Bittersweet film, with mixed emotions.

Rating: 8/10 (1 October 2019)

The tone of the film is entirely different from the others but I wouldn't say that was a bad thing. Toy Story needed a different format as Woody had progressed from the life of Andy and that's been done over the last three films.
I actually felt this film had a lot of heart in it and viewers don't seem to be making the emotional connections with the themes involved with this film.
I would actually say this is an adult film and that is the target audience for the ones who have followed the saga over the years.
I really cried at the end of this and I don't know where the emotion came from but I think I'd felt a lot of these feelings, it's like when you leave home and say goodbye to your parents and you know life will never be the same again.
It's also like grieving, saying goodbye to people you love knowing you're not ever going to see them again, there is a lot of emotion in this and it's very bittersweet, you leave happy and sad which is a reality true to life and I think how the series should end or begin again because that is also life.
I would have put this up to 10 but there were just a few things in this film that didn't work like the others. Toy Story is usually so well thought out that every sequence has a purpose or inspires in someway.
I think there should have been a more sentimental moment with bo beep, or at look at her life maybe struggling as a lost toy to begin with in place of the stuntman toy or the doll in the antique shop.
Forky just didn't work for me as a character, from knowing nothing to knowing everything very quickly and I dunno, when something is silly for sillies sake and it's obvious it doesn't work for me. Whereas the aliens from the claw machine which are or par with forky in terms of being strange and different are unintentionally funny in how they act and behave.
But I think this is a really great film, maybe not really for children as I don't think its probably light hearted enough for a child and there's more trauma in this than humour so I think children would come away feeling upset or freaked out from some of the toys in the antique shop.
But thanks for making this, I loved it very much.