Word: lightyear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Andy in Toy Story, audiences have a choice: they can drop their $7.50 on the technologically advanced new kid on the block or the familiar veteran. But in actuality, Pixar and Disney are more like the Buzz Lightyear and Wood of Toy Story 2. A blend of the new and old has equated victory. Buzz and Woody work together in Toy Story 2 to get Woody home after being kidnapped. Since 1989, Pixar and Disney have worked together to achieve mega financial and critical success and to blow the competition away...
...Zurg, you killed my mother!" screams an animated Buzz Lightyear as he battles the evil emperor on top of a descending elevator shaft. And after ages of waiting for Zurg to speak and declare his intentions to rule supreme over the universe, Buzz holds his breath. "Noooo," answers Zurg in his guttural robonics, "I am your father." Cut to: Zurg and Buzz Lightyear playing with whiffleballs on the side of a highway. And so the wonderful world of Pixar rolls merrily along...
...problems with live-action ones, though; a recent preview already advertises 102 Dalmatians, which opens next Thanksgiving. What an abomination.) But Toy Story almost begged a sequel because its characters created an apoplectic microcosm whose surface could barely be scratched in a mere 90 minutes. Besides Woody and Buzz Lightyear, our animated Don Quixote and Pancho Sanza (the fun is figuring out who exactly is more deluded), you have the returning Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head (now officially married), Slinky Dog, the incontinent Hamm, the still neurotic Rex and the ever-prone-to-PDA Bo Peep. The sequel adds...
...pictures of human skin in order to perfectly recreate it--we see Al McWhiggen's pores, his nose hairs, his mild case of adult acne. In fact, Lasseter is so confident in his company's animation capabilities that he inserts "show-off scenes" to prove it; the opening Buzz Lightyear versus Zurg video game capture whirls through luminescent minefields, perilous tracking shots, and stunning detail. Unlike 99 percent of sequels, this one works harder than the original...
...again by Tom Hanks) confronts toy mortality, the temptations of celebrity and, yes, the possibilities of sexual adventure (with Joan Cusack's Jessica the cowgirl). That's a lot for an earnest little cowhand to handle. But the gang from Andy's bedroom (led by Tim Allen's Buzz Lightyear, naturally) offers him daring, good-humored support during his multiple crises. Just getting Slinky the Dog, Rex the Dinosaur and Mr. Potato Head across a busy street is a task of Schwarzeneggerian proportions--but funny. Pixar's improved computer animation is up to all the demands of this excellent adventure...