Not what I was expecting

Rating: 4/10 (2 July 2019)

I grew up with the toy story films as a kid and fell in love with the characters. Toy story 3 was a fitting end to the franchise, so I was not expecting a fourth film. I went to see this film thinking it would be sweet, fun, and a pleasure to watch. Instead I ended up getting deep meanings and messages from a kids film which was unnecessary, not only that, but they basically abandoned the whole gang we are used to and made this new toy 'Forky' the focus of attention. While it was a nice film, there were too many issues and political messages in there that are not needed in a kids film. My first problem is Gaby, she was made out to be the villain and ripped woody's voice box out but then they were all fine with her and helped her out. And it's only because she was a female. Also, the ratio of female characters to male ones was not equal at all, it was 2 males to the rest of the cast being females. Woody was made out to be some sort of idiot for trying to help out a toy in need and everyone hated him for it! Why?! Too many issues and the film wasn't needed. Also, don't make Bo Peep this big deal in the final film when in the first three she's hardly there, in fact, she's almost missable. Shame that they had to ruin such a good, original franchise.