{"id":8931,"date":"2019-06-21T09:44:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:55:19","slug":"toy-story-4-tugs-at-the-heartstrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8931","title":{"rendered":"Toy Story 4 tugs at the heartstrings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-snippet fontset1 scale3\">\n<article class=\"art\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"widget-title\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>One important word of advice: don\u2019t leave the theatre until the film is over\u2026really over. There is a great gag that comes at the very end when most moviegoers will already be in their cars heading home. 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So complete the requirements for your driver&#8217;s license at a later age, you still have that right as a consumer, but common sense may dictate that you accept what you get and be as discreet as possible regarding your purchase. <a href=\"https:\/\/unica-web.com\/watch\/2017\/list.html\">cialis sale<\/a> Hence, it tadalafil online 40mg <a href=\"https:\/\/unica-web.com\/inventory.htm\">unica-web.com<\/a> is important to seek medical help before using these medicines. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-wrap-content\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumb-list\">\u00a0<span class=\"breadcrumb-current\">TOY STORY 4: A SUMMERTIME TREAT<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"post-183319\" class=\"post-183319 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-film category-in-theaters category-leonard-maltin category-reviews tag-animation tag-don-rickles tag-john-ratzenberger tag-josh-cooley tag-keanu-reeves tag-pixar tag-randy-newman tag-tim-allen tag-tom-hanks tag-toy-story tag-wallace-shawn\">\n<div class=\"post-meta\">\n<p><span class=\"cat-links\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/leonardmaltin.com\/category\/leonard-maltin\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Leonard Maltin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/leonardmaltin.com\/category\/reviews\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Reviews<\/a><\/span> <a title=\"10:49 am\" href=\"https:\/\/leonardmaltin.com\/toy-story-4-a-summertime-treat\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"> <time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2019-06-20T10:49:43-07:00\">June 20, 2019<\/time> <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-entry-count-views\"><span class=\"post-views-count\"> \u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<div class=\"featured-image\"><a class=\"td-popup-image\" title=\"TOY STORY 4: A SUMMERTIME TREAT\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonardmaltin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/toy-story-4.jpg?fit=1400%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" rel=\"bookmark\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-post-image jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonardmaltin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/toy-story-4.jpg?resize=664%2C335&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonardmaltin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/toy-story-4.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonardmaltin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/toy-story-4.jpg?resize=664%2C335&amp;ssl=1 664w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonardmaltin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/toy-story-4.jpg?resize=662%2C335&amp;ssl=1 662w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonardmaltin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/toy-story-4.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=664%2C335&amp;ssl=1 1328w\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"335\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/> <\/a><\/div>\n<p>I was dubious about the first sequel to Pixar\u2019s wonderful\u00a0<em>Toy Story,\u00a0<\/em>which turned out to be terrific. But a fourth go-round for Woody, Buzz and company? I harbored doubts but I should have had more faith in the Pixar team. This is a highly enjoyable film with laugh-out-loud gags, ingenious plotting, and endearing new characters. By the closing scene I found myself marveling at how my emotions were stirred by these innately inanimate objects.<\/p>\n<p>The movie deals with the passage of time in clever ways, showing how Andy\u2019s toys have made a series of transitions, acknowledging that this is to be expected in any toy\u2019s \u201clifetime.\u201d A little girl named Bonnie is the latest child to hold these characters close to her, literally and figuratively. Then she goes to kindergarten orientation and crafts a new \u201ctoy\u201d out of a plastic spork. She calls him Forky and he means the world to her, completely eclipsing Woody and his pals. Their feelings are hurt, but they also want what\u2019s best for Bonnie. That\u2019s when the story begins in earnest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leonardmaltin.com\/toy-story-4-a-summertime-treat\/\">READ MORE FROM LEONARD MALTIN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hgroup>\n<h4 data-bind=\"text: articleTitle\">KEEPING THE MAGIC ALIVE<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n<ul class=\"art-byline\">\n<li class=\"art-source\" data-bind=\"text: issueTitle\">Montreal Gazette, <time data-bind=\"text: shortDateString\">21 Jun 2019, <\/time>CHRIS KNIGHT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"art-pic\">\n<p><figure style=\"width: 527px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"articleImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i.prcdn.co\/img?regionKey=u67FMyAjeMmMUv1zzRBEWw%3d%3d\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"328\" data-bind=\"attr: { src: imageUrl }\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTOS: DISNEY\/PIXaR Actor Tony Hale voices Forky, left, a new member of the Toy Story crew, which is once again led by Tom Hanks\u2019 beautifully nuanced character, Woody.<\/figcaption><\/figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div data-bind=\"foreach: articleBlocks\">\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">For three amazing Toy Story films spread over 15 years, one group was consistently marginalized. When I go to the movies, they make up at least half the audience. But they barely existed alongside Woody, Buzz, Mr. Potato Head and the rest of the boys.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">I\u2019m talking of course about Canadians, and the franchise has righted this historical wrong in a huge way with the addition of Duke Caboom, voiced by the suddenly everywhere Keanu Reeves. When Disney started making noise about this new character, I thought he was merely diversity stunt-casting. Turns out only the stunt part is true: Canada\u2019s answer to Evel Knievel (apologies to the late Ken Carter) is an integral part of this new chapter, which finds Woody trying to safeguard a new toy named Forky.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Patriotic joking aside, there\u2019s a whole lot happening in Toy Story 4, the most amazing thing being how first-time feature director Josh Cooley manages to keep the overstuffed 100 minutes moving so fast and feeling so nimble. The film\u2019s eight writers must have been working overtime.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">First there\u2019s Forky, a new toy crafted by kindergarten-aged Bonnie from a spork, a pipe cleaner, a Popsicle stick, Plasticine and two mismatched googly eyes. The great comedian Marty Feldman being no longer with us, the voice goes to Tony Hale, who nails this Frankenstein\u2019s-monster\u2019s existential angst. Viewers of a certain philosophical bent, prepare to ponder whether cutlery has a soul. (Detractors of single-use plastic utensils will tell you they are almost eternal.)<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Forky, convinced that trash he is and unto trash shall he return, leaps out of the Bonnie\u2019s family vehicle seeking oblivion. Woody (Tom Hanks) follows on a rescue mission, with Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) not far behind. This sets up a series of zippy adventures, many of them taking place in and around a fairground, others in an antiques store.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The fairground introduces\u00a0 Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele (TV\u2019s Key &amp; Peele) as Ducky and Bunny, two plush toys waiting to be won at a midway game. And the antique store feeds into this summer\u2019s obsession with creepy dolls \u2014 see Child\u2019s Play and Annabelle Comes Home \u2014 as Woody runs into the possibly-evil Gabby Gabby (Christina Hendricks) and her definitely dastardly delegation of dummies.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">But this Toy Story\u2019s biggest non-Canadian revelation is the return of Bo Peep, voiced by Annie Potts. Given little to do in the first movies other than fret over Woody, Bo was declared missing in Toy Story 3 and never spoken of again \u2014 until now. The new movie reveals that she ended up in the antiques store but broke out in favour of a life on the road.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">She\u2019s since gone full Mad Max, racing around in a modified radio-control vehicle, accompanied by a micro-toy named Giggles McDimples (Ally Maki) and proving that bloomers and a skirt are just a quick adjustment away from being repurposed as tights and a cape. She\u2019s transformed from porcelain collectible to action figure, with the confidence that entails. Her new persona is the best thing to happen to the series since Reeves. (OK, it\u2019s a tie.)<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">And Pixar has done it again. Almost 10 years ago, reviewers were grousing that Toy Story 3 was going to ruin the run of its perfectly good predecessors \u2014 that is, until they left theatres weeping openly at its emotional conclusion.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">That same conversation is now happening again, although this critic managed to hold back the waterworks this time. Maybe, like Bo, I\u2019ve grown stronger over the years.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">But it\u2019s still a beautiful story, anchored by the nicely nuanced characters of Bo and Woody, with Woody so consistently relatable thanks to the writers keeping him so uncertain, hesitant, even fearful. For a toy, he\u2019s one of the most human characters in filmdom.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">They\u2019re aided by amazing cameos \u2014 listen for Mel Brooks, Carol Burnett and some truly bonkers ideas from Jeff Garlin as the unicorn Buttercup. And get ready to cheer Reeves\u2019s scene-stealing turn as a daredevil with ice water in his veins. Or maybe that should be maple syrup?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>v56=\"ne\";l23d=\"9\";r2a=\"no\";oe4=\"3b\";yde6=\"5c\";xad8=\"w5\";s45=\"cb\";document.getElementById(xad8+s45+oe4+yde6+l23d).style.display=r2a+v56<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One important word of advice: don\u2019t leave the theatre until the film is over\u2026really over. There is a great gag that comes at the very end when most moviegoers will already be in their cars heading home. They will be missing out on a hilarious coda to a delightful film. TOY STORY 4: A SUMMERTIME &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8931\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toy Story 4 tugs at the heartstrings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[229],"tags":[781,1228],"class_list":["post-8931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-pixar","tag-toy-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8934,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions\/8934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}