Googly movie true believers
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(Maybe he’ll be the center of Toy Story 5…) I’d say there aren’t enough of those moments, but better that we’re left wanting more of him rather than him outstaying his welcome. And Keanu Reeves ( Always Be My Maybe, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum) as the voice of Duke Caboom, “Canada’s greatest stuntman” - a sort of down-market Evel Knievel–esque action toy - completely steals every moment he’s onscreen. Jordan Peele ( Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, Little Fockers) and Keegan-Michael Key ( The Predator, The Disaster Artist) are a smart-alecky duo of stuffed toys, Bunny and Ducky, with delusions of… well, you’ll see. Gabby Gabby (the voice of Christina Hendricks: Bad Santa 2, Zoolander 2), a Chatty Cathy–type talking doll, and her gang of ventriloquist dummy enforcers are a hoot. I was on the verge of feeling just a bit let down by the samey sameness of TS4, but some very clever new toy characters with diverse neuroses that are uniquely toyish and simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious got me back fully onboard. Instead, it is Woody’s latest emotional crisis that (once again) takes center stage, as his unexpected re-encounter with former ladylove Bo Peep (the voice of Annie Potts: Ghostbusters) while on a mission to rescue Forky - who of course almost immediately gets lost - for Bonnie’s benefit makes him question his own priorities about loyalty to his kid and to the other toys. There is room for some profound existential horror in Forky’s animation and subsequent consciousness, though the movie dances around it. If a child’s love - and Bonnie absolutely adores Forky - can animate an inanimate object, is there anything that cannot be brought to life in such a way? (Oh dear: I may have just stumbled across the plot of Toy Story 5.)
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Forky raises many philosophical questions, one quite literally, as when he asks Woody, “Why am I alive?” It’s another riff on the initial relationship between Woody and Buzz (the voice of Tim Allen: Wild Hogs, Christmas with the Kranks) from the very first movie, when Woody had to explain to Buzz how being loved by a child gave them purpose… but Buzz was already alive even before he was loved (as we’ve seen with other toys throughout the series, as with ones still in their boxes in a toy store, not yet owned by anyone). On her first scary day of school, she makes a little plastic person out of a spork, a pipe cleaner, and a couple of googly eyes, and Forky (the voice of Tony Hale: Sadie, Love, Simon) is born. After the events of TS3, Woody (the voice of Tom Hanks: The Post, Inferno) and the rest now belong to little Bonnie (the voice of Madeleine McGraw: Pacific Rim: Uprising, Cars 3), who is just about to go off to kindergarten, and isn’t happy about it.