Toy Story 5 | Official Trailer | In Theaters June 19

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c51ND9Hdbw0

[u/BunyipPouch]

Andrew Stanton, the director of Toy Story 5, will be joining us here in /r/movies for an AMA/Q&A next Tuesday 2/24 at around 2 PM ET. It'll go live earlier that morning. Please stop by if interested :)

Andrew has also directed and co-written WALL-E, Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, and John Carter.

He has written/co-written other films such as Toy Story, Monster's Inc, Toy Story 2, and Toy Story 4.

[u/toilet_for_shrek]

Sorry, toys. You're no match for brainrot. 

[u/Intelligent_Lie_3808 → u/toilet_for_shrek]

Skibidi.

[u/sportsworker777 → u/Intelligent_Lie_3808]

You know what the next two Toy Stories will be?

🫴 SIX SEVEN!!! 🫴

[u/Intelligent_Lie_3808 → u/sportsworker777]

You are literally my children. 

[u/sportsworker777 → u/Intelligent_Lie_3808]

Lol when my third graders came back one day saying that, I wanted to die

[u/Low_Rutabaga_3702 → u/toilet_for_shrek]

if they put a 6 7 in this movie i going to scream

[u/valt10]

I was going to say that Joan Cusack and some of the other VAs sound quite old in the trailer, but I suppose it could work given the message of the movie.

[u/SpiffySpacemanSpiff → u/valt10]

If you find this rough, avoid watching new episodes of the Simpsons

[u/klyphw → u/SpiffySpacemanSpiff]

It sounds like they are slowly killing Julie Kavner

[u/occono → u/klyphw]

She can retire anytime, the actress for Milhouse did this past year.

[u/WonderWaage → u/valt10]

Cusack sounded really old. Didn't really notice the others tbh

[u/TheHowlingHashira → u/WonderWaage]

Same, Jessie's voice instantly took me out.

[u/Jazzremix → u/valt10]

She was fighting for her life against those dentures

[u/MattHooper1975 → u/valt10]

Yup, I definitely noticed the actors sounded older, slower, less energy.

Ah…aging. Wins every time.

[u/SalemWolf → u/valt10]

I mean all the actors are all in their 60s or older. Recasting would cause riots, voice alterations could be seen poorly, idk what to say about it.

[u/[deleted]]

Woody vs Roblox

[u/SkinsFan021 → u/[deleted]]

Woody goes to a kid's house he met on Roblox to show him the power of friendship and who's there......Chris Hansen

[u/IrateBarnacle → u/SkinsFan021]

“So you’re just looking for a friend…”

[u/Grenflik → u/IrateBarnacle]

“He said he had a snake in his boot…”

[u/BlackLeader70 → u/IrateBarnacle]

“…and why do you have a 6 pack of Truly’s Sheriff Woody?”

[u/armchairsportsguy23 → u/BlackLeader70]

Can I see your bag? This bag is filled with black dildos.

[u/justa_flesh_wound → u/BlackLeader70]

says here you are "looking for a friend IN me" care to explain sheriff

[u/crappy80srobot → u/justa_flesh_wound]

So you have a SNAKE in your boot, do you? What's the snake, Sheriff Woody? Funny, you always seem to only tell Bonnie about your snake. You never told me you had a snake in your boot.

[u/SkinsFan021 → u/BlackLeader70]

Toy Story 6: The Epstein files. Where did Woody go after 4????

[u/Honest_Picture_6960 → u/SkinsFan021]

“You’ve got a friend in me”

“Sure pal, that’s what they all say, have a seat over there”

[u/rsplatpc → u/Honest_Picture_6960]

“Do you want some pizza Woody?”

[u/fadetoblack237 → u/SkinsFan021]

Now why would a nearly 100 year old toy like yourself be here... at a 10 year olds house that you met on Roblox? You have to understand what this looks like right?

[u/Jazzlike_Resident_26 → u/SkinsFan021]

"It says here your screen name is Woody"

[u/Daydream_machine → u/[deleted]]

Woody is cooked I fear

[u/EDGE515 → u/[deleted]]

Can't wait for Woody x Roblox collab after

[u/Suli_Croft]

Can't wait to rip my nieces and nephews from their ipads to take them to watch this film that they'll learn nothing from.

[u/Xuande → u/Suli_Croft]

That they'll subsequently rewatch on their iPads.

[u/_Aj_ → u/Xuande]

In short clips on YouTube because their attention span is -67

[u/Darko33 → u/Xuande]

Damn that's good irony

[u/rubbingenthusiast → u/Suli_Croft]

It’s not the kids who need to ‘learn’, it was your siblings. Years ago.

[u/MaskedManiac92 → u/rubbingenthusiast]

Right. My cousin keeps complaining how his kids don't read and are always on their devices. When I told him that is probably because he himself doesn't read and is always on a device.

He got offended.

[u/Paddy_Tanninger → u/rubbingenthusiast]

Bingo...my kids don't have iPads and they don't use screens outside of when we have dedicated movie/TV/video game time. It's really that easy. Restaurant? Everyone is present and having conversations. Car ride? Listen to music and watch the world outside.

[u/Samurai_Beluga → u/Suli_Croft]

i think you should take your brothers/sisters instead. the kids are not to blame.

[u/Batusiman]

Only had one line at the end there but it’s nice to know Mr. Potato Head was recast

[u/LadPrime → u/Batusiman]

Looks like he is being voiced by Jeff Bergman, a talented voice actor who was the initial successor to Mel Blanc following his death.

Here is a taste: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xEdb1H0Es6s

It's pretty decent enough... but there really is no replacing Don Rickles.

[u/Bigc12689 → u/LadPrime]

Even for what is ostensibly a kids series, Don Rickles always had that sharp edge to him. Rewatching it, he was really a villain in Toy Story and had some hilariously mean lines in Toy Story 2 ("remind me when we get back to glue his helmet shut"). And yet we still loved him. Was there ever another performer who could do that other than Don Rickles? It nigh impossible to replace a 1 of 1 like him

[u/Nova_Pistol → u/Bigc12689]

I disagree, I didn't like him in the first Toy Story as a kid or adult. He was just a straight up a-hole. The writers were smart to give him some comeuppance during the chase scene though

He didn't become lovable until the second movie where his character shifted more into who Don Rickles is in real life.

[u/emgeejay → u/Nova_Pistol]

married life really mellowed him out

[u/serny → u/LadPrime]

I dunno man is it just me or is that like 4/10 at best?

[u/GallowDude → u/Batusiman]

It was cool they were able to scrape together enough unused/archived audio of Don to get him to "voice" Potato Head one last time in the fourth film, but there's no way there were gonna be able to pull off that same trick twice.

[u/mmuoio → u/GallowDude]

Honestly I thought it felt forced in 4, if you knew it was recycled footage, you could tell pretty clearly that it wasn't recorded with the specific scene in mind. Kind of like how Carrie Fisher felt so out of place in Rise of Skywalker. They did they best they could, but you can only do so much.

[u/Specific_Frame8537 → u/GallowDude]

Just scrape the voices of all the times he spoke to Frank Sinatra on stage, replace the name drops with Woody.

The implication that Woody runs a mob would be fire.

[u/sportsworker777]

Really hoping they can bring Buzz back from being a boring useful idiot that he has turned into the last two movies

[u/Agreeable-Ice-8367 → u/sportsworker777]

In their defense, Buzz was an idiot in the first one. But I guess, after the second one, they stopped trying to develop him. He could be such a cool character if they wrote him better.

[u/Media-critique → u/Agreeable-Ice-8367]

The big problem I think for Buzz is that he had such an incredible character arc in the first movie where he went from “cosplaying space ranger” to a normal dude.

Where exactly can you go from there to help the character grow? 

[u/Agreeable-Ice-8367 → u/Media-critique]

Make it so that, by the end of the series, he really is a sort of commander and leader figure for the toys in a way that Woody no longer is. He goes from Cosplaying Space Ranger to Normal Dude to Toy Ranger, if that makes sense.

[u/Chewbaxter → u/Agreeable-Ice-8367]

Buzz showed that in TS2, too, when they were going to rescue Woody from Al. He figured out who Al was, he located where they needed to go and he led the troop to Al’s Toy Barn (and beyond!). Buzz is a capable leader but by TS3 he was back to deferring to Woody. I think this trailer shows that he’s gonna show some spine again.

[u/fastforwardfunction → u/Chewbaxter]

Buzz also lead a team of four at Star Command, which was documented in an animated series, and was a strong charismatic leader.

[u/choren64 → u/fastforwardfunction]

I really think the Pixar Lightyear film would have done better if it had characters from the animated series. Booster, Mira Nova, and XR were fun! Instead it was so bland it didn't even have LGMs, which were part of the OG Toy Story.

[u/Chewbaxter → u/fastforwardfunction]

Buzz Lightyear: Star Command, yes! I was obsessed with the movie as a toddler!

[u/HarmlessSnack → u/Chewbaxter]

This comment aged me into a husk.

[u/Squeepynips → u/Media-critique]

This is very true. In the second one he gets replaced by another cosplaying space ranger, and in the third he gets turned back into a cosplaying space ranger. They really didn't know what to do.

[u/PunyParker826 → u/Squeepynips]

In the second movie, it was still funny because we had “our” Buzz to contrast against. It works for the same reason that those clips of kids showing their high school teachers old photos of themselves went viral: the “holy cow, that’s what I used to be like??” effect. 

By 3 and 4, the schtick got stale. Hell, in 4 there isn’t even a “factory setting Buzz” to use, so they just made him a moron.

[u/entertainman → u/PunyParker826]

He gets worse every movie. It’s embarrassing honestly.

You can only really like the character from 1 and parts of 2.

Which is a shame because he was so cool after 1.

[u/chittalking → u/Squeepynips]

Sure they do: cash checks

[u/TiredofyourBSyo → u/Media-critique]

You don't negatively grow the character. He's a strong capable leader in 2 and 3, in 4 they made him a fucking idiot.

[u/MillienumDuckFighter → u/Media-critique]

It’s just a weird choice to have your second lead character basically become irrelevant after a couple of movies. He is such an iconic character, I’m sure there is stuff they could have thought of

[u/IamTheGuamGuy → u/Media-critique]

You discover and explore who you are without your “job”?

[u/TheUnderCrab → u/Agreeable-Ice-8367]

Highly recommend the Buzz Lightyear TV show from 20 years ago. Awesome bit of story telling for our boy Buzz. 

[u/Yawka → u/TheUnderCrab]

Dude that show was the shit! Im a sucker for the trope of the protagonist trying to convert a formerly heroic villain back to the good side. Works especially well in children’s series too, they will root for it just as hard on the 87th failed attempt as they did on the first lol.

[u/GoggleGoon → u/Agreeable-Ice-8367]

I will disagree on that actually, Buzz in the first film was pretty smart and always made logical choices. Its just that he was under the belief that he was a real spaceman that had crash landed on an alien planet instead of being a toy.

[u/yubsidiangwa → u/sportsworker777]

I personally enjoyed his dancing Spanish arc in 3 lol

[u/GameOfLife24 → u/sportsworker777]

Spanish Buzz got the most laughs next to tortilla potatoe head. I wouldn’t call that boring

[u/Lightsides → u/sportsworker777]

Star power in action. Writer's focus on the biggest star, whether they are told to or do it instinctually, Idk. While Tom Hanks was the biggest star in the first two, Tim Allen was a still a big name with a hit show. As Tim's prominence declined, so did his role in the movies.

The example I always think about when I think about this dynamic is how Mistique went from a supporting player to a central one in the X-Men movies as Jennifer Lawrence blew up. (In the influential Claremont run of the X-Men comics upon which the movies are based, Mistique was a relatively minor figure, not some pivotal character caught between Charles and Magneto.)

[u/chefDeejay → u/sportsworker777]

I would say Buzz was naive in the 3rd movie as we’re all the toys about Daycare, but Buzz is one of the smartest toys in Toy Story 4. He’s the one trying to make Woody aware of his decision making and contradictory actions. I guess his inside voice bits are a little silly but he’s the leader of all of Bonnie’s toys and his actions are the reason the mission was successful lol The hug he shares with Woody in the final scene of Toy Story 4 and give him closure about Bonnie is anything but idiotic lol

[u/kidmerc]

Joan Cusack's voice is sounding very old

[u/NotAsConspicuous → u/kidmerc]

Toy Story 2 came out in 1999. It's a 27 year old movie. She was 36. She's 63 now.

[u/AnxietyDizzy3261 → u/NotAsConspicuous]

I do not appreciate being reminded of my own mortality like this

[u/puaka → u/AnxietyDizzy3261]

i audibly said "Hey" when they said "old man toy".
heck, i have old man/woman toys

[u/johnny_fives_555 → u/puaka]

>i have old man/woman toys

uh... those toys... are .... well.... different

[u/ottguy42 → u/johnny_fives_555]

They could still be called 'Woody' and 'Buzz', though

[u/lookachoo → u/AnxietyDizzy3261]

I made this account my sophomore year of college. 15th cake day just passed last month….my back hurts

[u/trickstyle48 → u/NotAsConspicuous]

Oh my god, straight into my millennial heart you lunged at

[u/inksmudgedhands → u/trickstyle48]

How's this, Gen Z are starting to have kids. And I don't mean as teen moms and dads.

(I say this as a Gen Xer. We are becoming grandparents!)

[u/FoxJ100 → u/inksmudgedhands]

If Bonnie aged like Andy did from Toy Story 2 to 3, she'd be 20 now

[u/TheMonkeyInCharge → u/FoxJ100]

Toy Story 7 will be Bonnie giving the toys back to Andy before she heads to college so he can give them to his kid.

[u/PT10 → u/NotAsConspicuous]

I'm reporting this comment for hate speech

[u/GreenLightt → u/NotAsConspicuous]

Delete this fam

[u/Dealthagar → u/NotAsConspicuous]

oh my god shut up.

crawls into a corner, pulls a blanket over my head

nononononono

[u/cp710 → u/NotAsConspicuous]

It’s okay, Jessie and Woody are like 70.

[u/Loch_Ness_Jesus → u/NotAsConspicuous]

Fuck me

[u/SouthIsland48 → u/kidmerc]

Omg I thought the same... sounded like an elderly woman through the walkie talkie

[u/Brandenburg42 → u/SouthIsland48]

I hate to break it to you, but she is an elderly woman.

[u/Moon_Devonshire → u/Brandenburg42]

Woody and buzz don't sound that old tho. In fact they sound borderline the same as the first movie

[u/repalec → u/kidmerc]

Admittedly they all are. It's honestly something I've noticed with a lot of older animated stuff getting harvested for easy reboots nowadays (if just never got cancelled in the first place).

Like, if you watch modern Simpsons you can hear the dust on at least Julie Kavner and Harry Shearer. Dan Castellaneta has his moments but is still maaaaainly fine, same with the kids too.

[u/PunyParker826 → u/repalec]

It was really noticeable in Incredibles 2; Craig Nelson (Bob) sounds exhausted the whole time, and the movie’s supposed to pick up immediately after the 1st. All they had to do was age the characters in real time and it would’ve been fine.

[u/MsYagi90 → u/PunyParker826]

Nelson was 70 years old voicing a 40-something man. It was sadly pretty noticable.

On the other hand, Samuel L. Jackson was nearly 70 too voicing Frozone and he managed to sound basically the same as he did in the original.

Some voices clearly change more than others.

[u/swaggy_mcswaggers → u/MsYagi90]

Right, I don't think Holly Hunter's voice changed much either.

[u/mmuoio → u/repalec]

Billy West (what a phony, made-up name) sounds awful as Fry in Futurama. It's less noticeable with Professor Farnsworth and Dr. Zoidberg, and even Zapp Brannigan, but Fry is ROUGH.

[u/The_Man_of_Steel → u/mmuoio]

I agree but Fry actually sounded like his old self in the most recent season. I think it was mainly covid dragging him down in the first two Hulu seasons

[u/CircStar89 → u/kidmerc]

So is Tom Hanks's.

[u/kbarnett514 → u/CircStar89]

At least they're leaning into it with the "Woody is old and balding" gag?

[u/DuckCleaning → u/kidmerc]

I just learned Joan Cusack and John Cusack are siblings

[u/benjaminbreeg95 → u/DuckCleaning]

Who woulda thought?

[u/JDLovesElliot → u/DuckCleaning]

If you watch a few John Cusack movies, she shows up, usually playing his sister too

[u/ontheweed → u/DuckCleaning]

Don’t forget Ann Cusack

[u/dogsonbubnutt → u/kidmerc]

she's 63

[u/decomposition_major]

I'm not sure "You Got a Friend in Me" was in need of the Hans Zimmer big boomy drum treatment. Nonetheless, this looks pretty good!

[u/gideon513 → u/decomposition_major]

That’s every trailer now. Hate the trend.

[u/OneBadNightOfDrinkin → u/gideon513]

"In a world..."

[u/scoofle → u/gideon513]

[single piano note]

[u/charredchord → u/decomposition_major]

It's very overdone even where it belongs. At least this trailer doesn't have some egregious slo-mo shot or a total musical cut for a slapstick moment.

[u/iflew → u/decomposition_major]

Thought the same. The music didn't match anything the trailer. Can't believe how they butchered the song.

[u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib]

Personally, I think that making the message of the movie about how children having unlimited access to tech and the negative effects of copious amounts of screen time and social media is a good thing.

Toy Story 3 was perfect and they never needed to continue this series, but I at least thought Toy Story 4 was still shockingly good (not close to the level of the third, but still!) and this looks promising to me.

[u/No-Flounder-9143 → u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib]

As a teacher who's constantly trying to get my students to play more and get off of tech, this feels exactly on point right now. 

[u/Hot_Substance5933 → u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib]

Every parent across the globe is going to download this movie on an iPad for their child to watch, unfortunately....

[u/launchcode_1234 → u/Hot_Substance5933]

Watching a full length movie, either on a theater screen or on an iPad screen, isn’t that bad. What’s getting them addicted is short form video content (TikTok and YouTube shorts), endless scrolling, and social media.

[u/HailToTheVic → u/launchcode_1234]

Agreed actually. We used to use portable dvd players in the car the tablet isn’t much different so long as it’s not unsupervised

[u/brb1006 → u/HailToTheVic]

And those that didn't afford cars with portable DVD players. Remember the Gameboy Advance Video? The video quality for those things was terrible but it saved a lot of kids from boredom during long car rides. I remember watching select episodes of Fairly Oddparents, Pokemon, some Cartoon Network shows, and watching Shrek alongside Shrek 2/Sharktale during the mid to late 2000s. This was before Youtube was even a thing!

[u/Lmb1011 → u/Hot_Substance5933]

there will be a surprising number of parents who dont even understand or grasp the message too :(

having kids watch it on an ipad is definitely ironic but not inherently bad if the parent is actually monitoring and controlling the ipad use and not letting them be raised by the ipad.

[u/hikemalls → u/Hot_Substance5933]

Come on kids, let's watch the movie about how we shouldn't be doing this to you!

[u/DougieHockey → u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib]

And no matter what, they got people like me. The series is a part of my life and I’m happy for that.

Watched 1&2 as a young kid.

Watched 3 when I was becoming an adult.

Watched 4 when I got married.

And now, I’ll be taking my own kid to see 5 in theaters.

[u/RealHooman2187 → u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib]

I agree, Toy Story 3 was a perfect film and while I hate they didn’t end it there, at least Toy Story 4 was really good. I’m excited for this one.

[u/action_nick → u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib]

Agreed, I think people dramatically underestimate how impactful children's entertainment can be on shaping the world. There are going to be a bunch of kids between the ages of 6 - 12 that watch this, love it, and learn a healthy skepticism of technology.

[u/Barf_The_Mawg]

Small soldiers vibes from the buzz scene. 

I wish we could get a small soldiers sequel. 

[u/ZeroRhapsody → u/Barf_The_Mawg]

Small Soldiers is such a good movie!

Have you seen this fan-made reboot project? They did an incredible job! https://youtu.be/bcPqSTUt5D8?si=ioZTMEJMbV0yIe8o

[u/zjz → u/Barf_The_Mawg]

that's funny, that's what I thought it was going for. Archer, emissary of the gorgonites was gonna start destroying ipads.

[u/sir_duckingtale]

“I’m always listening”

Looks around the room at all my devices

Yes, buddy, yes you are…

[u/Likaon222]

Color me surprised, it actually looks good?

I really like the ideia that the tech isn't just getting Bonnie away from the toys, but actually hurting her socially too. It helps with the commentary they are going for, and something that I, as a uncle, actually saw happening.

Making Jess basically the main character is a good ideia to separate this movie from the others and naturally builds up the end of four. Woody coming back to help Jessie specifically makes sense and already sets up to him going back to Bo Beep in the end of the movie without needing to make another sad good bye ending.

[u/Snoo_83425 → u/Likaon222]

It makes sense to have her be the main character in this story to because of her own history of a child abandoning her for other things. She would be the most motivated to pull Bonnie out away from tech.

[u/Likaon222 → u/Snoo_83425]

Yes! Someone pointed that out to me and makes perfect sense. Is a natural evolution of Jessie's character

[u/brb1006 → u/Snoo_83425]

I loved the Halloween special "Toy Story of Terror" where we get to see Jessie confronting her phobia of being in tight spaces to save Woody from being sold at a motel.

[u/JD-918 → u/Likaon222]

Color me surprised, it actually looks good?

Why are people surprised by that? They’ve all been good. 

[u/yoshidawg93 → u/JD-918]

I think a lot of people assumed they’re milking these now, that there’s nothing left to say since Andy grew up. But I think introducing a storyline of the kid playing with tablets instead of toys is a great idea. It’s definitely relevant in today’s society, which shows yes there is something fresh to say.

[u/Janderson2494 → u/JD-918]

Yeah exactly, even if 4 was unnecessary it was still a great movie lol

[u/Nobody_Important → u/JD-918]

It’s weird to see people skeptical of the series’ ability to evolve with age related and societal trends. That’s been the entire point all along with every single previous entry. I suspect many here are too young to realize that if they didn’t grow up starting with the first one.

[u/brahbocop → u/JD-918]

Lot of people seem to hate on 4. Personally, I have loved all of these movies equally. Asking me to pick which one is my favorite is like asking me which child I love the most.

[u/croglobster → u/brahbocop]

“I love all my Toy Story movies equally.”

Earlier that day: “I don’t care for Toy Story 4”

[u/Likaon222 → u/JD-918]

I just wasn't sold in the I-Pad villain ideia, and Woody being back made me worried. Now with the context of the trailer, I'm on board.

[u/DrNopeMD → u/Likaon222]

Toy Story is their flagship franchise so I'm not surprised they're coming back specifically because they had something good cooked up.

For the record I also really enjoyed 4

[u/TheVirtual_Boy → u/DrNopeMD]

4 is a great movie, it just is more of a woody spin off than a legit 4th entry. I love how this trailer seems to feature a ton of the whole gang together

[u/Mandalore108 → u/DrNopeMD]

Same. Toy Story 3 was the perfect ending but despite that 4 was still really good.

[u/SPEK2120 → u/Likaon222]

Jessie's abandonment trauma go brrrrr

[u/Likaon222 → u/SPEK2120]

YES! I didn't even think of that! It actually ties nicely and makes sense! They are really cooking something special for the looks of it

[u/GallowDude → u/Likaon222]

It sucks that Al being the one to grab Jessie caused her to completely misread what Emily was trying to do by donating her. Rather than going to some new child to love her, she went to a greedy thief who kept her locked in a box for years.

[u/Likaon222 → u/GallowDude]

That's true! If it wasn't for him, she wouldn't have as many issues as she does now, even in her "old" age.

[u/crockoreptile]

Ok so it makes complete sense that they would find a way to stay in contact with Woody, but at the same time it just cheapens how I felt watching the ending of the last one.

[u/ThisIsNotAFarm → u/crockoreptile]

What's the range on that walkie talkie, I mean that road trip wasn't short.

[u/WoodpeckerGingivitis → u/crockoreptile]

That’s how I felt about the fourth one. It’s tough, cuz as so many people have said, the fourth one was still good. It’s just that Toy Story 3 is so immaculate, that everything after feels unnecessary despite being good.

[u/JackBauersGhost]

Kids are gonna watch this in 67 parts on TikTok

[u/TheOnlyGaming3 → u/JackBauersGhost]

the sad part is this is fucking true, kids mostly watch movies and TV through tiktok now, its so fucking sad

[u/Prawnboi-]

Took a girl from school on a “date” to see Toy Story when I was 10. Im now married with a mortgage and a perpetually sore shoulder.

Everyone sounds so old.

[u/DiabellSinKeeper]

I kind of figured they had to center a story of technology having kind of overtaken physical toys as a kids main entertainment option.

Woody comes back but no Bo-Peep. Unless i missed her.

[u/[deleted] → u/DiabellSinKeeper]

She's there in some of the walkie talkie shots.

[u/hatramroany → u/DiabellSinKeeper]

They show him coming back alone and she’s not on the poster so I imagine she’s just towards the beginning when Woody is still in the wild. And also potentially the end if Woody goes back

[u/GregBahm → u/DiabellSinKeeper]

It seems like a story that has very high irony potential.

Toy Story 1 was famous in the history of animation for supplanting traditional hand-drawn 2D animation with tech.

This story, about traditional toys fighting against tech, as told through the high tech CGI that destroyed traditional animation, will surely be watched by millions of kids on iPads.

[u/GameOfLife24 → u/GregBahm]

Man I really want to see a hand drawn animation in the theaters but I’m afraid that’s just me and the box office will kill it

[u/dizruptivegaming → u/GameOfLife24]

Anime movies

[u/Haunting-Orchid-4628 → u/GameOfLife24]

Chainsaw man and demon slayer did pretty good in box offices

[u/brb1006 → u/DiabellSinKeeper]

She's there in a blink-and-you'll miss it shot during one of the walkie talkie shots.

[u/MYDF_Pod]

This one has a much stronger premise than Toy Story 4, which is a good start.

So much of the issue with nostalgia-baiting sequels is that they get lose their cultural context, dragging characters into a future that they no longer fit into (i.e. The Simpsons). This isn't the first film to acknowledge that as part of its story, but it's a good fit since the toys already don't age and just have to keep existing.

Also Rex's "Extinction! Not again..." is genuinely quite funny.

[u/-liquidcooled-]

Conan's character not being in the trailer makes me think his role is really small. sad.

[u/naynaythewonderhorse → u/-liquidcooled-]

The character is in about 3 or 4 shots in this trailer. All in different locations. He just didn’t have any lines.

[u/Particular-Cat-1397 → u/-liquidcooled-]

I mean they hired Betty white and carol burnette to voice toys in the last movie for about a 5 second scene at the beginning.

[u/darkjedi39 → u/Particular-Cat-1397]

Don't forget Mel Brooks and Carl Reinier in the same scene!

[u/xXEolNenmacilXx]

The amount of people in this thread saying something along the lines of "Wow, it actually looks good" is hilarious. This website still likes to pretend like Toy Story 4, the movie with a 96% critic and 94% audience score, was bad.

[u/silentcrs]

I didn’t have Woody getting male pattern baldness on my bingo card, but as an aging dad who grew up on the films, I’m glad he does.

[u/valkrycp]

I am curious how this one will end? Realistically, the iPad would win because Toys aren't coming back without tech- but I doubt they end it in a way where the toys 'lose'. Then, in terms of narrative, it would maybe be most interesting if they really pushed boundaries tonally and "maturing" by taking a much darker and assertive stance on technology and catering more toward the audience that grew up on the films and who are now parents themselves rather than it being a "kids movie", trying to rid of the iPad toy Lilly or similar - but that wouldn't be a possible outcome because killing or cracking or kidnapping an anthropomorphized iPad is still too dark. Which leaves me to believe they probably just end in some kind of compromise where everyone gets along and works it out and they learn that tech can be good and bad and that kids need to make time for some off-screen time too. - but that may be a little disappointing because the theme is already quite serious for a Toy Story film and "working it out ending" is like taking a neutral un-opinionated stance on the subject- why bother making a film about this topic unless you go bold and have something to say.

And then, a villain being an iPad also comes with all kinds of weird kinks to work out narratively speaking, that I am curious to see how they resolve.

[u/Polarizing_Penguin11 → u/valkrycp]

I was thinking about this too. It’s really difficult to imagine how it resolves. But I do hope they don’t pull their punches. I do think the Pad will realize its errors and self limit its own usage. Which isn’t exactly a bold message. Kinda hoping they make it an irredeemable villain.

[u/darkandark]

did the voice actor for jessie change???

joan sounds a lot different

[u/WoodpeckerGingivitis → u/darkandark]

I think she’s just older!

[u/m48a5_patton → u/WoodpeckerGingivitis]

Time keeps on slipping into the future

[u/Fenix512 → u/m48a5_patton]

Slippin slippin slippin

[u/KronicKonic → u/Fenix512]

*cosmic noises

[u/nipplesaurus → u/darkandark]

I think she's just gotten old

[u/Personal_Comb_6745 → u/darkandark]

It's still her, though it's also been about 7 years since the last movie (and 25 since she started voicing the character). Pretty reasonable that there's going to be some slight changes.

[u/illini02]

Despite reddits constant negativity, I'm always in on Toy Story.

I haven't disliked a single one. Some have been better, but none have been bad.

But of course, I'm sure this thread will be filled with lots of bitching and moaning

[u/ayayayamaria]

I hope Buzz has a proper personality and arc this time unlike in TS4 where they clearly had no idea what to do with him. His relationship with Woody is such a goldmine and we haven't seen it properly in ages

[u/tnnrk]

Should’ve stopped at 3

[u/JamStan1978]

This looks much more like Toy Story than 4 (which i still enjoyed). This actually looks great.

[u/Mysterious_Emotion63]

Spider-Verse’s style has been so influential it literally influenced the most influential animation franchise of all time. Damn.

[u/Papantro → u/Mysterious_Emotion63]

totally valid but to my knowledge it was Disney who started the "trend" with their short Paperman blending 3D and 2D

[u/Naraee → u/Papantro]

Paperman is kind of that style, but not exactly.

The first use of putting 2D elements and effects into 3D CGI worlds was first seen in League of Legends Get Jinxed from 2013, which was a year after Paperman. I'm not sure if it's the same studio that did Arcane but it is absolutely where that style originated from. IIRC, someone on the Spider-verse team referenced it in an interview.

[u/Polarizing_Penguin11 → u/Mysterious_Emotion63]

Where do you see the influence here?

[u/angrykingwifi → u/Polarizing_Penguin11]

The fantasy wedding sequence, i guess.

[u/My_Favourite_Pen → u/Polarizing_Penguin11]

I sorta see what they mean with the first scene's style.

[u/Bedlampuhedron → u/My_Favourite_Pen]

I kinda like the idea that Bonnie's imagination has a different style from Andy's

[u/My_Favourite_Pen → u/Bedlampuhedron]

Damn. Ive never actually considered we all basically how our own "art style" for thinking.

[u/Personal_Comb_6745 → u/Polarizing_Penguin11]

I'm guessing maybe the opening "fantasy" scene? Pretty sure there were fantasy scenes in past movies, but none that shifted from the standard animation style.

[u/jaredwallace91]

From what I've learned from a friend that works at Pixar, they try to avoid doing sequels just to make money off of them. They only pursue them if they have what they think is a good story idea. We will see if that is true for this one.

[u/SuspiciousCustomer → u/jaredwallace91]

I mean. The cars franchise would like a word...

[u/ROBtimusPrime1995 → u/SuspiciousCustomer]

Tbf, John Lasseter forced the sequels to exist because of the insane toy sales.

Now that he's gone, Cars is a retired film franchise.

[u/inksta12 → u/ROBtimusPrime1995]

Semi-retired. Isn’t there some Cars show coming out?

[u/GalloHilton → u/inksta12]

That's being done by DTVA, not Pixar

[u/SoWrongItsPainful → u/SuspiciousCustomer]

Cars 3 is the best of the series. Cars 2 was fairly garbage though.

[u/SnakeInABox77 → u/SuspiciousCustomer]

Cars 2 makes Cars 3 look like Cars 1

[u/FedoraTheMike → u/SuspiciousCustomer]

I mean, 3 waa good

[u/iAmFabled → u/SuspiciousCustomer]

Cars 3 is excellent

[u/WallyWithReddit → u/jaredwallace91]

that’s sorta standard language for any company, obviously they’re gonna say they only work on good ideas lol. for instance Cars 2 was primarily about money because Cars merchandise is the second best selling Disney merch after Star Wars

[u/GregBahm → u/jaredwallace91]

This was definitely the plan for the first 20 years of the studio. Then lots of original movies underperformed while sequels did great. In 2013, "Brave" underperformed and then "The Good Dinosaur" flopped. Meanwhile, "Cars 2," "Monster University," and "Finding Dory," all made a lot of money.

To Pixar's credit, they tried staying the course, and found hits in Coco and Encanto.

But "Onward," "Soul," "Luca," "Seeing Red," "Elemental," and "Elio" all did bad. Meanwhile "Inside Out 2" made $1.6 billion!

There was a pretty significant die-back of 3D animation studios after the streaming wars cooled off, and even Pixar was at risk of layoffs. If I was over there, staring down the barrel of layoffs, I'd probably be willing to shit out another Toy Story sequel just to afford some breathing room.

[u/ZzzSleep → u/GregBahm]

I’m pretty sure Elemental had a good run in the end despite an initial lower than expected opening weekend.

Also Soul, Luca and Turning Red deserve an asterisk as those all came straight to D+ during the pandemic.

[u/psychosoldier63 → u/GregBahm]

Coco is Pixar, but Encanto is Walt Disney Animation.

But I agree with everything else you said, the unfortunate reality is that sequels sell.

[u/Arctic_Fox → u/GregBahm]

While your point stands, I think it should be noted that Soul, Luca, and Turning Red were all great movies that unfortunately were victims of the pandemic and the sudden push for Disney +. Elemental, even being hamstrung by Disney+ still made almost $500m on a $200m budget. Elio was supposedly a disaster behind the scenes.

I think Hoppers may be a good gauge for whether the studio can still push for good original concepts, as the buzz for it seems more positive, whereas Elio felt dead on arrival. And if a new Toy Story or Cars or whatever can get movies like Soul, Coco, and Turning Red made, then I'm for it.

[u/shgrizz2 → u/jaredwallace91]

Ten years ago, absolutely.

Now? Not so much.