The number 4 typically doesn’t bode well for film franchises, which understandably has quite a few “Toy Story” fans feeling nervous. When it comes to constructing dramatic arcs across multiple movi…
) and Buzz Lightyear ought to have ended there. This is no cash-grab continuation, however, but an organic and intuitive new chapter that enriches our understanding of the characters, offering a different and more satisfying kind of closure for their collective journeys — which involve Bonnie’s first day of kindergarten, a family road trip and the discovery of an antiques shop where sad old toys hope for a second chance. has delivered the movie “Toy Story 3” should have been.
A nearly brainless noob voiced with just the right mixture of naïveté and awe by “Arrested Development” star Tony Hale, Forky is fundamentally different from the new toys we’ve met before : This Frankensteined ex-eating utensil has no interest in Bonnie’s happiness but instead longs to return to the trash — which makes for a delightful montage, set to a Randy Newman ditty, “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away,” wherein Woody repeatedly intercepts Forky’s tireless suicide attempts.
If the first movie demonstrated the extremes to which toys might be exposed — contrasting the heaven of Andy’s room with the hell Sid puts them through — then this installment explores the idea of purgatory: What’s it like for a plaything to be ignored, overlooked or entirely unused? And to the extent that these characters have free will, at what point is it reasonable for them to privilege their own happiness above that of their...
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