Toy Story 5 (2026)
Directed by Andrew Stanton
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.
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…one that begins the film with an opening copycatting The Wild Robot…
…an opening copycatting The Wild Robot, there also exists a shipwrecked container full of new “Hi-Tech Edition” Buzz Lightyear dolls…
You might think the scenes are stolen directly from another animated feature, the 2024 “The Wild Robot.”
…surviving a crash like the Wild Robot and then journeying into the world…
In fact, Taylor Swift, having grown up watching all of the Toy Story movies, was so touched after screening this film, took inspiration from Jessie, and said wrote the song and produced “I Knew It, I Knew You,” in just two hours in collaboration with Grammy award Winner, Jack Antonoff.
What is a toy? What is “play”? And if nobody is playing with a toy, can it even be said to exist?
The magic of the Toy Story franchise has always come down to its characters and the stories they tell. These are timeless characters that have endured for more than three decades across films, video games, television specials, and countless other forms of entertainment.
Toy Story 5 is not just a serviceable sequel but a timely and triumphant delight!
I did a rewatch of the other films in advance of watching the latest entry, and I couldn’t make it through a single one without getting at least a little misty-eyed.
Toy Story 1 to 3 is a near-perfect trilogy, and Toy Story 4 is brilliantly heartwarming in its own right.
…it feels more like a spiritual sequel to Toy Story 2.
I did a rewatch of the other films in advance of watching the latest entry, and I couldn’t make it through a single one without getting at least a little misty-eyed.
Toy Story 2 deepened the premise into something almost mythic, asking what it means for a toy to be loved, preserved, discarded, remembered.
She’s always been one of the franchise’s most compelling characters, yet she’s rarely been given the spotlight since her introduction in Toy Story 2.
Toy Story 2 gave us the heartbreak of “When She Loved Me,” but Toy Story 5 goes further by allowing Jessie to process what that abandonment has done to her.
The aesthetic whimsy that’s made the Toy Story movies so popular is all but absent in Stanton’s film…
I lost count of how many Star Wars parodies and jokes were used for a subplot involving multiple Buzz Lightyears…
Yes, the Star Wars references are still there, and they’re still funny.
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Toy Story has gone from a millennial childhood staple to a life affirming saga that has cemented a unique creative voice for a second era of storytelling with this fifth entry.
If Toy Story 3 was a masterful conclusion to the original trilogy, and Toy Story 4 represented a well-crafted epilogue, then Toy Story 5 is a whole new adventure that we did not realise we needed.
Then Toy Story 3 took that question to the edge of mortality and gave a generation of viewers the cleanest possible goodbye.
“Toy Story 3” may have been the most emotionally powerful entry in the series…
After the emotional finality of Toy Story 3 and the more divisive existential searching of Toy Story 4, another return to Bonnie’s room could have easily felt unnecessary.
…after "Toy Story 3" seemed to bring the franchise to a definitive close…
…both the best thing Pixar has done since Turning Red…
This is wonderful family entertainment, and Pixar’s best new film since Turning Red in 2022.
…the retro vibe is alive beyond the Buzz Lightyear army, evoking Small Soldiers.
In 2019, I felt like I was having an existential crisis and didn’t know what I was doing with my life, much like Forky’s struggle to understand his purpose.
Eventually, Toy Story 4 waltzed in, somewhat controversially, to ask whether Woody could have a life after ownership.
Toy Story 1 to 3 is a near-perfect trilogy, and Toy Story 4 is brilliantly heartwarming in its own right.
After the chaotic RV excursion in Toy Story 4, our core characters are back at home with Bonnie…
"Toy Story 4" arrived with the assumption of corporate-mandated decision-making, only to shock everyone with a heartfelt send-off for Woody…
While Toy Story 4 was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful, it also represented a departure from the emotional finality of the original trilogy.
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I’m not sure I’ll ever quite recover from the opening scene of Up, which tells a hard truth about the shortness of life that makes most grown-up movies look like kids stuff…
…from the opening of Up to the “When She Loved Me” interlude in Toy Story 2…
…a side story that features one of the funniest uses of the Bambi soundtrack in years.