Highly enjoyable...

Rating: 9/10 (10 February 2020)

...almost more streamlined than 3 which was a more robust and complicated messy rich emotional film and 4 is rather more of a focussed and cleaner affair. It introduces some great new characters, and a couple of excellent locations, I for one would happily see Woody and Bo running the antique store that functioned as a sort of ganger film-lite. Bo Peep, excised from the last films, comes back with aplomb, a perfect foil for Woody and his arc, a brilliant character, and Woody has a brilliant arc in this film, a film dealing with the next steps of parenthood, after saying goodbye in 3, it's now about finding new purpose in later life. Not very often it's very funny, but it's quality over quantity, inbetween the laughs is a family drama with characters we've been living with for some time, it's like hugging a distant cousin that you forget you love so much until you see them again.