Movie Review: Toy Story

Toy story is great!!

Introduction

Movie Info

Distributing Agency: The Walt Disney Company

Factory: Pixar Animation Studios

Genre: CG animation

Date: 1995(America), 1996/3/23(Japan)

Director: John A. Lasseter (Pixar)

Box-office Proceeds: 362 million dollars

Characters: Voice actor (Japanese)

Woody: Tom Hanks (Toshiaki Karasawa), Buzz Lightyear: Tim Allen (Tokoro George), Mr. Potato Head: Don Rickles (Akira Nagoya), Slinky Dog: Jim Varney (Itiro Nagai), Rex: Wallace Shawn (Yuji Mitsuya), Hamm: John Ratzenberger (Chikao Otsuka), Bo Peep: Annie Potts (Keiko Toda), Sarge: R. Lee Ermey (Takashi Taniguchi), Andy Davis, Sid Phillips and so on.

About Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios is established in California, U.S.A. on November 9^th, 1985. This is a picture production company. The forerunner group of Pixar is the computer animation section of Lucasfilm Limited. Pixar became independent from it in 1985. Now, Pixar is a subsidiary of Disney. And, this movie’s director, John Lasseter is an officer of Pixar. He directed many movies of Pixar. For example, ‘Monsters Inc.’, ‘Finding Nemo’, ‘The Incredibles’, ‘Cars’ and so on. He is going to be the best production person in charge of both Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures.

Body

Main themes

I think that the main themes of ‘Toy Story’ are friendship and loyalty. Toys have loyalty for their owner, Andy. Because of Andy is very kind boy. For example, he tries to repair toys when he found broken toys. Andy always cherishes toys. He loves toys. So, Toys love Andy too. That’s why toys have loyalty for Andy. And, toys are united steadily by a firm friendship. In movie, Woody doesn’t have friendship for Buzz at first. Because of Woody is the most favorite toy for Andy. But, since Buzz came, Buzz is became the most favorite toy too. So, Woody has jealousy for him. But, in getting over troubles together, Woody becomes cordial with Buzz gradually. At last they became best friends. Those two are main themes, I think.

Main characters

Heroes: Heroes are Woody and Buzz. They are very good duo. They are like Batman & Robin. And also they are like comedian. Their conversation is very funny. I like it very much. This point is one of notable point in this movie.

Bad boy: Bad boy is Sid. He lives in the next house of Andy’s house. His character is opposite to Andy’s character. He plays in remodeling or hurting toys. So, his toys don’t have loyalty for him. He is just bad boy.

Conclusion

‘Toy story’ is very good movie. CG is very beautiful. And, story is interesting. Character feature is very different and clear each characters. That is good point for me. I can understand Woody’s situation. So, I could in movie easily. I could enjoy this movie.

[446 words]