The official trailer for Disney’s Toy Story 4 has arrived and all our favorites are back including Woody and Buzz Lightyear. There’s a new character, Forky voiced by Tony Hale.
Forky arrives, confident he doesn’t belong in the room and insists he’s not a toy and tries to get away, but each time, someone pulls him back in.
Director Josh Cooley says, “The world of Toy Story is built upon the idea that everything in the world has a purpose. A toy’s purpose is to be there for its child. But what about toys that are made out of other objects? Forky is a toy that Bonnie made out of a disposable spork, so he’s facing a crisis. He wants to fulfill his purpose as a spork, but now has a new toy purpose thrust upon him.”
Tony Hale provides the voice of Forky. “It’s a huge thrill to be part of the Toy Story family,” he said. “But it’s going to take a while for it to really sink in.”
Said Cooley, “When we thought up this character, Tony was the first actor that came to mind and I’m thrilled he accepted. Tony’s performance as Forky is a comedy salad of confidence, confusion, and empathy… served by hilarious spork.”
watch the trailer below:
So since this is here, looking at the animated features coming out in 2019 it is extremely sequel heavy – the best bets by Disney, pixar and dreamworks are all sequels -frozen, toy story, how to train your dragon then from other studios we have a shaun the sheep sequel, Lego movie sequel, secret life of pets sequel – though of the last of those illumination does have ugly dolls which looks pretty bad. Of original films, Blue sky has one, there’s wonder park and the Adams family but really the only original animated film I can get excited for is missing link from Laika (and that’s only because it’s Laika). Of course there will be gkid stuff that pops up but we won’t know what is really there for a while.
The reason I bring this up is this is looking to be the first year that we are going to have 2 sequels nominated in animated features at the Oscars, despite the fact that it’s one of the most populist categories at the Oscars (by which I mean normally 3 of the films nominated are big Blockbusters that made a ton of money). It’s always made me happy that even at the studio level, animation has been this fantastic harbour of creativity, which is why big studio films have mostly won here and it kind of saddens me to feel like this might be a turning point.
This isn’t to take away from all of these sequels, many of them are excellent it’s just that the more sequels we get the less new, inventive ideas are presented and I’d much rather be getting a Coco or an Inside Out instead of an Incredibles 2 or a Toy Story 3. Even if it sometimes means we get a good dinosaur. For the record I named these 2 here because they are in my view 2 of the best sequels Pixar has made – they are
excellent but I’d still much rather they were focusing on more original ideas.
Unfortunately everything comes down to money in the end so this year we are probably looking at our second sequel ever to win and I feel like this is a trend that is going to worsen as time goes on.
I believe that at least new Folman and Chomet films should be coming out next year so I could easily see those being nominated and if Missing Link doesn’t fail, either, that could push the amount of sequels to two at most, which of course isn’t good but at least it would feel manageable.
That sounds promising, I haven’t seen any dates from them so assumed they wouldn’t be next year (plus it is questionable whether Chomet’s film will qualify as animation as it’s supposed to be a live action hybrid) but especially Where is Anne Frank sounds like such an interesting project so if it is coming next year that’s got me really excited!
I suspect that if the film underwhelms, the last minute departure of Rashida Jones and full rewrite of her script by a Lassiter flunky will be the culprit.
Might be blowing smoke but both Hanks and Allen said this was the most emotional of any of the movies and Allen could hardly even finish the last scene it’s so sad. It’s gonna make BANK so not sure what you mean in terms of underwhelms.
Pixar has been wobbly for a while in terms of artistic quality and box office (Coco being a welcome return to form though). Changing gears that radically that far into production isn’t something you can get away with indefinitely. For every Ratatouille, you have a Brave, or most infamously Good Dinosaur.
I hate Ratatouille. It’s unwatchable to me. But agree with Brave and Good Dinosaur. But you simply can’t compare box office of Good Dinosaur and even Coco to a franchise movie that is honestly universally loved. Toy Story 3 made over $415M and I’ll be shocked if 4 doesn’t do more. Look at Incredibles 2 and Finding Dory for comparison…NOT the Cars movies or Monsters Inc. Those aren’t as universally loved as the Nemo/Incredibles/Toy Story flicks.
Dory was quite disappointing to me, the whole film seemed off.
I love Brave though. I believe it’s the best visually-animated among Pixar films. Not to mention the mythology behind the story. Still waiting for the next film by Brenda Chapman. But I agree with The Good Dinosaur. It came and kinda went by without me knowing. Sometimes I even forget it was by Pixar.
Off Topic: Stan Lee dies at 95. Rest in Peace.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stan-lee-marvel-comics-legend-721450?fbclid=IwAR0RNF-uEuIUntK5jQbc6KO28fMFdnZlim9mUQyhquiZr7B89ihdAh6NFCo
He’s had so much of an impact on all of our lives. He should be celebrated with a special tribute at these next Oscars. Everyone who cried during Infinity War is crying right now.
Putting “Both Sides Now” under this was an… interesting choice.
Toy Story 4: What the Fork? (too obvious?)
God awful!