"Toy Story 5" Talkback (Spoilers)

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Release date: June 19, 2026
Directed by: McKenna Harris, Andrew Stanton
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen
Synopsis: Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs are challenged when they come face-to-face with Lilypad, a brand-new tablet device that arrives with her own disruptive ideas about what is best for their kid, Bonnie. Will playtime ever be the same?
 
My family got back from seeing it (I haven't seen one since 3) and were left pretty emotional over it, all good things I hear, which is very encouraging. There's something in the trailers that gets a great pay off in the end and it ties up further decades-long loose ends.
 
I saw the film on Thursday, and I thought it was pretty good! I have some more (spoilered) thoughts down below:

-One of the kids in the tech montage was playing a Hillside Climb Racing-like, which is cool since it was among one of the mobile titles I played on my first tablet from 2013

-Some of the events felt a little convuluted, like Lilypad getting unplugged by Woody and Buzz followed by the electronic toys successfully sending the message to it, or that message's image looking for Jessie and Bullseye reaching Bonnie's groupchat, thus leading to Bonnie rejecting them at Blaze's house after they mock her

-Other tech forms are mentioned by the toys as replacements (like computers), but only Lilypad is depicted as sentient, which is a missed oppurtinity for other Lilypads and what they think, and also computers since Blaze's dad was seen zooming on it (plus the Roomba at the end since Lilypad wanted Jessie to hook her up with it)

-Buzz and Jessie becoming a couple is a little odd to think about since I'm used to it being Buzz's one-sided crush (a bit better than Woody and Bo Peep though, which I never really cared for)

-Forky and his wife from the credits of the 4th film were probably the best couple here (although I'm not too crazy about them), although they and a majority of Bonnie's toys got rather shafted here

-The plot with the multiple Buzzes was fun, but felt like it didn't get enough time in certain spots (like the one that was found and adopted by a camping family, which never gets returned to afterwards)

-Combat Carl and the rest of the discarded toys at Blaze's place never get returned to after Jessie and the electronic toys leave their area (we also never really returned to the toys who first warned Jessie and the others bout the electronics)

-Speaking of the barn, the hay that Jessie got stuck under before that honestly looked escapable in most angles

-Emily naming her daughter after Jessie would've made more of an impact if either one of them actually appeared physically (which apparently they and Emily's granddaughter were supposed to, but it got removed)

-The aliens/Little Green Men sadly didn't even get any lines, and neither did Ducky or Bunny from the previous film

-There was this blue hand toy that would sometimes act as Smarty Pants' hands and sometimes be on it's own, but it barely felt like it was treated as a seperate character

-The credits listed Pizza Steve the Pizza with Sunglasses' actor as Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, making no mention to him being Bad Bunny, which was kinda funny

-The original plot about Andy raising a family got changed, but I don't think Andy even got a cameo here
 

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