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Toy Story 5 review – Pixar franchise needs new batteries
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Jessica Stone
4 hours ago7 min read
Sure, the fifth trip to the toy box is as slick and polished as a brand-new gadget, a piece of family entertainment content that’s been buffed to an unblemished sheen. But peel back the glossy packaging, and you’ll find the heart has gone cold.For all the high-energy, pixel-perfect animation poured into every frame, the soul of the story—the jeopardy, the fresh ideas, the very passion that made us fall in love with these characters—is conspicuously absent. The franchise’s core theme of mortality and being outgrown feels tired, but the real misstep is how the film loses its nerve with its own big bad.It sets up a genuinely relevant conflict for today’s kids: the insidious creep of addictive tech, embodied by a creepy tablet named Lilypad, threatening the very existence of imaginative play. Yet, in a baffling pivot, the film decides its tech villain is capable of a sentimental, heroic sacrifice, a complete cop-out compared to the genuinely menacing Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear from the third installment. It’s a story that had a chance to say something meaningful about our screen-obsessed world but chose the safest, most forgettable route instead, leaving the whole endeavor feeling like a product update rather than a story that needed to be told.
#Toy Story
#Pixar
#Movie Review
#Animation
#Disney
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