Lightyear DOESN'T make sense 

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I said this before: Lightyear is not the movie Andy saw as a kid. Lightyear is the terrible, gritty, unnecessary reboot done 25 years later that Andy saw as an adult with his fiancé and afterwards shrugged and said, "eh, I like the original better."

This movie is a shining example of “Years of academy training WASTED!”

"the better Pixar's animation gets the shittier their writing become?" YES. THANK YOU. IDGAF if your animation looks realistic now Pixar, it was never about that. MAKE ME CRY AGAIN.

"HOW IS THIS ANDY'S FAVORITE MOVIE THIS IS DEPRESSING AS SHIT" I CAN'T 😭😭😭

Lightyear feels like a sequel To a movie that doesnt exist

It's so weird how Disney doesn't acknowledge the Lightyear TV show. They completely ignored it to make this movie and they don't even have it on Disney+

Andy's mom: "You can only bring one toy to Pizza Planet" also Andy's mom: "Sure you can bring ALL of your toys to see "Lightyear" in the theater with you!"

If Sox was such an important character how come Andy never once tried to get a Sox toy? Or why did Toy Buzz never tried to look for him back in the first movie?

The problem with this movie is, that it’s to “dark” and modern to be a 90s children movie. The 90s were a time that most children movies(there are exceptions, but those aren’t as popular) were a lighthearted and fun experience for the whole family. This movie is neither.

I was SO SURE the rookie was going to be Zurg, yet somehow that felt like a better story than what Pixar decided 💀

Pixar basically made the Martian with extra steps and less character depth

If Star Command was capable of making amazing robotic intelligence like Sox, why didn't they just used him to test the crystal for hyperspeed rather than a human like Buzz?

The movie felt too modern for a movie that was supposed to be in the 90s that inspired a kid. Felt too much like Interstellar or Annihilation. Why not go with something colorful and fun like The Jetsons, The Fifth Element, Beyond Good and Evil, and the Ratchet and Clank games.

So why do the Toy Story movies refer to Zurg as "Evil Emperor Zurg" when in the movie he's not an emperor of anything?

I think what happened was that the creators of Pixar actually hated the TV show and wanted to make something more serious because that's what Pixar does. And then Disney came ruined it even more.

I can’t believe in Andy’s universe, Interstellar (2014) stole their plot twist from Lightyear (1995) 🙈 *how could they?!?!*

Not sure if anyones mentioned this, but the promo art itself is so contrived (not just with the alien toys) If Andy brought Woody, Rex and the others with him to see Lightyear, wouldn't they have recognised toy buzz in the first toy story film?? I dunno man this film is fine on its own but as a diehard toy story fan it annoys me.

I feel like Lightyear COULD have worked with the set-up they were going for. Like, what if they WEREN'T stranded on an alien planet, but Buzz was instead a test pilot meant to be testing their hyperspace travel. We get to see him go through the academy and finally get chosen to fly the ship and when he does, he's accidentally launched off course far from home. He then ends up having a planet-hopping adventure in an attempt to get home all while being chased down by Zerg who wants his hyperspace crystal in order to allow his robot troops quicker access to planets all over the galaxy. He meets a bunch of fun, alien friends, maybe even still has Sox as a kind of utility cat robot thing. It allows him to actually BE a SPACE RANGER while also being inexperienced and getting to grow with his adventures and new friends. They finally get back to earth with Zerg hot on their tail because Buzz believes that they have the military capabilities that MIGHT almost level the playing field. (They can do the time-travel reveal if they really want to. Maybe he gets to Earth and thinks he's in the clear only to find that he's been gone for YEARS and was presumed dead with a memorial plaque or something in his honor at the academy. It's not super important to the story, I guess, unless you just want that grit.) Zerg arrives, they have a massive planet-side air battle while the mothership is in the upper atmosphere, Buzz gets on board and with the help of his alien space buddies, loads the Hyperspace crystal onto Zerg's ship and rigs it to explode on arrival. They send Zerg off FAR AWAY and then the crystal explodes, nearly EVICERATING Zerg's mothership, but he survives and vows revenge classic Saturday-Morning-Cartoon style which leaves room for Zerg to be a constant presence in Buzz's story justify video games in the Toy Story universe. Buzz officially becomes a full-fledged space ranger along with his friends and they take to space to solve more intergalactic problems. The End.

It’s all the hell is Zurg’s origin is never consistent: In Toy Story 2 it was confirmed that Zurg was Buzz’s father. In the cartoon Zurg was seemingly just a robot although there was a single joke where he claimed to be his father, it was immediately revealed that he was lying. And we all know how this movie adapted his story.

Zurg is Lightyear’s father in the Buzz Lightyear video game in the actual Toy Story universe, so that game must’ve been a very loose adaptation of the movie Andy watched. Otherwise, the game contradicts the movie, making the Zurg plot twist even more convoluted.

If you watch the first Toy Story movie, the montage of Andy slowly replacing his cowboy stuff with space ranger stuff show a trend of Buzz being a HUGE recruiter for space rangers, which completely contradicts his character here since he refuses to work with rookies AND in the end he rejects OTHER qualified applicants just to be with his friends.

My biggest problem was that there's no worldbuilding. We know nothing about the state of humanity/galactic civilization outside this planet. We don't even know what the Turnip's original mission was. We don't know much about Star Command. We don't know ANYTHING about the Galactic Alliance. When it's namedropped at the end, it feels out of place, because the movie completely failed to establish the wider setting. It even forgets about Zurg being an Emperor!

Isn't the story of _Lightyear_ just the basic plot of _Up_ except in a science fiction setting? *The main protagonist is adamant on completing a mission to honor his deceased best friend:* Carl Fredrickson wants to fly to Paradise Falls to honor his late wife Ellie. Buzz wants to find a way off the planet using light speed to honor his longtime comrade Alisha Hawthorne who passed away during his last hyperspace test run. *His stubbornness and lack of closure prevents him from moving on:* Carl assaults a construction worker for damaging his and Ellie's mailbox and is deemed a public menace in a court of law. He is later ordered to be sent to a nursing home for the elderly after a lawsuit. Buzz refuses to forgo his mission and relinquish his robotic cat companion Sox for decommissioning due to him having recently discovered a stable formula of crystallic fuel for hyperspace. This is also due to a new shift in command deciding to cancel any and all hyperspace test flights. *He defies authority to settle unfinished business:* Carl fashions his house into an aircraft using thousands of helium balloons. Buzz steals a spacecraft and jumps ahead decades into the future. *He reluctantly teams up with a band of misfits (which he later grows to care for) to achieve his goal:* A boy scout Russell, a rare and exotic bird named Kevin and a "talking" dog named Dug for Carl. Alisha's granddaughter Izzy, Buzz's personal companion Sox, paroled convict Darby, and clumsy recruit Mo for Buzz. *His determination to achieve his goal puts him at odds with the others:* Carl, being a cantankerous old man who still hasn't overcome his grief, gives up Kevin to protect his house despite promising Russell earlier that he wouldn't do such a thing. Buzz is initially frustrated by the group's lack of experience and training. He becomes especially despondent when Izzy accidentally discards the fusion energy when trying to escape Zurg's robotic minions, failing their objective and potentially foiling any chance of Buzz returning to the past. *He becomes disillusioned by another version of himself:* Carl meets his childhood idol Charles Muntz only to learn of the latter's murderous obsession with wanting to capture Kevin (Charles being the embodiment of Carl's lack of closure and refusal to move on from his past). Buzz meets his future self under the guise of Zurg who was obsessed with trying to find a way to travel backwards in time. *He winds up abandoning the initial mission in the end when he realizes what's most important in life:* Carl realizes that Ellie cherished her married life as an adventure all on its own and wanted Carl to have more. Buzz realizes that Alisha was happy with her life and that Izzy and her friends would probably never even exist if he chose to travel back in time like he initially wanted. *By the end of the movie, he remains content in his current place and starts new relationships with young faces while never forgetting the one he lost and holds dear to his heart:* Carl becomes a surrogate grandfather figure to Russell, doing all the activities that the boy and his father used to do. Buzz embraces his new team and heads off on the next mission. The similarities are so obscenely apparent it's not even funny.

Could u imagine Toy Story if Andy actually played with Buzz the way this in movie-movie portrayed him, just sat there with Buzz whispering out some depressing lines instead of….. u know….. playing with him like a toy

Also, if this was actually the movie that Andy watched, I feel like Sox would come with the Buzz toy as an accessory. But he doesn’t. Because he never existed and this movie makes no sense

This felt more "the Martian' than a movie about buzz light year. Half the time I was just expecting him to shit on Camera and start growing patotes on it

The most unbelievable part about this movie is that it's supposed to come out in 1995.

One correction to your video: It was actually Pixar's decision to decanonize the Buzz Lightyear TV show. This is because back in the early 2000s, before Disney bought Pixar, Disney owned the rights to Toy Story and decided to make the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command cartoon as a spinoff without Pixar's input or consent which made Pixar absolutely despise it. They were only told to animate part of the intro, but nothing else about the production.

The rookie with the 3-minute screentime was voiced by Bill Hader too 😂 The audacity to give his splotlight to Taika

I love how the writers actually thought they did something clever with the Zurg twist.

I watched this movie on a plane a while back and remember thinking that there was basically not a single time things went to plan. Which sure, is more realistic, but I was practical begging for them to "just let this be a normal spacetrip" and the movie kept responding with "With the Buzz? No way aaawww cruising down on the planet, you're stressed and feeling bad, next thing that you know you're seeing, stupid time paradox in the neighborhood!" and it drove me insane.

I was so annoyed that he chose his friends as his team in the end. I mean I get it. He just went on a huge adventure with them but they have 0 skill. At least take 4 qualified experts from the platoon of professional soldiers and put each of his rookie friends through a boot camp training alongside them and then they can have 2 teams. 1 highly skilled pro team for dangerous missions and then the ragtag friend team for simple missions like gathering info or whatever

also apparently in the Toy Story universe the company who made this movie decided to sell a Buzz Lightyear toy in the suit he wore for the last 20 seconds of the movie (built-in shooter and jetpack wings) rather that the suit he's had on for the majority of the movie

8:15 the explanation always bothered me personally cause like. It's actually based on a real phenomenon known as time dilation, where as an object's speed through space approaches the speed of light, it's speed through time approaches 0, and time for everything else speeds up relative to that object. The problem with this explanation in the movie though is that first off, it doesn't actually make sense for him to travel that far in the future. In order for buzz to travel 4 years in the future, he would have to be going at light speed for 4 years, which means he also would have traveled a distance of 4 light years (even though it looks like he just goes around their local star which at most would be a few light minutes away). And second, they should have known about this before the test because they've all been traveling this way for who knows how long. The same thing should have happened to the entire colony on their voyage, it makes absolutely no sense for them to just be learning about time dilation now.

Lightyear was so unnecessary!! We had Buzz Lightyear Star Command. Which was way better. So here's my theory: The Star Command cartoon was the show that the toy was based off which Andy watched. There was a movie explaining Buzz's origins, then many years later when Andy grew up they made a live action reboot/sequel which Andy thought was so bad it was good. And that film was Lightyear.

The best part is this "canon" movie, not only made kids crazy with the Buzz toy, but remember the Second Buzz with the belt? That's totally something that happens with sequel movie toys! So more likely it was such an obvious fenomenon with toys flying from the toy aisle like Barbie said that it got a sequel movie! While IRL Lightyear was such a failure it not only might be Pixar's worst financial disaster in history but also cancelled not only 2 movies from it's trilogy but also a Woody spin-off. And with the sequel dead it breaks the canon so it's actually non-canon in the Toy Story universe at all.

It's like Pixar just have this quota now about having each movie be "serious" and like depressing as shit so everyone would think how deep it is. And then they decided to make action movie. And they couldn't decide whether they want to meet the quota or make a food film. So they settled on... Something. Like honestly all I did hear about this movie is either, as you say, toy story refences or some lgbt talks And then noone knew it was even released

It’s honestly so interesting to hear new movie Buzz’s voice versus Tim Allen’s buzz. Allen’s version sounds better 😅

The opening skit is fucking hilarious and too true

There's also some thing I would criticize about the logistics of this being a film Andy saw in universe, like the stuff regarding the merchandise. The Space Ranger suit represented with the Toy, posters, blankets, etc, is only seen at the very end of the movie where it never sees action. Which means that most of the play feature gimmicks the Toy possesses are never seen in the movie. The narrative bio on the back of the cardboard ship (and believed as truth by Andy's Buzz himself) is inaccurate, and Sox the cat clearly wasn't included as part of the merchandise. It's obvious that Sox was merchandise bait with a quantifiable degree of effectiveness, but in Al's Toy Barn there wasn't a single Sox toy in the entire Aisle dedicated to Buzz Lightyear?

The whole time travel thing with Buzz and found an abandoned ship and came back and released that there's another buzz still confused me and I hate how they made Zerg to be buzz from the future and not his father.

14:35 They did say that the faster he'd go, the further away he would travel in the future. Which means that with the successful jump he traveled in a much faster rate and passed 22 years, instead of only 4 where he travelled with a slower velocity.

19:17 he's got a point lmao was there just NO ONE in that giant ship???

Missed you and your reviews welcome back! Now it's time to chill and watch this

Wait, if they were gonna reference quotes from the original toy story, why didn't they reference the quotes from the toys voice box? The ones that are actually prerecorded and are supposed to directly reference the movies source material??

Lightyear is such wasted potential man I swear. They could've easily made it like Star Wars but NOPE.

They committed the ultimate sin. They made Buzz Lightyear lame.

I will admit that they likely grossly misinturprated Special Relitivity. The exact oposite would happen if he moved that fast. Also at HALF THE SPEED OF LIGHT he would have been back in 32 minutes for them, not 22 years. (Assuming the sun he slingshot off of is as far as our sun is from earth) That said I thought it was a fun movie that I enjoyed as my Expectations for Disney Movies nowadays are basically rock bottom.

beaniie's genuine frustration at 17:58 had me cackling lol

I still think they shouldn’t have confirmed that this is the exact movie that Andy watched as kid. They should’ve just implied it and let the audience have their own headcanons. Because I think it makes way more sense if the movie that Andy saw is actually “Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Movie”, and then “Lightyear” is a modern reboot of that movie/show, because in-universe the sales of Buzz Lightyear toys started to go down after Toy Story 4 and they thought that making a new movie would get kids interested in the toys again.

I legit thought the cat would be the main villain

Lightyear: This is the movie Andy saw as a kid and made him want the Buzz Lightyear toy. Toy Story: Buzz talks about combating Evil Emperor Zurg, but the Zurg we saw in Lightyear was not an emperor at all. He didn't talk about ruling the galaxy, he wanted to go back in time to undo his mistakes.

5:29 I'm sorry but THIS LINE GOT ME DYING🤣

08:24 the way he said that took me out of things for a second lol. so sassy

Pros of this movie: Sox is the best and funniest character Animation is stellar Soundtrack slaps Action scenes are kinda cool Cons of this movie: Horrible slow voice casting Boring characters Lame story and message Shitty villain Shitty heroes Terrible premise Unconnected continuity Too many in your face references God awful jokes unless Sox made them Overall: What the f*ck Pixar after some great gems like Soul, Luca, Turning Red, etc, movies that I hoped meant the return of Pixar’s former greatness and your return to the theatre is this piece of shit.

What could make sense to me out of Lightyear is if it revealed at the very end of the movie is it would then suddenly cut to a theater auditorium where a young Andy was watching it this whole time. Thus giving the impression that Andy was with us this whole time watching every scene play out. So I'm also assuming this movie in the Toy Story universe released in 1995.

6 minutes into your video here and I'm laughing harder than I did throughout all of Lightyear lmao. You should make the next Movie for us!

Lightyear feels like the third movie in a trilogy for a Buzz Lightyear Trilogy

It would be far more humble for Andy to want the Buzz toy simply because of him being a toy; Not based off of some movie.

Ironically from what I've heard of Pixar's opinion on the Buzz Lightyear cartoon, the Lightyear movie probably would've been better off with only Disney's input. ... maybe.

14:54 The mechanic is that faster travel produces a greater time dilation effect. For the first times, he only got to about 80% hyperspeed, creating the 1min to 1year ratio. Full hyperspeed, which was the goal, has a different one.

Buzz did say that “the faster I go, the faster time passes” they mostly talked about the time passage after their FIRST time he attempts hyper speed

I actually came up with a FAR more better story for Lightyear than Pixar themselves, all while using the cast from the original Cartoon show. and made it so that this is the quintessential reboot movie, adult andy would go and take his family to watch. to summarize: _Buzz (in his ranger suit) goes off course from his test flight and crashes on a distant planet, in Zurg Territory. he meets a resistance soldier who is actualy Mira Nova, trying to free her people, but warns Buzz if they find out his spaceship came from outside Zurg space, they'll track down it's flight path and invade his home, which Zurg's drones essentially do. now it's a space race/ space road trip back to his base before Emperor zurg does with his armada. they meet more freaky aliens and planets along the way, meet booster, the Little Green Men (LGMs) who fix Buzz's ship and builds XR for him to aid on his mission, and make it back to star command, only to find Zurg's invasion has already begun. they sneak in, his new allies don ranger suits to fight back and send zurg stranded in the middle of space. and the story ends with word of zurg being defeated by Buzz and his crew spreading across the galaxy and unite to form the galactic alliance in case zurg ever returned._

It really is like they had a really good idea for a movie, with lots of fun characters but then some executive came in and said "You gotta put Taika in it"

The thing that got me about this being "The movie Andy saw in 1995" is that the movie says this at the very beginning before anything happens. So this isn't just a marketing scheme. It's cannon that THIS film exists in the Toy Story universe. So it makes everything about the movie make no sense to me. Why does Buzz the toy look, sound and act completely different from his film counterpart? You'd think he'd share some qualities with the film version. Why is the backstory on the back of his box different from the film? Why doesn't he have the energy blade they use in this film? Why does Zurg the toy claim he's Buzz's father when they're the same person? I could at the very least say this film was a Buzz Lightyear reboot but the film tells me that it exists in Toy Story cannon so it leads me to wondering these things. On top the flaws this film has on it's own divorced from outside cannon, these problems with contradicting the cannon kept amassing and it ruined any enjoyment I might of had watching this film.

7:39 I love just how SHOCKED they look to hear that he wasn't good when he first showed up at school.

I always thought the reason he jumped 22 years after the successful hyperspeed test was because actual hyperspeed is like 100x faster than the failed hyperspeeds. So instead of going 1 year into the future per minute he went 1 year per second. So like 22 seconds of hyperspeed is 22 years. But that's just my guess as to why the gap was so different~

Honestly I like to think Lightyear would be one of those movies that were way better as a kid which is why it was Andy’s favorite because you have to remember when Andy watched this he would be in like 1st grade so I think it makes sense

I love the running joke of Pixar knowing that Disney is being stupid and yet having to go along with it in your intro sketches lol

I mean when the Cat side character makes the movie bearable you know you have an issue. Like SOX was way more interesting than the movie itself.

This fact cannot be stated enough this is NOT A 90s kids movie. This is a modern “subversive” “kids” movie actually aimed for Twitter users. If they wouldn’t have marketed it as “a movie Andy saw” it would’ve been fine

I watched this movie and 1. Cried the whole time. WHY WAS IT SO SAD!?!?! You’re completely right no adventure, I’d say all depressing

Love your movie reviews, Beaniie. You make my frustrations feel validated

I love your comedic timing and couldn't wait to hear your thoughts on this movie!! It is pretty funny how the main way they advertised this movie was by saying, "Andy loved this movie!................And you should too........It has Buzz Lightyear!" LOL.

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The time travel in this movie made no sense. jumping 4 years into the future after each trip makes no sense. If you travel close to lightspeed according to the theory of relativity your time slows down, so unless buzz traveled a 4 lightyear round trip he would have been back within the day because from what is shown he travels close to the nearest star if we use Earth as a reference for safe distance that would be 8 light minutes away. we can make that number to even 30 light minutes away and even if he was traveling at half light speed he still would have returned the same day.

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given Zurg's Darth Vader line in Toy Story 2 I would love for Zurg to have been Buzz's abandoned son whom he abandoned when time travelling

the fact that the writer-quota joke comes back near the end of the video is hilarious!

I am so glad I found these reviews, I’ve been laughing the whole time 😂

Man the irony of this movie being no kid's favorite movie ever and the fact they marketed it as a kid's favorite movie is hilarious.

My head cannon is that this movie inspired the star command cartoon and that’s what Andy fell in love with & that’s what the toy story buzz is based on

keep up the good work!

When watching lightyear I thought socks would be the worst most annoying character, but then he was the best

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these videos are funny as hell

When I was younger when watching movies, I constantly asked my parents what was happening. As I got older, I did this less and understood the movies I would watch. It's NOT a good sign if I asked a LOT of questions when watching this movie.

Meanwhile in the Buzz cartoon universe, Zurg is also angrily blasting this movie 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love these videos

Izzy said they played stealth mode, not they used stealth mode to play hide and seek. A slight difference that changes the meaning, which explains why she doesn’t know about the timer.

It feels like the marketing department and the actual movie had two different ideas about where to go. Like everyone kept saying, *this should have been a reboot.* Or, hear me out - a movie about the making of the toyline! Hell, the promo art itself could have been a movie! Or, maybe, they already live in space - Star Command is an offshoot of some alien space resort thing ala Wall-E - and the movie could have been about going around and exploring the cosmos.

thank you!! i was expecting a ton of planets like cmon such a missed opportunity! im so glad it bombed

You are hilarious! I love it!

As far as 90s Sci-Fi movies go, this wasn’t THE worst

Pixar-....Well, at least we still get to hear the iconic Buzz voice from- Disney-Also change the voice of Buzz Pixar-*flips table*

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Amazing video as usual