Toy Story 1995
I remember really liking Toy Story when it first came out and also being impressed with its sequel. I bought the two-pack DVD of both movies and now I have both on Blu-ray as well. In a ranking I did of Pixar movies, Toy Story came out on top. Not only is the concept great, but the voice cast has to be one of the best of all time. Tom Hanks as Woody is just perfect and the Blu-ray extras show how Pixar was able to encourage him to take the part by taking dialogue from Turner and Hooch where he says “No, don’t eat the furniture!” performed by Woody. It is great how they had the arms waving and everything down with just that snippet of animation. Tim Allen is also perfect as Buzz Lightyear, oozing with confidence, completely unaware that he is a toy. The rest of the cast is great as well, with every character playing it perfectly. The movie is surprsingly short, partly because computer animation was still so hard to do. In fact, they chose toys as the subject because shiny plastic things were at about the limit of what they could animate and process on a computer (they actually started planning the movie before the technology was even capable of the job, knowing that computers would catch up by the time they needed it). On rewatching the movie, it is still funny, clever, and fun to watch.
Written: 07 May 2017
Owned on: UHD, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital