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
  • suarezangelique - 9 January 2023
    Sox saved the movie
    I really enjoyed what they did with his Zurg, the planets interesting, I wouldn't mind seeing the video game of the movie but I love the cat Sox and he made it a re-watchable for me. I want to see that cat in toys and voiceover all over the place! Stuff like Siri, Alexa, and give me directions. I love the personality of that cat. Unfortunately, Disney is having this habit of having these awesome characters that are cute, kick ass, or just more interesting then the main character, and they're dropping the ball and not giving them more of the limelight, advertising them, or give them merchandise.
  • clarkmkent - 19 December 2022
    "This is Not The Buzz Lightyear I Grew Up With"
    I was looking forward to this movie; given the fact that Toy Story is quite possibly my all time favorite animated movie. What I saw...was not what I'd expect from Buzz Lightyear. It took place in a rather boring world, where the only aliens were the overgrown bugs (not counting the robots). Seriously, there were no other aliens in the entire movie, not even in the Star Command unit. What gives?! How could you not have alien comrades or enemies in a sci-fi project?! Heck it would have been perfect for Alisha Hawthorne to be engaged to an alien rather than a woman - because interspecies relations is what's expected in science fiction!

    And while I had my doubts about Chris Evans portraying Buzz Lightyear, I'll admit that he did a rather good job - and I loved how he quoted lines from the original Buzz Lightyear. A lot of people did a rather good job with their voice acting. The animation and music was also very good. However, all the other characters weren't interesting, as I felt that they could have done more with them - they could have done much more with this whole movie. While Izzy was fine, she tried too much. Darby could have been a brilliant engineer and demolition expert who was court marshalled because she was a bit too "trigger happy". Mo, in my opinion, was the worst character in the movie - he was naive, cowardly, and messed up at least five or more times during his time on screen; and what's with his weird fascination with pens? They should have made Mo a doctor, that way it would have given him a reason to hate violence, because his job is to save lives not take them.

    And at the end, Buzz chooses them to be his team. You don't do that just because you got super lucky on one single mission! You send them back to the academy to get proper training, so they can become actual Space Rangers! Also, why did they make Alisha the greatest Space Ranger in history? I get that they know why, but we, the audience, don't. We didn't see her do anything, other than what she did in the start of the movie. But she barely did half of what Buzz was doing - Buzz did most of the work. What was most disappointing was the reveal of who Zurg really was; it did not work at all. If they didn't want to do the whole "I am your father" bit, they should have just made Zurg an IA created by Star Command that went rouge. The only other good character was Sox, because he was not only funny and adorable, he was incredibly smart and useful through out his entire time in the movie.

    This shouldn't have been a movie about Buzz Lightyear. Maybe it should have been about his father. Who was a young Space Ranger while Star Command was still branching out to new planets. He could have eventually met his wife, and by the end became pregnant with Buzz. So if there was a sequel, that could have been about Buzz; graduating as valedictorian with his best friend Warp Darkmatter. Despite being the best he could be, he always feels stuck in his father's shadow - who supposedly died after willingly sacrificing his life to ensure the survival of everyone else abandoning the starship. Buzz learns that he doesn't need to live up to his father's legacy, but instead focus in making his own, and knows his father would be proud of him. If you want to see the real adventures of Buzz Lightyear...check out the animated movie and the animated series that actually capture what Buzz Lightyear truly is.