Movie of the Week: Toy Story 4

[jacey]

What a delight the Toy Story movies are. Something for adults as well as children, and I must admit that Pixar really know how to get you in the feels. Woody and Buzz and the rest of the toys are currently with their kid, Bonny, but she's about to start kindergarten and she's scared. So on her first day she makes a new toy out of a plastic spork and a couple of pipecleaners and a lolly stick, and that toy, Forky, becomes so important to her that the rest of the toys take on the duty of teaching Forky how to be a tou and protecting him (mostly from himself) when they go on a road trip. Buzz Lightyear is is delightfully dense self. Woody is reunited with Bo Peep. They meet some pretty scary ventriloquist's dummies and a ruthless doll determined to get a kid of her own.

H and I saw this on a Wednesday afternoon, and since it isn't school holidays yet, the kids in the audience were mostly pre-school age. The one in front of us was in a cinema for the first time with his granny. It shows how the movie engages youngsters because there was hardly a peep out of any of them, except occasionally an excited comment on what was happening on screen.

I think that speaks for itself.

All that plus a wholly suitable but emotional ending, so even if you can't find a kid to take, go and see it anyway. If you've seen the previous Toy Story movies and enjoyed them, this will certainly not disappoint. (And if you haven't start at the beginning because you don't know what you're missing.)

Comments

[gorgeousgary]

We went last weekend with our little guy. Our show was a bit noisier since we specifically chose a sensory-friendly show. (Something theaters do here in the US - lights stay up a bit, sound down a bit, OK for kids to make noise or wander around the theater.)

I ended up having to chase our son around the theater a bit (plus a potty break), but we still enjoyed ourselves anyway.

[jacey]

We have autism-friendly screenings here, which sound similar. Very relaxed.