I did not recognize THIS Buzz Lightyear at all!

Rating: 6/10 (18 November 2019)

Toy Story 1,2, and 3 were great, probably better than great, they were all connected and solid. They had all the Pixar signatures in them: great animations, good character development, original script, character realism, animation realism, funny, and all around fun. But this.... this feels like a different movie than the other Toy Story franchise. I did not recognize the Buzz Lightyear in this movie AT ALL. Who is this Buzz? Buzz used to be very confident, he was second in command after Woody. Sure he was a delusional "space ranger" when Andy first got him, but after all of that confusion was over, he became confident and calm. In Toy Story 4 he suddenly became as dumb as a rock. I thought that was Rex's personality? Maybe they got the characters mixed up, heaven knows. Even Rex now seems smarter than Buzz.
And at times this feels more like a Disney movie rather than a Pixar movie. The animations of human characters in Toy Story 4 looked like animations of human characters in Frozen, they lacked realism at times. For example, when Bonnie woke up one morning, she did not act like how a child (or any human being) would act waking up and her hair clip was still nicely clipping her hair. Pixar used to care about all little details like this in all their previous films, which made them so great. So this is more like one step down for a Pixar film.
And the story..... while I do feel that the premise is promising (Woody finding greater meaning of being a toy), the craft of the story is pretty weak. However, having said that, the ending was still pretty satisfying. Maybe that was the only thing that actually saved the movie. Though I would prefer a better exchange between Woody and Buzz at the end, I mean, they were best friends for a long time and they were not going to see each other ever again, I expected an exchange that would satisfy long time Toy Story fans, something to be remembered for a long time.