A "progressive" and "woke" take on Toy Story

Rating: 2/10 (6 August 2019)

As an adult its easy to pick apart the faults of children's movies. However when the target audience doesn't like a movie its probably the most damning evidence of all. My two year old who is normally a holy terror most of the time, will sit and watch all three toy story movies in a row and barely move. No matter how many times he watches them, its still the same thing, his full attention is on the movies. When we watched Toy Story 4 in theatre (his first time ever at a theatre as well) he stopped caring about a third of the way through. That probably says it all. From my own perspective though, this movie is a piece of garbage. The animation is incredible, which is about the only good thing you can say about this film. The list of its sins is much larger. Shoehorning "progressive" values throughout the movie, turning woody and buzz into idiots who can't think for themselves, Bopeep treats Woody like garbage, at one point another toy asks if Woody is Bopeep's friend, and she replies something like, no he's my doormat, then throws her hat and coat at him for him to carry. The ending completely contradicts the concept of the preceding three films; woody has a slavish devotion to his kid throughout the movies, and all that is upended because he decides to run off with some liberated toy who treats him like garbage. What was the point of the previous films if it all comes down to that. A lot of the elements of the movie are parts borrowed from the previous films, but usually with a stupid twist. The list of things this movie does wrong goes on and on. But as I said, these things are easy for me to see as a parent. But a little boy who adores the previous films not liking this movie says more than I could