Charlie and Harriet’s chemistry is challenged because their happy scenes are montages rather than revealing conversations.
Charlie is condemned as an underdeveloped character with no evident employment despite a streaming description calling him a bookstore owner.
Travis’s characters are said to choose unusually poor partners across Internal Affairs, this film, The Vanishing, Becker, the Tim Allen show and Greedy.
Matthew Lawrence of Boy Meets World is praised but not nominated as the favorite Lawrence brother; Jonathan Taylor Thomas is proposed over Tim Allen as the Home Improvement pick for the movie.
Mara Wilson, who was in a Ringer Films documentary (transcribed 'ShowBiscuits'), won the little girl's role over Blake Lively; she is called electric, with the line reading of the decade.
It was the first animated movie nominated for Best Original Screenplay, prompting an "Eat shit, Chris Ryan" joke.
Sid Phillips is said to be inspired by a former Pixar employee with the same last name who took apart toys to build bizarre creations.
Hanks recorded during breaks of Sleepless in Seattle and A League of Their Own but not Philadelphia or Forrest Gump, avoiding comedy amid serious roles.
Sid's carpet shares the Overlook Hotel's hexagonal pattern from The Shining.
Hasbro refused the G.I. Joe name for a toy Sid blows up, so it became Combat Carl; the toolbox trapping Woody is a Binford, as on Tim Allen's sitcom.
Toy Story employed 110 people in full production versus 800 for The Lion King.
Disney pushed for a musical; Lasseter wanted a buddy comedy, and the compromise was songs at key moments not sung by characters; Pixar's first musical came with Coco 22 years later.
The shark's "Look, I'm Woody. Howdy, howdy" references a Far Side strip with a cowboy-eating vulture.
An early possible title was You Are a Toy, and Buzz was originally Lunar Larry; he is named after Buzz Aldrin.
The Luxo Jr. lamp that became Pixar's logo sits on Andy's desk.
The internet is full of such trivia; a Harry and the Hendersons homage in the fourth minute is thrown out loosely.
Bruce Willis gets a thumbs up with doubts, and his Look Who's Talking voice work is praised.
Tim Allen has said Pixar wanted Jim Carrey for Buzz and Paul Newman for Woody but could not afford them, meant to reflect new Hollywood taking over old; Newman later voiced Doc Hudson in Cars.
Hanks and Allen as generational peers, a movie pillar and a TV star, is preferred; Newman fits better as Doc.
Newman is the only name that could have replaced Hanks, because Woody needs a peach-soft voice; several actors, such as Robert Redford or Denzel Washington, could have played Buzz.
Rick Moranis was reportedly approached for Rex, which would have been great.
An online claim of Jeremy Irons as Mr. Potato Head is raised but unconfirmed.
The movie is short and plays more like three big acts, so it is hard to chop into scenes; the toys coming to life after Andy leaves is the first nomination.
The toys' first meeting during Andy's birthday party is called a masterclass: they function as a family, spy on the gift giving, and live with joy alongside the dread of being replaced, like a fable.
Asked for additions, the reply is that she hit it all. — Shea Serrano
Woody and Buzz's showdown at the gas station is nominated for the "You are a toy" exchange, a funny scene that also raises questions of identity.
A favorite beat is Buzz's space speech under the car answered by Woody's "What?", read as a riff on the Death Star's fatal flaw.
"You're a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity" is called the best line in the movie, with a great Tim Allen line reading.
Woody accidentally hitting Buzz's button mid-fight was the funniest thing in the world when first seen in a theater.
The claw at Pizza Planet and the Little Green Men are cited as iconic.
Sid's house and its misfit toys are a major homage to Browning's 1932 film Freaks; Pixar is described as creative and consistent yet deeply indebted to older movies, including Spielberg and Lucas.
The Mrs. Nesbitt bit is a favorite.
The race to catch the moving truck is nominated; the filmmakers reportedly said it was inspired by The Wrong Trousers.
Buzz's arrival, with Woody knocked off his perch and the laser-beam introduction, crystallizes how the toys' ecosystem works.
The Sid sequences are the least favorite to revisit, though Sid's introduction ("You mean that happy child?") is funny and shows that Buzz is not the villain.
Buzz learning he is a toy, from his commercial to the failed flight set to "I Will Go Sailing No More", is called crushing and compared to Luke at the binary sunset.
The opening montage with Randy Newman singing is the most enjoyable part on a rewatch, compared to Anton Ego tasting the food in Ratatouille. — Shea Serrano
A son's favorite scene was the toys scaring Sid, who deserved it; Mr. Potato Head is noted as horny and jealous of Woody and Bo Peep.
Buzz realizing he's a toy is picked over the opening because of its themes of growth, choice, identity, purpose and friendship.
The pick is Woody and Buzz's showdown stuck at the gas station because it gets the most laughs. — Sean Fennessey
