

This sends him into a panic spiral as he grasps for anything that will make him essential to Bonnie’s life. “Remember house,” a forlorn chair (Carol Burnett) says wistfully, as they all notice Woody has picked up his first dust bunny. At playtime she prefers Jessie and often leaves Woody in the closet with the rest of the toys she’s outgrown. A flashback tells us what happened to Bo Peep (Annie Potts) all those years ago, and reminds us where we left off: With Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan Cusack) and the rest of the toys being passed on to a new kid, Bonnie, as their beloved Andy heads off to college.īut it turns out Andy’s talk with Bonnie about his favorite toy Woody didn’t have much of an impact on the fickle 5-year-old. None of that disorder is apparent on the screen, however. Eventually the project was handed over to animator, sometimes voice actor and first time feature director Josh Cooley to bring it home.

Ousted Pixar head John Lasseter, who directed the first two, was supposed to direct and the screenplay switched hands three years into development (which helps explain why eight writers get “story by” credits). It took a herculean effort behind the scenes to get here too, nine years after “Toy Story 3” left many of us sobbing in our seats.
