Post by Shenzi on Dec 3, 2019 17:07:48 GMT -5
Greetings.
It's been a while since my last visit and if the unfixed background killed by Tinypic is any indication, it's pretty much a ghost town here but I've got one of my nagging needs to write a review.
Not long ago my best friend and I got together for dinner and to watch Toy Story 4.
Now Toy Story is one of the few franchises that has done valid and in-depth sequels of decent quality to compensate for its number but when one puts ice in a soda, the ice, as it melts will eventually water down the flavor of the soda and this was the watered-down and flat result.
This installment just felt disjointed from the rest of the franchise including the shorts. In fact, some of the elements literally didn't add up:
1. The Andy in the '9-years-ago' flashback that filled in the blank of Bo Peep's absence DID NOT look like Andy at all. I recall a shot of him in the trailer but had no idea it was Andy despite his signature cowboy hat. I thought it might have been a new friend of Bonnie's.
2. Bo Peep just wasn't right.
Her entire demeanor nevermind her clothes felt like a forced modernization of her traditional character.
While granted experiences can change someone quite drastically, it's how she essentially spits on all those years Andy gave her a purpose she wasn't exactly made for (because she's a porcelain figure, not a doll but Andy played with her like a doll) and holding Woody's continued loyalty to a child against him for no particular reason other than that it's not what she agrees and probably a bit of resentment with that bothered me.
Then there's the whole lamp thing. I don't recall her being part of a lamp in the previous films let alone how she ties her purpose to it goes back to what I just said before.
She even sounded different despite the credits insisting that it was still her original voice actor, Annie Potts.
3. Woody was blasphemous and hypocritical to abandon a kindergartner and his family when it practically took the jaws of life to get him to let go of an adult child and he's not even chastised for it after he chastised the rest of the group for favoring moving on to a daycare over collecting dust in Andy's attic.
4. While Bonnie's age and progression to Kindergarten match with the previous film, I personally always thought she looked to be in at least 1st grade in the shorts, 3rd maximum.
One testament to this is in the Christmas short when she and a friend played a video game on a television console.
Granted my 4-year-old niece plays games on my mom's Kindle but do 4 and 5 year-olds play console games?
5. Bonnie's dad's existence is abrupt.
One could argue that he was absent in the scenes set at Bonnie's house in the 3rd film because he was at work but then why in 'Toy Story of Horror' were just Bonnie and her mom on a road trip?
If he's a recent step-dad why wasn't that referenced and why didn't she seem more uncomfortable with him considering her shyness?
There were some good things about this film though.
I liked Gabby Gabby and the antique shop. A factory defective toy longing for a child and as a bonus turned protagonist and found happiness was refreshing after 3 villains who terrorized toys and were left to cruel fates.
Forky was pretty entertaining and an interesting concept.
But yeah I hope they're done with this franchise.
It's been a while since my last visit and if the unfixed background killed by Tinypic is any indication, it's pretty much a ghost town here but I've got one of my nagging needs to write a review.
Not long ago my best friend and I got together for dinner and to watch Toy Story 4.
Now Toy Story is one of the few franchises that has done valid and in-depth sequels of decent quality to compensate for its number but when one puts ice in a soda, the ice, as it melts will eventually water down the flavor of the soda and this was the watered-down and flat result.
This installment just felt disjointed from the rest of the franchise including the shorts. In fact, some of the elements literally didn't add up:
1. The Andy in the '9-years-ago' flashback that filled in the blank of Bo Peep's absence DID NOT look like Andy at all. I recall a shot of him in the trailer but had no idea it was Andy despite his signature cowboy hat. I thought it might have been a new friend of Bonnie's.
2. Bo Peep just wasn't right.
Her entire demeanor nevermind her clothes felt like a forced modernization of her traditional character.
While granted experiences can change someone quite drastically, it's how she essentially spits on all those years Andy gave her a purpose she wasn't exactly made for (because she's a porcelain figure, not a doll but Andy played with her like a doll) and holding Woody's continued loyalty to a child against him for no particular reason other than that it's not what she agrees and probably a bit of resentment with that bothered me.
Then there's the whole lamp thing. I don't recall her being part of a lamp in the previous films let alone how she ties her purpose to it goes back to what I just said before.
She even sounded different despite the credits insisting that it was still her original voice actor, Annie Potts.
3. Woody was blasphemous and hypocritical to abandon a kindergartner and his family when it practically took the jaws of life to get him to let go of an adult child and he's not even chastised for it after he chastised the rest of the group for favoring moving on to a daycare over collecting dust in Andy's attic.
4. While Bonnie's age and progression to Kindergarten match with the previous film, I personally always thought she looked to be in at least 1st grade in the shorts, 3rd maximum.
One testament to this is in the Christmas short when she and a friend played a video game on a television console.
Granted my 4-year-old niece plays games on my mom's Kindle but do 4 and 5 year-olds play console games?
5. Bonnie's dad's existence is abrupt.
One could argue that he was absent in the scenes set at Bonnie's house in the 3rd film because he was at work but then why in 'Toy Story of Horror' were just Bonnie and her mom on a road trip?
If he's a recent step-dad why wasn't that referenced and why didn't she seem more uncomfortable with him considering her shyness?
There were some good things about this film though.
I liked Gabby Gabby and the antique shop. A factory defective toy longing for a child and as a bonus turned protagonist and found happiness was refreshing after 3 villains who terrorized toys and were left to cruel fates.
Forky was pretty entertaining and an interesting concept.
But yeah I hope they're done with this franchise.
