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I won’t blame suspicious viewers who think this looks like a bunch of money-grabbing malarkeys, but I must point out that this upgrade isn’t unprecedented at Pixar. If you remember, “Toy Story 2” revealed that the Woody toy was originally a tie-in to a 1950s TV show. Which begged the question of why the hell a millennial like Andy would want that. At least this time the toy came from a contemporary reference for the child. After seeing “Lightyear,” I was full of even more questions, such as “Would Andy’s mom allow a toy version of Buzz’s partner in her house?” And, “Come on, Andy! Why didn’t you ask your mom for a toy version of Buzz’s cat?!”
More on the kitty cat later. “Lightyear” begins with a special mission for the space rangers. Buzz is partnered with Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba), her best friend. They share jokes and memories of past missions. Hawthorne is a black woman, something you don’t often see in space movies despite all the work they did for NASA in “Hidden Figures.” She constantly mocks Buzz’s penchant for “monologue”, i.e. recording Captain Shatner’s logbook in that device on her arm. Before each adventure, the duo touches each other and shouts “To infinity and beyond!” which I guess would have been the tagline for that movie when Andy saw it. By this reasoning, the creators of “Lightyear” can sue the creators of “Toy Story” for stealing it.
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But I digress. Buzz Lightyear, the film’s character, has the same penchant for being stubborn and going his own way as his toy. This gets him in a lot of trouble when he ignores the advice of his team and his ship’s autopilot navigator, IVAN (Mary McDonald-Lewis). The turnip-shaped ship he pilots crashes, stranding everyone on a hostile planet filled with creepers and killer bugs. Feeling guilty, Buzz makes it his mission to find a power source that will help them reach hyperspace and get off the planet.
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I won’t blame suspicious viewers who think this looks like a bunch of money-grabbing malarkeys, but I must point out that this upgrade isn’t unprecedented at Pixar. If you remember, “Toy Story 2” revealed that the Woody toy was originally a tie-in to a 1950s TV show. Which begged the question of why the hell a millennial like Andy would want that. At least this time the toy came from a contemporary reference for the child. After seeing “Lightyear,” I was full of even more questions, such as “Would Andy’s mom allow a toy version of Buzz’s partner in her house?” And, “Come on, Andy! Why didn’t you ask your mom for a toy version of Buzz’s cat?!”
More on the kitty cat later. “Lightyear” begins with a special mission for the space rangers. Buzz is partnered with Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba), her best friend. They share jokes and memories of past missions. Hawthorne is a black woman, something you don’t often see in space movies despite all the work they did for NASA in “Hidden Figures.” She constantly mocks Buzz’s penchant for “monologue”, i.e. recording Captain Shatner’s logbook in that device on her arm. Before each adventure, the duo touches each other and shouts “To infinity and beyond!” which I guess would have been the tagline for that movie when Andy saw it. By this reasoning, the creators of “Lightyear” can sue the creators of “Toy Story” for stealing it.
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But I digress. Buzz Lightyear, the film’s character, has the same penchant for being stubborn and going his own way as his toy. This gets him in a lot of trouble when he ignores the advice of his team and his ship’s autopilot navigator, IVAN (Mary McDonald-Lewis). The turnip-shaped ship he pilots crashes, stranding everyone on a hostile planet filled with creepers and killer bugs. Feeling guilty, Buzz makes it his mission to find a power source that will help them reach hyperspace and get off the planet.
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