The weakest Toy Story, terrible forced ending, but enjoyable

Rating: 4/10 (24 June 2019)

After just seeing Toy Story 4, it was an enjoyable film, but definitely the weakest. Now unfortunately my complaints are spoiler filled, sorry about that. My main issue is the connection between woody and Bo peep, and why he chooses to stay at the carnival. I'm sorry but there really was no established connection between these two in the original 3 Toy stories. And cramming it into one film feels rushed and not well executed, especially woody's decision. The final scene was not only predicable, but made no sense. After Bonnie "stops playing" with woody, he realizes he wants to help other toys find their kids and stays with bo peep, which reminder these two barely talked to in the first two movies. The reason this makes no sense is because this is what happened IN THE FIRST FILM. Remember when Andy stopped playing with woody? But he was still always there for him. He never gave up on Andy. Here he's just like "well Bonnie will be ok with out me by guys!" Like what? This makes no sense. He even says he never gives up in the movie, except he just did. He gave up because "Bonnie doesn't play with him". You see what I mean? A forced ending to pull at your heartstrings to make you sad. An unsatisfying ending to a not needed sequal. That's not to say this movie is terrible. It's got some great animation, great music, and the dummies were really creepy, and I loved the shining reference. However the ending really ruined it for me. I left the theater with an ending that wasn't as satisfying as the third. In my eyes the ending was the third film and this is an alternate timeline. Not a must watch but it's enjoyable.