Binge Movie Aftertaste – Toy Story Retrospective w/ Jim Law and Matthew Goudreau: Toy Story (1995)
By the mid 90s, Disney was in pretty good shape. They had a sort of resurgence with Alladin and Beauty and the Beast, and the studio seemed to have big plans in order to keep that resurgence in order. Little did people know they would turn the animation landscape upside down with Toy Story. But they didn’t do it alone. With a Steve Jobs-George Lucas deal to sell the technology that would become computer animation, and an off shoot studio called Pixar putting in the blood sweat and tears, Disney really came with guns a’blazing. Almost twenty-five years and four films later, Pixar is still going strong. Join Matt, Law (who seems to be born to be on this retrospective), and myself as we do the first animated series in the Aftertaste’s existence, and explore whether the Toy Story franchise and the movies contained in its realms is just as successful creatively as they were financially.
Though Toy Story proved to be a massive success, it was not easy getting there. Undermanned and underfunded, nit to mention having toy companies like Mattel refusing to lend their commodities to the production, director John Lasseter and his crew had to jump through hoops just to get the movie done. Listen in as we dissect the movie and decide whether it still holds up all these years later, and if the labor of love known as Toy Story was worth all the man hours it took to make it.
Toy Story (1995) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)
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