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Toy Story 2 (1999)

November. 24,1999
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7.9
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G
| Animation Comedy Family
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Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong.

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PlatinumRead
1999/11/24

Just so...so bad

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Pluskylang
1999/11/25

Great Film overall

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RipDelight
1999/11/26

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

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Philippa
1999/11/27

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Ramneek Suri
1999/11/28

Deeper and darker (relatively speaking ) than Toy Story this sequel improves on an already fine film. Going places where no Disney film has gone before it is filled with a rare melancholy. The emotion never feels forced. The voice work is great, the animation crisp and the jokes even out the darker material. It wins my vote as the best of the toy story trilogy.Possibly the best Pixar movie ever.10/10

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Jesper Brun
1999/11/29

My headline sum up the most admirable thing about Toy Story. Pixar had enough respect towards their 1995 mega hit to put effort into making a spectacular sequel. Woody is faced with hard choices here about himself being a collector's item and therefore immediately desired by the toy enthusiast Al who brings him to his own place with lots of merchandise. One of them is a TV-show with co-puppets a cowgirl named Jessie, a horse named Bull's Eye and a prospector named Stinky Pete.Jessie is a really well made character with an emotional back-story which always makes me cry a little. The song "When She Loved Me" is a perfect song illustrating her emotional scars. That song easily ranks among Randy Newman's best. Every conflict faced in this movie is perfect. When you find yourself torn between both choices, you know it is great. Woody wants to stay with his newly acquired fame and free his new friends from being left as an incomplete collection, but also to go back to Andy. There are also a lot of great laughs. Lots of jokes about other toys and the situations they find themselves in. I could go on for ever about how much I like Toy Story 2. Go see it if you haven't and do your kids a favor and show all Toy Story movies to them.

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zkonedog
1999/11/30

After the first Toy Story film (released in 1995) wowed audiences, the public clamored (despite the Pixar policy of not making animated films into sequel franchises) for an encore. Thus, in 1999, Toy Story 2 was released and, remarkably, surpassed even the highest of expectations, besting the original (no small feat).For a basic plot summary, this film sees Sheriff Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) get "kidnapped" by a money-hungry toy collector, who needs the Woody doll to complete the now-infamous set from the classic "Woody's Roundup" TV show (the origins of the Woody doll). With Andy away at cowboy camp, Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and the rest of the toybox gang plot and execute a rescue mission. Little do they know, though, that Woody, upon meeting the rest of his gang-- Stinky Pete (Kelsey Grammar), horse Bullseye, and Jessie the Cowgirl (Joan Cusack)--forms a bond that may lead him to spend the rest of his shelf-life inside a museum.What really makes this film work is that the writers/producers made the brilliant decision to include Woody's backstory into the movie, as it would have been very easy to focus (once again) on Buzz and have the cowboy play second-fiddle. Instead, the story actually hones in on Woody and the big decisions he must make. Of course, the entire film is also filled with hilarious sight gags, situations, and jokes that both children and adults will enjoy with equal enthusiasm. In terms of both humor and storytelling, this effort eclipses the original by quite a wide margin.Plus, the addition of the Bullseye and Jessie characters are welcome (and vital) new additions to the show, as their presence leads to some pretty tense emotional drama. In a music-video montage involving the girl Jessie doll, you may find yourself holding back (or letting go) tears. The best part of it is, you won't even feel as if you are watching nothing but a bunch of carefully constructed pixels...you will come to view them as characters as real as you or I.Thus, in a remarkable feat, Pixar was able to improve on the ground-breaking original Toy Story and take things up even another notch. As Toy Story 3 currently begins playing in theatres across the country, it will be interesting to see if the ante will be upped once again. As usual, it will be a difficult task.

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PetarDuric
1999/12/01

New adventures by Woody and his friends have come and they were almost as entertaining as the first one. Plot of the second movie is also very entertaining from Woody's kidnap to rescue mission led by Buzz and then confronting another Buzz that was more advanced. In the meantime Woody encountered a Jessie and Stinky Pete that are also cowboy toys. After Woody's arm was fixed he want's to return to Andy but then had a doubt that changed his mind and left him determined to leave with Jessie. Then Buzz and company arrived and persuaded Woody to return but Pete trapped them and they were leaving. In their search for them at airport Woody and Jessie end up on plane but were rescued by Buzz and happily returned to Andy. Movie is a very interesting, with many twists that are often dramatic and leave you in suspense. It has a great story behind it self and is very enjoyable. Sometimes in couple of scenes things are too dramatic and seem stupid, for instance when Woody's horse is running fast as airplane. 3.5/4

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