{"id":43528,"date":"2019-06-23T20:35:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43528"},"modified":"2019-06-23T20:35:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:35:24","slug":"toy-story-4-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/06\/toy-story-4-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Toy Story 4 \u2013 Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Bob Garver<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            This\nmay be the most boring movie review you ever read. Don\u2019t get me wrong, \u201cToy\nStory 4\u201d is far from a boring movie. In fact, it packs in so much action that I\nwondered if it could even reach a satisfactory conclusion in its 100-minute\nruntime (spoiler alert: of course it did). No, it\u2019s boring because I have nothing\nbut compliments for this movie. The most consistently praise-worthy franchise\nin movie history continues its praise-worthiness, Pixar has done it again, this\nmovie should make history by becoming the first animated movie to win the Best\nPicture Oscar, blah blah blah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            After\na prologue where we learn how Woody the cowboy (Tom Hanks) and Bo Peep the\nshepherdess (Annie Potts) became separated between the second and third movies,\nwe cut to Woody\u2019s life post-\u201cToy Story 3.\u201d He enjoyed a comfortable life as the\nfavorite toy of previous owner Andy, with his position only threatened briefly\nby astronaut Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) in the first movie, with the two\neventually learning to coexist at the top. But he\u2019s nowhere near the top with\nnew owner Bonnie, who seems to only want him for his sheriff\u2019s badge, which she\ncan put on Jessie the cowgirl (Joan Cusack). Bonnie is so fickle, in fact, that\nwhen she handcrafts a new toy out of items found in the trash, Forky the spork\n(Tony Hale) becomes her new favorite toy of all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Bonnie\ntakes Forky, Woody, Buzz, and all the other toys (I won\u2019t rattle off the full\nlist, but if they\u2019re a series mainstay, they\u2019re probably here) on a road trip\nwhere Woody constantly has to keep Forky from returning to the trash from whence\nhe came in order to keep Bonnie happy. That\u2019s how he maintains his importance,\nby watching out for the true favorite. Forky, for his part, isn\u2019t crazy about\nliving the toy life and just wants to be trash again, not out of a lack of\nself-preservation, but just because he really likes trash. He attempts escape\nin small town with a carnival, and Woody pursues him, but notices something in\na nearby antiques store. Could it be\u2026 Bo Peep? He figures he and Forky can peek\ninside the store, possibly reconnect with his old friend, and get back to\nBonnie before anyone\u2019s the wiser. As you can probably imagine, things don\u2019t go\naccording to plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            People\nare going to come out of this film singing the praises of the new characters. Likely\nthe most popular will be Forky, who gets laughs anytime he moves with his\ngoogly eyes and popsicle stick feet. Gabby Gabby (Christina Hendricks) is the de\nfacto villain, a bygone baby doll with a fleet of ventriloquist dummy henchman\nwho wants a voicebox to attract an owner, and decides that Woody\u2019s will do.\nDucky (Keegan-Michael Key) and Bunny (Jordan Peele) are a conjoined pair of\ncarnival prizes eager to attack humans. Duke Kaboom (Keanu Reeves) is a\ntraumatized Canadian stuntman figure. This movie has the good fortune to be\ncoming out at a time when every entertainment outlet seems to be obsessed with\nReeves on a level not seen since the Betty White craze of 2010 (oh, and she\u2019s\nin this movie too!). And Bo Peep has been on the lam(b) (sorry, had to do it)\nfor so long that she\u2019s practically a new character herself. She\u2019s taken to the\nlife of being a \u201clost toy,\u201d though Woody knows that toys can only be happy if\nthey have a human owner\u2026 right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Kids\nare going to love \u201cToy Story 4\u201d because it\u2019s funny and engaging and its main\ncharacters are toys. Adults are going to love it because it\u2019s bittersweet and\nnostalgic and because Pixar managed to make a fourth movie after three great\nones without screwing up the franchise. Who am I kidding, everybody has every\nreason to love this movie. I recommend seeing it as a family and loving it\ntogether. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grade: A <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToy Story 4\u201d is rated G. Its\nrunning time is 100 minutes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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