How Lightyear Fails in the 1st 20 Minutes (@RebelTaxi)
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I'm Pan-Pizza driver of RebelTaxi reviwing Lightyear. More like Buzz Mid-Tier
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Making a small sidemission. Went to Momocon, got covid, got to know someone wild. Working on a Clerks Animated Video. #LightyearDidHisMom
Can you do a Top-10 best UA-cam Animators🎨and if you get any fan mail will you do a mail time episode🚕🚀
Straight up your audio is only caressing my left ear it is non consensual but very much sensual.
Jk bby, call me any time.
About the brightly colored space suits, NASA actually copied the Buzz lightyear color scheme because it turns out in space its very handy to be able to see your comrades even in low light conditions
I hope you do a video on the upcoming movie Paws of Fury, which is clearly Blazing Samurai. They must've waited so long to release it and changed the name for some reason. #LightyearDidHisMom
Buzz is mid and Disney panders, what do you expect from a company whose marquee content involves turning black people into vermin. I just watch Netflix. Great Stuff as always.
My head canon is that The Buzz toy Andy gets is based on the Cartoon show that andy was a fan of and that The Movie is an in universe crappy live action reboot that andy was disappointed at watching
Maybe Andy started the hashtag #LightyearDidHisMom in-universe as well much to the horror of Woody, Buzz, and his many toys.
That sounds plausible
You made a better in-universe reason for this film's existence than pixar did
LMAO YES just like that terrible live action 80s he man movie
The most the funny part about this is that this movie is supposed to be the in-universe version of star wars
I like that because of this movie, everyone is bringing up the Buzz Lightyear cartoon, which I really appreciate. Always felt like I was the only one who watched it as a kid.
And had a great videogame full of boss batles.
If it makes you feel better me and two other kids always pretended to be from Buzz Lightyear. One was Buzz but me and another kid always fought over who was XR. Screw you Kyle. I'm XR!
This is all your fault Lasseter
Saturday morning cartoons were on the way out by the time I was 6, but the Buzz Lightyear cartoon was the one show where I would get up early on the weekends and watch on ABC Kids while eating Pixar-themed candy instead of a healthy breakfast to make the experience complete, similar to how my Dad likely watched cartoons in his childhood. It was great.
@@JeffreyThrash I love that! :)
“One person in the theater clapped when Buzz put on his power suit, and no one joined in.”
Sorry to hear that, Pan.
OH HO HO HO. OWWW
It's like a real life version of that joke RedLetterMedia makes about star wars, "I SAW A PORG AND I CLAPPED!" LOL
dam, you got him good
It's wild that they went for this aesthetic and not the cartoon. Just go wild with retro style flash Gordon/space ace imagery, it would make the toys uniforms' colors look way less out of place
Good idea
They could have made the whole film a complete 50's B-movie homage.
Like "Forbidden Planet", "Destination Moon", "This Island Earth", "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
Pixar always seems like this company that has to juggle pushing the CG animation technology forward and simply making a good story, and sometimes they just prioritize "technology" instead of making a proper story because it's easier to impress people that way.
You can be sure, regardless of how well this movie will be received by audiences, that young adults in animation colleges will be obsessively discussing on ArtStation and Polycount how this movie pushes the technology forward even if it's just the rigs are 5% more complex or it renders .0001 second faster per frame on average. And they will think the tools are fast and easy enough now to start trying to make their own "Toy Story" feature films all by themselves in Blender only to learn the hard way that, as always, massive corporations with massive budgets and teams are the only ones that can feasibly animate with high-poly CGi in a reasonable time frame without burning out (most of the time...), and in general animations only get to see the light of day when at least 2 or 3 people are dividing up the workload. TOTALLY not speaking from personal experience from my college days...
Sad thing is, I didn't think Pixar made this, I thought Disney just had another group do it, because the aesthetic is just so uninspiring. Compared to all their other movies that has the pixar flavor with unique styles for each one, this movie just looks so bland.
@@airget Pixar is run by flawed human beings, too. They were going to stumble at some point and still stumble in the future because they set the bar so impossibly high so early on. And that's assuming they didn't already disappoint fans in similar ways to Lightyear with movies like Brave, the Good Dinosaur and Cars 2.
"They had a divorce before the start of the movie? Damn, did they play an Angela Anaconda short before the movie?"
FUCKING AMAZING
The reference caught me off guard lol
Nostalgia miss those shows
I remember Angela Anaconda but I have no idea what the reference is.
@@mathy4605
it's a story about a kid who wanted to watch Digimon.
That was a great Digimon deep cut
Feel like one of two things happened: this was pitched as a completely non-canon story and the Andy connection was shoe-horned in, or this was pitched as the movie Andy watched but more in line with what we knew about Star Command, and executives loved that marketing angle but not the movie idea itself
Angus pitched it as the Buzz Lightyear Star Wars story that made Andy want the toy, but I expected it to look a lot like Zenon or something with bright blues and greens and not Star Wars again with a Buzz logo slapped on it.
my guess is the latter.
@@eatatjoes6751 That would have been great.
Personally, this movie feels like it was originally a different property but Pixar slapped the Buzz Lightyear title to sell seats.
Facts
Pixar - Hey we've got this space themed movie ...
Disney - CALL IT LIGHTYEAR!!
Pixar did a Miyamoto
@@JonCross1023 Is that a Starfox Adventures reference?
@@pallydan893 Yup!
The fact that star command wasn’t released on Disney plus as a tie in to this film was definitely a massive missed opportunity.
I don't think they want people to compare them.
Yo favorite ratchet game ?
@@duuudewazzup8296 probably a tie between Up your arsenal and A crack in time
@@duuudewazzup8296 Commando. To me it's the best entry, and always will be.
@@ratchetxtreme6591 r&c1 is the best (not controls) change my mind
Like, it dosen't even make sense that this was a movie in the 90's, I don't think live action movies could look like this.
Yes! That blew my mind in the promos they go out of their way to say "not your dad's Buzz!" but then they're literally saying this is the movie little kid Andy went nuts about?
The Adventures of Pluto Nash had a ‘90s aesthetic despite being a crap fest.
It would be cool if they tried to emulate the look of practical effects in cgi
I like to think this a reboot in universe of the star command.
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Power rangers fighting terrorists is a great analogy. This supposedly 90s kids movie just feels too dark & grounded for what should be goofier & more exciting.
There was the short film based on overly gritty reboots based off kids properties for insecure people.
Power Rangers were fighting terrorists. To be fair they were future mutants rejected by sociality but still.
Ironically, the original pitch for Power Rangers had a scene where Zack referred to some villains as "terrorists" and was gonna be a adaptation of Bioman. They also used Electric Eye by Judas Priest for the pitch.
Well the Rangers do fight terrorists.
They're just not called terrorist and look very cartoony.
Nah. The villains in power rangers were more serious and fucked up than this pathetic movie.
This movie did one thing right and that’s making the Adventures of Buzz Lightyear cartoon feel more valid. This feels like a movie based on the cartoon but having nothing to do with the cartoon, like M. Night Shamalayan’s Avatar: The Last Airbender levels of missing the point.
That's what I said. Movie based on cartoon.
I think it's funny that none of the minority characters never got an action figure in the toy line in Toy Story canon
😭
You'd definitely think at least Sox would have, if this truly WAS the movie that inspired the toy
Oop there it is XD
Clever observation!
And 100% on par with current Disney: taking one small step towards progressiveness after taking 3 large steps back.
I agree with you but I read somewhere that the reason we only saw buzz and zurgg in Al's toy barn was that's the kind of thing Al would do. Only buy the "main action figures" and NOT the rest 🤷
God, I had zero interest in Lightyear but seeing that concept art of Andy is ridiculous. Is it to cash in on nostalgia for the 30+ adults or to lie to new kids about where Andy learned about Buzz?
I'll just keep pretending Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is the actual canon.
I think the majority will
I think that still is canon, right? That was meant to be a TV show and this a movie.
But this movie should’ve, in-universe, been a reboot of a buzz film as opposed to one supposedly made in the 90s. Also I haven’t seen the movie but it does look lame.
This feels like what Dragonball Evolution is to Dragonball Z. Crappy, nonsensical movie adaptation of a beloved franchise that isn't canon to the show. Most of us saw the movie but what we liked most was definitely the show and NOT the live action movie.
To me the canon is that Star Command was a massively popular TV show Andy watched and Lightyear is the cynical shitty reboot that takes itself way too seriously and tries to cash in not in technical effects or gripping story but nostalgia points alone
"Pretending?" What do you mean by that? It's still canon!
This movie really feels like someone at Pixar made an average scifi script and some else just had the "Brilliant" idea to make it about Buzz Lightyear.
Also #Lightyeardidhismom
I've been saying this since the first promo art, I guess I was right.
I thought the same thing whole in the theater. I think it would have worked better as a non-Buzz movie.
@@aaronsarchive82 Same. It could've been a fine original movie
honestly, an average sci fi movie is the first thing that pops in my mind whenever i hear "buzz lightyear", so i guess i got what was i expecting.
@@Jean-Paul-Lane-Valley About the aesthetics part or the Buzz doing his mom part?
The weird thing about Zurg is that, his relationship with Buzz changes every time
In Toy Story 2 its stated hes Buzz' dad, a reference to Star Wars.
In the TV show Zurg once again claims hes Buzz' dad, again referencing Star Wars, only this time both Buzz and Zurg start laughing, Buzz says "you almost got me for a second there" and Zurg replies "i saw that in a movie once", so they are implying Zurg is NOT Buzz' dad.
And now this movie claims Zurg is actually Buzz from another timeline.
Its a mess
They should have based the art design of off nostalgic, colorful, chunky 90s sci fi and toys. I’m thinking Zenon, Deep Space Nine, retro Doctor Who, ReBoot, Beast Wars, Men In Black, Animorphs, 3D Space Cadet Pinball, etc. I mean, canonically it’s a movie made in the mid 90s so they could have easily leaned into that. They could have also gotten some 90s kid money and it would have been visually interesting and consistent with the other incarnations of Buzz.
I think the problem with that idea is fans and critics would call the CG animation looking dated, intentional or not. A shame cause I grew up on that stuff, but not everyone else did.
That sounds like work. Pixar ain't about that anymore.
@@n0m4nic They've released three banger movies back-to-back (four if you liked Onward).
Most of these were extremely personal stories from the directors, Soul is a modern Pixar classic. Lightyear was made to be a cashgrab, and boy does it show...
@@firewolfkanji17 They said art design, not animation quality.
@@reasyrandom It was more a dig on the walkout where they were protesting schools inform parents what they are teaching their kids instead of doing what that one teacher in New Mexico did taking a kid to a drag show and introducing him to a sex offender.
Someone soured me on Red when he explained the final kaiju battle as two women on their menstrual cycle. That two deal with her mother's heavy flow, the family synchronize their cycles with the daughter's and he was really quite convincing. It also means that earlier, when they are paying boys to ride the red panda, they are pimping out a young girl on her period and that's just gross on every level. I can't look at the red panda anymore.
I feel like the whole “This is the movie that Andy watched” thing was all just a marketing thing to sell the movie, cause people immediately thought it was a reboot or something of Toy Story. So they had to think of a way to explain it and that was the best way they could, which debatably made it worse 💀
The framing device nobody needed. I was perfectly willing to accept this film without explaination for how it connects to the Toy Story universe.
The Space Command show had a good reference to the "I'm your father" line. Emperor Zurg just throw it to make Buzz not attack him. Which is canon for me.
They could’ve done that in the movie and then that plot hole is fixed
Once again Star Command proves it’s the superior Buzz.
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also buzz : NOOOOOOOOOOO
OR they could have Zurg be some kind of an evil alien shapeshifter transforming himself as old Buzz and try to trick him into getting the Crystal so that he could either destroy it or become more powerful.
Then again, just a thought.
#curseyoubuzzlightyear
8:15 My Great Great Uncle worked on the original "Three Caballeros" as one of a few guys who animated the character Panchito Pistoles, according to my mom, she got audio film reels sent to her from California and apparently he HATED working in the animation industry after years working on animated shorts as a clean up artist and told her never to peruse a career in it, if I recall correctly, this was around the time frame of Walts failing health and the studios were just really shafting the animators, especially the ones in the dregs like he was.
Dayum.....
I’m sorry the studio was such a jerk to your great-great uncle.
@@RebelTaxi I should clarify, when I say Audio film reels, I don't mean she got rare snipits of the movie, he sent her audio recordings of himself speaking to her which back then was recorded on large film reels and the biggest take away from those recordings (which my grandmother threw away thinking it was garbage -_- ) was how being an animator gives you little attachment to what you work on, I guess he felt being part of a collaborative process made it feel less like you can call the thing your working on your own, which probably wasn't helped during a time when the company was resorting to recycling parts of old animation cycles for their movies, its kinda hard to be proud of your work when part of it might be a copy and paste of someone elses from decades prior.
Who was your Great Great Uncle by chance? I'm quite curious who the animator was. Ward Kimball?
@@clem4999 no, I have no clue who that is. my Great Great uncles name was Kenneth Mowers, he lived in Burbank California and despite never meeting my mom in person when she was a little girl, he'd send her reel to reel audio tape telling her stuff about animation but strongly urged her not to pursue it as a career. The Three Caballeros was made in 1944 which meant he was on the team working on it around the early 40's which likely means he'd probably left the company by the time he sent my mom the audio reels so his time there was when Walt was still alive and well. I've tried looking my relatives name up on IMDB before but I got nowhere which doesn't shock me since he wasn't anyone important and might be uncredited (its been so long since I last saw the movie so I haven't scanned the films credits to see if he got any credit) if anyone finds anything, please let me know.
I’m of the mind that this movie is actually a live-action reboot of the tv show, and the tv show is what the toy is actually based on. It explains why it feels so tonally different from how the established lore feels and why it reimagines Buzz’s origin story. This also explains why Sox doesn’t seem to exist in the earlier Toy Story canon.
Yeah, if anything Sox would've been the new toy.
If this was the movie Andy watched way back when, he wouldn't care about Buzz at all.
Also being Father's Day weekend. I was predicting that at the end of the movie the camera pulls back to reveal an adult Andy bringing his kid to see the movie.
Movie still sucks no matter how much people tried to fit it.
“did the theater play an angela anaconda short?”
that killed me
Took me a second to get but when I did I loved it
Randomly resurfaced a forgotten memory
Anyone remember the greentext about how that short caused someone's parents to divorce? LMAO
Anna Anaconda? Does he mean Angela Annaconda or something? I tried looking it up but didn't find much
@@unknown6390 yea he meant Angela Anaconda
AMC theatres always has specialty drinks for major film releases so when I saw Lightyear I was hoping to see a "Booze Lightbeer" on the menu, sadly they let me down just like the film.
"You're silly Bud Lightweight can't help you."
Cosmo: *HIS NAME IS ROB PAULSEN*
At my local theater, we made a makeshift drink
Lmao
Bud Light(year)
You were let down by a light beer?
The realistic and militaristic art style works for video games, not so much the silly spaceman toy that was based on old serials for kids.
They should've went hard on that style and made Zerg look like Hitler.
This movie reminds me of starcraft for some reason.
well the toy is based off the movie, not the other way around
@@MagitekBahamuto It felt like watching a mix of Alien and Lucky 13 from Love, Death & Robots for me.
You know, if this really WAS the movie that Andy saw in 1995, you'd expect it to be full of ham and cheese in many spots, have James Horner's-- er, Alan Silvestri's soundtrack, use more practical effects and weird CG elements, and have Evil Emperor Zurg be an unapologetically evil villain. Then again, it would also be unapologetic with the values of the age as well. Sure, it would probably have some adult lines that would fly over my head, but that's what would make it more brilliant when rewatching it.
I grew up in the '90s. That's what appealed to me at that age as a kid. Make of that what you will.
Make it sexist moreso as a jab at those sorts of movies. Or just ignore that part
I'm a year late but 100% agreed. This movie smelled so much like a current 2022 film. Also there's no way a PG kid friendly blockbuster from 1995 would've featured a same sex relationship, let a lone a kiss, to be featured in it. Nothing against that IRL but this was supposed to be a 90s movie, right? One more reason to add it to the "makes no sense" pile. This had so much potential to being amazing!
If Buzz Lightyear gets a standalone movie, then Pixar should make an adaptation of Woody's Roundup.
*Edit:* Lightyear is an absolute mixed bag, but at the same time, it's overall average in my opinion.
I hope that happens
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Honestly that would be pretty cool but knowing Disney they wouldn’t put a lot of effort in the story.🐱
@@azure6181 Deadwoody.
It’ll cut off just before the climax and you’ll never know what happens next
This movie looks like a weird mess. You have a chance of embracing bizarre aliens to join buzz....and don't. You have a chance to show how vast the universe can be...and only show off 1 planet. This feels like a Bargain Bin with film with an Alister star. Sad shame really.
I wondered why Buzz's crew consists of generic humans (and Sox) in this movie.
Say what you want about Mira, Booster and XR, but they actually look like aliens!
This is DISNEY Pixar, the same DISNEY that hasn't created any new aliens races that a play a major role in the mainline STAR WARS story.
@@BiigiieCheeese no they had plenty in Star command they could fall back on. Its not a Starwars thing. They screwed up WAY before that.
@@reasyrandom Actually, XR is a robot, not an alien.
Remember those hard space movies that were Oscar-bait? Interstellar, Gravity, and that Matt Damon movie? This movie reminded me of those, you're right, they should have made a fun Flash Gordon style movie instead
« The Martian ». That was the Matt Damon movie.
I got fuckin Prometheus vibes from this movie. Both that movie and Lightyear have this in common: they are trying so hard to follow up on the series but...yeah you all know. I actually enjoyed some of Prometheus, Lightyear just felt empty...im big sed now 😢
When I heard about this movie coming out, it reminded me of a realistic sketch of Woody I saw on DeviantArt couple years back. Makes me wonder if they'll make a movie about Woody as a real sheriff in a Western epic. Implying that Woody's round up was loosely based on historical events.
I doubt it this movie is kinda flopping ticket and merch wise compared to what they were hoping. The toys have become peg warmers seemingly instantly. And that just seems like a bad idea if they did that with the same though process as they did here that would mean actual guns and addressing the incredibly fucked up shit that happened then and the mouse would really botch that big time.
@@viraltang If it does well on Disney+ then maybe, Encanto didn’t do that well at the box office yet it did very well on Disney+
They should make John Wayne style Western with the cowboy just happens to be named Woody and loves a female shepherd
@@danielscalera6057 I was going for more Clint Eastwood, but John Wayne is good too.
They had better not. Instead of a loving tribute to Golden Age Westerns, it'll end up being nihilistic crap.
I feel like they should’ve just based it off the TV series of Buzz lightyear, then making it look like it was something from aliens.🐱
Oh no, you see, they hate that one
*ua-cam.com/video/vn8WdvkmTGs/v-deo.html*
Finally its here *YES*
Unfortunately they hate it. Even though it makes more sense in universe.
The tv show was terrible lol what are you talking about?
@@jturner2577 How?
Man they really could have leaned in with the whole 90s style space cartoon aesthetic. Bright colors, zaney characters, and upbeat music. The animation could have been more stylistic to represent it as well. Pixar had a real chance to make this movie interesting but they blew it and went with something boring and marketable.
Disney wasnt even gonna let that girl in Encanto have big muscular ladypecks until the studio fought for them.
Dont thank the mouse for inclusive diverse characters, thank the studios under the mouse who fought tooth and nail to get them included.
what? why would Disney not allow a female character to have muscles?
like, do they thing there are no woman who lifts? or do they found them "unattractive " some how?
disappointing
They probably prefer all the girls in their films be the sane slim shape for toy manufacturing and maintaining the typical beauty tropes
@@alilishaa8824 women lifting tends to show the feminine shape of them and doesn't turn most men into someone with that exaggerated of a masculine shape and statistically 0 women would end up with that shoulder to waist ratio let alone square PECS.
I don't really get what that decision was for, it would be as comical as a guy with just an Ig model body but is balding and has a pencil thin mustache.
@@alilishaa8824 unattractive, see marvel's lanky She Hulk
@@alilishaa8824 they’re unnatractive
They look like ugly man
6:30 Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is the in-universe show Andy watched. The VHS opens with the toys getting the tape and the show episodes open with Buzz turning on the TV. This is retconning something that shouldn't be retconned.
The creators on Twitter have said that the show is still canon. ....Except it was made in the Toy Story universe AFTER Lightyear came out. This logic is so backwards as Lightyear feels like a modern gritty reboot of an animated property.
When I think of a Buzz Lightyear movie, I was hoping there'd be a lot more of Star Command, Buzz would be more of a hotshot, and that Zurg would be a more charismatic, larger than life villian. This movie just feels like a diet Buzz Lightyear. Severely lacking that epicness and grandeur that the cartoon had.
the worst thing you can say about something is that it is okay, A bad or good movie will stay on your mind for a while, but a okay movie will just be forgotten after a week or two.
the exception that proves the rule is Morbius, naturally
@@calzonecave Morbius was anything but average. I'm not meming, this movie sounds like a bad trip (in the best way)
@@calzonecave Morbius was an interesting take on recent super hero movies. It took a lot of inspiration from Gothic horror as opposed to the generic actiony MCU movies average movie goers are used to. I will always remember it for trying something different. To further my point, the original Little Shop of Horrors was and still is considered a bad movie, but it got a musical based on it and a movie based on that musical.
@@2e2i23 I mean it's Steve Martin from the 80's. Also, I believe the Dentist from the 1960 is still alive as well. He is not as good looking.
It depends on how bad.
If they can't bring back Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, we can sure bug the hell out of them with #Lightyeardidhismom
Pixar hates Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and is outright ashamed of it.
@@gantz22ify Which is dumb because all this movie is doing is making people like it more. They should be embracing the newfound love for the series and at least add it to D+
@@gantz22ify I thought it was just John Lasseter who hates it.
@@gantz22ify stop saying things that have no proof
@@fridaynightnicktoons6885 The existence of Lightyear is proof: they wanted more control over the origin, and Pixar didn’t have enough creative input over BLOSC.
#lightyeardidhismom congrats to buzz for doing what Marty never could. Perhaps buzz is stuck in an infinite loop destined to become zurg, that incest birth is definitely a villain backstory
it was me barry...
Finally someone else who states that it would've made more sense for this movie to be a reboot. They could even have a scene about adult Andy going to see this, mirroring the intro with the toys watching the original Buzz Lightyear film.
Also worth noting is that the Toy Story 3 DS game used the BLoSC designs for Star Command and their ships in one of the Buzz mini games, and Booster had an appearance in a Boom Studios comic around the same time.
EDIT: OH YEAH, just remembered! A year or two ago, some official Disney card game app acknowledged the show's 20th anniversary with some stock art.
The virgin “light year” versus the chad “star command”
Yeah i will never forgive booting Turning Red to Disney+ to give Lightyear the preferred spot for Pixar's return to theatres after Covid. Can someone please find a reason.
Outside of Coco, Pixar hasn't created any new IPs that are worth spending any money on. Disney would rather spend money on a known IP than a new one by a company who has created nothing but duds and dead end stories this past decade.
@@BiigiieCheeese But like, Soul and Turning Red are both great movies? Are you saying the issue is that they can't sell a bunch of merchandise for those stories?
@@Semudara Not really.
@@adeptdamage3669 Very insightful, thanks for the input.
Yeah, to me this definitely feels more like the reboot Andy would watch as an adult rather than the thing he saw as a kid.
How is the non Pixar movie from over 20 years ago more friendly to the Toy Story canon than a Lightyear movie made by Pixar.
For starters, look at how much of Pixar's old guard is left.
I honestly feel like some of the consistency problems just came out of the writers being told to differentiate it from the cartoon (problem being the cartoon was exactly the sort of thing the toy lore seemed to be describing).
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What's funny is that in the cartoon series, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Zurg says he's NOT Buzz's father, as he only did that as a way to throw Buzz off.
So I can safely argue that Toy Buzz, Cartoon Buzz, and now this movie Buzz, are all basically 3 different versions of the same character. Kinda like all of the Spider-Man movies and cartoons we got.
Edit: Here's the clip.
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The cartoon has scene confirming Zurg isn't Buzz's dad. He used it as a distraction against him
Don't ruin this for me
I feel like whole I am your dad thing was a throw away line. however the toys were programmed their circuits jumbled things up causing them to act up. So at least as far that Zurg in Toy Story 2 thought he was Buzzs dad.
Or _was_ he?
Yeah, but the cartoon isn't canon to this, is it?
@@RebelTaxi Buzz did what Marty McFly was too afraid to do
I accept the possibility of the TV show-made characters stuff being omitted due to different departments...
But I was kinda shocked there were no LGMs in the movie! They've been in the Toy Story movies since the beginning.
Would’ve been nice if they at least had cameos
Yeah that opening text about this movie being an in universe movie really screwed it over. It never matches with anything we learned about star command before
I remember back in 2016, the Disney World Buzz Lightyear ride's line had a mural of the Star Command group unaltered but I guess they may have altered it by now
yeah they changed the mural to stock art of buzz and the aliens
They used to have a statue of the big red guy in the Buzz series in the gift shop as you exited the ride. It’s been quietly removed a few years back
@@spencer_ralph4643 Yes! The Zurg statue behind bars might still be there but I believe the rest has been removed.
I might watch some POVs of the MK version of the ride as well, because if I remember right, the plot of it was Star Command has been kidnapped and Zurg needed some battery. Thus the Booster being freed from his cell in the gift shop.
@@spencer_ralph4643 I also recalled that too
Well, according to one tweet of the "Lightyear" director... toys weren't based on this movie directly.
He responeded on Tweeter to someone saying:
"Not quite
Lightyear inspired cartoon series Buzz Lightyear Star Command
Toys were produced off the cartoon designs"
Angus McLane, on April 23 2022 responed to that tweet: "This is correct"
And that's not all, in a Q&A, before movie release, he also said:
"I imagine this was a movie that then later there was the spinoff cartoon, and then the 'Toy Story' toy was made off of that cartoon design. Because that very much was the way it would be in the '80s and early '90s, that there would be a big-budget movie, like a serious movie, and then would get ported to a TV show."
So, yeah... according to "Lightyear" director, the Toy Story toys were based on "Star Command" cartoon, and not directly on this movie... So this movie is even more pointless.
5:41 *"It's like if you had The Power Rangers fighting Iraqi terrorists."*
That's the quote to put on the blu-ray.
*Bold of you to assume this film deserves a bluray*
Even if the 2000’s straight to DVD movie is more in line with what Andy probably saw, there’d still be some continuity errors because in the beginning of that movie they have some Pixar animation of Woody & the gang watching the film and they literally treat it like a new film, also the event of when they watched the film takes place after Toy Story 2.
I mean it could be new to the Woody gang and the movie is just really obscure or they aren't aware of when movies come out
@@alchemistofsteel8099 If the movie is really obscure than why did Buzz Lightyear’s sell out in 1995 like Barbie said?
@@IcyDiamond It could be a forgotten direct to video type thing that was used to promote the toy alongside a movie or video game.
Like how Chrono Trigger is really popular but the ova is forgotten
@@alchemistofsteel8099 I guess you’re right
Not even that, but animation of Woody and the gang is at the beginning of every episode of the show. Like a couch gag, Buzz would do something different each episode on his way to Andy's TV.
This movie is canonically Andy's Star wars. He probably had a very boring childhood 😂
More like a prequel to Starship Troopers
Reject Modernity (light-year) embrace tradition (Buzz Light-year of star command)
And doughnuts
Doughnuts either ARE your tradition, or whatever you're doin' ain't it.
Of course, Pan himself embraces modernity.
This would have made more sense as like an in-universe reboot or remake of the original buzz lightyear film, it would make so much more sense, why the camera quality looks like it's from 2022 but is supposed to be from the 90's, why the designs looks like modern redesigns of the characters and not like what sci fi stuff from the 90s looked like at all, they could have skirted around the "Buzz from the future is also his own dad" thing, and best of all, if they where forced to do another toy story movie or special or something, not only do they have a replacement for Woody, they have an excuse to do the "Buzz thinks he is a real space ranger" trope again, with a NEW Buzz lightyear toy based on THIS movie that classic Buzz has to deal with when THAT Buzz thinks he's the REAL Buzz and classic Buzz is an imposter...
Yes, they did that plot in the second film, But i mean, Pixar still would have probably done it, come on!
7:30 is so bizarre. At Magic Kingdom in Florida, Space Ranger Spin featured STATUES of characters from the series. I have a photo of a young me next to the big red guy in the Buzz show. Space Ranger Spin came a little before the DL version and has a lot of references to the animated series, however they’ve been removed over the years and now it’s just Buzz, Zurg, and the aliens in that style
More proof that Pixar should’ve stopped at Toy Story 3 this series will eventually become the Ice Age of Pixar with the unnecessary sequels and spin-offs if they keep this up.
#Lightyeardidhismom
except all toy story movies have been pretty good otherwise ice age not at all maybe except the 1st one was decent
@@togipoogaming3775 Toy Story 4 is bad. There I said it. They turned Bo Peep into this manipulative jerk who gaslights Woody the entire movie. I thought she was gonna be the surprise villain at the end. But apparently, Woody wants to leave with her now??? What happened to "Always be there for your kid"?
@@blacktainfalcon7097 The whole point of the movie (which I didn't like either) is that Woody's purpose of "Always be there for your kid" is changing because Bonnie doesn't play with him anymore and he has to find a new one but can't.
@@thunblot78 but Bonnie literally plays with him when they're at the carnival. Also, they show another kid playing with him too (who he also abandons)
@@togipoogaming3775 I liked the first 3 Ice Age movies all the other films sense have been mediocre at best. I feel similarly about Toy Story while I admit I don't like the 3 Toy Story films nearly as much as the first 3 Ice Age films I still think the first 3 are good and the fourth one looks unnecessary although I haven't seen it yet but hope to at some point.
Pan's review of Lightyear is genuinely the best one I've see by far
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Many of the other reviews were stuck in very superficial stuff, a lot of "I liked because it's a neat scifi flick" or "I don't like because it's mediocre and the twist is dumb", while he actually gave good explanations behind his feelings and what could've made the movie more solid...
BUT
his joke about the plot twist is the most perfect thing in the video
it had me laughing way too loud for a good minute, to the point my brother even came to check on me to see what it was
THE HASHTAG
Oh
Another thing I liked about his review is his mention about how Disney appear to have some weird hatred towards the Buzz cartoon
He did ignore those Reimagine Tomorrow leaks though.
I saw it last night, I was surprised how many beats it lifted from the '90s Lost in Space movie.
Then again this is Pixar, Turning Red is essentially Teen Wolf, and Cars is a complete and utter clone of Doc Hollywood.
Surprised no one else prior made the Turning Red / Teen Wolf connection!
I wonder what Pixar will do to cover the movie, Bright Lights, Big City?
90's lost in space movie is a dumpster fire lol. For years I tought it was some fever dream I had until I saw it airing on cable again.
Lmao I only connected Turning Red with Hulk
I mean... copying a formula isn't bad in general... needing to execute it properly is usually the issue with it... :-P
Believe me, I've never watched a single trailer of this film, because the moment I saw the thumbnails and images, I knew that something was off, and I was right.
I'll stick with "Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command", thank you very much.
So here's an odd consistency (slight spoiler for the movie, but proceed with peril):
Lightyear goes out of its way the make the final design of Buzz's suit completely resemble the look of the toy from Toy Story 1. However, Lightyear Zurg doesn't look anything like how Zurg looks as a toy.
Why no one points out that the movie was missing the most important part : THE GREEN ALIENS
absolutely lost it at the reference to the Digimon Angela Anaconda story LOL
I work at a movie theater and yesterday I think we had 30 people at most see lightyear.
Also the movie screwed with the auto lights in our theaters making cleaning a pain in the ass
Everyone wants to see top Gun Maverick
@@NeverSaySandwich1 Nah. Everyone wanted to see Morbius
@@NeverSaySandwich1 bro, bob’s burgers
Saw it on Saturday, it was only about half full and I had the whole front section of the auditorium to myself.
This probably should've been a tv series like arcane
This shouldn't be anything
Pan has to review that
Don't click the link^ it's a bot
@@keypath4389 no disagree.
It still would have sucked.
Thanks for the shoutout!
Oh yeah. No prob your Interview vid feels like the cool DVD bonus features we don't get anymore
@@RebelTaxi Much appreciated. That’s the best compliment that video could get. Exactly what I was going for!
I don't know, but they somehow managed to make a movie that was far darker than it probably should have been in tone (remember, kids' movie) while simultaneously making the characters so melodramatic that you couldn't take the situation seriously.
Tbh I'd rather go with the tv series getting a 3d reboot.
Eg. Buzz in his rookie days, learning about being a space ranger from commander nebula and making friends along the way. You'll get to see buzz talking to a very young mira nova during a misson to protect the royal family; you'll see warp darkmatter slowly being manipulated by zurg and even zurg himself slowly growing a hatred towards his son and revealing a few things along the way.
Throw in some references to the LGM making an experimental robot in the background (the first one, not X.R.), and a whole lot of adventure.
Sign me up. PS The Hornets need to be included.
>Warp slowly being manipulated by Zurg
Wasn't he already under Zurg's payroll before he joined the Academy, as revealed in the film? Unless it was retconned in the TV show, which I didn't watch.
@@dutch_asocialite Nah I don't think it was retconned in the show; more likely I made a story mistake XD
Although a flashback for warp's younger days would be a cool idea.
Id be more than happy to watch that than this movie
Buzz has two aliens and a robot on his team in the show and they decided to have a bunch of humans.
If there's any one thing to take away from this, it's all the love the Star Command series is getting. Maybe Disney will crack (pfft, yeah right) and put the cartoon on Disney+.
Though I will never forgive them redubbing the pilot movie with Patrick Warburton. Did Tim Allen piss people off so they redubbed Buzz's voice? Can't be assed to check myself.
#Buzzlightyeardidhismom
They did it for the re-airings in order to be more consistent with the show.
if I remember correctly Tim Allen is republican though I don't think he is "Trump republican". While I think he was probably replaced mostly because of Star power it probably didn't help.
@@garden6008 also tim allen said n-word hard r ..
@@watermoof4914 yeah, I looked it up and found this: "In 2013, Tim Allen made headlines for telling the Tampa Bay Times that he should be able to use the N-word in comedy whenever he likes. Tim, who voices Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story and stars in Home Improvement, claimed that he had used the phrase plenty of times in his stand-up set. He said in the interview, "If I have no intent, if I show no intent, if I clearly am not a racist, then how can '[redacted]' be bad coming out of my mouth?""
Disney Channel is missing a ton of nostalgic TV shows for me from the late '90's/early 2000's. Something tells me Disney Plus only has older content in the first place because they weren't confident newer stuff and reboots like The Mandalorian would carry the streaming service financially, but it turns out the D+ originals did, so they have no desire to even look at their archives other than for ideas for another live-action/realistic CGi remake.
They made a movie of the Buzz lightyear Andy went to see, and It doesn't look like the kids actions movies of that time. Did they really expect me to think that this movie is the one Andy went to see in the theater?
honestly, when they aired the first 2 or so trailers, they said that the movie was going to involve "the real Buzz Lightyear"; see, my mind was thinking it was going to be a semi-biopic of the actual Buzz Lightyear as a stand-in for Buzz Aldrin, where he was simply a NASA pilot who was a guinea pig where he accidentally becomes the first person to achieve FTL travel, however NASA probably thought he died before he appears in the future to people who discover who he is. maybe they'd just pull some Meet the Robinsons'-esque BS and have the city's president be the son of the captain manning Buzz's ascent into space initially but was honestly cushy/incompetant. SOX would've been a spy who actually desires the fuel on Buzz's ship, which then leads to Zurg.
movie would've ended with Zurg indisposed, and Buzz travels back in time to the present, just a few seconds after he initially leaps, the father would be arrested due to espionage and Buzz would be hailed a hero of both timelines. this would lead to the Real Life/Toy Story timeline going as-is; just with the real Buzz giving fantastical ideas to animation producers to create the actual cartoons, using inspiration from his adventure. while the Lightyear movie timeline just jumps forward a few hundred years, probably random people adopting the names Buzz or Lightyear, and Zurg would probably become entirely robotic; leading to a Disney+ continuation of either the movie, or the cartoon, they could go wild.
I remember telling my friends last year how I had wished they had just taken the cast and premise from Star Command and run with that. But you know how Hollywood/Disney functions these days; no fun allowed.
It doesn't make sense for it to be a movie that came out in the '90s, because it has positive gay representation, which would not have happened back then.
Just a theory, but hear me out. I think they're trying to stay distanced from Star Command because they don't want an older, superior product to be around to make people confused and/or think "gee, we could save money and just watch the original."
It's the equivalent of starting the live action Transformers with Michael Bay saying "by the way, there are cartoons of this that are much better."
Sox was the only character I found myself actually liking and caring for. He's who I really want a toy of.
“To fertility and your mom”!!!
Lightyear kinda gives me the vibes that it’s the Star Fox Adventures of Pixar’s library. I wonder what their Dinosaur Planet was if there was a non Buzz tied version of this at one point.
I’m surprised you haven’t talked about the Chip and Dale fever dream movie yet lol
If & when he does, I can garauntee that Pan will make a reference to being able to fuck Raven in that world.
Imagine his interveiw with Genndy in a Rodger Rabbit world setting.
10:22 Wow Buzz Lightyear you just turn into Chris Chan
Why does Andy look like a teenage boy in that promotional image
Bringing up that Angela Anaconda story just made me crack up in the middle of the night too damn loud. Thanks for that.
Yeah, I spent MY money on Bob's Burgers. No regrets.
Seriously, the man makes a good burger.
Is it still out? I'm thinking of seeing it just to support 2D animation, which has been neglected in cinema for 2 decades.
One theater made a few burgers and drinks revolving around the series and I hate that I heard about it after I saw the movie. 😭
@@beauwalker9820 Yeah, still around, But hurry up. They're cookin' the numbers low and pullin' out of some places early. My town has two theaters and one got yanked before I could get there. I mean, it's not the "go huge" movie we want and the series deserves, and the show has even already done something highly similar-- but they change it up enough to still be a fun watch, the humor and music are on point-- basically imagine you're getting three of their higher tier episodes on a huge screen without ads-- it is what it is and what it is is fun-- it's not trying and failing to bait anybody or be bigger than it is, the show just kind of NATURALLY fits in a theater-- and you're supporting 2d, which is why I believe it's bein' screwed over so hard. If you're gonna see it, do it quickly while you still can.
@@beauwalker9820 i'd recommend it. tagged along with a few friends and i had a good time. pacing is slow at the beginning but it gets better. the animation is really fluid and nice, was a treat to see good 2d animation in the theatre
@@gumbolthreemillion41 That's another thing I forgot to mention-- the animation-- and even some of the shots themselves-- get a good bump up from the usual. It does all look really nice.
About the canon thing... This is speculation on my part.
I think many screenwriters in Hollywood are now from the internet fanfic generation. We have so many fanfics freely available since the 2000s. And one particular thing about fanfics is "Screw canon, I want to write MY story with these characters! And I don't want canon to put a damper on my creativity." Which is a good part of the world's fanfic vault. I don't have the numbers, but I'm confident it's a nice percentage. And I agree that there are some good well-written fanfic stories that don't follow canon. As such it is my speculation that the "Screw Canon" mentality that I'm starting to observe in reboots, remakes, spinoffs, etc... may come from that generation mentioned above who became adults and got to write for money in Hollywood.
Or they can just turn their fanfics into original stuff ala Love Hypothesis and 50 Shades of Grey
Eh to be fair internet fan fic didn't create writers with huge egos and no ability to take criticism. Those writers have existed forever.
But yes, movie scripts seem to be disregarding canon more often. Maybe corporate just doesn't care about it these days.
@@KaminoKatie But then creatively-bankrupt Hollywood wouldn't be able to make a profit simply by using an established IP, regardless of the quality of the actual movie. Although 50 Shades of Gray is a notably (and inexplicably) profitable example of an original fanfiction that didn't rely solely on milking popular characters.
As interesting as this hypothesis is, I think it's just a simple matter that large American studios value "safety" and "profit" over the inherent risk that comes with creative writing, thus will slap nostalgic characters and imagery on otherwise-original stories to ensure it dominates the box office even if it flops critically. Cruella, for instance, would have been an okay movie about a bold fashion design student but Disney had to butcher Cruella De Ville's entire personality and reputation in the process to make sure people at least talked about it (good or bad), even going as far as making her a dalmation-lover.
Fanfics has been a thing since like the 60s thanks to Star Trek, I'm 100% sure it has nothing to do with fanfics and instead more to do with corporation pushing tight deadlines for writers.
6:52, I actually rewatched Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins after having watched Lightyear (The former was better) and at the beginning Warp Darkmatter objects to Buzz recording a Mission Report despite procedure requiring him to do so on the grounds that no one actually listens to Mission Reports. And that is the one part of the cartoon the new movie actually references since at the beginning of Lightyear, Hawthorne objects to Buzz narrating and Buzz defends it on the grounds that it’s a mission report only for her to say that no one actually listens to those
So you're telling me Lightyear is a soulless readaptation with no love put into it other than the 2D art direction which inevitably lost most of its charm after being translated into 3D? Color me shocked!
Saves me the theater price of tickets, because its trailer really doesn't convince me much of the actual action. Disappointed that Zerg himself takes up almost zero screentime, especially with the mystique of his character. Obviously he's a Darth Vader reference in disguise but still how do you mess that up!
And it has Taika playing another version of his persona.
This entire movie felt unnecessary. it's basically a filler episode to meet a quota.
This review made me want to check out the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command instead of watching the film.
Wait what so instead of bring up Buzz’s evil twin from the cartoon, they made him Fry?
I felt crazy because every time I saw a new screenshot from this movie I felt like there was some new Toy or Gimmick. Like he just had a sword at some point and then suddenly a robot cat and then suddenly a crew???
Wow, a modern Pixar movie being mid-tier? I'm so surprised.
I liked Soul a good amount at least?
@@dyldragon1 Yeah, I liked Soul well enough and I'm with Pan on defending Onward to my grave too. My dad literally struggles to sit through it for it hitting him in the feels about his brothers...
i mean turning red was mid tier one
Buzz: "This suit MEANS something."
Iron Man: "And I took that personally."
That single person that clapped in your theatre as a Disney plant
Please remember There is another Zurg out there
Old Buzz said he borrowed or in other words stole the future tech when he went far into the future & found Technology you couldn’t believe.he climbed up & used the Zurg suit, that’s why the robots kept calling him Zurg. It wasnt because they couldn’t say Buzz. Meaning he wasn’t Zurg but there is a Zurg out there.
I like to think that In the Toy Story Universe, the Lightyear movie flopped but the toy did sell well enough for the company to go into a different direction with the character and story. Thus Buzz Lightyear of Star Command was born and toy sales skyrocketed, leaving the Lightyear movie to fade into obscurity
I'm betting that's exactly what happened.
I find it funny how there’s a Disney+ series on the behind the scenes production on Lightyear. I mean I usually love anything behind the scenes related on animated movies and shows but it just seems to me like they were REALLY patting themselves on the back or boasting on an overall mid film.
That’s pretty sad tbh
“One person in the theater clapped, and no one joined in.” _O O F_
The og buzz cartoon and movie always felt like what the toy of buzz was based on