Toy Story Reviews

To an entire generation of filmgoers, it just might represent the most significant leap in storytelling that they will ever see...

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

The great voice acting, the visual puns, all added up to an animation game changer.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

| Original Score: 4/5

The result is a visionary roller-coaster ride of a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The one big negative about Toy Story involves Disney's overcommercialization.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

It is the unpretentious imagination and energy of the people behind the story and the outstanding vocal performances that make the movie an instant classic.

| Original Score: 5/5

Pixar classic is one of the best kids' movies of all time.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

As such Toy Story in 3D is never overwhelming. Nor is it tedious, as many recent 3D vehicles have come too close for comfort to.

| Original Score: 5/5

You wanna know what real "movie magic" looks like? Rent yourself the entire Pixar collection and try not to spend the next eight hours grinning from ear to ear.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

The two films and the 10-minute intermission run just over 3 hours, bit much for the little ones who find sitting still that long agonizing.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

A magnificent film, created with a then unproven playful spirit that merges broad cartoon antics with an endearing eye toward nostalgia -- the heartbreaking years when wonder turns to knowledge and maturation.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Thanks to Pixar's inherent wit, story sense and unerring ear for voice casting, its original charm and delight are intact.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Pixar has made a charming movie carrying their current plot concepts and animation techniques to what appears to be about the limit. Toy Story is a lot of fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Time has been kind to it, and future years I imagine will still be kind; a classic is forever.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

An entertaining computer-generated, hyperrealist animation feature (1995) that's also in effect a toy catalog.

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Remains a groundbreaking work in the field of animation, and is still a wonderfully entertaining film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Like the transcendent long shot of Buzz and Woody soaring as one, Toy Story does the impossible in casting us up.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The wizards at Pixar and Disney have created a film that is unlikely to be forgotten in the next few years.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Turns out the real magic is nothing to do with technology: it's in the words, the voices, the story. But then, a child could have told you that.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

So ingenious in concept, design and execution that you could watch it on a postage stamp-sized screen and still be engulfed by its charm.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5