Toy Story 4
Short description
Toy Story 4 continues the story of Woody, the cowboy doll who has long defined himself by looking after the child who owns him, first Andy and now Bonnie. Bonnie makes a toy out of a disposable spork and names it Forky, and the new arrival becomes her favorite. Forky does not accept that he is a toy at all, which unsettles the household. When Bonnie's family takes a road trip in a motorhome, Woody ends up separated from the group and sets out to bring Forky back, a journey that also reunites him with Bo Peep and brings him to a carnival and an antique shop. The film reconsiders what loyalty and purpose mean for a toy.
The film was directed by Josh Cooley, his third directing credit after the shorts George and A.J. and Riley's First Date?, and the screenplay was written by Andrew Stanton and Stephany Folsom. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen return as the voices of Woody and Buzz Lightyear, with Annie Potts as Bo Peep, Tony Hale as Forky, Keegan-Michael Key as Ducky and Madeleine McGraw as Bonnie. It is a Pixar production released by Walt Disney Pictures, made for about 200 million dollars and earning roughly 1.07 billion dollars worldwide.
Audiences rate the film 7.6 out of 10 on IMDb from over 327,000 votes and 7.5 out of 10 on TMDB from around 11,000 votes. A film critics' rating of 8.4 out of 10 from 457 reviews places it above both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Animators added scratches and scuffs to the toys to show their age.
- The voiceover in the television commercial was performed by Michael Peter Balzary, known as “Flea,” the bassist for the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.
- Over 10,000 unique items were recreated for the scenes in the antique shop, with the team sourcing prototypes from all over the country. This took more than two years.
- Director Josh Cooley and producers Jonas Rivera and Mark Nielsen held a blind audition to find the voice actor for Duke – they simply played lines of Duke’s dialogue recorded by Canadian voice actors. They didn’t know who voiced which line. When they heard Reeves voicing the character, they immediately stopped the audition, deciding they had found the right person.
- Wilkins’ appearance at Pixar was chosen from around a hundred different options. Ultimately, they selected a fairly simple design using items that could be found in the trash.
- The idea of Gabby Gabby as an unsold toy with a voice problem originated at Pixar even before the *Toy Story* franchise; she was once intended to be used in a never-made sequel to John Lasseter’s *Tin Toy* (1988), but there she would have been an evil plush bear. This character eventually became Lotso, the main antagonist in *Toy Story 3* (Lee Unkrich, 2010).
- Fleeing the Bensons, the toys run past an old box with the word Pixar on it. This is a vintage graphics computer developed by the company when it was still part of Lucasfilm. This image is used as a logo in some of Pixar's older shorts.
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