Toy Story 4 Trailer Was Released
The first full-length trailer for "Toy Story 4" was unveiled on Tuesday and it shows the gang back together – with some new faces.
At the end of "Toy Story 3," Andy gave his toys — Woody and the gang — to a little girl named Bonnie as he headed off to college. In the latest in the Disney/Pixar franchise, Bonnie and her family are headed on a road trip. Her new toy Forky, a spork with googly eyes and a pipe cleaners for arms, doesn't know if he can handle being a toy and says so before jumping out the window:
"I am not a toy! I was made for soup, salad — maybe chili. And then the trash!"
Woody follows him and the two end up in an antique store where they find an emboldened Bo Peep, voiced by Annie Potts.
"I am not a toy! I was made for soup, salad — maybe chili. And then the trash!"
Woody follows him and the two end up in an antique store where they find an emboldened Bo Peep, voiced by Annie Potts.
The trailer shows Woody on a mission to bring back a rogue toy named "Forky," and the two run into old friend Bo Peep along the way. Like in past "Toy Story" films, Woody will stop at nothing to return home – or will he?
Bo Peep shows Woody, who wants to return with Forky to Bonnie, that life exists for toys outside of belonging to a child.
But Woody has begun to experience an identity crisis of his own.
“I was made to help a child," he says. "I don’t remember it ever being this hard."
Who's crying? You. That's who.
But Woody has begun to experience an identity crisis of his own.
“I was made to help a child," he says. "I don’t remember it ever being this hard."
Who's crying? You. That's who.
Toy Story 3 was an ideal end to a perfect trilogy, a rare beast among massive movie franchises with obscenely large marketing potential.
But the trailer for Toy Story 4 feels alarmingly underwhelming; overly familiar, full of ideas that were previously explored in the franchise, some very thoroughly indeed. For example …
A false paradise
The previous three films saw Buzz seduced by fictional space adventures, Woody by the allure of celebrity, and the entire gang by the promise of a relaxing life at daycare. These all turned out to be unobtainable fantasies, with the real paradise dwelling in the imagination of a child.
Are we going through the motions with the carnival we see in the trailer? It’s a traveling playground, after all, a potentially perfect place for a toy to retire. If there’s some crazy dark secret hiding under the surface, it’s going to ring a little hollow.
Are we going through the motions with the carnival we see in the trailer? It’s a traveling playground, after all, a potentially perfect place for a toy to retire. If there’s some crazy dark secret hiding under the surface, it’s going to ring a little hollow.
A secret villain
Disney movies have recently adopted an increasingly predictable twist, in which a nice person offering an opportunity reveals themselves to be a villain in the final act. This is fine, but it’s getting to be somewhat overused; I’m starting to miss openly evil villains, one-dimensional as they may be.
There is no antagonist to be seen in the trailer (other than the creepy doll and her gang of ventriloquist dummies, who look to be a secondary threat). If Bo Peep turns out to be secretly unhinged due to her abandonment issues or whatever, it’s going to be pretty disappointing.
We’ve already been there with both Stinky Pete and Lotso, and Lotso was really pushing it.
Disney movies have recently adopted an increasingly predictable twist, in which a nice person offering an opportunity reveals themselves to be a villain in the final act. This is fine, but it’s getting to be somewhat overused; I’m starting to miss openly evil villains, one-dimensional as they may be.
There is no antagonist to be seen in the trailer (other than the creepy doll and her gang of ventriloquist dummies, who look to be a secondary threat). If Bo Peep turns out to be secretly unhinged due to her abandonment issues or whatever, it’s going to be pretty disappointing.
We’ve already been there with both Stinky Pete and Lotso, and Lotso was really pushing it.
A toy’s purpose
Woody’s having another “mid-life crisis?” Really? He already had one when Andy ripped his arm, forcing him to acknowledge his age and making the idea of immortality behind a glass case seem very attractive, until Buzz reminded him that toys only exist to make children happy.
And again in Toy Story 3, when Andy went to college and Woody had trouble letting go, even wanting to follow his former playmate. Presumably, he’d be gathering dust on a dorm room shelf, helplessly watching as Andy masturbates and experiments with drugs.
And Toy Story 4 looks to be recycling this concept, with Woody seemingly thinking about adopting Bo Peep’s care-free, independent lifestyle. Like parents that are done raising their kids, and spend the rest of their days getting drunk on cruise ships, Woody might be done with children for good. Or is he?
Probably not Separating Buzz and Woody
It’s a bit disappointing that we’ve never seen Buzz and Woody spend much time together since the first film. Since they dealt with their massive conflict, the two are almost always separated by convenient plot devices, with one invariably going on a rescue mission to fetch the other. Again, this looks to be the case with Toy Story 4.
It might just be that the dynamic between the two toys isn’t interesting anymore, now that they’ve worked out their drama. Perhaps a bit of ideological conflict will allow the two to share more than a couple of scenes in this film.
Regardless of how tepid and cliché-ridden this trailer looks, I do have faith that the creative team at Pixar will deliver another animated masterpiece. The studio has been a little shaky recently, but hopefully Toy Story 4 will be closer to Coco than The Good Dinosaur.
I’m going to cry during the credits, regardless.
The film will be released in theaters June 21.It's so expected and surprised~!
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