Superb animation but a Toy Story too far

Rating: 7/10 (29 June 2019)

Firstly the animation: glorious and gorgeous. Pixar are still miles ahead and make the competition look like amateurs. The only downside was not the quality of animation per se but the choice of complexion for Bo Peep which irritated me throughout. How they settled on it after, no doubt, many many meetings is beyond me.
And now to the story and sadly and very surprisingly, a big disappointment
Forky is a fantastic character and provides much humour but feels underused as a central character compares with Buzz and Jessie.
The marketeers at Disney appear to have won the battle against the storytellers by sidelining Woody and our favourite toys from the previous films with new and relatively uninteresting new ones. An absolute and unforgivable waste of Mr and Mrs Potatohead, Hamm, Rex and Slinky. And sidelining both Jessie and even Buzz is a big, big, disappointment.
There were definitely tears throughout the long carnival scene at the end but there was not enough character development shown to convince that Woody would have made his final choice.
On a final note
The reference to Dreamworks and another film was appreciated
Don't leave the cinema until the very end of the credits
The final line of dialogue is absolutely perfect and poses the obvious question that has been unanswered throughout all the films. It should go down in cinematic history alongside that of Casablanca, Gone With The Wind and Some Like It Hot.