If, like me, you are someone who grew up with Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, the animated series, then this movie doesn't hold a candle to that. When I think of Buzz Lightyear I think of that cartoon (aside form the movies obviously). Its colourful, its funny, its bombastic and it fits what you would think would be the story of Buzz taken out of Toy Story, its everything this movie isn't. Which makes the movie hard to get into because of that fact. The show was just far superior, where as this is your slow typical space adventure movie with no flavour or identity.
I do think some of the imagery is very dull, its not typical Pixar, and usually I would be okay with that if it was at least interesting, unfortunately it is not. Speaking of dull even the music and score is kind of forgetful. Which leads me to the characters which I feel no real attachment to, they just feel like they are there for decoration. The Cat which I thought was going to be annoying turned out to be pretty cool. I kind of embraced the interactions between the cat and Buzz.
The story was not very interesting either, very standard typical space venture type of action that we have seen, and the the Zerg arc I did not like how it played out in this movie.
And while I think Chris Evans was a good replacement for Buzz over the replaced Tim Allen, why they did not choose Patrick Warburton I have no idea. I guess they needed a bigger and more current name I guess to sell tickets.
I was thinking that maybe kids will enjoy it but thinking about it again, I feel the movie was very subdued and muted in looks, sounds and story. I am not sure there would be much for kids to grasp. It does have some good one liners and some funny bits but it couldn't hold my attention. Shame really.
I do think some of the imagery is very dull, its not typical Pixar, and usually I would be okay with that if it was at least interesting, unfortunately it is not. Speaking of dull even the music and score is kind of forgetful. Which leads me to the characters which I feel no real attachment to, they just feel like they are there for decoration. The Cat which I thought was going to be annoying turned out to be pretty cool. I kind of embraced the interactions between the cat and Buzz.
The story was not very interesting either, very standard typical space venture type of action that we have seen, and the the Zerg arc I did not like how it played out in this movie.
And while I think Chris Evans was a good replacement for Buzz over the replaced Tim Allen, why they did not choose Patrick Warburton I have no idea. I guess they needed a bigger and more current name I guess to sell tickets.
I was thinking that maybe kids will enjoy it but thinking about it again, I feel the movie was very subdued and muted in looks, sounds and story. I am not sure there would be much for kids to grasp. It does have some good one liners and some funny bits but it couldn't hold my attention. Shame really.