Toy Story

Toy Story Movie Details:

Toy Story Movie Voice Cast & Characters:

• Tom Hanks as Woody, a pullstring cowboy doll who is Andy’s favorite toy.
• Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, a Space Ranger action figure, Andy’s second favorite toy, and Woody’s rival, who later becomes his best friend.
• Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head, a cynical potato-shaped doll with put-together pieces on his body.
• Jim Varney as Slinky Dog, a dachshund slinky toy and Woody’s second-in-command.
• Wallace Shawn as Rex, a nervous green Tyrannosaurus figurine.
• John Ratzenberger as Hamm, a smart-talking piggy bank.
• Annie Potts as Bo Peep, a porcelain shepherdess doll and Woody’s love interest.
• John Morris as Andy Davis, the toys’ owner.
• Erik von Detten as Sid Phillips, Andy’s next-door neighbor and bully, who destroys toys for fun.
• Laurie Metcalf as Mrs. Davis, Andy and Molly’s single mother.
• R. Lee Ermey as Sergeant, the leader of a large troop of plastic green army men.
• Jeff Pidgeon as Aliens, crane game toys at Pizza Planet.
• Sarah Freeman as Hannah Phillips, Sid’s friendly younger sister.
• Penn Jillette as the Buzz Lightyear TV commercial announcer.
• Mickie McGowan as Mrs. Phillips, the unseen mother of Sid and Hannah.

Storyline:

Woody, a good-hearted cowboy doll who belongs to a young boy named Andy. Woody’s position as Andy’s favorite toy is threatened when Andy’s parents buy him a Buzz Lightyear action figure. To make matters worse, the arrogant Buzz believes he is a real spaceman on a mission to return to his home planet. As Andy’s family prepares to move to a new house, Woody and Buzz must work together to escape the clutches of their maladjusted neighbor Sid Phillips, and reunite with their beloved owner, Andy.

About Toy Story Movie:

Toy Story is an American animated adventure comedy film directed by John Lasseter, based on a story by Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, and Joe Ranft. It is the first installment in the franchise of the same name and was the first entirely computer-animated feature film, as well as the first feature film from Pixar.

Produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, John Ratzenberger, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, and Jim Varney.

Following the success of the 1988 short film Tin Toy, Pixar was approached by Disney to produce a computer-animated feature from a toy’s perspective. Lasseter, Stanton, and Docter’s initial story treatments were rejected by Disney for not being “edgy” enough. After several unsuccessful story reels, production was halted and the script was rewritten to emphasize that toys deeply desire to be played with by children. Pixar, then a small studio with limited finances, produced “Toy Story” under these constraints. The film required 800,000 machine hours and 114,240 animation frames in total.

Toy Story premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on November 19, 1995, and was released in theaters in North America on November 22 of that year. The film received critical acclaim, with praise directed towards the technical innovation of the animation, script, Randy Newman’s score, appeal to all age groups, and voice performances.

The film was the highest-grossing film during its opening weekend, eventually grossing over $373 million worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film of 1995.

The film received three Academy Award nominations—Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Song for “You’ve Got a Friend in Me”, and Best Original Score—in addition to being honored with a non-competitive Special Achievement Academy Award. This was the first animated film in Oscar history to be nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award.

This was the third Disney film to earn an Oscar. The first two being Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

The success of Toy Story launched a multimedia franchise, including three sequels—beginning with Toy Story 2 (1999) and a planned fourth sequel—a spin-off film Lightyear (2022), and numerous short films.

Before the film’s release, executive producer and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs stated, “If Toy Story is a modest hit—say $75 million at the box office, we’ll (Pixar and Disney) both break even. If it gets $100 million, we’ll both make money. But if it’s a real blockbuster and earns $200 million or so at the box office, we’ll make good money, and Disney will make a lot of money.”

Upon its release on November 22, 1995, Toy Story managed to gross more than $350 million worldwide. Disney chairman Michael Eisner stated, “I don’t think either side thought Toy Story would turn out as well as it has. The technology is brilliant, the casting is inspired, and I think the story will touch a nerve. Believe me, when we first agreed to work together, we never thought their first movie would be our 1995 holiday feature, or that they could go public on the strength of it.”

In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #99 Greatest Movie of All Time. It was the first inclusion of this film on the list.

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