Toy Story (1995)[edit]
Toy Story, the first film in the franchise, was released on November 22, 1995. It was the first feature-length film created entirely by
CGI and was directed by
John Lasseter. The plot involves Andy, an imaginative young suburban boy, getting a new Buzz Lightyear toy, causing Sheriff Woody, a vintage cowboy figure, to think that he has been replaced as Andy's favorite toy. Jealous, Woody tries to knock Buzz behind a table, but accidentally sends him out the window, causing the other toys to assume that he tried to murder Buzz. Determined to set things right, Woody attempts to save Buzz, and both try to escape from the house of the next-door neighbor Sid Phillips, who likes to torture and destroy toys. The film was critically and financially successful, grossing over $361 million worldwide.
[2][8] The film was later re-released in
Disney Digital 3-D as part of a double feature, along with
Toy Story 2, for a 2-week run,
[6] which was later extended due to its financial success.
[9]
Toy Story 2 (1999)[edit]
Toy Story 2, the second film in the franchise, was released on November 24, 1999. John Lasseter reprises his role as director. The plot involves Woody getting stolen by a greedy toy collector named Al. Buzz and several of Andy's toys set off to attempt to free Woody, who meanwhile has discovered his origins as a historic television star.
Toy Story 2 was not originally intended for release in theaters, but as a direct-to-video sequel to the original
Toy Story, with a 60-minute running time.
[10] However, Disney's executives were impressed by the high quality of the in-work imagery for the sequel, and were also pressured by the main characters' voice actors
Tom Hanks and
Tim Allen, so they decided to convert
Toy Story 2 into a theatrical film.
[11] It turned out to be an even greater success than the original
Toy Story, grossing over $485 million worldwide.
[12] The film was re-released in
Disney Digital 3-D as part of a double feature, along with
Toy Story, on October 2, 2009.
[6]
Toy Story 3 (2010)[edit]
Toy Story 3, the third film in the franchise, was released on June 18, 2010, 11 years after Toy Story 2. It is the first
Toy Story film not to be directed by John Lasseter (although he remained involved in the film as executive producer), but by
Lee Unkrich, who edited the first two films and co-directed the second. The plot focuses on the toys accidentally being dropped off at a daycare center while their owner, Andy, is getting ready to go away to college. The film contains over 150 new characters, according to Pixar.
[13] It is
Pixar's highest-grossing film of all time worldwide and domestic, surpassing
Finding Nemo.
Toy Story 3 grossed more than the first and second films combined, making it the first animated film to have crossed the $1 billion mark.
[14] In August 2010, it surpassed
Shrek 2, becoming the
highest-grossing animated film of all time until it was surpassed by
Frozen, another Disney production, in March 2014.
[15] Toy Story 3 was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 2, 2010.
[16]
Toy Story 4 (2019)[edit]
In May 2010, Lee Unkrich stated that a fourth
Toy Story film was not being planned. "Well, we don't have any plans for
Toy Story 4," Unkrich said. "I'm flattered that people ask about it—it reminds me how much people love the characters, but it was really important to me with this film that we not just create another sequel, that it not just be another appendage coming off of the other two." Unkrich went on to say, "there may be opportunities for Woody and Buzz in the future, but we don't have any plans for anything right now."
[17] It was also reported that Hanks and Allen were signed on for a fourth
Toy Story film if Pixar ever decided to produce one.
[11] In a
BBC interview in 2011, Hanks said that he believed Pixar was working on a sequel.
[18] Disney denied the rumors saying, "nothing is official."
[19]
Toy Story 4 was officially announced by Disney during an investor's call on November 6, 2014, and was scheduled for release on June 16, 2017.
[1] John Lasseter will return to direct, while the screenplay will be written by
Rashida Jones and
Will McCormack from a story by Lasseter,
Andrew Stanton,
Pete Docter and Unkrich. Galyn Susman will produce.
[20][21] The idea came from a conversation between Stanton and Lasseter, and the two of them started to work on the story in secret from everyone else since the year 2012, because they didn’t want to get anyone’s hopes up.
[22] Lasseter has hinted that
Toy Story 4 will be a love story.
[23] According to Lasseter, "
Toy Story 3 ended Woody and Buzz’s story with Andy so perfectly that for a long time, we never even talked about doing another
Toy Story movie. But when Andrew, Pete, Lee and I came up with this new idea, I just could not stop thinking about it. It was so exciting to me, I knew we had to make this movie—and I wanted to direct it myself."
[24]
In March 2015, Pixar president
Jim Morris stated that the film will not be a continuation of the third film but will instead be a
stand-alone sequel.
[25][26] The same month,
Variety revealed that
Josh Cooley, the head of story on Pixar's
Inside Out, had been named the co-director of
Toy Story 4.
[27] Around the same time, Lasseter revealed that the fourth film had been such a closely held secret at Pixar that even Morris and
Edwin Catmull (president of both Pixar and Disney Animation, to whom Morris reports) did not know it was being discussed until Stanton had already finished a polished
treatment.
[28] In August 2015, at the
D23 Expo, Lasseter stated that the film would focus on the romance between Woody and
Bo Peep.
[29] Its story will be built on the fact that Bo Peep was absent from the main story in
Toy Story 3, with Woody and Buzz trying to find and bring her back.
[30] He also announced that
Randy Newman will return to compose the soundtrack for the film.
[29]
Kristen Schaal confirmed that her character Trixie will return.
[31] It had also been confirmed that
Don Rickles would return as Mr. Potato Head;
[32] however, Rickles died on April 6, 2017 and reports stated that he did not get the chance to record dialogue for this film before his death.
[33] Two days later, Rickles' representative confirmed that he was unable to record any lines for the film.
[34]
In October 2015, Pixar announced that
Toy Story 4 was delayed to June 15, 2018.
[35]
In October 2016, it was announced that the release date was pushed back to June 21, 2019.
[36]
Television
Toy Story Treats
In 1996, Pixar created a series of shorts known as "Toy Story Treats" which were used as
interstitials on
ABC Family and
Disney's One Saturday Morning. They did not necessarily follow the continuity from
Toy Story, taking place before, during and after the events of the first film. They were aired roughly around the time of
Toy Story's release to home video.
[37]
Television specials[edit]
Toy Story of Terror![edit]
A Halloween-themed 22-minute television special, titled
Toy Story of Terror!,
[41] aired on
ABC on October 16, 2013.
[41][42] It was directed by Angus MacLane, produced by Galyn Susman, with
Tom Hanks,
Tim Allen,
Joan Cusack,
Don Rickles,
Wallace Shawn,
Timothy Dalton, and
Kristen Schaal reprising their roles of Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Mr. Potato Head, Rex, Mr. Pricklepants, and Trixie with
Carl Weathers as Combat Carl and
Stephen Tobolowsky as the motel manager.
[42] Michael Giacchino composed the music for the special.
[43] The film's soundtrack was released on October 15, 2013, on
Amazon.com in digital format.
[44]
The special follows the toys on their road trip when a flat tire leads Bonnie and her mother to spend the night in a roadside motel. After one of the toys goes missing, the others begin to search for it, but they too are picked off one by one. The toys discover that they are being targeted by the hotel manager's pet
iguana, Mr. Jones, who has been trained to steal the toys of his guests so that they can be sold via the Internet. The manager nearly succeeds in selling Woody and Jessie, but Jessie manages to escape—overcoming her old fear of
being packed away in the process—and draw Bonnie's attention to the cabinet where the toys are being kept. As a result, Bonnie recovers her toys, and her mom calls in the police, who then presumably arrests the manager for theft.
Toy Story That Time Forgot[edit]
A Christmas-themed 22-minute
[40] television special, titled
Toy Story That Time Forgot, aired on ABC on December 2, 2014.
[40] It was written and directed by
Steve Purcell, and produced by Galyn Susman. Michael Giacchino, who composed the music for the first special, returned.
[40] Most of the regular cast reprised their roles, including Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim Allen as Buzz, Kristen Schaal as Trixie, Wallace Shawn as Rex, Timothy Dalton as Mr. Pricklepants, Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head, and Joan Cusack as Jessie, with
Kevin McKidd joining as a new character, Reptillus Maximus.
[45] Taking place after a Christmas season, the toys find themselves lost in the world when a set of the coolest action figures turns out to be dangerously delusional. It is up to Trixie to help the toys to return to Bonnie's room.
[45]
Toy Story Toons[edit]
In 2011, Pixar started releasing short animated films to supplement the
Toy Story films, called
Toy Story Toons. The shorts pick up where
Toy Story 3 has left off, with Woody, Buzz, and Andy's other toys finding a new home at Bonnie's. So far, three shorts have been released;
Hawaiian Vacation,
Small Fry, and
Partysaurus Rex. Another short,
[46] titled
Mythic Rock, was in development in 2013 but was never released.
[47]
Hawaiian Vacation[edit]
Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation is a 2011
Pixar animated short directed by
Gary Rydstrom. The short features characters from the
Toy Story series and takes place after the events of
Toy Story 3. It was released in theatres before Pixar's feature film
Cars 2. In the short film, Ken and Barbie want to go to
Hawaii with Bonnie's family, who had prior plans to vacation in Hawaii, but get left behind by mistakenly climbing into Bonnie's school bookbag instead of her luggage. Once in Bonnie's bedroom, Woody, Buzz and the other toys from the previous film attempt to console them by creating their own "Hawaiian vacation" for Barbie and Ken in Bonnie's bedroom.
Small Fry[edit]
Toy Story Toons: Small Fry,
[48] another
Toy Story short, premiered before
The Muppets.
[49] This marks the second time a
Pixar short has screened with a non-Pixar film, after
Tokyo Mater screened with
Bolt. Directed by
Angus MacLane, the short involves Buzz getting trapped at a
fast food restaurant at a support group for discarded toys, with a kids' meal toy version of Buzz taking his place.
[48]
Partysaurus Rex[edit]
Toy Story Toons: Partysaurus Rex, the third of the series of animated shorts, was released with the theatrical
3D re-release of
Finding Nemo. Directed by Mark Walsh with music composed by electronic artist
BT, the short involves Rex getting left in the bathroom and making friends with bath toys.
[50]
Reception[edit]
Box office performance[edit]
Toy Story's first five days of domestic release (on
Thanksgiving weekend), earned the film $39,071,176.
[51] The film placed first in the weekend's box office with $29,140,617, and maintained its number one position at the domestic box office for the following two weekends. It was the highest-grossing domestic film in 1995,
[52] and the third highest-grossing animated film at the time.
[53]
Toy Story 2 opened at #1 over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, with a three-day tally of $57,388,839 from 3,236 theaters. It averaged $17,734 per theater over three days during that weekend, and stayed at #1 for the next two weekends. It was the third highest-grossing film of 1999.
[54]
Toy Story 3 had a strong debut, opening in 4,028 theaters and grossing $41,148,961 at the box office on its opening day. In addition,
Toy Story 3 had the highest opening day gross for an animated film on record. During its opening weekend, the film grossed $110,307,189, making it #1 for the weekend; it was the biggest opening weekend ever for any Pixar film.
Toy Story 3 stayed at the #1 spot for the next weekend. The film had the second highest opening ever for an animated film. It was the highest-grossing film of 2010, both domestically and worldwide.
[55][56] Toy Story 3 grossed over $1 billion, making it the seventh film in history, the second Disney film in 2010, the third Disney film overall, and the first animated film to do so.
[57]
| Film | Release date | Box office gross | Box office ranking | Budget | Ref(s) |
|---|
North
America | Other
territories | Worldwide | All time
North America | All time
worldwide |
|---|
| Toy Story | November 22, 1995 | $191,796,233 | $181,757,800 | $373,554,033 | #182
#138(A) | #276 | $30 million | [8] |
| Toy Story 2 | November 24, 1999 | $245,852,179 | $251,514,690 | $497,366,869 | #103
#114(A) | #163 | $90 million | [12] |
Toy Story / Toy Story 2
(Disney Digital 3-D) | October 2, 2009 | $30,702,446 | $1,582,154 | $32,284,600 | #2,419 | | | [58][59][60] |
| Toy Story 3 | June 18, 2010 | $415,004,880 | $651,964,823 | $1,066,969,703 | #17
#94(A) | #19 | $200 million | [61] |
| Toy Story 4 | June 21, 2019 | |
|---|
| Total | $883,355,738 | $1,086,819,467 | $1,970,175,205 | #20 | #23 | $320 million | [62] |
|---|
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Critical and public response[edit]
According to Rotten Tomatoes, the
Toy Story trilogy is the most critically acclaimed trilogy of all time.
[63] The first two films received a 100% "Certified Fresh" rating, while the third holds a 99% "Certified Fresh" rating. According to the site, no other trilogy has had all of its films so highly rated - the
Before Sunset trilogy comes closest with 98%, and
Dollars trilogy and
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy come after with average ratings of 95% and 94% respectively, while the
Toy Story trilogy has an average of an almost perfect 99.7%.
According to Metacritic, the
Toy Story trilogy is tied as the most critically acclaimed trilogy of all time, it and
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy each having an average rounded score of 91 out of 100. As of 20 July 2010, every film in both trilogies is placed in the Top 100 of the site's Best Reviewed Movies List.
[64][65]
According to CinemaScore, polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave the series an average grade of "A", "A+", "A" respectively on an A+ to F scale.
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