The movie would have been so good if Disney did not have to promote homosexuality. The gay marriage does not and should not be promoted in a kids movie. I will advise everyone that asks me about it to not go see it. Disney is doing everything they can to alienate customers.

Disney: no need to add adult themes because you have an agenda

The most interesting aspect of Lightyear is dispensed with in the first 15 seconds, when it's explained how and why you're watching a movie devoted to the action-figure character from Toy Story. After that, the movie works primarily as a fairly likable action vehicle mixed with a familiar rumination on what defines a life, without rising into that top tier of Pixar fare its predecessors occupied.

A dead-end wrong turn in the usually boundless Pixar universe. Buzz, himself, is a bit of a bore, too.

As far as spin-offs go, “Lightyear” is a lot of fun. The voice talent is topnotch, especially Palmer and Evans.

Odie Henderson

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