Everything GREAT About Lightyear!

Lightyear, Buzz! My circle disliked this one and…huh? I dunno, I guess I'll just have to spend 20ish minutes proving that it's pretty great. Soooooooo here's everything right with Lightyear!

CinemaWins Socials:

[rubikub]

I just wanted to add
i LOVED the scene where buzz did all the math and calculations to save himself
instead of the usual "screaming harder" it actually showed the skills of the character

[SirAsdf]

I think my favorite theory about Future Buzz being Zurg is that he actually isn't the real Zurg. Remember Future Buzz just found this stuff after traveling at warp speed for who knows how long and how far.

So it's entirely possible that he just stumbled onto one of the actual Zurg's ships in the Gamma Quadrant, stole it and used it to travel back in time.

[mistamemewide]

Honestly, for what Chris Evans does for Celebrity Voice Actors, he did a VERY good job replicating Tim Allen’s Iconic Voice while making it very much his own, while also very much feeling actual emotions and just general actual feelings than just “yahoo yippeee im mario”. I would like to see Chris Evans in more VA projects with other voice actors.

[mysticeye]

Two things.
I feel like the intended audience are the original audience when Toy Story was still new. Mostly kids and teenagers at the time, now full adults. So there's a more serious tones. So definitely not a kids movie, but kids can still enjoy it if for no other reason than sox is funny and robots are cool.
Second, I love that when Buzz finds out Alisha is engaged he instantly asks "What's HER name?" no awkward moment of Buzz finding out she's gay, if they're as close as they are then there's a good chance he would already know, or in this world it's normal to prefer the same sex. Was a little detail I loved.

[KenshiImmortalWolf]

Darby is definitely the grizzled vet that still has energy to spare. While a lot of old people start to have considerable limitations, there are some people that even as they get older aren't as frail as people assume they are, and they often become frustrated with people trying to slow them down cause they, understandably, worry that they are over doing it.

[craigwilde]

When I watched Lightyear I couldn't get over the feeling that we learned so little about the people marooned, not even learning what they called the settlement as far as I remember (or even the vine thing or where they were originally meant to be going) then I wondered if there was much point in caring about whether Buzz succeeded or not. Having watched this I get the impression that was the point; Buzz was so obsessed with fixing his "mistake" that he didn't care about the settlement or the people, just "fixing things" when in the end it wasn't necessary.
I did wonder if the film would be improved by Alisha telling Buzz about how the settlement develops whenever he returns or he had some interaction with her family but I think that would have undermined his fixation.

[shelbyteague]

"Hating himself is easier than accepting the reality they live in" hits harder than it should

[DarthNinja]

One thing I really appreciate was that when Izzy, Darby, and Mo do something "incompetent" Buzz doesn't snap or get overly angry at them. He's more understanding but still very annoyed...

[trinaq]

I liked how Alisha having a wife was relatively downplayed and normalised, and that she and Buzz were platonic besties.

[PSchuler]

Sox is a great side-kick, I even bought a plysh version of him and put him on the dashboard of my truck along with my two minions, the smiles and looks you get from smaller childrens are priceless.

[shadangel]

Finally, someone who also saw what the Lightyear film was about! I seriously think what screwed this movie over was that it was supposed to be a film from the Toy Story timeline. If Pixar just made the Lightyear film, stating that it's actually an alternative universe where Buzz Lightyear exists, it may have avoided the controversy.

[mryoungandbrave]

I love the implication that Old Buzz came across the Zurg ship, robots and suit and that somewhere in the future, there is an Evil Emperor Zurg, who now hates Buzz Lightyear.

[Teag_Brohman]

now all we need is a Woody's Roundup movie starring Paul Rudd

[cameroncaraballo]

One win you missed. When Buzz was stunned and asked, "You got engaged to someone you just met?", it mirrors the same scenario from Frozen yet almost plays off it when Alishia reasons it was 3 years ago they met. Just a tiny win there.

[chaihill]

This movie wasn’t the Buzz Lightyear origin story I had in mind, but it was still very fun, and I appreciate them putting their own spin on Buzz’s (basically non-existent) mythos. Also that “Not today Zurg” scene? Pure fan-service and I loved every second of it.

[ralph]

Blowing into game cartridges actually did blow the dust out, the problem was it also blew moisture (spit) onto the contacts and caused corrosion in the cart and the system.

[JacktheLightningRipper]

I think this film is a lot better than most give it credit for. It may have some problems, but I really do get the vibe that this was a passion project by people who loved Buzz Lightyear and wanted to do their own take on him. Like even if there was a hint of extending the Toy Story license in this on the corporate end, I think this was a better way to do it that keep on making sequels (despite loving Toy Story 4).

[lilithisbored]

not going to lie, this movie really surprised me. i was expecting something really cringy but i felt like andy watching this movie in the 90s, getting all excited after it and wanting a buzz toy

[chasehedges]

While I didn't like the movie, I did like the theme how being obsessed with “finishing the mission” can ultimately destroy and turn you into a darker person.

[salewdpez]

I want a Woody movie as a bad ass western with Jessie and Bull's Eye and all that jazz.