A WINNER BY ANY OTHER NUMBER...!

Rating: 10/10 (24 July 2019)

The latest from the Pixar dream factory is a slow charmer featuring the further adventures of our beloved toy characters. Not getting a good feeling when this film was announced (I figured a bloated cash grab ala Finding Dory) I was slowly seduced to this new story which finds Woody's new owner entering school & having to deal w/a newly created member of the family in the form of Forky (a figure made by Bonnie in class w/a spork) who has delusions of being a piece of disposable garbage (anathema to the toys' raision de etre) & his own feelings of impending obsolescence when Bo Peep (voiced by returning actress Annie Potts), an ownerless toy now basking in the glories of freedom, focuses his anxieties in a new light. Deeply layered & textured w/the winning combo of comedy & heart that the best of Pixar produces, this film rewards in abundance.