![]() Jessie is the new sheriff and Woody stays in the closet. The movie starts, it seems, with Woody now needing to realize TS1's lesson all over again: Bonnie is not interested in playing with him. TS4 gave a nice bait-and-switch on this topic, though. So if they had, indeed, actualized self-worth over "I'm-a-played-with-toy" worth, it would've been for naught because they were all with a playful kid in the end. I.e., the first three rehashed the same trite storyline of "toys needing to adapt and cope with the grief of one day being worthless." (Yet, ironically, each movie bails them out of actually needing to do this because they're all rescued to a good/playful owner in the end. But the daycare will rescue help them prove their worth/meaning/value in a novel way (no owners, just kids playing) -> then disillusionment ->then after reclaiming them, Andy proves their worth by giving them to Bonnie who will value them for the not-worthless toys they are. Literally all of Andy's toys' insecurities because 1) Andy is old, 2) they haven't been played with in a long time, and 3) it seems Andy threw them out.Jessie's insecurities due to trauma of rejection from past owner -> Woody uses lessons learned from #1 to help Jessie cope / find meaning and a new owner. ![]() Woody's insecurities regarding his value to his owner -> Woody overcomes. ![]() Ok, hear me out: I was worried about this very thing - that this movie was going to be another version of the past three: "the trauma of rejection/abandonment" "The movie has no focus and doesn’t know what its theme is." The film wasn't necessary but I'm very glad they made it. My only problem to the film is how the other original toys became background characters but maybe because this film really wants us to focus on Woody and Buzz to remind us that the rest of their story already ended with Toy Story 3. Toy Story 3 completed Andy's story and the whole "toy" story, while Toy Story 4 completed Woody and Buzz's story as their characters themselves. It didn't feel like a sequel, the whole film felt like an conclusion or epilogue, which is good. ![]() This film gave him a proper ending he deserved, Woody did not really feel like he belonged to Bonnie unlike Andy so he chose to be with Bo someone that could guarantee him the same amount of adventure as he had with Andy and he made sure that Forky, who is basically Bonnie's version of Woody, makes her happy. I also loved Gabby-Gabby, I thought she would be a lame cliche villain but instead her character gave us a very sad story that inspired Woody to let an abandoned toy like her experience what he experienced from Andy. After watching it, I didn't expect it to hit harder than Toy Story 3 (for me at least), I became very emotional at the ending because the friendship between Woody and Buzz had always been more special to me than their relationship to Andy, and seeing them part ways plus the ending music, which is a mix of their own themes, really got me. I do agree that ending it with Toy Story 3 would be good but at least this film did not ruin the series, It was actually a good expansion to the ending. Some people said that it should've ended with Toy Story 3, and that Toy Story 4 was a cash-grab, unnecessary film.
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