How ToyStory4 says goodbye (again)
, nine years later, is still one of the more emotionally devastating sections of Pixar’s filmography. Even before a teenaged version of the little boy Andy, who once played with toys like Sheriff Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and Jessie the cowgirl, hands off those same toys to a little girl, the toys are placed in a literally
. The characters, by the end of the film, have cheated death and been able to tell the tale. The definitive-seeming ending ofwas announced. How could this movie improve upon what felt like the equivalent of a massive book being closed for good?: instead of being quite the same kind of ensemble piece, the film focuses on letting go and moving on in the form of Sheriff Woody himself.
Once Woody encounters his long-lost love Bo Peep during a road trip, he’s given an obvious option that seems existentially terrifying: be a toy without an owner. There’s a debate throughout of whether or not Bo Peep is a “lost toy” , when the truth is clearer. Even if he’s not physically lost, Woody is adrift emotionally.
“She’ll be OK,” Buzz Lightyear tells Woody, who initially says goodbye to his old girlfriend to head back with the larger group. “will be OK,” Buzz then emphasizes, making it clear that both of the longtime friends understand where Woody is wanted most, and where Woody wants to be most. And so, in place of the extremities of the heartbreaking finale of, this fourth entry gives us a more tender and bittersweet farewell.
So when Buzz essentially acknowledges the obvious, it frees Woody to be happy once more. The fond farewell he gives to all of the other toys, culminating with an embrace with Buzz, is this film’s emotional gut-punch, without being quite as devastating as prior scenes in Pixar history.
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