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To talk about “Toy Story 4” is to talk about Forky. This is a movie that doesn’t initially appear to have any compelling reason to exist — the forced but satisfying third installment of Pixar’s signature franchise seemed to wrap things up when it came out almost a full decade ago — and yet Forky alone is enough to elevate this potential cash-grab into the beautiful and hilarious coda that its long-running series needed to be truly complete. Forky is the hero we need in 2019.

Forget Andy, forget Woody, and definitely forget that lame Buzz Lightyear (the writers of “Toy Story 4” already have), Forky is the god’s honest truth. He’s everything these films have been working towards. After…

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I love these toys and I just want them to be happy

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I feel like Josh Gad was SO CLOSE to getting the role of Forky and he didn’t. But had he gotten that role this movie would be significantly worse.

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"Find your inner voice."

Pixar had me sobbing alone in a theater packed full of children and families while watching a movie about talking toys. Nothing has changed.

The first three Toy Story films did a great many things right. Whether discussing jealousy between various toys and their owners, the terror of abandonment, or the melancholia of growing up, they were each educational tools for children as well as swift, graceful action pictures, bursting with foot chases and plans gone sour and the stress of a toy left behind. No matter how the original Toy Story trilogy ended up in your Pixar ranking, they're surely near the top, ranging from excellent to near-perfect cultural objects of evolving animation, in…

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forky: i’m trash!!!

me: wow he is me

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This is the best thing Pixar has made in years. Great humor, great animation, so much heart (that didn’t feel forced). Warmed my heart to know that if they want to capture the feeling of their classic films, they totally can. Also how is nobody talking about how well they used the score? Full scenes where the emotions are fully driven by the music and barely any dialogue. I am so happy about this.  
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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There's a new Randy Newman song in the middle of this movie called "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" that absolutely sounds like a parody of a Randy Newman song

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You are not prepared for how weird this movie is. Not bad weird. But definitely weird. PhD dissertations will be written about Forky.

Full review at ScreenCrush.

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I avoided all of the marketing for this first film past the first trailer that introduced us to Forky, and because of that I was fully ready to hate him. Even though I was combatively optimistic about this movie being great, and annoyed at every internet director who insisted that their hatred of sequels was a smarter bet than believing Pixar of all studios could make yet another good movie, I figured Forky would be a character that was played for childish laughs. And I was fucking wrong!!!!! Forky rules!!!

In fact, everything about this movie rules?? It's easily the best-looking animated film I have ever seen, and possibly the best-looking film I think I've ever seen? There's a rain…

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The thing I like about the TOY STORYs is that because the toys' existential angst is so foregrounded and palpable, the movies can go from almost cloying to downright upsetting on a dime. This one even gets near the idea that Woody and the gang's relative stability is a privileged experience, that the life of your average toy is probably a sad, lonely one, that their self-actualization is rare. The adventure this time is slight but the egalitarian streak is ramped up, I really related to the new character who only wants to go in the trash, and I'd gladly sit through another story if it's going to be this stealthily thoughtful.