http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114709/
Toy Story
The First feature length CGI animation ever to grace the cinema screens, directed by John Lassester.
Released 19th November 1995 USA, 22nd March 1996 UK.
Distribution
Buena Vista.
Production
John Lasseter – Director / Writer (story), Pete Docter – Writer (story), Andrew Stanton – Writer (story) (screenplay), Joe Ranft – Writer (story),
Budget- $30 Million
Gross
Worldwide- $360 Million
Domestic- $191 Million
Foreign- $170 Million
(as of 30th Oct)
Opening Weekend
Opening Weekend- $119, 000 US
The film was set to a wide release and was aired in nearly 2,600 theater’s
Personal note
Toy Story was the film to revolutionize animation forever, a dream that was taken from years in the progress of Lassester. He had originally took the idea Disney when he worked there, but they coudln’t afford to keep up with his ideas. This is where he moved to Lucas film, a company full of people who shared the similar dream, they all wished to one day use CGI to make a full length film using only CGI. Toy Story was where this is all began, when the dream became reality and CGI was used to create a feature length animation. For me this is obviously one of the most significant Pixar films, it’s the first and the start of their industry success. In terms of Gross, for profits we see these days this film might not seem a massive success, but considering it was over 10 years ago it the Worldwide gross is more than impressive. In the yearly overview and yearly charts the film reached first place in the film Charts, it had beaten Batman Forever to gain the number 1 spot that year.
Review
http://www.movie-gazette.com/375
Forget ‘Snow White’ – it’s for losers. THIS is Disney’s finest hour-and-a-half. Not only does ‘Toy Story’ represent the birth of top quality wholly computer-generated cinema, it’s also one helluva funny ‘toon.
It takes a simple, familiar idea – that kiddies’ playthings spring to life when nobody’s peeking – and develops it into a wise-crack-packed adventure story to rival any adventure story. I’m yet to meet anyone – young or old – who doesn’t quite literally love this movie. And I’m pretty sure I don’t want to, either. For such people are clearly fools.
Tom Hanks provides the voice of Woody, the floppy cowboy doll who takes pride of place among the toy collection of a young sprog named Andy. But there’s trouble in paradise when Andy’s birthday produces a brand new toy – shiny laser-lighted space ranger Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen). Suddenly, jealousy reigns supreme in Andy’s toy chest.
What really gets under Woody’s Stetson is having to bite the bullet and work with Buzz as a team when the pair of them get lost in the big city, before ending up in the evil clutches of a local bully prone to performing Dr Phibes-style ops on innocent toys.
There are some cracking jokes along the way, more often than not related to Buzz’s insistence that he’s a REAL space ranger, and not just an action figure. In fact, this is worth buying just for the scene where the cold truth suddenly dawns on Buzz and he becomes ‘Mrs Nesbitt’. But there’s much, much more in here worthy of a guffaw or three. Whatever your age, this is an all-time classic that’s a must for your DVD collection.
It’s Got: Some marvellous support characters, most notably Mr Potato Head, Rex the dinosaur and Hamm the piggy bank.
It Needs: For all of those toy stores to have ordered more Buzz Lightyear dolls for Chrimbo ’95. There were a lot of miserable ankle-biters out there.
DVD Extras ‘Tin Toy’ (an animated short from Pixar), ‘The Making of Toy Story’, and a sneak trailer for ‘Monsters Inc.’ DVD Extras Rating: 6/10
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