‘Toy Story 5’ Needs to Be About Extra Than Simply Tech Nervousness

Disney lately launched the primary teaser to Toy Story 5, and the brand new movie will see Buzz, Woody, and everybody else go up in opposition to… expertise?

Yep, the newest entry within the collection has the toys deal with a now 8-year-old Bonnie, who turns into enamored with a frog-looking pill named Lilypad. As a substitute of being a conflict in opposition to expertise in our each day lives that we usually get in films, director Andrew Stanton stated Pixar is aiming for one thing a bit extra nuanced. “We will’t simply get away with making tech the villain. It’s concerning the realization of an existential drawback,” he informed Empire. “No person’s actually enjoying with toys anymore.”

Stanton’s not flawed there, since there’s an entire era of children for whom a “toy” is principally their cellphone, the place they will do every part, from watching TV to hanging with their associates. As such, the studio “can’t simply get away with making tech the villain. Know-how has modified all people’s lives, however we’re asking what which means for us—and to our youngsters,” because the director notes. To additional assist discover these themes, the movie may also embrace a legion of Buzz Lightyear toys dubbed the Multi-Buzzes, who, after gaining sentience, begin to query issues and trigger bother for the opposite toys.

In line with its trailer metrics, audiences certain appear to be excited for Toy Story 5 and its “toys meet tech” story. Regardless of Toy Story 4 initially seeming just like the final one, Stanton indicated the collection can all the time be round because of its capacity to “embrace time and alter” in a manner Pixar’s different franchises can’t.

“There’s no promise that it stays in amber,” he stated. “[Toy Story 3] was the top of the Andy years, however no person’s being robbed of their trilogy. They will have that and by no means watch one other in the event that they don’t wish to.”

Toy Story 5 releases June 19, 2026, in theaters.

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