Toy Story 2 [DVD]

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Animated comedy sequel following the adventures of a group of toys who come to life when their owner has left the room. Awards (3rd Annual)". Online Film Critics Society. January 3, 2012. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013 . Retrieved November 23, 2013. McCutcheon, David (January 29, 2010). "Toy Story's Special Edition". IGN. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012 . Retrieved April 22, 2021. the featurettes "Why a Sequel?" (2:38) and "The Continuing World of Toy Story" (4:38), though some footage from these makes it into the new "Making Toy Story 2" featurette

Making Toy Story 2" (8:10) is a new featurette culled entirely from '90s footage, plenty of which appeared in a pair of Ultimate Toy Box featurettes that have been dropped. The bulk of it features interviews with the creative crew. In addition to plenty of film clips, it also provides a glimpse of voice recording sessions. One wishes there was more of that good stuff and some newly-filmed retrospection. But as the brief running time suggests, this is not an all-encompassing making-of piece or satisfying as a document of this stellar sequel's production. At least, though, it does reveal some of the rationale which sparked the movie's creation and drove it to excellence, such as the makers' maximizing of technological advances, respect for the original's quality and world, and retooling of the good ideas they previously had discarded for the first film. a b c d "Toy Story 2 (1999)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on May 4, 2012 . Retrieved August 20, 2016.When Toy Story 2 opens, one can assume that as much time has passed in the movie's world as it did in real life. Andy (voiced by John Davis), the owner of the central toys, is a few years older but still very playful. The same can be said of his toys, when he is not around, at least. The passing of years seems to have mostly calmed the feelings of rivalry among the figures and assorted playthings, especially between Andy's two favorite toys, pull-string cowboy Woody (Tom Hanks) and high-tech space ranger Buzz Lightyear, whose competitive relationship largely drove the first film. Still, the threat of being removed from the comforts of Andy's light blue bedroom definitely looms. It is this very threat, by way of an unexpected yard sale that Andy's mother (Laurie Metcalf), which sets things in motion.

As on the Ultimate Toy Box, two short deleted scenes and a shorter contextual introduction (0:47) by co-director Ash Brannon are included here. With a mix of storyboards and unfinished animation, the first, "Godzilla Rex" (1:28), offers an overly coincidental way to make Woody a part of the yard sale. The second, "Crossing the Road" (1:56), contains mostly finished computer animation, which makes sense since it is much like the dangerous cones-in-traffic scene in the film, only here it is set in the suburbs. Both scenes are presented in non-anamorphic widescreen and two-channel stereo.

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Reviewers judged the film as a sequel that equaled or even surpassed the original in terms of quality. [9] The Hollywood Reporter proclaimed:

A conversation about a sequel to Toy Story began around a month after the film's opening in December 1995. [11] A few days after Toy Story 's release, John Lasseter was traveling with his family and found a young boy clutching a Sheriff Woody doll at an airport. Lasseter described how the boy's excitement to show it to his father touched him deeply. Lasseter realized that his character no longer belonged to him only, but rather it belonged to others, as well. The memory was a defining factor in the production of Toy Story 2, with Lasseter moved to create a great film for that child and for everyone else who loved the characters. [12] Riders in the Sky Music Medley" (3:08) delivers, as promised, a medley of songs featuring the quartet of costumed old cowboys. The act begins with the Riders at what appears to be Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Saloon on a stage designed like the set of the puppet TV show. This makes its theme song (and the group's only tune in the movie) "Woody's Roundup" a perfect place to start. They follow with "Act Naturally" and then, joined by a cowgirl whose boots were made for dancing, sing "Jesse the Yodelin' Cowgirl." After crooning "Hey Howdy Hey", they head outside for their "nighttime at the ranch"-themed finale, a Western-style take on "You've Got a Friend in Me." Conveniently enough, all of these songs emanate from the Riders' 2000 album Woody's Roundup, a fact that does not go unnoticed. Clips from Toy Story 2 are sprinkled throughout the fast-moving, impressively-designed performances. Story contains two brief bonuses. First is a storyboard pitch of "Woody's Nightmare" thrown to the directors and creative crew by Pixar's late story man Joe Ranft. With the "angle" button, you can view this either with the storyboards in a window and Ranft in his audience filling the screen, or simply with Ranft's narration over the screen-filling storyboards. Second, there is a story reel for the "Jessie's Song" sequence, which you also watch in two ways: as a split-screen storyboards-to-film comparison or as simply the storyboards. Either way, you get the final sound mix of the film. Together, with the skippable pre-existing introductions by Ranft and story supervisor Dan Jeup, these two features run 7 minutes.Best Original Song – Motion Picture". Golden Globe Award. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on May 8, 2013 . Retrieved November 23, 2013. Oscar winners in full". BBC. March 27, 2000. Archived from the original on March 29, 2014 . Retrieved March 12, 2009. Lightyear Producer Credited With Saving 'Toy Story 2' After Deletion Newsweek, TAYLOR MCCLOUD, 16 February 2022 Toy Story 2: Special Edition doesn't lose as much as of the Ultimate Toy Box supplements as did the Toy Story: 10th Anniversary Edition, but it also didn't have as much to lose, nor did it gain as much as Toy Story's re-release did. It is worth noting that, as was true of Toy Story 10th, the "Behind the Scenes" section on Disc 2 here abbreviates all galleries or artwork in the process of converting them to auto-playing slideshows. Toy Story, were apparently game for a follow-up. Like the sequels for Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, and The Lion King that had either been released or in the midst of production, Toy Story 2 was intended to debut on VHS with a marketing campaign of something much more significant.