Lightyear

Lightyear

Legendary Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits and his robot companion Sox.

  • Released: 2022-06-15
  • Runtime: 93 minutes
  • Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
  • Stars: Chris Evans, Mu Leen, Taika Waititi, Keke Palmer, Dale Soules, Peter Sohn, Uzo Aduba, James Brolin, Mary McDonald-Lewis, Efren Ramirez, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Keira Hairston, Bill Hader, Angus MacLane, Carlos Alazraqui, Kimberly Bailey, William Calvert, June Christopher, David Cowgill, Terri Douglas, Jackie Gonneau, Rif Hutton, Matthew Yang King, Stephanie Komure, Piotr Michael, Cristina Milizia, Arthur Ortiz, Jacqueline Pinol, Griffin Puatu, Shane Sweet, Debra Wilson, Matthew Wood, Cory Yee, Ruth Zalduondo, Debra Wilson, François Civil, Michaël Grégorio, Lyna Khoudri, Chantal Ladesou, Jean Barney, Georges Caudron, Virginie Emane, Frantz Confiac, Pauline Moulène, Volodia Serre, Lionel Lingelser, Donald Reignoux, Juliette Davis
  • Director: Angus MacLane
 Comments
  • auskooper - 25 June 2024
    Lightyear
    Lightyear is not as bad as people say it is but it still is the weakest film in the Toy Story franchise. It's meant to be an origin story for Buzz Lightyear as a movie inside the Toy Story universe. It has Buzz leading a mission on a foreign planet and accidentally got stuck. He tries to get a crystal to go hyperspeed and doing that, what is a couple seconds to him is a couple years on the planet, which is like Interstellar. When he finally achieved hyperspeed, he came back to his well known villain Emperor Zurg. I find this is a poor adaption of Zurg and no way is this the real Zurg. It is deserving of a sequel with the real Zurg but with how it did in the box office and doing in ratings, likely won't happen.

    This marks the first theatrical film Buzz isn't voiced by Tim Allen. Tim Allen also doesn't play Buzz in the original Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command where Buzz is voiced by Patrick Warburton but that's not a theatrical film like the first four Toy Stories and this one, where Buzz is voiced by Chris Evans. That helps show this Buzz is a different Buzz from Toy Story Buzz.

    Overall, I find Lightyear alright but I definitely prefer the actual Toy Story films.
  • kowas_2 - 27 January 2024
    It's not Toy Story.... What's wrong with that??
    So I seems a lot of reviews here that criticise this movie has not been part of toy story and I don't see why that should be the case. This movie is a standalone fictional work of art that explore a movie that toys were made from and for that reason, I really enjoyed it. It has touches of modernism that perhaps were not going to be relatable for a 90s movie however this is not the 90s and the movie needs reflect, the progression in society in the past 30 years. The character development, the animation is superb, and the injection of humour is well received. To dismiss this movie because it's not toy story 5 is small minded.

    I do believe that perhaps one needs to review this movie as a standalone project and not get bogged into what it's not trying to be. Anything I find the way that this whole work was conceived quite clever. So what's this movie for what it is and what is not trying to be unappreciated the work and the craft that went into it to create it.