Toy Story 2

**Toy Story 2** is the third feature film from Pixar, and the second film in the Toy Story franchise.

## Synopsis

After Woody is stolen by a toy collector and will be shipped off to Japan, Buzz and the others must travel to find him.

## Plot

The film begins with scenes of Buzz Lightyear on an adventure, which turns out to be a video game that Rex has been playing. The game ends with him being pulverized by Evil Emperor Zurg, much to Rex's dismay. The film is set some time after the events of the first film, presumably about 4 years later, Andy is preparing to leave for Cowboy Camp with his favorite toy, Woody.

Unfortunately, while playing with Woody, Buzz and all the other toys, Andy accidentally almost tears Woody's arm off for linking his arms with Buzz, leaving him unable to bring Woody to camp. Andy's mother places Woody on the shelf. Later, when Andy returns home from camp, he takes Woody from the shelf, but he sees his torn arm. Andy drops Woody to the floor, then lands in a garbage can that's full of severed toy arms. He tries to climb out, but was pulled into the can. Back on the shelf, Woody finds out that it was a dream. He hears coughing and looks behind a dusty book, where he finds another broken toy, Wheezy, and begins to fear he'll soon be thrown away, and references a yard sale outside. After seeing this, Woody tells Sarge to have an emergency roll call. Before he can finish, Andy's mom comes in and takes a handful of items, including Wheezy. Woody calls Buster and rides on him to get to the yard sale to save Wheezy. Woody manages to rescue him but ends up in the yard sale himself. He is seen by an obsessive toy collector. He tries to buy Woody from Ms. Davis, but she refuses to sell him. After failing to negotiate a sale, the toy collector creates a distraction and steals Woody, causing Buzz to take action. He slides down the gutter into the yard sale, and sees the toy collector getting into his car after packing Woody in the trunk. Buzz manages to get to the car as the toy collector is driving away, but by the time he opens the trunk, Buzz loses his grip from the car as it escapes.

However, a clue is presented to Buzz as the car speeds away a feather from the toy collector's trunk lands in front of him. When Buzz informs the bad news to the toys, the toys try to investigate the culprit. However, Buzz is trying to type the license plate number that he briefly saw on the toy collector's car to track it and whoever he was, and the rest of the toys, including Etch, were having problems doing an identity portrait of the toy thief. When Mr. Potato Head gets fed up with Buzz trying to investigate the number with Mr. Spell and irritably tells the others to leave Buzz with his toys the word "toys" caused Buzz to decipher what the license plate said "Al's Toy Barn" and consequently tell Etch to draw the man in the chicken suit, whom they identify as the Toy Barn's founder, Al. They then try and locate an Al's Toy Barn commercial to trace a map to the shop. He encourages the other toys to launch a rescue mission using the clue as a basis for their search.

Meanwhile, Woody is taken to Al's apartment, where he is greeted by a yodeling cowgirl named Jessie, a horse named Bullseye, and the Prospector, an unsold toy still in its original box. They reveal to Woody that he is a vintage Sheriff Woody collectible doll and the star of a forgotten children's TV show, *Woody's Roundup*. Now that Al has a Woody doll, he has a complete collection and intends to sell the toys to a museum in Japan. Woody refuses to go to Japan and abandon Andy. Later, Al arrives and rips off Woody's torn arm by accident, making Woody attempt to recover his arm and then return to Andy which he fails. Al then gets a repairman who fixes Woody's arm. After that, a suddenly depressed Jessie tearfully tells Woody of how she once had an owner named Emily who loved her, but eventually outgrew and abandoned Jessie at a charity toy drive. The Prospector warns Woody that he faces the same fate as Andy ages. Woody agrees to go with the Roundup Gang to the museum. In the meantime, Buzz and his friends search for Al at Al's Toy Barn. They attempt to cross a busy freeway separating them from the store. Using traffic cones, they navigate the freeway and only duck down when cars come near. During the first attempt, they cause a car to run over some spikes and a pickup truck to crash into it. The second attempts leads two cars to forcefully change lanes, causing one of their hubcaps to fall off. At one point, Hamm is sent spinning in circles when a monster truck passes over him. After a third attempt to avoid being seen, they formed a U-turn style pattern to which a car suddenly stops and immediately turns toward an oncoming truck towing a massive drain pipe. The truck slides violently and stops with the trailer tilting right and then crashing back down, causing the pipe to roll of the trailer and rolling down the freeway while a car pile-up happens from behind the truck. Mr. Potato Head gets his foot stuck in fresh chewed gum, but he manages to free himself and get out of the way of the giant pipe. After reaching the store, Buzz orders his friends to split up and look for Al; he discovers an aisle full of newer Buzz Lightyear and gets in a scuffle with a new Buzz Lightyear, who, like Buzz in the first film, does not realize

he is a toy. The real Buzz then ends up being tied up and repackaged in a box and set on the shelf for sale by the Deluded Buzz who then sets off with the other toys for Al's apartment, genuinely believing that he is attempting to rescue a hostage from his arch-enemy, Emperor Zurg.

The original Buzz breaks free and follows them to the apartment, but while leaving the store, he accidentally frees an Emperor Zurg toy from knocking over a stack of boxes, who follows to destroy him. When the toys reach the apartment, Woody tells them he does not want to be rescued and intends to go with his new friends to Japan, since he is now a collector's item. After the original Buzz arrives and proves to Woody and the other toys that he is the real Buzz by showing Andy's name on the bottom of his foot, in an ironic reversal of a scene from the first film, he reminds Woody "You're a child's plaything. You... are... a toy!". However, Woody turns his back on Buzz, and the group leaves without him.

However, Woody soon has a change of heart and tells the Prospector that he couldn't stop Andy from growing up, but he wouldn't want to miss it for the world, shocking the Prospector, and, after calling Buzz and the group back, invites the Roundup Gang to come home to Andy with him. Jessie is uncertain about it, but Bullseye agrees. However, the Prospector traps them in the room, revealing that he framed Jessie for turning on the TV to prevent Woody from escaping last night and saying that the museum trip is his first chance since he was never sold and won't have Woody or anyone else mess it up for him. Al returns and packs the Roundup Gang, and the rest of the toys give chase, but are interrupted by the sudden appearance of the Emperor Zurg toy. The Utility Belt Buzz battles him, and in a showdown mimicking a similar scene from *The Empire Strikes Back*, Zurg reveals himself to be Buzz's father, shortly before his defeat at Rex's hands. The other toys resume the rescue mission and find a Pizza Planet truck and drive it to the airport, with a trio of three squeeze toy Pizza Planet aliens. The second Buzz remains behind with Zurg who has hit his head so hard that he cannot remember he is Buzz's enemy and also has a bent horn, playing father and son games.

After arriving at the airport, Buzz and Slinky rush after the suitcase while the rest goes after another identical case which, however, turns out to be camera flashes. After Slinky is stuck on a different suitcase moving to another route and is pulled away, Buzz manages to open the Al's case on his own. However, the Prospector punches him away brutally due to Buzz's helmet being left open. Outraged, Woody fights the Prospector who then gains upper hand. Prospector has other plans though as he tears open Woody's arm using his pickax, even though this time, it still works. He threatens Woody to rip him into pieces if he doesn't join him to plane departure. Woody yelled: "Never!", which left the Prospector with no choice but to raise his pickax, getting ready to tear Woody apart. However, Buzz and his gang intervene for the rescue using camera flashes, blinding and capturing the Prospector. After Prospector's final execrations, they stick him in a little girl's backpack so he can learn the true meaning of playtime. The Prospector is terrified to learn that the little girl likes to draw on all of her toys before sobbing in despair. Bullseye is freed from the suitcase, but Jessie finds herself in trouble and remains trapped in the suitcase. Woody and Buzz ride Bullseye in order to rescue her from being taken to the museum on her own.

Woody manages to find Jessie inside the plane, but just when they're about to escape, the door closes and the plane heads for the runway. Woody finds another way out of the plane, through a small hatch which leads down to the landing gear wheel, and as they are doing so, he slips on tar. Jessie catches him before he could be run over by the wheels upon the ground, Woody's rip gets bigger and Woody's hat is flown away. Buzz and Bullseye appear in time to catch the hat. When the plane is at the main runway, Woody knows that time is running out, so he uses his pull string to perfectly stick on the wheel's bolt. He convinces a worried Jessie to jump in true "Woody's Roundup" style. As she did so, both of them swing down to safety on Bullseye's back just seconds before the plane takes off. Their mission accomplished, the toys now make their way home. Later that evening, Andy returns home and runs into his room and sees all the toys on his bed with Etch having written a Welcome Home Andy message. Andy then sees Jessie and Bullseye and the Pizza Planet aliens and mistakes them for new toys from his mother and starts playing with them immediately.

The next morning, Jessie with whom Buzz becomes a bit smitten and Bullseye are adopted into Andy's toy family. Woody's ripped arm is repaired by Andy himself before he goes off. The events of the airplane's cargo hold have a terrible and hilarious consequence for Al. After Hamm fails at the Buzz Lightyear video game, he flips through the channels and sees Al in an Al's Toy Barn commercial, sobbing since he lost his luggage and the money he was going to get for the delivery (probably Mr. Konishi made the deal off), which is why in the commercial he is selling everything for as Al says in the chicken suit, "For a buck, buck, buck." While Al is sobbing, Hamm says a somewhat humorous remark about Al and his scheme ("Well, I guess crime doesn't pay."). Meanwhile, a fixed Wheezy sings "You've Got a Friend in Me", and Buzz asks Woody if he was still worried about Andy giving him up. Woody replies that he isn't worried anymore, and that when it is all over, he will have Buzz to keep him company, for infinity and beyond.

## Cast

* Tom Hanks as Sheriff Woody
* Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, Ultra Buzz Lightyear
* Joan Cusack as Jessie
* Wallace Shawn as Rex
* John Ratzenberger as Hamm
* Jim Varney as Slinky Dog
* Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head
* Kelsey Grammer as Stinky Pete
* Annie Potts as Bo Peep
* Estelle Harris as Mrs. Potato Head
* Jeff Pidgeon as Aliens
* R. Lee Ermey as Sarge
* Joe Ranft as Wheezy, Heimlich
* Andrew Stanton as Emperor Zurg
* John Morris as Andy Davis
* Laurie Metcalf as Mrs. Davis
* Wayne Knight as Al McWhiggin
* Jodi Benson as Tour Guide Barbie, Amy's Barbie Doll
* Dave Foley as Flik
* Jonathan Harris as The Cleaner