We get those Toy Story films ranked…
With a fifth film now on release the much loved Toy Story franchise has spanned 31 years starting in 1995 and we thought we would take a look and get those Toy Story films ranked no easy task when they are all of such a high standard,
Starting with the least, because none of the films are bad, we start with
4. Toy Story 4 (2019)
A fourth film in the franchise was unexpected as the third film had been such a perfect way to end and Pixar which was now owned by Disney had continued a roll of successful releases that had included Finding Dory, Incredible 2, Inside Out and Monsters University. But for the first time ever Pixar had had a very expensive failure with The Good Dinosaur. The studio had been having bug success with sequels to their beloved back catalogue and Toy Story was an obvious film to make another sequel. And audiences did want more as the fourth film to date is the biggest earner making $1.07billion. But despite its high standard tanks to the screenwriting genius of Andrew Stanton who had steered the three previous films it had taken to toys into a new environment away for their teenage owner Andy and having been dropped off at Bonnie’s house. It also introduced a new main character Sporky that audiences didn’t quite take to heart as they had with Woody, Buzz and Jessie and still had its emotional tearjerker moments – here it was a farewell to Woody. It’s still superior to so many other animated films but the previous three films had been that most rare of things, the perfect trilogy, and a fourth film, though still immensely enjoyable seemed unnecessary
2. Toy Story 2 (1999) / Toy Story3 (2010)
Almost impossible to separate these as each are excellent. The second film was release four years after the original and had an excellent story that involved a toy collector and underlined the fact that toys really were for playing with rather than keeping in their boxes and displayed on a shelf at home. It also introduced Jessie a much needed female in hat had been a primarily male orientated cast ( Beau Peep and Mrs Potatohead are very much minor figures). And its emotional gut punch was Jessie back story being dumped at the side of the road unwanted by her owner made even more emotional by another killer Randy Newman song, When She Loved Me’ whose title is enough to draw tears and it was rightly Oscar nominated. Audiences loved it and the film made $401m.
Equally good was Toy Story 3 which appeared some 11 years later in 2010 and Pixar had been on a roll of astonishingly good films of enviable standard that had seen Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Rataouille, Wall –E and Up all quite brilliant films with the only dip being 2006’s Cars but even that turned a healthy profit and spawned two more sequels. This third Toy Story film was hugely anticipated and after the huge success of James Cameron’s Avatar just about every big budget film was either shot in or converted to the 3D. The film ended a perfect trilogy story ark with Andy now a teenager not interested in his old toys and his mum dropping them off at little Bonnie’s house in what was a bring the house down in tears moment. It earned the film two Oscars as Best Animated Film and also Randy Newman for his song We Belong together. Audiences admired the film earning a franchise high of $1.06billion making it the first Pixar film to tip over the $1b mark
- Toy Story (1995)
For decades Disney was king of the animated feature film, No one came anywhere near to taking that crown. And then Pixar came along. Having been around as a fledgling company since 1974 as part of Lucasfilm computer division with a team of just six people making short films via computer. It was John Lasseter who joined the company in 1983 and really began to shake things up. The number of employees increased, they worked on much of Lucas’ ILM work on major films and also did work for Disney’s animated department who wanted to reduce production time on their own animated features. By now Pixar were their own company with Steve Jobs having invested in them and the company landing a three film contract from Disney of which the first was a film called Toy Story. The rest is history.
The film was like nothing seen before in animation and completely revolutionized such films. By now the old school style of animation was seen as something of a bygone age and kids, always keen for something new, were only interested in this new style of animation and Disney realizing that their own animated features were quaint compared to Pixar’s bought the company outright in 2006 after a protracted and often heated negotiations.
The first Toy Story was not just a revolution in animation but also upped the ante with a script that had whole raft of sly clever jokes for the adults that went under the radar for kids meaning that parents would enjoy the film as much and perhaps even more than their kids. Toy Story was like nothing before even including specially animated bloopers for the end credits. With lead character voiced by the America’s favourite double Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks as Woody and joined by a host of loveable supporting characters. The film was both funny and emotional drawing on themes that took parents back to their own childhoods and became the biggest grossing film of 1995. It’s little surprise that audiences wanted more.
….and that’s those Toy Story films ranked! But do you agree?
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