*A MASTERPIECE!!* Toy Story 2 (1999) | First Time Watching | (reaction/commentary/review) 

Unfortunately, Pixar only did bloopers for A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, and Monsters Inc. I think it would've been fun to see bloopers for other Pixar movies.

Jessie's story: How to make the audience cry with a montage, brought to you by Pixar

Apparently both Tom Hanks and Tim Allen were left crying and speechless the first time they saw the sequence about Jessie's backstory.

It's theorized that the reason Woody doesn't know his backstory, is that he was the prototype toy for the toyline, and that he was Andy's father's toy. So, if he were the first, he wouldn't know persay about his tv show that came AFTER the toyline was created. In the same vain, Jessie is theorized to belong to Andy's mother. His cowboy hat is designed like Jessie's instead of Woody's.

There is an interesting theory I like to believe. Jessie's owner was, in fact, Andy's mom. She grew up, got rid of her toys and moved out, etc. Except for her former hat (which is in fact Jessie's and not Woody's), and she gifted that to her son when he grew up... That's why Andy's hat is not Woody's but Jessie's instead.

In the scene when Al is selling woody off, when he says "Don't touch my mustache" he is actually mispronouncing "Do itashimashite" which is "your welcome" in japanese

Ever since I was a kid (I’m 32 now), the scene where Woody gets spruced up has always scratched an itch in my brain. 👌🏼

The joy with which you asked, "Is he delusional as well?" was hilarious 😂

My personal opinion: "When She Loved Me" is one of those bittersweet songs that gives you a great backstory and makes you cry at the same time. (Really doesn't help that it's Sarah McLachlan singing. The same woman who did the jingle for the ASPCA)

An endearing behind the scenes Story that you might appreciate is this movie was almost not made. What happened was a lot of the animation got deleted. What saved it was, the fact that one of the animators had to work from home because she just had a baby, so she had all the copies of the animation on her computer at home. So a baby saved the entire movie franchise.

I think the brilliant thing about buzz meeting himself in the toy store is that it SHOWS his character growth in a way you dont normally get in movies. Its so rare to see side by side the differences unless its a time travel movie.

I love the fact that Woody being fixed by the old guy is one of the reasons he's leaning more towards staying because he was influenced by the dream he had. Andy wont get him fixed, throws him away. At least Al fixed him right? In the end, Andy fixes him himself while Al got someone else to fix him. I love the writing in this franchise.

Jessie's back story left me traumatized as a kid, I felt so sorry for every toy I even accidentally left out of play afterwards 🙃

Toy Story 2 almost died. Some time before it released, someone accidentally deleted the the movie in its entirety. Nothing left in the office. However, a pregnant woman (forgot her name) had a copy of the film in her apparent. Saving everyone.😎

It's one of those (sadly quite rare) movies where the sequal is better but it's only better bcs it's a sequal. The first one did such a good job of establishing characters that it could just jump straight to it and build further

Fun fact: Jodi Benson who voiced Ariel in the Little Mermaid voiced Barbie in here

Saw this in theaters. The moment they jumped from the plane will rank as one of the best audience moment of my life.

29:49 "Somewhere in that pad of stuffing is a toy that taught me that life is only worth living if you're being loved by a kid. And I came all this way to rescue that toy because I believed him." That is one of if not my favorite Buzz line in the whole trilogy. (4th movie isn't canon to me.)

And so began the long and proud Pixar tradition of ripping your heart out through your eyes.

Jessie’s backstory is of the most saddest backstories ever in any Pixar movie, even when the song “When Somebody Loves Me” plays it makes me cry every time it comes on.

This is one of the best sequels of all time. Jessie's backstory was very sad. Wheezy singing You've got a friend in me was top-notch. It was so amazing and funny 🎵🎵🎵😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

One of the best things on the _Toy Story_ sequels is that not only do the films continue to introduce brand new characters but it also gets better and emotional in each installment. Plus, "When She Loved Me" still brings me tears especially what Jessie had gone through. Looking forward to _Toy Story 3._

29:24 Fun Fact: A code 5-46, in Buzz’s universe, means the mission is the escort of royalty - Alternate Dimensional Royalty to be specific. That’s why Belt Buzz can believe how there are two “real” Buzz’s and why he bows to Woody. xD

The voice actor of the Chicken Guy is actually the same one as Dennis Nedry from Jurassic Park 1! Pretty fitting if you ask me cause I almost feel like they even took some of his mannerisms!

37:12 - “Wow, okay. I see what you’re doing there, Pixar.” I didn’t until just now when you pointed it out. 😂

Fun Fact: Originally, the creators wanted to use Barbie in the first film, but Mattel didn't want to release the rights. Where as other toy cooperations like Playskool, gave them rights and that had caused a spike in toy sales. So because of it, Mattel released the rights to use Barbie in the sequel. Glad to see your reaction for this sequel, love how you caught so many of the Star Wars and Jurassic Park references. Actually just watched this the other day because of your reaction to the 1st one.

"rizz up the Barbies and ask them to jump on the thing" was so funny I don't know why lmao Love your Reaction channel and I can't wait to see what's next!!

The actual video game based off of this movie was surprisingly difficult.

the restoration scene for woody is so satisfying. BTW Woody would still be "genuine" since he has all of his parts, he's just restored to a more excellent condition. If you meant Mint condition, that is supposed to be what the Prospector was, mint in the box, never opened, never played with.

It is truly amazing how great Buster (Andy's Dog) looks and moves. Especially after the trainwreck that was Scud (Sid's Dog) in Toy Story 1.

You missed tour guide Barbie after the credits!! 😭😭 Also if you’re looking for another Pixar movie I highly recommend finding Nemo. My personal second fav Pixar film after Toy Story 2 and it takes place in Sydney so I’d think you’d love it! 😊😊

2 and 3 are spectacular and I love the friendship dynamic we get after movie one spends the runtime building it up. They’re just so iconic. And this movie gives us Jessie and Bullseye and Zurg! It’s great

If you go back to the moment where Buzz and the other toys decide to let Woody stay with the Round Up Gang, if you listen in the background you can hear Jessie from the Tv show say, “Sheriff Woody! I knew you’d make it!” It’s implied that that was the actual end of the Woody’s Roundup finale! Notice how it’s Stinky Pete/Prospector that says the show was cancelled, but if that really was the true finale then that means he was lying about the show being cancelled and only said it to keep Woody, Jessie, and Bullseye from leaving.

There's a fan theory that Jessie's original owner was Andy's mom. When you look at Andy's cowboy hat, it's themed after Jessie's hat, not Woody's, just like Jessie's original owner had.

the scene of the cleaner fixing up woody was my (and a lot of people's) introduction to ASMR 😍

Jessie was my favorite toy when i was a little girl. Her montage song also why I never gave away a single toy as a child. I'm pretty sure I still have most of my childhood toys and my mom blames this movie for it. xD ( what's crazy is the team made this movie in only 9 months )

Before you even got to the scene, just the thought of "When She Loved Me' had me tearing up. I'm freaking blubbering right now!

From what I've heard, the general consensus on the rest of the movies seems to be that 3 is the perfect ending and a lot of people consider it on par with 2, 4 was good but unnecessary, and I haven't heard a single person looking forward to 5.

38:57 This outtake does get removed on Disney+, mainly because of the real-life "back-stage" stories with actors/ actresses that have occurred in real life. It's definitely a joke that didn't age well. 😶

The fact that the first he said was that it looked like starwars 😂 0:41

For the memorabilia scene, they gave Tom Hanks a bunch of pictures of merch and asked him to improve Considering Stinky Pete was on a dime store shelf, I think he was the scrappy of the show. The character everybody really hated

I take the fact that woody is such an old toy and has probably been hand me downed soo many times he probably forgot his original programming. Bc we saw w. Buzz they all come factory reset n get memories and change as they r played w. And loved by ppl.

I love the theory that Andy's mom is Emily because the cowboy hat Andy has isnt brown like Woody's but rather red like Emily and Jessie's

Another theory for why some toys know when they are toys or real figures. Batteries. Pretty much most of the toys are battery free. In the first movie they make references to stores they sat in till they got bought. Woody pull string is a windup box, but buzz needs batteries. So while in the box as mentioned in the movie, hes in "hyper sleep" but then when hes unboxed at andys party, buzz has had no time to get use to the idea of being a toy. As for the utility belt Buzz, its a store model, batties already inside but his mission is securing all other buzz. He doesn't get played with while on the display so he has no child interaction. So basically battery toys need to be acclimated when they are opened or they will think they arent a toy.

Woody's makeover is such a satisfying scene. lol

Rest In Peace Jim Varney 1949-2000 Chuck Jones 1912-2002 Jonathan Harris 1914-2002 Joe Ranft 1960-2005 Steve Jobs 1955-2011 Roger Ebert 1942-2013 Don Rickles 1926-2017 R Lee Ermey 1944-2018 and Estelle Harris 1928-2022

Barbie's statement that the store got overloaded by Buzzes due to low stock, high demand, was based on what happened in real life. Not a lot of people were confident in a CGI movie

Toy's: We don't want to go back into storage!!! Me: You realize a museum is storage right?

Was there only one Woody doll? Andy's father was also named Andy-Andy Sr. -and he wrote his name on Woody's boot. The reason Woody is such a rare toy is because he's the only Woody doll that was ever made-just a prototype. Long story short, Andy ends up with a Woody prototype, the absolute only Woody doll in existence (the official line was never manufactured due to a new interest in space toys). So, honestly after looking through google, Woody is only one of a kind unlike Buzz who we see the isles are full of buzzes but there is only one woody doll and the whole collection was only made of only one each and that's it. Which made them super rare.

When Bug's Life was released, Pixar added an animated short film to the start of it called "Geri's Game." It is definitely worth watching, and the character featured in it is also the "cleaner" in Toy Story 2.

Besides The Lion King, the Toy Story franchise has been a huge part of my life. Every time I see Jessie’s backstory and hear that song, my heart breaks for her. It’s actually been confirmed that Emily is actually Andy and Molly’s mom. The proof is that Andy’s hat is the exact one you see Emily wearing as a kid. So it makes me so happy to see the circle come complete when Andy plays with the toy that once belonged to his mother. Believe it or not Toy Story 2 almost never existed; its had accidentally gotten deleted. Thankfully Galyn Susman's backups famously saved the film. 🤠🧑🏻‍🚀🐴💛💙❤️

Fun fact: the film almost never saw the light of day... A computer bug erased the files from Pixar's servers. Fortunately, an employee who had recently given birth and was working from home had copies, so they were able to get back to work. This is the same employee behind the latest "Buzz Lightyear" film!

This might already have been said but this movie began as a straight to DVD release. Midway through production, they realized it was much better than that and changed it to a theatrical release.

This might sound random, but I’ve just thought of the perfect film for you to react to. The Big Year (2011) starring Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson. It’s a comedy, but not the sort of comedy you’d expect these actors to be in. It’s very lighthearted and, for lack of a better word, cozy. I think you’d love it.

I recall hearing a long time ago that Toy Story 2 was originally going to be a straight to video/DVD release (like so many other Disney sequels were at the time), but the movie ended up so good that they gave it a full theatrical release instead.

I remember watching Toy Story 2 several times in my childhood and then having the movie as the perfect thing to watch on the first day of 2023 with my mother and aunt, such good memories.

Thank you, Oscar! 🪀 The interlude featuring Sarah McLachlan's voice singing "When She Loved Me" makes me cry like a baby... even after numerous re-watches.

I've never clicked a reaction so fast. 🎉

"Rizz up the Barbies." -The Cocoa Couch Also, as others have mentioned, it is believed Andy's mom was Jessie's owner originally. I just want to add an extra detail to further reinforce this theory. Woody is well before Andy's time in regards to toys. So the idea is Andys mom recognized Woody in most likely a thrift store at some point, and feeling guilty over Jessie, bought him for Andy as a means of making up for this mistake, and to let Andy experience the same joy she felt as a young girl playing with Jessie.

"Definitely shark-- monkeys would just mess with you." Almost tops g'day marshmallows as my favorite quote!

I'm now taking the longer bus home just to watch this.

I actually noticed the foreshadowing when I watched your video of the first Toy Story movie. There's a commercial for Al's Toy Barn playing at one point in the first Toy Story movie. It's hilarious to re-watch the first movie after you've watched the second one, knowing that Al is the bad guy of the second one, and then see the commercial for Al's Toy Barn in the first movie. Very ironic.

Jessie's story always hits deep & just makes me feel really bad about all my old toys wondering where they are now

Every toy has a false memory like buzzed in the first film that has to do with their creation of who they are and once they get played with they figure out their toy, but for Woody there are a few different theories as to why he didn't know, one has to do with the theory that Andy's dad died and Woody was actually his dad's toy that he gave to Andy before he died and that's why Wood he doesn't remember, you can see in the first film in the original house they live in that there's a boy in pictures on the walls but he has glasses except we know Andy doesn't so it's possible that that's actually his dad as a child and they're living in his dad's house and he sadly passed away, another theory people have which is a lot darker is that his mum cheated on his dad and that's why his sister looks different to him and now they're moving away because of that, some people also their rise that there was a final episode of what he's round up but the prospect turned it off because he didn't want Woody to know he was evil. There was also something to do with the original creation as well where Woody would've been a cereal box toy and that's why he doesn't remember who he is, there's a lot of speculation around why he doesn't remember who he is it could be because his show is cancelled although the other characters remember so it's hard to know what happened to him and why he doesn't remember there's a lot of mystery around and Andy specifically, the super Carlin Brothers broke down the creators original idea talking about how he got sick and how Wood he was his toy, which is something that I think the original creator or one of the original creators came up with but then scrapped the idea in the end you can still see glimpses of it like the pictures on the wall etc, also a lot of people speculate that the girl in Jess's flashback is actually Andy's mum so that would kind of make sense because that shows how old she is and it would make sense if she was his mum's toy and then Woody was his dad's toy but these are just theories nothing is Canon so we don't actually know if Jess was his mum's other than that he had the same hat that the little girl wears in the flashback and that is clearly Jess's hat that Andy has been wearing since the first film like even though his toy is woody he has Jess's cowboy hat. Because you can tell when we meet Jess that her hat is red which is the exact same hat as Andy's red with the white rim where is Woody's hat is brown, so it would make sense that she would give Andy her hat when she grew up but not Jesse because she didn't have Jesse anymore, but again that's just a theory we don't know for sure if Jess's owner was Andy's mum again that's a theory just like Belonging to Dad we don't know for sure anymore because none of that is Canon but it's interesting to think about and their eyes on how these things happen and why Wood he doesn't remember something that the rest of the Woods round up gang do.

In a chracters interveiw with the Toy Story 2 characters, Stinky Pete admits that he likes Amy's artistic face painting. This shows that he has reformed finally becoming loved by a kid.

12:37 fun fact: those are all parts of Pixar shorts that were made before Toy Story. Check them out maybe react to them 😊. These shorts are special especially shown before the actual Pixar movie in theaters.

Love watching 90's movies. There is something special about them.

Crazy fun fact about the movie: they came incredibly close to disaster during production. Someone working on the movie mistakenly typed in a command in a line of code that started deleting the movie. All of it. Months of work, disappearing before their eyes. I think it was almost entirely gone by the time they were able to put a stop to it. Their saving grace turned out to be another animator that was on maternity leave. She'd taken home a copy of the work they'd done so far so that she could keep working while she was gone, and now had the ONLY copy of the movie. They sent someone over to her house to get her computer, wrapped it up in about a million blankets, buckled it into the back seat, and took the world's most cautious drive back to the studio. I like to think about this whenever I think I've made a monumental mistake, just to give myself perspective. 😅

There's a fan theory that Emily, Jessie's kid, was Andy's mom. I think it's interesting.

I am constantly changing my mind on which Toy Story is my favorite. Jessie adds a lot to this one .

This one, the third one, and the fourth one made me cry. Such a great, nostalgic series 😁

You have no idea how much I cried for Jessie as a kid.

There’s a theory that Jessie was originally owned by the mother of Andy. I really love this theory.

21:54 Fun fact: Mattel didn't let Disney have the right to include their toys in the first Toy Story. Disney made the joke in the first movie, "And I'm from Mattel. Well, I'm not actually from Mattel, I'm actually from a smaller company that was purchased in a leveraged buy-out. Well, I don't really understand the financials, but..." They were all over being in the second movie after they saw the succes of the first one.

Not gonna lie, as a kid, (I was 5 when i saw this in theaters) I had a crush on Jessie. And yup, as I said in the comments of TS1, they are still trying to figure out proper blinking in this movie

Jessies backstory is so sad put the ending of the third film is even sadder, also when you finish friends you have to watch How I met your mother

The reason they got away with so many of the Star Wars references early on is because Pixar was originally the digital software group for George Lucas and Lucasfilm before Steve Jobs bought them along with the computer division and got them in the door with Disney.

23:30 Yup it is. And behind the scenes fact, when tom Hanks and Tim Allen (voices of woody and buzz) saw the end result in the post production filming. They both teared up at it.

I appreciate that the movie shines a strong light on fame, the life in the spotlight, on display for the world - but at its heart hollow and loveless. Makes me wonder if it messed with the actors.

37:40 Remember this moment between Woody and Buzz.

19:48 Buzz is smart. Remember this, along with many other things he did in this movie while you watch the 4th movie.

My fav movie form the franchise Toy Story. And Jessie is my fav character, my favorite intrepide cowgirl 10:55 I'd say my fav moment when I met her, I also love the dinamyc of her and Woody. I am saddened by what happened to her, I would like to hug her, like my little doll Jessie that I still keep

I have literally been dreading the past few days waiting for this video.

The section where Buzz flies through with all the space debris... is from A Bug's Life, just set at night and the rocks altitude set above the ground.

Definitely my favourite of the series. The parallels between the two movies are a really great concept. You can see the jump in animation quality too- really helped set it up for success.

10:36 seriously, Al should’ve just walk across the street from the apartment to Al’s toy barn. 21:21 makes me want to make a utility belt for buzz lightyear cosplay. 32:44 I can see his missing 🦷 on the left. 34:14 📸

Buzz getting "turned on" is still one of my favourite Pixar jokes 😂

Literally the moment "When She Loved Me" starts playing I started crying...every time!😅

That shot of Buzz with the deadpan face showing Andy's name on his foot is the best 😂

You know it's kind of funny. Buzz when he came out of the box, he thought he was the real ranger. not a toy and yet he remembers things, he remembered everything on the side of his box when he and woody and everyone met in movie one. But now in this one, Woody has no idea who he is or has no backstory or one he even remembered, it's kind of funny in away the opposites between Buzz's backstory he remembers but Woody doesn't.

12:07 all the toys take on the personalities of the kids that play with them. Woody is an old family toy that Andy inherited (there’s a theory he belonged to Andy’s dad) that’s why his personality is so fiercely loyal

The voice acting in Toy Story 2 is top notch. They even made Al look like Wayne Knight. But Kelsey Grammer as the Prospector really steals the show. "Sputnik. After that, kids only wanted to play with space toys". "Fair?! I'll tell YOU what's not fair! Spending years sitting on a dime-store shelf, watching every other toy get sold! Well now, my time has come!"

The first one has the nostalgia, but it's a toss up between 2 and 3 for my favorite. We won't talk about 4. The advantage sequels have is most of the main characters don't need to be reintroduced.

Dude, prepare to cry your eyes out on the 3rd movie 😔

My jaw (and I'm sure millions of others') dropped when the Cleaner was shown meticulously working on Woody.

26:22 😅 I recall a story of how my dad's family had a Zurg and would say "the enemy wants to enter." It would walk too. 😂

19:25 - a fun easter egg is that the old man who comes to repair Woody is the old man from the "Geri's Game" short by Pixar.

Yay! I was looking forward to reacting to this, as I am the third, and I'm sure you'll appreciate just how much the animation improves with time - The details, textures, colours, rendering, etc, etc.

Oh wow. This is the earliest I've ever been to a release

Toy Story 2 and Shrek 2 are one of the best movie sequels ever I watched it over and over back in the early 2000s on VHS :D