It's another Toy Story

Rating: 6/10 (29 June 2019)

Beautiful work from Pixar.. but on strictly the Toy Story Scale, this was #3 of the 4 they made. The order story and originality is Toy Story 1, 2, 4, and then 3. Pixar does a great job with the story, tears, action and everything you'd expect. It starts with a great story (still waiting for Pixar to bring an Amish storyline to life.. something truly original), and this was very good, but with four Toy Stories, if you weigh it against the others, I'd call is a close (by not quite) 2nd place.
It's fun to look for the TONS of other Pixar reference in this movie as well (lots!) I can add it's interesting to see the multiple versions of Andy based on the quality of digital animation. LOVE Pixar... LOVE their work.. but this wasn't Up or Monsters Inc. quality. I'd MUCH rather see Pixar NOT trying to give us a 4th edition of a movie, but create more of their high quality original NEW story lines. With that said, well worth seeing... may produce tears.. good story... and time will tell if they bring back a Toy Story 5 (keep in mind that Woody is a toy from the 1950's.. and he belonged to SOMEONE before Andy (who we've never heard about). I think I actually COULD go for a cool "A New Toy Story".. based on Woody being brand new and in the 1950's (surrounded by 1950's... ala Back to the Future 50's fun!)