Let's be real here. If Andy actually HAD seen this movie in 1995, there's no way he would've wanted a toy based on Buzz. He absolutely would've wanted a toy Socks, instead. Everything about Socks the cat screams "made to be sold as merchandise".

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command will forever be the true Buzz Lightyear canon.

The irony is Buzz Lightyear of Star Command had the same theme of Buzz needing to learn to have friends and work with people, but it was handled much more logically. Buzz Lightyear had a partner he was close to, his friend was seemingly killed, and due to the grief of losing his close friend, he becomes sullen and wanting to work alone. And the rest of the supporting characters are there to help him learn how to work with a partner again. And that was just a quick, direct to DVD kids show that Pixar themselves didn't even care for, yet they did a worse job of the same basic concept. It's sad.

I love how they ignored the fact that Zurg is Buzz's father

Just confirming the fact that the movie studios would rather leech off nostalgia instead of concentrating on a actual good and cohesive story.

What's even more hilarious is their pitiful attempts to fit this movie into the Toy Story lore. Basically, they say that this movie came out in 1985, flopped, got sold and remade into Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, and Andy found the original movie on a VHS tape. So basically, there's no reason for this movie to exist, both in cannon and irl.

I married the love of my life in 2002. Between 2004 and 2006 we had 3 miscarriages. Watching the movie "Up" with my wife in 2009 was quite emotional. In 2016 my wife died from breast cancer. The first 10 minutes of "Up" is the most relatable material that has ever come out of Hollywood.

What annoys me about this movie is it's supposed to be a movie tie-in showing that this is why Andy wanted a Buzz Lightyear for his birthday. 1) he looks nothing like that Buzz Lightyear 2) Zurg looks nothing like that Zurg 3) we already had that with Buzz Lightyear: Star Command, a Saturday morning cartoon from the 90s that works perfectly as a tie-in that would make Andy say "I want that toy!"

A kids movie with a lesbian kiss in the 90s… yeah that makes sense.

Pretty sure Buzz Lightyear of Star Command was already declared the canon upon which Andy's toy was based Well, it wouldn't be the first time Disney decanonized a beloved expanded universe to create something inferior

"Not terrible, but also not memorable" is how most of Disney's work can be described these days.

Having Zurg turn out to be a different timeline Buzz is a plot hole as it was explained in Toy Story 2 that Zurg is Buzz's father. How did they screw that up?

Movies that have a message about trust and friendship would be more impactful if they didn't also portray the MC's companions as incompetent liabilities.

They keep making new ways to celebrate mediocrity! -Robert Parr

I don't know which is more unbelievable: that they supposedly made a live-action scifi special effects powerhouse _in 1995_ that would have made ILM puke in trepidation, if it was technically possible to film at all, or that they made such a film, and did a big marketing/merchandising push to kids...with an interracial, married lesbian couple and their child as main characters, fleeting and low-key as they were, in 1995. I mean, remember when Ellen came out on her show? I do. That was in 1997. That was tame as tapioca, and they STILL had to negotiate with the network to do it AND put a disclaimer in front of the episodes from then on! Hell, you know what would have been a better framing device? It starts with grown-up Andy going to the movies, possibly with a kid of his own, to see the fancy new reboot of the cartoon/movie he loved as a boy. Boom, done. It's barely even a framing device, it's basically _actually what happened in real life._

I saw an article about how this movie was getting review bombed because of the "same sex" scene, but before that I had watched two reviews that outlined how mediocre this movie was and neither of them even mentioned that scene.

I can't imagine Andy watching this movie and think Buzz is so cool to want a toy of him. AND considering the implied live-action effects and the gay kiss, I can't imagine this being made in 1995. It's almost like this movie was made to standalone with no connection to the Toy Story universe, but Disney can't help themselves. They have this "memberberry" tick that they just can't ignore and have to go 'MEMBER TOY STORY?!!! 'MEMBER ANDY?!!!

This spinoff is more questionable than why the goblin turned on the stove

If you told me to come up with a Buzz Lightyear movie about the real Buzz Lightyear, I wouldn't even begin to imagine this movie. He's descriped as "The world's greatest super hero is now the world greatest toy!" and in his game in the 2nd movie he's by him self breaking into Zurg's secret base. From this, I'd assume he's more like Samus, doing missions by him self in super dangerous places. I don't imagine psudo time skipping and the dread of realizing the month you felt has really been 40 years and now your wife is dead, your kids are adults, and they're the same age as you now, or something of a like kind. I call bull, Andy wouldn't have liked this movie.

This movie is less like the one Andy saw as a kid that got him to buy the toys and more like the bad reboot that Andy gets called "ist" and "phobe" for not liking.

Toy Story 2 is better in the way it handled Buzz Lightyear heck gave Zurg an actual characterization.

Why would anyone watch this when the original Star Command movie exists?

Here's what I find interesting: This sci-fi movie supposedly made in the 90's has no real aliens in it. The only sentient beings are the humans. The marketing for this movie was Buzz Lightyear (for nostalgia bait) and a gay kiss. I get the impression that Disney thinks the only "alien" thing they think their audience can handle is homosexual relationships. Not a good look, Disney.

What I find hard to believe is that this is supposed to be a movie made in the mid 90s even though it’s made with current ideals and standards, I just guess the movie was very progressive for its time

I loved it when Buzzlightyear said "Its Buzzin time" and buzzed all of the aliens

I feel like the theme could have been reinforced more if we were actually shown moments where Buzz’s refusal to let others help caused problems. Every time something bad happens, it’s because someone else screws up; it’s no wonder he wants to handle it alone! Why don’t they show us that he needs help, rather than just telling us? Why does Mo have to be the one to constantly interrupt the plot by being inept? Why did the goblin turn on the stove?

They should have leaned into the 90’s angle and made it a schlocky action movie with heart. That would have been such a fun movie. I would have made it trying to capture the vibe of movies like Batman Forever and Timecop, complete with overacting and fun, colorful action scenes.

1. This is definitely not the movie Andy saw, and not only for there being lesbians in a 90's kid movie. This story makes Buzz much less heroic, it's a story of introspection and guilt, stuff I like on it's own, but it wouldn't have inspired the same cheering of "Take that Zurg!" when he played with the toy in his birthday party. If he managed to understand everything at his age, that the hero and the villain were the same person, he would have realized that there was nothing to cheer for in this tragedy. The only reason they added that disclaimer was to retroactively say Andy was a good kid for liking a movie with LBGT content in it, which leads me to: 2. The lesbians were the main focus, even if it was only 2 seconds of visual confirmation. Be it that they decided from the beginning to leave it there or that it was a PR reaction to their support of "Don't say gay" bill, they were so obsessed with making the movie adult in the hopes that the "pixar heartwrench" would validate the lesbians. That lead to it's identity crisis, not even The Phantom Menace struggled that hard between balancing stuff for kids and veteran fans.

If this is supposed to be a kids' movie from 1995, there's no way there would have been pregnant lesbians in it.

Bruh Andy comes up with better stories playing with his toys than the professional movie makers within the toy story universe

This sounds like the complete opposite of what an 8 year old in 1995 would like

I read the plotline on Wikipedia and figure that only two things really killed this movie. Immediately playing victim, but most of all; having a boring plot and a really stupid twist for the villain. the cartoon had a far more fleshed out Buzz who at first didn't want partners and had an actual reason behind that.

Always nice to see my favorite alcoholic animated opossum! 🤠

"I have no way of writing high-stake situations properly except turning every character into a klutz" The Movie.

I love that the garbage has steadily gone from old DVD releases to mainstream current theatrical releases.

"And then Zurg's chest opens up, revealing that he's actually a robotic suit piloted by Buzz himself, only it's an alternate timeline Buzz who's fifty or sixty years old." Did they hire someone off of fucking WattPad to write this?

All I need is more than a Light Beer to get through this movie

Fun fact: Disney apparently removed the kiss originally, but added it back in when Florida passed the parental rights in education bill

Considering Pixar has admitted the kiss was shoehorned into the movie exclusively to check their social justice box, it's no wonder the rest of the movie suffered because that's all these types care about now.

What's funny is that the animated film Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is actually more diverse than Lightyear. Rather than a boring cast consisting of humans who are 90% people of color, there's a whole plethora of alien species who come in all sorts of colors, shapes, and sizes. A ghost princess, a robot, and a big red dinosaur are far more fitting as Buzz's allies.

2:00 the fact that this movie was made in 1995 makes that gay kiss scene even more out of place. No kids movie from the 90s would have an openly gay character in it and if it did Andy would probably get made fun of for liking it. Im not saying its right im saying thats how it would have been back then.

I'm still just having a hard time believing that the spinoff movie about the fake backstory of a cartoon toy didn't do well.

as a kid that grew up whit insane anxiety i will say that this movie touches on some weird points for a kids show, the whole time skipping and friends dying thing is insane to just drop unsupervised on a kids movie.

If I'm being honest Pixar really hasn't had a compelling movie in a LONG time. At this point I think the only reason they are still relevant is because they are one of the few animated film studios still running so they don't need to set a high bar

This movie's plot sounds like the setup to a city builder, or a 4X game. One of the factions in Endless Legend has a similar objective

I watched the Defunctland on Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, and I think it's safe to say it's probably better than this.

Hawthorn should have been Buzzes' wife. They could have wanted to start a family together but because Buzz is so dedicated to getting home with time jumps, he eventually has to face her being gone. Now this wouldn't work coming back to planet multiple times, but if he had done a test that was much longer than he initially did, he would face a lot more impact. I think an actual screenwriter would do this better, but that's my pitch

ok... let me get this straight, so following thier logic of timetravel, theres a 70 year old buzz that wanted to undo everything, but theres a past self trying to stop that from happening to prevent the current timeline, because if it was undone this timeline wouldnt exsist, which mean there can only be one timeline, which means the only explanation for future buzz is that he will eventually become the villain. but that cant be true because buzz would know nearly everything that wouldve happened, so that must mean hes from an alternate reality and alternate realities are possible and the movie made a bullcrap excuse for conflict... good fricken job i guess... you really shouldve kept the idea of toy story 2 and made zorg his father... there wouldve been a lot of ways to make it a twist even with the audience who watched toy story 2

I think this movie tried to be Buzz Lightyear os Star Comand but failed miserably in the series you have a Buzz that had a partner and died, he got stuck with rookies and got mad at them for being unprofessional, it was great character conflict in the movie is... I don't want a partner but thanks though :D very polite, no conflict, what's the point?

Why are companies like Disney entrusted with making our entertainment when they have proven over and over again that they have no idea what they’re doing?

This should've been some kind of nostalgia trip made to look like an actual kids movie from the 90s. There's so much that could've been done creatively I think.

A cynical part of me wonders if the lesbian kiss (aka a very quick peck on the lips) was an effort to pre-emptively protect the film from criticism. This seems to happen a lot when a production company realises they've got a week product (*cough* Kenobi *cough*).

Yay, a possum video always makes my day

What a good way to end off my Friday with a Possum Review

What annoys me so much is how Disney can say it is all for same sex marriage but then turn around and force owl house to end in three episodes.

Sounds like plenty of things happen and places to go, because story needs them to happen. Also, Moe's arc seems suspiciously close the inanimate carbon rod from The Simpsons' "Homer Goes To Space" episode.

Hey Possum, if you were allowed to make 1 suggestion to add to the film? I'd say that Zerg should have been someone else.

Fun fact: it’s the first Pixar movie in a hot minute that had and ACTUAL ANTAGONIST

Lightyear should have been inspired by old 50s pulps, like Dan Dare, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. Instead of that, they tried to ape Interstellar and failed miserably. The old "Star Command" cartoon wasn't perfect but it handled the concept WAY better than this thing. Also, SPOILER making Zurg and Buzz the same person because of time travel shenanigans is the WORST IDEA EVER. Zurg is supposed to be an alien evil emperor. In this movie he's not alien, he's not evil and he's not an emperor. He's not even a character, but an empty suit. So, in short: I'm heartbroken with how the movie turned out.

Dude I love how blunt and straightforward you are. Mad respect, this channel rules . We need more like this in this era of fake outrage and sensitivity

He really takes the words out of my mouth every time 💀

INB4 the mouse assassinates him.

"It could of been written out of the movie and it wouldn't of made any difference" That's their plan for the Chinese release.

11:51 - The jetpack was obviously part of the ejector system. Imagine you ejected out into space to avoid a crash. You'd just be drifting off in the direction you ejected in, that's no help at all. The jetpack is obviously there to help you fly to safety, and the wings are for when you're ejecting in an atmosphere.

Honestly the Zurg villan twist was the thing that really brought it down for me....If he was literally any other character like Buzz's farther or the Rookie from the beginning it would have been find and made sence if done right

You know what would've worked better? The original Buzz Lightyear movie. Outside of that, why not make Buzz an orphan and have Star Command be an intergalactic police force with humans being a recent addition to the Galactic Alliance, and Buzz being a young recruit. He's shown to have top marks but has issues with teamwork and facilitating hard decisions, showcased when he hesitated shooting a practice drone holding a fake child hostage or attempting to negotiate with it. Even have his lone-fighter mindset reinforced not only by having him pursue a criminal (revealed to be an informant of Zurg) alone, abandoning his teammates prior, but have him physically retaliate against a snide comment by an alien partner directed at Buzz because he's human. Yes, I'm taking a lot from Mass Effect, but bear with me. After capturing the criminal, Buzz interrogates him.and we see a bolt on his hand with Zurg's Emblem on the head. After stating "Zurg is coming" he slams the bolt on the back of his hand hard into the chair, causing him to atomize in a bright explosion. All the while, a broadcast on TV shows an alien planet explode at the exact same time, and Buzz catches sight of it when it shifts to Zurg in a dark silhouette, announcing that he will "destroy those who have ripped scars across the stars; who stain the black void red. Know that I am Emperor Zurg, and I will reep this galaxy." Have Buzz and his team (maybe including Warp Darkmatter from the first movie, and have him act all buddy-buddy with Buzz up until the second-to-last segment of the second act and revealed to be Zurg's right hand man) lay siege to a stronghold with Zurg in it, and have Zurg take out Buzz's team quickly, but noticeably ignore Buzz. Then Buzz attacks him head-on, and Zurg grabs his helmet, lifting him up. Zurg would say "So this is the great Buzz Lightyear, Star Command's star recruit. It truly has been too long since we've last met." And then throw him back into a room far away from the door they were both at. After the second act, not only reveal that Warp is a double agent, but have Warp say "After what the Axiom Collective have done, I thought you'd be on his side." Buzz says "What about the Axiom? How does that affect me?" Then have Zurg walk in, saying "Everything." He then goes on a long speech Talking about how the races in the Axiom Collective have wrought Hell on the races in the new and fairly strong Zurg Empire, citing that the affected planets have banded together in a new Empire under a ruler that already took out 5 stronghold worlds alone. It's then revealed that Zurg was affected when he says "Even my world of Morph in Quadrant 9 was not safe." It's then that Buzz says "Morph? What do you know about Morph? It was destroyed by an ancient war machine malfunctioning. I would know; they found me in the rubble." Zurg removes his helmet saying "I know, I hid you there," revealing himself to be (DUN DUN DUNN) Buzz Lightyear's father. It turns out Zurg was taken as a slave by the Axiom Collective and put Buzz in a hypersleep capsule in a blastproof vault, but was taken before he could activate the Star Command marker so they could find him. Even showing that most of his body is mechanical, a result of him replacing his broken body with a modified battle suit meant for Axiom soldiers and advanced prosthetic limbs. Buzz at some point breaks out and swears to stop him. Zurg, outraged and confused as to how his own son could turn against him, attempts to stop him from destroying the ship core of the Entropitus, Zurg's flagship and lead battleship. The ending would be fairly rote material: Buzz stops Zurg, Buzz's team saves him, big ship go boom, and have a big celebration where Buzz celebrates what momentary peace he has. Then an after-credits showing Other Zurg races retrieving Warp and Zurg from sealed escape pods.

Always good to see yet another childhood icon drowned in the bottomless sea of mediocrity

If this movie is a movie in the ToyStory universe, this mean that (if we assume that ToyStory happens in 1990-200x) this movie is supposed to be created around 2000. I'm not homophobic but i'm pretty sure we weren't too happy about showing LGBT stuff in kids movies in 2000 (especially if we are talking about Disney) so it makes it kinda unrealistic in a way. Then again we could imagine that the ToyStory universe is devoid of discrimination.

“Critics are buzzing about the new Lightyear movie!” 😑

How Pixar managed to make a movie about something as cool as futuristic space soldiers and interstellar travel this boring and forgettable is beyond me. Don’t watch this movie, unless you enjoy virtue signaling and the cast acting like children who have never been told, “No,” after receiving the slightest bit of criticism. Just turn on Starship Troopers or Alien, and you’ll have just as good of a time (an even better one if you’ve never seen either or just like good sci-fi movies in general).

I'll stick to the animated movie from 2000 with it's animated series. It was SOOOO much cooler.

Andy's mom would of never let him watch this, he was watching star command

The way you said Buzz keeps hopping into the future and sees everyone grow old and die reminded me of Adam Sandler's Click. It's funny to imagine people at Pixar watching that and being like "yeah, this will be Buzz's backstory"

Lmao so this movie not only has the virtue signalling "hey look, we have the homos" thing, but still has the "bury your gays" trope. Well done Disney, such a progressive movie

Wait, was this movie supposes to be a 1995 kids movie!? This movie stink post 2020 Hollywood. Seriously, Zurg is meant to be a spoofy of Darth Vader AKA space overlord that, plot twist, is the protagonist father. All Pixar had to do was a simple story of Buzz stopping Zurg from doing overlord villain stuff like exploding a planet or enslaving an alien race.

I heard somewhere that the lesbian kiss scene actually was edited from the film, but Disney decided to put it back in, in order to thumb their nose at Ron Desantis.

Just once, I would like the Rat to commit to its empty corporate preaching. Make the next Disney character an openly gay Prince and structured just like any of their princess stories. Nothing gratuitous or weird, just a typical fairy tale story with a gay Central character. That way, they couldn't erase it for foreign markets even if they wanted to. Come on, Rat. Let's see if you actually have a pair.

Wait, she's a lesbian and married another woman, then he comes back and she's pregnant? How they explaining that one? Some kind of future genetic synthesis where they can bioengineer sperm cells from female genes or something? I haven't watched it, legitimate question.

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Imma just defend Jar Jar, yes he's annoying and gets way too much attention from the first film but he is absolutely necessary He's the reason amidala figures to find the gungans for help and he knows where they bugger off to safety from the federation

I'm pretty sure the "backlash" about that lesbian kiss was mostly "journalists" framing it as the main reason the movie isn't doing well, because it's free outrage to generate clicks. Then a few dumbasses from both ends of the spectrum leaned in on it, and it blew up more than it was actually relevant to anyone. It's a strawman to deflect actual criticism and then play the "bigot" card to get a few braindeads on your side for the screeching choir. It's almost theatrical how manufactured, yet superficial these elements tend to be, and how it's always shitty opinion posters claiming to be journalists who then make molehills into mountains.

If i had a nickle for every disney movie that had the supporting cast who were all incompetant idiots that ruin everything and then the plot says the main character is wrong for not wanting their help because of the value of friendship, I'd have 2 nickles, which isnt alot butnit's wierd that it happened twice. (the other movie with this plot is Tinkerbell: The Lost Treasure)

I have a question that nobody else has asked before, in toy story 2 it's revealed that Woody was the main character of a 1950s puppet show called "Woody's Roundup", Woody is simply a piece of merchandise from that show but the puppets they used in the show would be the original Woody's Roundup characters, so whatever happened to them? Did they get sent to a museum like Woody was going to be? Or did they simply deteriorate due to time and were eventually discarded? If that's the case then did they escape and are now out in the world? Did they just accept their fate and decide to be put in the museum like toy Jessie and Stinky Pete? And if Woody was such a huge character back then that means that there would have to be other Woody dolls like him but we never see any of them, I think it's implied that he's a rare piece of merchandise which is why the chicken guy took him in the first place, but if he was such a phenomenon then Woody dolls should have been mass produced left and right!

If this movie actually was from 1995 disney wouldnt exist today.

6:20 I hope I'm not the only one that got Star Wars vibes from that scene

I sort of knew this was going to be bad, no matter how badly I wanted it to be good. The Toy Story series, (it stopped at 3. There is no Toy Story 4. At least not in my heart.) Is by far my favorite franchise. In the pioneer days of CGI, Pixar was by far the GOAT, and had amazing storytelling abilities, and great VAs to boot. Once Disney bought them, (because they were bleeding money, and unable to compete with the masters of 3D themselves), their content dropped a bit, but not noticeably so. That is until the dark age of animation known as “The Woke Era”. It can also be called the cash grab era, because alongside pushing an agenda, they were also mostly soulless. I knew Lightyear would be no different, and it breaks me to see my childhood reworked, revamped, and rehashed to hell and back.

Why would Buzz think resetting the timeline would erase the others, when it's already clear that TIMELINES SPLINTER OFF, since an alt-universe Buzz from a different timeline is already right friggin' in front of him, meaning those timelines endure despite changes in causality? And why would Future Buzz, also knowing that alternate timelines exist, not consider that there is ALREADY a timeline where they didn't crash the ship, and that his changing the past will merely create another alternate timeline? Oh, yeah... the writers are too stupid to understand the concepts they're playing with.

This is not the movie Andy saw in his youth. This is a movie which he choose to see in today 2022, because he want to revisit his childhood and thinking that the people behind this movie understand and treat the original movie with respect only to find out they didn't care about the original movie. Andy is left disappointed by the billion dollars movie company who only care about money and getting them with nastalgia bait. Finally Andy left the movie theater with a disappointment in his face. Basically Andy is the Star Wars fans who saw what Disney did to Star Wars.

As mediocre and unnatural as Shrek 4 felt - to me at least. Yeah, even shrek fell to overusage. And oh boy Ice Age... Why are all of these kids films?

Given everything I’ve heard about this movie, I’d be happy sticking with Buzz Lightyear of Star Command! At least that had the flame thrower! “OOOH THE FLAME THROWER!!” Zerg - hilarious line!

13:17 this is another example as to why the Star Command cartoon was better. He had trust issues in the cartoon too but we were given at the beginning why that was.

"this will wipe the other from existence "face palm , you would have never met them either way in doing so saved millions of lives and stopping zerg from ever happening its 2 generations of 3 people at the cost of a whole colony

Oof. All in all, it seems like Zerg was the real hero - he was still trying to get far enough back in time to save the original crew. Of which, there were a lot more than the few in the new timeline, and who all died of old age waiting for Buzz to fix the problem he caused to begin with. Zerg-Buzz hasn't failed or abandoned them - but this other Buzz is stopping him from saving the MANY in favor of the FEW who he JUST MET. People who won't actually even die - they will just never have been to begin with, as they shouldn't have EXCEPT for Buzz's constant foul-ups. I'm glad I gave this flick a pass.

Thx for the review This movie is banned in my country 💀💀

I'm glad we can count on you to give actual critiques of films like this. Thanks.

6:32 - That was explained though. Old Buzz said the vocal processing bullshit was damaged by the timey wimey bullshit, they were trying to say "Buzz" but they said "Bahzurg" instead. I get that it's not exactly airtight, but it's something.

Christ I knew this would be a fucking trainwreck and I love it. Watching these cash grabs tank is always beautiful

Yes, the lesbian kiss was very short but allow me to quote one of the greatest film critics of our era, Mr. Plinkett, "You might not have noticed it, but your brain did."

Been marathoning Possum vids again & glad a new 1 dropped

Parent groups would have gun the movie down from the 4 minutes of a two mom family if this was made in 1995