Toy Story 2 builds upon Buzz and Woody's relationship and takes these two individual characters to new places. Buzz gets to see his older self represented by a new toy. He gets to see the aisle that's nothing but Buzz Lightyear dolls and reflect on how important he is and how far he's come.
Toy Story 2 is a beautiful, complex film about what it means to choose others instead of yourself every time, and about the weight of making that decision. (Intriguingly, Toy Story 4 explores the flip side of this idea. I won't spoil it too much, but I think I might come to think of it as just as rich as this film.)
Fans all over the world can often agree that Toy Story 2 is the best of the franchise and one of the few times that the sequel was better than the original. The film perfectly introduced new and beloved characters Jessie and Bullseye.
But in my opinion, Toy Story 2 improved upon just about every aspect of the original -- better animation (that's a given), a rich back-story to our main character (Woody), more involvement of the supporting cast (Hamm, Rex, Mr.
According to him, some poor, thankfully unnamed, soul at Pixar was in the internal file servers doing some standard file clearance, when they mistakenly put in a deletion command on the root folder for the film. All the character models and assets began erasing.
The now deleted scene from the 1999 film featured the character Stinky Pete the Prospector, a small, rotund, bearded toy, caught chatting salaciously to two Barbie dolls, stroking their hands and suggesting he could get them a part in the next movie.
Galyn Susman, who originally worked as a lighting supervisor on Toy Story and became known for saving Toy Story 2 after it was accidentally deleted from Disney's servers, was one of the several employees laid-off.
Toy Story's protagonist, Woody, belonged to Andy's father first (indeed, Andy's mom calls Woody “an old family toy”). Andy's father was also named Andy—Andy Sr. —and he wrote his name on Woody's boot. The reason Woody is such a rare toy is because he's the only Woody doll that was ever made—just a prototype.
Toy Story 4 was a great ending: It gave Woody's journey a more fitting ending. Although Toy Story 3 provided a satisfying ending by giving these toys a new beginning with Bonnie, Woody's journey still didn't feel complete.
Despite production struggles, Toy Story 2 opened on November 24, 1999, to successful box office numbers, eventually grossing over $511 million and received widespread critical acclaim from critics and audiences, with a 100% rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes, like its predecessor.
An official release date for Toy Story 5 has not been announced so far and its status is 'in development' at Pixar. Judging by the release cycle of the previous films, we might be waiting up to four or five years for Toy Story 5 placing its release window at some time in 2027-2028.
The franchise began with Andy and his toys who came to life. It's only right that both the audience and the characters had a chance to say goodbye to Andy and feel closure with his journey. Toy Story 3 handled this perfectly with Andy giving his toys to Bonnie and showing how much they meant to him.
The lead of all the films, and the emotional core, Woody is an icon of not only his franchise or Pixar but of animation itself. Hanks has brought Woody to life in every iteration thus far, and it remains one of his best roles to date. Woody represents something deep within every audience who watches these movies.
Andy, his beloved owner will one day casually discard him: "Didja think he'd take you with him to college? Or on his honeymoon?" Thus, Toy Story 2 conjures a brilliant dilemma out of nowhere, making the toys' dependent relationship with children a disturbing analogy to children's fearful relationship with adults.
Andy, now 17 years old, is preparing to leave for college. He has not played with his toys for years, and only Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Bullseye, Rex, Slinky, Hamm, Mr. and Mrs.
Many consider the four Toy Story films to be the best Pixar movies and while all of them had plenty of emotional and heartbreaking moments, none was as sad as Toy Story 3. Most Pixar fans agree that the third Toy Story movie is the most emotional one, and it's the one that made most viewers cry.
It's also the quintessential example of a kids' movie that's really for adults. Though there's a great deal to recommend Toy Story 3, its lasting reputation is as a deceptively deep and dark tearjerker. But the film, including that infamous and terrifying climax, almost didn't happen.
To bring some reality to the highly stylized Toy Story world, Pauley says, “We've added more complexity, more richness, to give you a sense of place and atmosphere.” To achieve that, Reeves explains, “We added dust particulate in the air… which led to visually pleasing bokeh effects.” Dust, in fact, is one of the ...
Phillips is an alcoholic and abusive, which explains why there are empty beer cans surrounding his recliner, and why Scud left the room the minute he saw him sleeping.
However, Peter Docter, a Pixar director and one of the story writers of Toy Story 2, revealed that the theory is actually false (via ET Online). Docter explained that he does have a backstory for Jessie, but he's not willing to reveal what it is just yet.
Pixar's first iteration of Toy Story's Woody was written as a dark abusive villain, and even though provisions were later made to turn him into a hero, the final product did not turn out to be as heroic as he is touted to be.
Back in 1998, when “Toy Story 2″ was in production, all work up to that point was lost because of an erroneous deletion command executed on Pixar's servers, The New Web reported. Susman was on maternity leave, working from home, and had a backup copy of the film on her personal computer, according to Gizmondo.
This resulted in character models and assets disappearing, and the file servers were quickly shut down. However, by that point, around 90% of the work done on Toy Story 2 was deleted, and the sequel's backup system hadn't been working properly for around a month either.
Pixar producer Gayln Susman is best knowing for saving Toy Story 2 back in 1998 after another employee accidentally deleted most of the film's files when hitting a wrong command. The then technical-director thankfully had a backup copy of the film at her house after she was working from home whilst on maternity leave.
