice a refreshing twist, especially for someone who is getting tired of movies "needing" villains. The Key & Peele duo characters are probably the weakest as they have a really unfunny recurring joke, but they don't ruin the little bit they are in it. Yes, Keanu Reeves continues to be awesome and especially in this!
Only time will tell, but this might be the best of the movies? The first two have their legacy behind them, so it's hard to top that. I loved 3 and it's ending, but I think the story in this one might top it overall. Either way, it's just as good as the rest, but I think it's story out does them all. It's so well written and they really did a great job with the new characters.
As always the animation is top notch. The backgrounds in this look so realistic and it is mind blowing looking at TS1 compared to this and how far 25 years of animation perfection have happened. Where in the AWFUL Good Dinosaur the backgrounds were so perfect that the cartoon dinosaurs didn't fit in it, TS4 really does a good job of meshing the cartoony aspect of the characters with the superbly detailed settings. There are moments of setting that you would just say they are real if you saw a photo of them.
Pixar goes to show that even if they are influenced to make a sequel, they will still knock it out of the park and bring a meaningful story. Incredibles 2 was a godsend, and Finding Dory was pretty fantastic as well. They've had some really poor sequels like Monsters U and the Cars series, but with the right creative team they could still make a story worth telling with characters we've loved since we were kids.
It's great to see their next two projects are original, but I wouldn't mind some more sequels if they keep being as damn good as stuff like Toy Story 4 is! They may falter here and there, but every Pixar movie is worth taking the time to see...even if they end up being wastes of time like The Good Dinosaur.