Regional Media Movie Review ‘Toy Story 5’ - Regional Media News

Regional Media Movie Review ‘Toy Story 5’ - Regional Media News

Regional Media Film Critic Sean Kernan reviews Toy Story 5. With their latest kid, Bonnie, receiving her first tech toy, Lilypad, voiced by Greta Lee, our favorite toys find themselves once again on the verge of being shelved. But plucky Jessie (Joan Cusack) won't go down without a fight. With her trusty horse, she follows Bonnie to a sleepover but things go awry and Jessie ends up at a familiar looking farm where she's forced to rely on an outd…

REVIEW: ‘Toy Story 5’

The original Toy Story is not a movie about children. It’s about envy, status anxiety, and a workplace that threatens to become toxic. The boss happens to be a little boy, the workplace is his room, and the envy and status anxiety are the tribulations of Woody the Cowboy. His standing as the little boy’s favorite toy, and therefore the most important worker in the room, is threatened by the introduction of Buzz Lightyear, the boy’s new Christmas…

Toy Story 5 – Review

Ah, the most defining series in the Pixar canon returns with another (unnecessary) sequel featuring Woody, Buzz, Jessie, and friends. With that renowned bar of expectations, Toy Story 5 is an acceptable continuation of the three-plus decades-long series (man, does this writer feel old by those standards!) that offers another round for its toys while also offering an astute acknowledgment of the next greatest threat to their downfall: technology.…

Review: TOY STORY 5

by Rob DiCristinoIt’s toys vs. tech. In last week’s review, I remarked that one of the most powerful things about Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is its unwavering belief in the human family. It’s a belief born not from naivety — contrary to what many of Spielberg’s most insufferable detractors would argue — but from experience. Cynicism is a lame excuse. A quick escape. It’s fleeting and immature. It’s easy to say that everything is fucked a…