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| Movies,
Jerry Carpenter & Sev Paya,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F5
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The all-powerful Pixar return to storm the money out of your pockets with a sequel to the original living toys CGI fun fest. The first film earned the rare plaudit of a film that absolutely no one had a bad word for. It was a perfect film, aimed at the children’s market but with more wit, imagination and pacing than any other film that year, all unbelievably jammed in under ninety minutes.
Back again with the same polygonal cast, the new film plays out as more of a rolling adventure, less house-bound than before. Floppy cowboy toy Woody is abducted by a toy collector to complete the set of his original line, so 1997’s most wanted xmas present Buzz Lightyear sets out with the rest of the gang to rescue him. As before the plot drives toward an excuse for a rapid succession of scale problem gags, as the tiny wags risk life and plastic limbs crossing roads, climbing tables, and generally arsing around.
You know the films good if the kids in the audience aren’t screaming and kicking the seats, and the blessed midgets were angels for the whole time. Strangely enough they’re more mesmerised by the experience than gagging on laughter, there’s bags of gags in there but the real joy is the weird visual kick of an hour and a half of this hyper real world. CGI has been the golden goose for filmmakers over the past few years, but so much of the time it’s used so lazily with the same old wham-bang stylings. Pixar use computer animation with so much more subtlety and imagination –they’re still pioneers of the art, I’d trade fifty shoddy CGI Giger rip-off aliens (that seem to pop up on every other fantasy movie) for one of those fantastic claw-obsessed three-eyed Martians anytime.
Whoops, off on a tangent again !. In a nutshell, easily as good as the first, better than A Bugs Life, and not a Phil Colllins song in sight.
UK rating:
U
US rating:
U
John Lasseter 1999 USA
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney and Wallace Shawn
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