Everything is wrong!!

Rating: 3/10 (17 October 2019)

The visuals are great. That's one thing they get right.
Everything else is just not ok!! It's a good film for young kids who have no attachment to the originals - but if you know and love the originals; Toy Story 4 will break your heart.
Woody's sidekick toys, the ones who often add a bit of humour to the story, are only there to continue on the story that they exist. They barely have any screen time, not even Jessie and Bullseye. In fact, even Buzz's appearances are limited and he's suddenly dumbed down with an annoying theme of him having to check his inner monologue for the answers to any situation he finds himself in?
Now, the overwhelming theme to all of the Toy Story films has been friendship and loyalty. Something that made the films absolutely heart warming. This film shatters those concepts (here come the spoilers)
Woody, leaves his child, his friends, and Buzz lightyear - his best friend, to reunite with Bow Peep.... I was gobsmacked. That is not how this film should have ended that is not a happy ending that is not what the audience wants to see - we do not want Woody and Buzz separated for the rest of their lives! (How do toys find each other in the big wide world, ever again?) That is the sad and depressing ending.
And on a side note. Bow Peeps new feminist wardrobe and space in the spotlight, is a blatant too obvious over the top attempt at revamping the series to make a woman the hero and just as capable as any man; yes good message, but unnecessary and out of place in an already cast established and loved film with Jessie filling at least part of that role. Could have been covered much better in a more subtle less in your face way, which wouldn't have turned the whole direction of the franchise away from the bond between Woody and Buzz.
Very sad end to a lovely franchise that was, sadly was, once about friendship.