From the desk of The Movie Snob.
Toy Story 4 (B). Okay, now Toy Story 2 is the only member of this franchise that I haven’t seen. Maybe someday! Anyhoo, this is another entertaining film that will tug at your heartstrings. Now our well-established family of toys, led by Sheriff Woody (voice of Tom Hanks, A Hologram for the King), belongs to a little girl named Bonnie (voice of Madeleine McGraw, American Sniper). Bonnie is very shy on her first day of kindergarten, and to console herself she fashions a little doll out of a used spork, a pipe cleaner, and other detritus. She loves her new friend Forky (voice of Tony Hale, TV’s Arrested Development), which should make him feel great, right? But no! As soon as Bonnie is out of sight, Forky insists that he is trash and tries to fling himself into the nearest garbage can! For Bonnie’s sake, Woody makes it his mission to convince Forky that he is a toy, not trash. But then, on a family road trip, Woody is reunited with Bo Peep (voice of Annie Potts, TV’s Designing Women) and learns that she is a lost toy—meaning she goes wherever and does whatever she pleases. Forky and Bo shake Woody’s most fundamental belief, that every toy’s singular purpose is to be owned and loved by a child. What will happen? The film has a pretty good villain too—Gabby Gabby (voice of Christina Hendricks, TV’s Mad Men), an old doll with a bad voicebox that has been sitting in an antique store for eons, yearning to be taken home by a child. I was also very amused by a pair of plush toys that get liberated from a carnival-game wall and join the group, and an Evel Knievel parody toy called Duke Caboom, voiced by none other than Keanu Reeves (The Matrix Reloaded). Definitely worth watching.
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