Ryan Kmetz Sid is a little bit a villain in my opinion. You see him be mean to his sister and steal and break her toys, making him definitely somewhat antagonistic to the viewer, even ignoring the toys' perspective.

+Thurbo Still normal brothers have been smashing their little sisters' dolls for generations.

In the original story pitch to Disney, Woody was a hateable dick. (Go watch deleted scenes to find out.) Jeffery Katzenberg told Pixar that he wanted the film more "Adult" since it worked well with Beauty and the Beast. John Lasseter had cold feet on making Woody a jerk. So I'm glad that in the final film, Woody is somewhat jerky, but he does learn that jealousy leads to actions that get you in trouble. (It's pretty much his fault that he and Buzz landed in Sid's hands.) And he does try to fix his mistakes and not just to redeem himself. That said I think Woody's a great character because of that.

Ryan Kmetz C'MON!!! PH CLEARLY IS A FUCKING MONSTER!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡

I don't think Sid's a conventional villain and more a somewhat mean spirited character that indirectly makes themselves a hinderance. Scud is a menace, but not really a sapient one, he's like a standard rampaging monster from the toy's perspective but otherwise he's just acting like a normal dog. Woody and Buzz only hate each other because they keep accidentally screwing the other over (as exemplified in their 'you started it' argument) while the toys are just afraid of Woody from this misunderstanding. So no conventional 'evil' character, just flawed ones that indirectly cause inconveniences.

StrunDoNhor Disney was not in charge of Toy Story. Pixar was already a rising animation studio that relied on short films, and they were already working on Toy Story before Disney got involved. Rumour has it that Disney didn't even officially own Pixar Studios until after A Bug's Life (Pixar's second feature film), and up until that point, Pixar was merely collaborating with Disney as a separate entity rather than working within the Walt Disney Studios. Don't get me wrong, Toy Story does count as a Disney movie, but from my understanding, it was only co-produced by Disney, with Pixar being the primary Studio before it became an official branch of Disney Studios. (Sorry if that sounds really repetitive, I'm too tired to spread out my vocabulary in one comment.)Also, do the characters really have to be the ones singing to make it a musical? Don't get me wrong, I'm not disregarding your comment or anything, it's just that Toy Story 2 was considered by award shows as a comedy and a musical, while the music style of the movie (Randy Newman music playing during the movie) remained the same. Yet, if they can call Toy Story 2 a musical when none of the characters really sang anything (aside from the very last scene when Wheezy starts singing), then why isn't the first one a musical? It had just about the same amount of music as the sequels, and none of them had the characters singing in them. Maybe a musical isn't just the characters expressing song and dance... Perhaps you can get away with calling Toy Story a musical based on the fact that the songs played in the background actually have lyrics, and make you feel something... Or perhaps the sequel was just mislabeled, and I'm looking too much into it. Besides, nobody ever tried to pass off Dumb and Dumber as a musical, and it was full of upbeat background pop songs. Well, that's enough of my rambling. Sorry to keep you reading for this long, and if you find any inaccuracies in my reply, please feel free to point them out, and possibly link your source of information, if you so please. Thank you, and you have a good one. :)

therealCrazyJake Disney approached Pixar directly to make a feature-length animated film after watching their (at the time) impressive short, "Tin Toy". As such, they [Disney] still had a *firm* grasp over the developmental process of *Toy Story*; they had the power to veto most creative decisions and could, at any time, kill off the project entirely. Anyways, what I'm getting at is the film, even during development, was still *heavily* associated with Disney. They were _extremely_ hesitant to publish anything that wasn't a musical. (Though I can't say whether or not they actively _pushed_ for it to be a musical.) This leads us back to the mildly famous incident with Tom Hanks. When he was brought in for casting he was well aware of Disney's involvement, as well as their reputation. Hence, "You're not going to make me sing, are you?". As for the actual definition of a *Musical*, that's getting a bit too off-track, and thus I won't go into too much detail. For the record, though, Toy Story is *not* a musical; a musical film is defined as a genre in which songs that are sung by the characters are interwoven with the narrative. Toy Story 2 is (very loosely) considered a musical, primarily because of Jessie's song, "When She Loved Me," which is sung by a central character and advances the narrative.

That was gonna be idea Disney wanted to make the movie musical john lassater said no and joss whedon backed him up .

No explosions (plural) and the toy was a benevolent character later on; monster would be too harsh a descriptor.

Go back to my town, Groucho.

hell yeah!

My god...how did I not realize that sooner!?

And what a coincidence that they have the same last names

+Andrew Kuder (BlueGuy98) I use to have fun this way. Is cool to play the villain.

You obviously didn't do your research correctly

+Trisket It's incredibly disingenuous to spread quarter-truths like this in order to give one person credit for "saving" a film that was the product of dozens of creative minds.

There's a story online you can read called My Toy Story by Alec Sokolow. It tells the history of the writing of Toy Story. Check it out it's a good read. It's really inspirational for any Screenwriter trying to make it into the industry. You never really know what's going on behind the scenes unless you were there from the start. Here's the link: www.upenn.edu/gazette/0913/feature1_2.html

Matt S ahem Pocahontas?

Believe it or not, he actually thinks it's overrated.

Ryan Kmetz He recently chose Ghostbusters over Star Wars as the best Summer Blockbuster. He has lost all credibility to me.

+David Morrissey Pocahontas though got some mixed reactions and wasn't very praised as much as TLK. Disney sort of went down after Pocahontas was released.

actually no, it was beaten by finding nemo and that was beaten only a year later by (ugh) shrek 2 and finally after that it was toy story 3.

Sean Mullin My god sid is a brony!

Alec Wilson oh no...

Well remember pocahontas came out 6 months before Toy Story

Nabzarella Dare yeah did you forget that bub?

Then hunchback of notra dome then Hercules then mulan then Tarzan then dinosaur then empire new grove then Atlantis then treasure planet then lilo and stitch then brother bear and finally home on the range

+HaveANiceDay Yea I don't know what he means. Lion King had just come out and was massively successful.

+HaveANiceDay That was the year when Pocahontas came out, which Doug believes was when Disney was starting to become not as popular as it once was.

+TheDreweMaster pfft bullshit for me

All of these '90's Kids' are just clouded by nostalgia, I was born in 1991 and I was into the phase about four years ago until I realise that even the 90's produced crap. But I wouldn't be 'proud' of being a kid from a decade because of a movie, TV show, game or anything, I just enjoyed a nice childhood in that decade and I should be proud of that instead of a movie that was big and memorable at the time, although that I love.

NWR1991 True. I mean, the 90's was kinda cool (don't get me wrong), but, like I said before, it wasn't perfect. Heck, even my childhood generation (2000's) wasn't perfect (except it may have been a little more obvious).

Kyle Broflovski I mean, the 90's DID have cool stuff, but to be fair, so did the 70's, 80's, and even below that. Even then, while the 90's had Tomagotchi's, we had Mighty Beanz. Still, though.

Kyle Broflovski I DON'T think it was a "perfect" time.

Kyle Broflovski Oh, Ok.

Actually, the Raggedy Ann and Andy books and movie explored the concept of living toys decades before Toy Story. (The NC mentions the Raggedy Ann movie in one of his top 11 lists, so he was familiar with it.)

Yup, the whole country grouped together and made it. I remember that.

HAHA very funny, but yes, yes we did.

AliG6252010 not sure how that little historical fact applies to this review.

It doesn't, I just wanted to be a dick. Oh wait, I shouldn't have said that, as a Canadian I must apologize about that. (btw visit my channel and check out the two polls I've posted)

Airyl Jaszly omg i laughed out so loud at your comment hahahah

dumbass

***** Shut up parasprite

***** You have no right to insult when you spend your free time doing something as sad trolling on the internet in their free time. You're a pathetic waste of space and air who, in their free time when they could do something constructive and actually help our fucked up society, just deliberately tries to piss other people off. Fucking hypocrite. Also, just because I watch a T.V. show about ponies doesn't mean I'm "a fat guy who jerks off to ponies". 'Nuff said.