Rather than listening to the navigational system, he tries to save the day himself but crashes, leaving himself and everyone else marooned on the craggy rock.Ĭhris Evans gives it his all, but Buzz without Woody as a foil doesn’t quite work. They try to return to their ship, but the cocky Buzz dooms them. Unlike those happy surroundings, however, Buzz and Hawthorne soon discover they’ve landed on a hostile planet replete with killer vines and mutant bugs. In fact, his first few lines, where he notes the composition of the planet, are nearly word-for-word what he says in Toy Story when he awakens in Andy’s room. Like Woody, Hawthorne loves poking fun at Buzz’s self-absorbed, by-the-book habit of recording star logs no one will ever hear. It starts with a sure-footed small step: Buzz (Chris Evans) and his fellow space ranger, a heroic Black woman named Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba), arrive on a lush planet in search of a habitable home for a community of humans sleeping in stasis. Instead, the film finds an unsettling comfort in being aggressively average. One would hesitate to call this spinoff terrible.
It recalls all the classic movies you’d expect - 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, and Star Trek - but it possesses none of the originality, wit, or wellspring of emotion you’d expect from a Pixar movie. Helmed by Angus MacLane ( Finding Dory), Lightyear is a whimsical, overstuffed sci-fi adventure. But when a studio chooses to send a perspective-breaking film like Turning Red to streaming to make room for a legacy title promising more of the same, then jaded assumptions arrive with warp speed force. It’s also the movie Disney hopes your kids will see, ultimately making them buy their own Buzz Lightyear toys. In 1995, Toy Story’s Andy watched a movie that captured his imagination and prompted him to buy a Buzz Lightyear action figure. The newest Pixar offering isn’t a conventional prequel. This movie needs to be funny, but it rarely is. But once these spikes of nostalgia fade, the viewer will sink back into the film’s malaise of stock characters and cringe one-liners. The plain-spoken, now poetic phrase “to infinity and beyond” will lift the heart.
A flicker of the space ranger diving into action will enchant the eye. Lightyear is cute, sporadically, and if only because this paint by numbers spinoff tries so hard to reach for cloying sentimentality.
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