![]() ![]() Yet Woody et al look as fresh as daisies as fresh as new toys. Their actual demise as objects would be a real issue. But after more than a decade’s worth of use, these toys should be grimy and falling to pieces. For this fourth film, they have decided to hit the reset button and simply restart the situation with a new kid – not Andy but Bonnie. It is absurd to start complaining about implausibility in a film about magic toys, but for the first time I sensed a kind of evasion or even dishonesty in the Toy Story franchise. However unevolved, Forky plays by the same rules as everyone else.ĭucky and Bunny (voiced by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele) with Woody and Buzz (Tim Allen). ![]() All the other toys are created by corporations, but what happens when a toy is actually made by the kid? Is there a primeval, even incestuous link between creator and created? Well, no, not really. There is a funny new duo, Bunny and Duckie ( Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key) and a very amusing Canadian stunt motorbike rider, Duke Caboom ( Keanu Reeves).įorky is potentially a very interesting character. They encounter new characters: a creepy doll called Gabby Gabby (Christina Hendricks) with sinister assistants and shades of the terrifying Lots-o’-Huggin Bear in Toy Story 3. Inevitably, poor Forky (voiced by Tony Hale) gets lost in a certain antique store when the family goes on a road trip, and Woody and the gang have to rescue him. And we also meet a new toy: when Bonnie has to go off for her first day in nursery school, Woody sneaks into her backpack to keep an eye on her, and witnesses little Bonnie make a crude toy out of a plastic fork that she calls “Forky” and brings home. Same deal, new kid, though a flashback adroitly stitches a new backstory into the drama: there is some history between Woody and a certain other member of the cast. And basically Toy Story 4 starts the same story all over again. ![]()
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