{"id":2462630,"date":"2026-06-16T19:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2462630"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:33:48","slug":"toy-story-5-review-franchises-best-movie-in-16-years-hilariously-tackles-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/toy-story-5-review-franchises-best-movie-in-16-years-hilariously-tackles-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Toy Story 5&#8217; review: Franchise&#8217;s best movie in 16 years hilariously tackles AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F06%2Fnewspress-collage-suf4i6147-1781634668220.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261781620369\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"inline-module--review__title subsection-heading-semi\">\n\t\t\tTOY STORY 5\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rating\">\n<div class=\"rating__stars\">\n<div class=\"rating__star rating__star--filled\"><?php \/**\n * Review star.\n * \n * @package nyp-editor\n *\/\n\n??><\/p>\n<style><![CDATA[\n\t.review-block-star {\n\t\t--review-block-star--empty-color: #585858;\n\t\t--review-block-star--fill-color: #000;\n\t}\n]]><\/style>\n<p><svg class=\"icon-star review-block-star\" stroke=\"var(--review-block-star--fill-color)\" fill=\"var(--review-block-star--empty-color)\" stroke-width=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" height=\"13px\" width=\"13px\">\n\t<defs>\n\t\t<lineargradient id=\"half-gradient\">\n\t\t\t<stop stop-opacity=\"1\" offset=\"50%\" stop-color=\"var(--review-block-star--fill-color)\"\/>\n\t\t\t<stop stop-opacity=\"1\" offset=\"0%\" stop-color=\"var(--review-block-star--empty-color)\"\/>\n\t\t<\/lineargradient>\n\t<\/defs>\n\t<path d=\"M3.612 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PG (some thematic elements, rude humor). In theaters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Long before Chat GPT was a household name, Hollywood had been making AI the villain for decades \u2014 from HAL 9000 to Skynet to Agent Smith.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet the most emotionally involving spin on the terrors of tech in ages arrives not from groundbreaking sci-fi, but the smart, wonderful and tremendously funny fifth \u201cToy Story\u201d movie.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a surprise, since it\u2019s a film that I really hoped would never happen. After <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/06\/13\/review-toy-story-4-is-funny-and-moving-but-its-subpar-pixar\/\">middling \u201c4,\u201d<\/a> which was a giant step down from the heartbreaking third, the world was more than ready for Woody and Buzz to ride off into the sunset.\u00a0Woody actually did.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s good that Tom Hanks and Tim Allen got back behind the mic, because the digital age gives Pixar\u2019s playthings a renewed sense of purpose and atypically high stakes. Usually the gang helps a young person stay in touch with their childhood. This time, they save one in progress.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jessie, Buzz and Woody are back in \u201cToy Story 5.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Walt Disney Co.\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>That\u2019s the formative years of little Bonnie (Scarlett Spears), the girl who inherited the dolls from Andy (who\u2019s now like 40) in the last movie. She\u2019s eight years old, paralyzed by shyness and totally friendless. Desperate, Bonnie begs her parents to buy her a Lilypad, an interactive touchscreen that\u2019s all the rage at school.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the baddie that Woody (Hanks), Buzz (Allen) and Jessie (Joan Cusack) must face this time is an alarmingly cute tablet, voiced by Greta Lee.<\/p>\n<p>So, rather than humanity\u2019s fears of artificial intelligence taking control of the nuclear arsenal or replacing us with cyborgs, director Andrew Stanton\u2019s \u201c5\u201d taps into a much more immediate concern: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/15\/opinion\/toy-story-5-and-the-great-debate-over-ai-vs-childhood\/\">Screens rewiring kids\u2019 minds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The crew must face off with Lilypad, a touchscreen that kids are obsessed with. <span class=\"credit\">Pixar<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Much like when action figure Buzz arrived, sigh, 31 years ago, the toys are mortified by the mysterious intruder and her luminescent ilk. Looking across their neighborhood, all they can see for blocks are glowing blue windows with zombie youths staring into the 10\u00d710 void.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The end is nigh, they think. How can a cowboy, cowgirl and a space cadet compete against a reactive mini-computer that connects a lonely child to the entire planet?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But these toys aren\u2019t ready for the dark recesses of eBay just yet. They go head to head \u2014 or plastic to plastic \u2014 with Lilypad, who Lee gives a voice that\u2019s both bestie and \u201cMean Girls.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>One of the best additions to the \u201cToy Story\u201d family since 1995 is Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s Smarty Pants. <span class=\"credit\">Pixar<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You may recall lovebirds Woody and Bo Peep went off on their own at the end of the last chapter. Of course, they find their way back, but Jessie is running things now. That\u2019s a refreshing and appropriate switch-up. Cusack\u2019s maternal performance is better suited to this particular adventure than Hanks\u2019 \u201cold buddy, old pal\u201d delivery.<\/p>\n<p>After a sleepover mishap, Jessie winds up lost at another house \u2014 her first one, it turns out \u2014 where a girl named Blaze (Mykal-Michelle Harris) lives. And it\u2019s there we meet perhaps the best new character in this franchise since 1995: Smarty Pants.<\/p>\n<p>The real misfit toys aren\u2019t the OG crew, we learn, but obsolete computer devices from the aughts. One is Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s Smarty Pants, a hysterical, hyperactive box that teaches tykes how to use the toilet. He\u2019s been powered down for years, and therefore goes berserk when juiced up. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A phalanx of lost Buzzes is a lot of fun. <span class=\"credit\">Disney via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>O\u2019Brien is \u2014 and I\u2019m sure he\u2019d agree \u2014 a toy trapped in a man\u2019s body. He\u2019s practically typecasting. And his demented acting is so energetic and untethered, you can picture Disney security guards hauling him out of the recording studio. I mean that in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a lot of fun mined from a shipment of misplaced Buzzes. We check in on the lookalikes occasionally as they morph into a phalanx of determined Navy SEALs to eventually join Jesse and Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive\u201d is arguably the first new \u201cToy Story\u201d film to be both watched and understood by the kids of the 1995 original\u2019s millennial audience. That shared experience is very moving all by itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, even more poignantly, who can teach these young parents this vital lesson in twenty-first-century child rearing better than their own toys?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review TOY STORY 5 Running time: 102 minutes. PG (some thematic elements, rude humor). In theaters. 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