TOY STORY 4 plays fully up to our nostalgia and manages to squeeze something instructive out of the old gangs on a similar territory

Rating: 8/10 (6 January 2020)

"Therefore, the film aptly paves the way for a more forward-thinking mythos, what if a toy doesn't need its human owner for self-actualization? Which comes patently obvious when Bo Peep re-enters Woody's life, now is a proud "lost" toy who has no kid to answer for, but a cohort of toy friends, living off on the amusement park where Bonnie's family tentatively visits. After the white-knuckle escapade aiming to rescue Forky from the nominal villain Gabby Gabby (Hendricks) - a soft-spoken doll with a broken voice box, who hankers for being cherished like a real toy, and her henchmen of sinister-looking ventriloquist dummies in an antique shop, a wild rollercoaster ride is exactly what audience bargains for, though, the subplot about Buzz Lightyear (Allen) suffers in significance, while the Key and Peele duo assumes the duty of tickling our ribs as the plush toys Ducky and Bunny, and a spirited Keanu Reeves has a ball as Duke Caboom, a Canadian stuntman action figure, the victim of advertisement aggrandizement."
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