Toy Story (film)
Toy Story is a 1995 CGI animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution It grossed $191,773,049 in the United States and it took in a grand total of $354,300,000 worldwide. It is the first film in the Pixar canon.
The primary characters are toys in the room of a nine year-old boy, Andy, and the film is mostly told from the toys' point of view. Andy, his baby sister Molly and his mother have smaller roles, along with the neighbor boy Sid, his dog named Scud, and his sister Hannah.
In 2003, the Online Film
Critics Society ranked the film as the greatest animated film of all time. In
2005 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film
Registry. In 2007, the film was ranked #99 on the American Film Institute's 10th
Anniversary Edition of the 100 greatest American films of all time, one of only
two animated films on the list, the other being Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Tagline : The adventure takes off!
Cast
Tom Hanks - Woody
Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear
Don Rickles - Mr. Potato Head
Jim Varney - Slinky Dog
Wallace Shawn - Rex
John Ratzenberger - Hamm
Annie Potts - Bo Peep
John Morris - Andy
Erik von Detten - Sid
Laurie Metcalf - Andy's Mom
R. Lee Ermey - Sergeant
Sarah Freeman - Hannah
Penn Jillette - TV Announcer
Jack Angel -
Spencer Aste -
Plot
The story begins with a boy named Andy playing with his toys, such as a Mr. Potato Head, a plastic dinosaur toy, and his favorite toy, Woody, a cowboy toy. He takes Woody into the living room and plays with him some more, with a short interruption talking to his mom about his birthday party later that day and the upcoming move to a new house. After playing with Woody, Andy starts helping his mom by carrying his baby sister to her. While he is gone, all the toys come to life.
The human party makes all the toys extremely nervous, wondering if Andy will get a toy that will replace them--especially with the news that the family will be moving soon. Woody sends the small green soldiers downstairs to spy on the party. At the end of the party, Andy's mom pulls out a surprise gift from a nearby closet, which turns out to be a Buzz Lightyear action figure. Buzz does not seem to be aware that he is a piece of plastic, believing himself to be a real space ranger, on a mission to save the universe from Evil Emperor Zurg. The other toys take to him immediately, being impressed by his many features. Only Woody is unconvinced, showing jealousy towards Buzz, who might replace him as Andy's favorite toy.
Andy is given a surprise trip to his favorite restaurant: Pizza Planet. However, he can take only one toy with him. Knowing this, Woody tries to shove Buzz behind Andy's dresser, but instead inadvertently knocks him out the window. When the other toys learn of Woody's actions, they think he has turned into a killer. They try to attack him without even giving him a chance to explain, but he is rescued when Andy, unable to find Buzz, takes Woody on the trip. At a stop at a Dinoco gas station for gas, Woody finds that Buzz grabbed a hold of the family's minivan and is with them. Woody tries to apologize but Buzz won't listen and throws the first punch. The two begin a fist fight, knocking each other out of the minivan, and are left behind when it drives away. Woody convinces Buzz to hitch a lift on a Pizza Planet truck, in order to return to Andy.
Woody finds Andy there, but Buzz, still believing he is a real space ranger, climbs into a toy crane game, thinking it is a spaceship that will take him to his rival's location. Woody goes in after him, but the two are eventually found by Sid Phillips, who lives next door to Andy and is known to torture and destroy toys for his own entertainment.
Left alone in Sid's room, Woody and Buzz come upon a group of mis-matched toys, the results of Sid's many "experiments." Woody and Buzz react in fear, thinking that the mis-matched toys are cannibals. Meanwhile at Andy's house, the toys continue to look for Buzz in the bushes. But when Andy and his mother come home, he notices that Woody is gone. The other toys wonder what has become of the two. Some are worried for both Buzz and Woody, while others express their hope that Woody has met a bad end. The next day, at Sid's house, Woody and Buzz, having been mistreated by Sid, (Sid managed to burn Woody's forehead with a magnifying glass) try to escape, only to run into Sid's maniac dog, Scud. Eventually getting out of Sid's room, Buzz comes upon a television where he sees a commercial for the Buzz Lightyear line of toys. Watching it, he realizes that Woody was right. He was a toy this whole time, not a space ranger. In one last desperate attempt to prove he is not a toy, Buzz attempts to fly out of a window by jumping from the guardrail of the stairs on the second floor, only to fall to the floor, losing his left arm in the process. He is then found by Sid's sister Hannah, who takes him and puts him with her tea party.
Woody finally finds Buzz in Hannah's room, dressed as "Mrs. Nesbitt" and attending a tea party. Woody formulates a plan of escape. The plan involved throwing a string of Christmas lights to the toys in Andy's room. Buzz is too depressed to care. When Woody throws the string of Christmas tree lights across the way to the toys in Andy's room, and the toys refuse to help him, thinking that it was Woody who yanked Buzz's arm off. Buzz refuses to back him up. The mixed-up toys then return and swarm over Buzz, to Woody's alarm. But it turns out they were only repairing him. Before Woody can make friends with them, however, Sid returns with his new acquisition: a firework rocket. He decides to blow up Buzz with it, but is stymied by rainfall.
Overnight, Woody and Buzz make amends, Woody helping Buzz come to terms with being a toy, and the two try to escape. Unfortunately Sid wakes up and takes Buzz out to blow him up, leaving Woody alone in the room. Of course, it was also when Andy and his family is going to move. Andy, still depressed to lose Woody and Buzz, finds only the cardboard spaceship of Buzz and his cowboy hat. Woody calls out to the mixed-up toys to tell them a plan to escape. After a daring escape through the house and past Scud, Woody and the other toys end up in the backyard with Sid. They decide to break the "rules" by allowing Sid to see that they can move on their own. Woody even speaks to him through his voicebox, telling him that his toys are sick of being tortured, then with his own voice tells him to "play nice." This freaks Sid out and he runs screaming into the house, with a now acquired fear of toys. His sister then frightens him with her toy doll.
Now freed from Sid, Woody and Buzz attempt to catch Andy's moving van just as it is pulling away from the house. After saying farewell to the mixed-up toys, a harrowing chase follows, with Scud chasing them and Andy's toys not helping, since they still believe Woody intentionally got rid of Buzz. Luckily, they get rid of Scud and let the toys believe in Woody to see that he is helping Buzz. Eventually, with the help of R/C, Andy's remote control car, and strategic use of Sid's rocket, Woody and Buzz return to Andy, whose mother thinks they were in the car all along.
At Christmas, we see a scene similar to the birthday party, with the toys less worried about the new ones, save a slightly nervous Buzz. Mr. Potato Head is pleased to learn that Andy's baby sister has been given a Mrs. Potato Head. When discussing being replaced by a new toy, like Woody was almost replaced by Buzz, Woody poses the question to Buzz, "What could Andy possibly get that is worse than you?" The answer comes in the form of Andy's first present, when a dog's bark is heard (In Toy Story 2, it is revealed that his name is Buster).
Soundtrack
listing
You've Got A Friend In Me
Strange Things
I Will Go Sailing
No More
Andy's Birthday (Instrumental)
Soldier's Mission (Instrumental)
Presents (Instrumental)
Buzz Lightyear (Instrumental)
Sid (Instrumental)
Woody And Buzz (Instrumental)
Mutants (Instrumental)
Woody's Gone
(Instrumental)
The Big One (Instrumental)
Home Together (Instrumental)
On The Move (Instrumental)
To Infinity And Beyond! (Instrumental)
You've
Got A Friend In Me (Duet)
Hakuna Matata (from The Lion King)
Part of Your
World (from The Little Mermaid)
Friend Like Me (from Aladdin)
This
movie was referenced five times on Tim Allen's sitcom Home Improvement. The first
time, two trick-or-treaters come to the door of Tim's house, one dressed as Simba
from The Lion King, and the other dressed as Buzz Lightyear. Randy answers the
door, and gives the Simba more candy than the Buzz. Note :Jonathan Taylor Thomas,
who plays Randy, voiced young Simba in The Lion King. The second time, Tim's niece
Gracie plays with a Buzz Lightyear action figure. Another reference occurs in
one of the outtakes during the credits, where Tim repeats Buzz's built-in phrases.
Another reference is in one episode when Tim says to his brother Marty I'll love
you for infinity and beyond. The last reference is in an argument between Tim
and his brother Marty when Tim says I'm not talking to you "infinity and
beyond".
Conversely, Toy Story makes at least one reference to Tim Allen's
sitcom. Sid's tool box, which Buzz and Woody struggle to remove from the milk
crate which imprisoned Woody, was adorned with the Binford Tools logo on its side,
alluding to the fictional tool manufacturer that sponsored the Tool Time program
on Home Improvement.
In the Playstation 2 video-game Killzone, when main characters
Rico and Hakha are fighting, the leading character Jan Templar says "play
nice" in a similar way as Woody says to Sid.
Sid wears a Zero Skateboards
t-shirt.
There are several Toy Story references in the 2006 Disney/Pixar film
Cars.
In the film, Lightning McQueen seeks the sponsorship of Dinoco, which
is the name of the gas station at which Woody and Buzz get lost.
Lightning
uses "Lightyear Buzzard" tires, a reference to Buzz Lightyear and a
parody of Goodyear Eagle tires.
Lightning's racing number is "95",
a reference to the year Toy Story came out, which was 1995.
During the end
credits, scenes from Toy Story are reenacted by toy car versions of Buzz, Woody
and Hamm.
The Pizza Planet truck makes an appearance in every other Pixar
film.
Debian (a Linux distribution) releases are named after characters from
this movie. (Sid, Buzz, Rex, Bo, Hamm, Slink, Potato, Woody, Sarge, Etch, Lenny).
This movie has coined the (oxymoronical) phrase, "To Infinity and Beyond!"
(though the term "Beyond the Infinite" was prominently used in 2001:
A Space Odyssey of 1968). The phrase has been used in particular by set theoreticians,
especially those who study large cardinals.
The Star Command salute displayed
by Buzz closely resembles the Vulcan salute introduced by Leonard Nimoy during
his portrayal of Mr. Spock in the original Star Trek TV series.
In the ReBoot
episode "Firewall", the characters enter into a game that is a parody
of Wacky Races, but the level resembles Andy's room.
In Tim Allen's 2006 The
Shaggy Dog film, when he's in dog form and he jumps onto the back of the truck
in the movie, he speaks the line "To Infinity and Beyond!" while in
mid-air.
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