Toy Story (1995) on Netflix
G19951h 21mAdventureAnimationComedy
Woody, a cowboy doll, is Andy's favorite toy until a space ranger action figure named Buzz Lightyear arrives and becomes the boy's new favorite. Jealous, Woody plots to get rid of Buzz.
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Plot summary
In a world where toys come alive when people are not watching, Woody, a cowboy doll, is the favorite toy of a boy named Andy. Andy's family is about to move, and at Andy's birthday party the toys fear a new present will replace them. Andy receives Buzz Lightyear, a space ranger action figure who does not know he is a toy. Buzz's electronic features win over the other toys and he becomes Andy's new favorite, stirring Woody's jealousy. Before the move, Woody tries to trap Buzz behind a desk so Andy will take him to Pizza Planet instead. The plan goes wrong and Buzz is knocked out a window. The other toys turn on Woody, and he and Buzz are left behind at a gas station. They must find their way back before Andy's family moves away.
Cast
- Sarah Rayneas Hannah (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Toy Story (1995)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Paul Newman, Robin Williams and Clint Eastwood were all considered to voice Woody before John Lasseter insisted on Tom Hanks; Newman went on to voice Doc Hudson in Pixar's later film Cars instead.
- Billy Crystal was offered the role of Buzz Lightyear and even recorded a test monologue using dialogue from When Harry Met Sally..., but turned the part down because he doubted the film's animation would succeed; he later took the role of Mike Wazowski in Monsters, Inc.
- A November 1993 screening of the film's first half for Disney executives, later nicknamed the 'Black Friday Incident,' went so badly that production chief Peter Schneider halted the film entirely, with an executive blaming notes from Jeffrey Katzenberg that had turned Woody into a 'real jerk' and made the movie no longer John Lasseter's own.
- Screenwriter Joss Whedon wanted Barbie to rescue Woody and Buzz in the finale, but Mattel refused to license the doll; producer Ralph Guggenheim said Mattel felt an animated, voiced Barbie would impose a persona on the character that might not match every girl's own idea of her.
- Hasbro refused to let the filmmakers blow up a G.I. Joe in the film, so they invented the fictional toy Combat Carl instead; separately, Slinky Dog had been out of production since the 1970s, and the inventor's widow, Betty James, told Pixar their animated design was 'cuter' than the real toy.
- Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase 'To Infinity and Beyond!' became genuine spaceflight history: in 2008 astronauts carried a Buzz Lightyear action figure into orbit on Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-124 as an educational project for students, using it for zero-gravity experiments.
- Rendering Toy Story took 800,000 machine hours across 114,240 frames and 1,561 shots, and even with that much computing power Pixar could finish less than 30 seconds of completed film per day.
