TOY STORY 2 (1999) *** A worthy tribute to animism and pathology and hyperactivity, and all those sensational kid things that we lose too much of along the way. There are so many great production features, Pixar you know, but it could have been fine without any of them, with this plot. I mean, it's not Agatha Christie or Scott Turow complex, which wouldn't have fit. Instead it's this great linear kid thing, you can almost feel the omnipotent directorial child looking around the room for another toy to throw into the narrative. And, you know, it's a smart kid. I mean, I had a lot of cool toys, and wasn't at all above eclectic proceedings involving cowboys and airports and spacemen and horses and the Japanese army and Tonka trucks and giant mutant fish, but...the psychic activism that led to this film was a special event. When it's this wild and kid-like, and also so professional and sleek, it actually matters to have legendary voice talent. Towards that end Tim Allen must be honoured, acknowledged, and thrown into the nearest transdimensional spectrograph, for his studly work as Buzz Lightyear.
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