It’s hard
to dislike the Toy Story characters so the studios are on to a winner before
they even started, however, with this one it feels like they stumbled on the
character of Forky. I didn’t care for him and just found his whining and desire
to be considered trash annoying. I appreciate the attempts to address mental
health issues in a children’s film but it felt like it was a relentless whine-fest
whenever the character was on the screen. There were some other entertaining
moments and the standout new characters were the ventriloquist’s dummies and
the chick and rabbit, whose anarchic behaviour deserved more screen time.
At the
conclusion it felt unsatisfactory, in the way that Toy Story 3 wasn’t, and it
felt unnecessary. It didn’t seem to add anything to the overall story of the
characters and was just emphasising that everyone needs to move on, a point TS3
made more than sufficiently. The fact that the outtakes provided more amusement
to the child watching this than the film as a whole is usually quite a damning
situation, so read into that what you will.
Adult score: 3/5
Child score: 5/5
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