So Disappointing That I Left The Theater Upset

Rating: 6/10 (21 June 2019)

To start this off, I didn't think that a fourth Toy Story was necessary in the first place. But I decided to give it a fair shot. The movie simply doesn't capture the magic of the first three and left me confused. The movie starts off with Woody being the only toy left in the closet while Bonnie plays with the rest of her toys. But at the end of Toy Story 3, Bonnie loves Woody and even calls him her "cowboy doll." Seeing this, Andy gives his old pal to her so she can take good care of him... and this obviously doesn't happen.
The main gang (Mr. Potato Head, Slinky, Rex, Jessie etc.) sees very little screen time too. This takes part of the spirit from the previous three movies away and by the end of the movie, something felt missing and sure enough it was this. Throughout most of the movie they just sit in the van and are kind of useless until the end.
The antagonists are also fairly weak in this movie. Gabby Gabby is a weird doll (along with her other strange dolls) who wants Woody's voice box so she can work properly in order to get a kid of her own. This is odd and almost creepy especially when they attempt to rip Woody's voice box out from his back. In the end, her little sob story works and Woody gives her his voice box in exchange for Forky. I get why Woody makes all the decisions he does in the movie but it's just overdone and kind of unnecessary.
Also, Buzz seems to be kind of stupid in this movie and is kind of a shell of his original self.
In the end, Woody stays with Bo Peep and leaves Bonnie and his friends. To me this ending is not satisfying at all and ended the movie on a sour note for me.
But there are some good things about the movie too. Duke Kaboom (Keanu Reeves) steals the show every time he's on screen and is a unique character that I enjoyed. Ducky and Bunny (Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele) are very funny and are also great additions to the story. Tom Hanks of course nails it as Woody and the animation is fantastic. The movie itself is also very funny.
Overall, Toy Story 4 falls short compare to the first three. The movie ends up feeling very weird and it's not the ending to the series that I had imagined. The plot is good but not great as it some things seemed almost forced. There are parts where a character's mind wanders off and they stop and look at something else which totally throwing the momentum of the movie off (this happens multiple times). This movie really disappointed me and it didn't even feel like a Toy Story movie. They should've ended with the third movie if I'm being completely honest. I grew up watching all these movies and for it to end like this just made me sad.