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Reel Talk: Toy Story 5 (2026) | A Movie Review and Analysis
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..and now for something completely different! We love movies just about as much as we love toys, and while they don't always influence each other (see Toys on Film for that), we do love talking about them! So we are proud to introduce "Adventures in Collecting: Reel Talk" where Erik and/or Dave will tackle a straight up movie review. SO... since this channel is typically about toys, what better way to launch this new episode type than with the latest Pixar movie, Toy Story 5! What did Erik think about this movie? Watch and find out!
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Introduction to the Podcast and Hosts
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Are you ready kids? Get your parents permission, check your mailbox and grab your shopping cart. It's time for the Adventures in Collecting podcast. I'm Eric.
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And I'm Dave. Welcome to Adventures in Collecting. Where we talk toy news, culture and hauls. Along with our journeys as collectors.
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Let's all go to the lobby, let's all go to the lobby, let's all go to the lobby to get ourselves a treat.
Real Talk Spin-off and Film Industry Insights
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Hello everybody and welcome back to Adventures in Collecting and something a little new so welcome to real talk uh this is a new experiment a new spin-off here for adventures in collecting um giving dave and i an opportunity to individually come to you and talk to you about some of the uh films that we love so while we have toys on film and we talk about films um influence on the toy industry and the way that it impacts the toy aisles and some of the really cool things that we get that represent films. This is purely about films and film review. Something else that Dave and I are extremely passionate about. We don't always get to see things at the same time. We also always don't agree on um on a review for a specific film. So this comes as a way for us to like I said, to talk about some of the ah the films that we see out there. And we will do some a little bit of housekeeping, or I should say I will do a little bit of housekeeping shortly. But um just so that way you know what you're in for here, this will be ah potentially spoilery. um This may not always be toy related, but will always be pop culturally aware, since that is something that we, again, are very passionate about. But figuring that this is the first of these real talk ah podcasts here for Adventures in Collecting.
Toy Story 5 Announcement and Viewing Experience
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Why not start with something toy related? So we are going to be talking about Toy Story 5, a movie that just came out that is in theaters that I saw on opening day. It was a Friday, June 19th. So we will be talking about Toy Story 5. Before we jump in, let's take care of a little bit of
Mandalorian Collectibles Giveaway
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that housekeeping. It is still June, which means that it is a giveaway time. So our giveaway this month, again, we have partnered with our friends at SWTVC on Instagram. We are giving away a deluxe Vintage Collection, Mandalorian, and Grogu. Actually, we are giving away two of them, so we will be selecting two winners. Each will receive a fresh, brand new copy of the Mandalorian and Grogu Vintage Collection Deluxe release. You can find this pinned post at AIC underscore podcast on Instagram or over on SWTVC at SWTVC on Instagram.
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Follow the instructions and enter ah for a chance to win Mandalorian and Grogu, one of the one of the pairs of the summer, speaking of film-related things. um Yeah, so you have all of June to enter it. As of the time of this airing, there is still a few days left, about a week or so. So, ah yeah, make sure you get in there and get your ah your chance to win the Mandalorian and Grogu. And make sure you're following us, too, because we're constantly posting ah links,
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This week is Prime Week, so there will be things on sale on Amazon. We'll try to collect them all in and in one place for you, make it make it an easy experience for you to save a little bit of dough while you spend a little bit of dough. So, ah yeah, make sure that you are following us at AIC underscore podcast. And also, we do a giveaway every month. So if the Mandalorian and Grogu Vintage Collection isn't your thing, stick around for July because there will be something completely different.
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and that that we'll be posting for a giveaway. So ah with that, that ah does clear up our housekeeping. Our next episode, I won't mention that now, ah is our first list episode of 2026. So somehow we have made it to June and we are halfway through 2026, which means friend of the pod, Paternia, will be joining us and we will be breaking down um roughly the...
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30 between the three of us, ah what we consider to be our favorite and or best ah releases so far in the year. So ah that will be the next episode, which is next week. And that is math that I'm simply not going to do right now. I feel like that's June 29th or something like that, whatever the next Monday
Toy Story 5 Plot Overview
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is.
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That's when that episode will be. So make sure you're keeping an eye out for that on the feed. So um like I said, real talk. So we are going to be talking about Toy Story 5. Now, um I grew up in a time of... ah you know, ah the, the Roger Siskel and Ebert, ah the critic, right? This is not going to be that. I'm not going to break down every single story beat of the movie. I'll give you the gist. So that way, you know, whether it's something that you want, whether or not, you know, ah it's something that you want to see. So I will be going over the general story, things that, ah that stood out to me, things that I appreciated. And then at the end, I'll give you a simple recommendation. We're not going to be working on a star system here or some kind of convoluted mathematical equation. um I'm just going to let you know whether I think it gets the recommendation or not for me. And based on my perspective and the things that I talk about here in Real Talk, you'll...
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Hopefully get ah get an idea of whether or not you think that this film would be for you or not. So Toy Story 5, the fifth in the ah the Toy Story franchise, the fifth installment coming up as a sequel to a very divisive part four, um which will tell you a lot about me right off the gate. I actually thoroughly enjoy part four for all of the reasons why it's so divisive amongst ah fans and and viewers. um But I will say that right out of the gate, Toy Story 5 owns, every single piece of decision making that it does in in Toy Story 4. We're not walking anything back. We're not ah
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retconning anything, right? ah Toy Story 5 is very much so a sequel to Toy Story 4. So do with that what you will. Now, what's really cool about this is out of the gate, we see very quickly three distinct stories develop.
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One, you get a really cool cold open where a shipping container has washed up on a deserted island. um It almost looks like a Target shipping container, ah but it In that shipping container are these smart enabled versions of Buzz Lightyear.
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And there are a ton of them. I would say probably two dozen or so. ah They all wake up. They all look to the sky. They realize their mission starts to come back to them and that they need to reconvene with Star Command. So they build themselves a raft.
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They set out to sea and they are following the North Star. So you get that right out of the gate as kind of like an adventure of the week style story with this army of Buzz Lightyear figures that are trying to find their own identity. um Then we're back in Bonnie's room. Bonnie is a little bit older. Bonnie is still an incredibly imaginative little girl, and she is playing with her toys. We see that i that Jesse has has fulfilled her role as ah as the sheriff among the toys, i and we get...
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the two main pieces of our story here happening, which is ah bravery. its ah It is a, ah the the first piece of the story is bravery.
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We see that Bonnie is struggling, asking other kids to play with her. And we see that buzz is struggling, finding the bravery to ask Jesse to marry him.
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So i that, that bravery aspect is is kind of permeating from like an emotional standpoint. The second part of the story, which is very present on the poster and all the advertising is tech versus toys. um And we see and learn very quickly that tech has taken over the entire neighborhood.
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um Jesse, in an effort to find some way to get these these kids across the street, these twins, to play with Bonnie, she goes across the street covertly with Bullseye to try to figure out what's going on and realizes they are glued to their tablets.
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She meets up with the other toys who tell her that the time of toys is dead, ah that that that toys are are are no longer in fashion. Everybody is on the screens. Jesse cannot believe them, but they bring her up to the roof. She looks across the neighborhood at dusk and sees all of the glowing screens and devices and tablets and is absolutely mortified because Bonnie is the only kid in the neighborhood without technology and the only one that is still like playing with toys.
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So ah first of all, as somebody who has who is a co-host of a toy podcast, I was also mortified.
Themes: Technology vs. Toys
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um This movie hit me emotionally in a bunch of different ways at a bunch of different times as somebody who has been a fan of the franchise for a very long time, as somebody who is a parent, as somebody who is has a close relationship with toys and collectibles and And, you know, has this kind of back and forth pull with ah with technology and how toys and technology kind of get together and what that means for the future of kids. And it's it's very it's very complex.
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um It is it was a very, you know, up and down emotional roller coaster for me ah for all all of those reasons. But that is kind of becomes the crux of the story is can technology actually bond people together the way that physical toys and items can be? And is it that simple that like once society moves on from something tangible to something technological, is that the moment where if you don't decide to make that leap as well, it leaves you behind, which I think is like an existential question that everybody is asking themselves right now with the advent of AI and and all of these agentic things moving in and out and, and, and us being so glued to our phones and our, our, our devices and our tablets and our computers and all of the technology.
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Um, if you are not using those things, will you truly get left behind? And is that the thing that is really, uh, acting as an obstacle between you and connecting with other people?
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So really deep existential questions right out the gate. We're talking about complex emotions. We're talking about complex relationships with with items and and technology and things. it it It really gets going very, very
Woody's New Role and Connections
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quickly. There is there is no there is no hesitation.
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The other thing that we learned very quickly is that Woody, while he did leave the group in Toy Story 4, is not far. ah he He and Jesse have a walkie-talkie system that they can reach out to each other through. Woody is kind of doing this like toy rescue thing now on the side. So he's with Bo Peep. He's with um Duke Caboom. He's with the the two stuffed animals from the carnival, the Key and Peele stuffed animals that are that are attached to each other. they have kind of formed what I'm calling internally like Woody's Roundup Gang 2.0.
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two point um um And they are rescuing lost and or in danger toys. That's that's their mission. They're out there doing that around the neighborhood. And when Jesse calls to basically get some advice from Woody, almost as a mentor, ah Woody confirms her fears. Is that like, yeah, you know, he's seeing so many discarded toys around the neighborhood more than usual. um Everyone's on their devices. It's bad out there for for kind of like these transient toys as well um and and confirms those suspicions.
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ah Now, Jessie feeling a little embarrassed that she's not as authoritative as she wants to be. She hides this walkie talkie and in the process of hiding it, of course, you know, the button gets pushed at inopportune times and it sounds to Woody like she is sending a call for help.
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And that's what brings Woody back to Bonnie's house and back into the stories. But he is very much so not Bonnie's toy anymore. There is never a point in this film where Bonnie sees Woody. I will throw that out there. Like he interacts with the entire gang. He's there with with Rex and Potato Head and and Buzz Lightyear and and and all the other characters, right? But he he is he is very much so a supporting role in this and and kind of something that's happening behind the scenes.
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Now, the big thing is the the conflict ends up being between Lilypad, who is our newest character. ah She is the the leap pad like ah device and Her goal is that she has Bonnie's best interests in mind, and that is she needs to connect Bonnie with her friends that are already on this interconnected kind of social media system through this kid's tablet.
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And Jesse, also having Bonnie's best interests in mind, thinks that she's the one that can connect Bonnie with the right kid, with the right friends. She just needs to find that right friend. Um...
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In doing so, ah these two buttheads, obviously, because they have two very different ways of looking at things. i Again, without spoiling the entire story, there is there is much more at play to Lilypad. She is a complex ah antagonist. you know she much In the vein of of Toy Story in general, like these characters are very layered, they're very complex, um which is great because...
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I think from a perspective of watching it as an adult that grew up with the story and watched kind of the, the rudimentary, um introduction to existentialism through toy story, because that's definitely what the first one was, right. Um, just with buzz and Woody's relationship alone, watching that develop and kind of change and meld into different things over now five films. Um, um,
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It's just it's just incredible to see what they the the amount of ah emotional development that happens with these with these toys, right? These things that are, you know, inanimate objects otherwise. ah And at the same time, the same way that we were introduced to those complex emotions in the first you know two films, right? I'm now watching my children.
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get introduced to those those concepts and and kind of go through that emotional rollercoaster too and as they develop through this. So like it's it's really, it is really, really fascinating to see how they've kept the relationship between these characters, what they are, and kept that relevant to a modern audience while still playing and and and absolutely like, I wouldn't even say plucking at you know, adult heartstrings, but like,
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feverishly playing those heartstrings. So, um you know, the big thing is in the process of trying to connect Bonnie with the friends in these two different approaches, Lilypad again, you know, trying to connect her effectively through like social media and Bonnie trying to find her a friend.
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um Bonnie, or um I'm sorry, and Jesse trying to find Bonnie a friend. Jesse actually ends up at the address of her original, um, her original kid.
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So you find out that, uh, Jesse actually has like an, an inside flap on her, um, I don't know what the the outfit, they're pants. She's got like a ah flap on her pants or chaps, I guess, ah that has her kid's name and address. And at some point in the process of trying to connect Bonnie with her friends, she becomes a lost toy and is stumbled upon.
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And thankfully, the person that finds her, thankfully, ah notices that there's an address on her. So she takes Jesse and Bullseye back to Jesse's first childhood home.
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There's now a new family living there. It is still a ranch. There are still horses. um This new new character, Blaze, and her her mom and dad, we meet them. We learn that this relationship with toys and being a, you know, a quote-unquote different child, somebody that might be kind of, yeah again, like hard air quotes, weird on the outside, we we learn that there are, you know,
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it's not as uncommon as maybe Jesse realizes that there are still kids that play with, with toys at the age of like nine and a half or whatever they're at. And now a word from our sponsors.
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00:18:04
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And now, back to the show. And we now meet this new kid and we meet her old toys and one of her old toys, which is actually my favorite character in the movie, um is Smarty Pants.
New Characters: Blaze and Smarty Pants
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Smarty Pants is voiced by Conan O'Brien and Smarty Pants is a potty training toy and like an early like think like early V tech style toy.
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um But this toy does have internet capabilities and that those come in very, very ah clutch in the movie as, as act three kind of comes together. But ah Blaze's toys are struggling the same way that now Bonnie's toys are struggling because they lost the fight to technology early on.
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And their kid ah while also, you know, using her laptop and starting to use technology, uh has basically moved on to displaying her toys so she's got like a a horse collection and uh when she finds bullseye bullseye ends up on a shelf in a collection so now we we've kind of um hit that point right where where we are and in in collect uh as collectors right where we we display our toys that becomes the new version of play so they're just up there collecting dust but she enjoys looking at them um
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and And Jesse says some very poignant stuff here in in in this interaction. She's angry at the tech toys because she feels, like a lot of people do, that technology is aging kids faster than it should be. It's making them grow up faster. It's making them abandon their toys quicker.
00:19:43
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It is... putting toys and again, in in the context of the film toys that feel like they have a responsibility to teach the, their kids something and be there for their kid and, and play and, and experience and like charge that imagination.
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Jesse is is is kind of rightly ah furious that technology is robbing, in her in her you know and her perspective, robbing kids of that.
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And even technology toys as simple as a digital camera, a a little GPS, this potty training toy, right? Like, This is taking play and having that age old argument that is gaming the same as playing. are Are they one in the same? And the technology toys don't understand what it is to play because they see gaming and the little games that they have installed on these devices as their version of play. They they don't understand what the imagination of children actually does. And this movie does something a little bit interesting, which is,
00:20:52
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In the past, we've seen these very cinematic sequences, right? Like think back to, know, Toy Story, the opening of Toy Story 2 in Andy's or Toy Story 3 in Andy's room, right? Where we see that recreation of his imagination, right? Like we we see the train blowing up and um evil Dr. Porkchop flying in and like you get this full cinematic treatment of what play was like. And then when they zoom out, you know, it's it's Andy sitting crisscross applesauce on the floor.
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This movie deals with it a little bit differently, right? Because each child's imagination looks a little bit different to them. It it it it is a little bit different. So there's almost this like kind of um Vaseline lensed watercolor i switch that happens when we're in like play mode.
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ah Visually, it looks incredibly different. And then they do that same thing where it breaks out and you see the child sitting on the floor playing. So... um We know very viscerally and very visually whether we're in those play sequences in this movie, which is really, really cool. Like, I i thought that that was a really great touch, makes things a little emotional, um makes things a little bit more vibrant.
00:22:06
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Very, very, very cool addition to kind of the the Toy Story lore. So. Needless to say, um again, i some spoilers here and there, but i I don't want to ruin this entire journey for anyone that is interested in seeing it. But this is what plays out, right? Is is technology the best way to connect people or are tangible interactions and like real life meetups and things like that, is is that with the way to do it? Or...
00:22:35
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the movie posits, is it some kind of combination of the two of them? Perhaps. So, um yeah, needless to say, i think for a lot of people, um I think Toy Story 5 will probably get them back on track if they felt a little lost coming out of Toy Story 4.
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I think this this did a lot for um not just the the the toy characters. I think a lot of the the ancillary toys or like the secondary toys,
00:23:04
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played a pretty significant backseat in this one. So there's not a lot of Trixie, there's not a lot of Rex, there's not a lot of Potato Head or or Ham or Slinky Dog. I mean, they're there, they're present. We see them, we hear from them. You they have some humorous moments, but this is really ah story about Jesse. this is This is Jesse's movie. This is about Jesse's journey as a toy, decades long journey, right? Because now she's technically on her third kid, um potentially more,
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How this movie ends. You'll have to see. But um yeah. It's. This is her movie. This is her movie.
00:23:46
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And it i think it reestablishes buzz. That. If there's one thing that I would say about Toy Story 4 that I wasn't super crazy about was coming out of Toy Story 2 and 3, Buzz was a very developed character, and he wasn't like a buffoon.
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you well that That part of him had had kind of grown out of that, right? Like he he understood that he was a toy. He understood his role. He understood um who he was, what he meant to his kid.
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you know, he ended up kind of being... Woody's guiding light in in in three. um And then in four, he kind of went back to being a little bit of like a bumbling idiot, which...
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Didn't feel quite right. And I think this movie really did him justice. He's funny. um He's sweet. And at the end of the day, he's still authoritative. He makes decisions. He you know respects his role. he respects his relationship with everybody. And you know he continues to butt heads with Woody a little bit. But I think that's that's to be um expected. So... um this movie is still out in theaters.
Emotional Highlights and Existential Themes
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If you are watching this when it is, when it is new, I expect this is going to have a pretty significant run in theaters. Um, it's been a while since I've, I've struggled to get good seats on a movie on like a Friday evening.
00:25:04
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Like I went, I went to a 5 30 PM showing of this and I had to pick a theater that I typically don't go to because the theaters that I usually go to were all booked. Um,
00:25:16
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Um, you know, and family of four, it's usually not terribly difficult um to get seats, but I did have a hard time getting seats for this theater was packed kids, adults, everyone applauded at the end.
00:25:31
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Um, again, it's been it's been a little while since I've been to ah a a screening of a film like that. So that felt great. I think everybody was happy with it.
00:25:42
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Kids liked it. The adults that I was with everybody enjoyed this film. um from a logistical standpoint uh stay till the end of the credits you get a mid-credit sequence as well as an end credit sequence um the mid-credit sequence is definitely something that is has a great like payoff emotionally so you don't want to miss that um even if you got little ones tell them stick stick tight the one at the end of the credits is a funny but it's definitely like a throwaway reference to a joke that happens earlier in the movie um while it is funny it is definitely not necessary if you are going to pee yourself um please please don't damage damage your bladder go pee um you can catch it when it's on disney plus but make sure that you get that mid-credit sequence because it does pay off a moment in the film that was actually really very sweet very well i would say to actually one of the more emotional parts of the movie um
00:26:38
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like i said at the beginning of this uh this movie did make me emotional i actually it brought me to tears a couple times again jesse's story is so rich and so complex and so complicated and um they did an absolutely fabulous job handling that uh and and adding to her lore too without without making it smaller, right? Like I feel like a lot of, a lot of movies, you know thinking about things like star Wars and, and even, you know, projects like stranger things, um, you know you always go back to Hawkins, you always go back to Tatooine, you always, you know, everything always kind of shrinks down into, um, the places we know and love and the, and the, and, and, you know, doesn't really expand on things. And,
00:27:26
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you know, with, with you know the Taylor Swift song that goes with this movie, it's very clearly a Jesse song. And some of the things that happened in the trailer, everyone was like, oh, what if, what if Jesse's Emily was Andy's mom? And like, you know, like ah all these things to kind of like really,
00:27:42
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crunch the story and connect it and make these like weird connections that shouldn't exist. They did an excellent job sidestepping that and doing something really unique and something that hits emotionally like a megaton hammer.
00:27:56
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That moment when you find out ah that little bit more about Emily and that little bit more about her relationship with Jesse and and what it means to be a toy that's in the right place at the right time for the development of a person, a a human person.
00:28:13
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That moment literally crushed me into my seat. I i cannot remember. and again, it might it might just be me being an emotional person, me having this this relationship with toys that I do. But like that moment,
00:28:30
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absolutely broke me. Like, bro i need I needed emotional support. Um, and I'm not afraid to admit that. And and i'm I'm not a big, like, crier at movies. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Um...
00:28:45
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But when something does hit me, i mean, there have been a few times in theaters where I have I have had like borderline emotional episodes. This wasn't that, but it did hit me.
00:28:59
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It hit me. I didn't see it coming, um which was I think was another part of it, too, because like, again, like the lore behind, um you know, Jesse's relationship with kids is again, like I said, very complicated. So I was not expecting them to go the route that they did with Emily.
00:29:14
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But when they did, Kudos. Didn't see it coming. Thought it was fabulous. ah and And I hope everybody felt something because I think it was it was good about hitting you in the feels. But um with that, that is this movie in a nutshell.
00:29:33
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And some things that I took away from it i were kind of thinking a little bit differently about technology. You know, I like I said, I have two kids, you know, I constantly grappling with, i you know, their screen time and what screens mean and the danger that comes with them, but also like the good side of things and being able to capture moments and and share them later on in their lives. i mean, there are so many things that happened when I was a kid that I just didn't have a camera for, but like my friends and I that I still connect with from, you know, my childhood, we remember things, but like, I would love to be able to show my kids pictures
00:30:13
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you know, of of some of these things. The fact that they can capture these moments on these devices is something that's key, but like it's too much. And I think honestly, that's the case with anything. You know, there's too much when in 1994. You know, I definitely played Super Nintendo for too long. Like there were days during summer break where I sat down and I played that thing for like six, seven hours, um which is not great.
00:30:39
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ah But also like, you know, as setting up a wrestling ring, setting up an entire arena or setting up the Batcave and setting up an entire like siege on it led by the Joker and doing that for eight hours isn't great either. Like there needs to be balance. You need to be able to go outside. You need to be able to experience different things. You need to be able to interact with people.
00:31:02
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um And this movie is a movie about that balance. And I think they handled it perfectly. um I think it should surprise nobody if you have made it this far in the episode um that I recommend this movie. ah Now, in terms of a jumping off point, right, we're talking about it being Toy Story 5.
00:31:23
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Do you need to see the other Toy Story movies to see this? Absolutely. um I don't think if there's one thing that can be said poorly about this movie, one is walkie talkie usage. You'll understand when you see it. Um,
00:31:39
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That's not how walkie talkies work. But, um, aside from that, the, the, the one thing that I would say this movie handles very, very poorly is people who don't know about toy story. And I think when you're making a movie that is geared towards children, um that caters to adults, but it's geared towards children.
00:32:00
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I think even as like a 10 year old, if I had never seen another toy story, I would be confused as all hell in this. Um, Especially when Woody shows up I would be absolutely confused as to what the hell was going on.
00:32:15
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um That being said, it is Toy Story 5. 5 is in there. If you're taking your kids to see this, show them the first four. They're going to love them. They're great movies. I mean, it' not like it's not like the MCU at this point where it's like, oh, well, see the new Spider-Man movie. You need to watch.
00:32:34
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78,000 hours of content. um It's four movies and you should probably watch them anyway, especially the first three. Four, you know, again, I like it. a lot of people don't. But hey, ah it's four movies.
00:32:47
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Definitely prerequisite watching before this. um And then the other thing, too, is the thing that ah my biggest takeaway from this movie is I want a series. I want an adventure of the week series. I want it to be called Woody's Roundup.
00:33:02
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And I want it to be about Woody, Bo, Duke Boom and those other guys rescuing toys. And each episode is them rescuing a different toy. Pure Adventure of the Week style show, like kind of like how Woody's roundup was presented in in story in canon.
00:33:21
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But like them actually going and rescuing toys won an episode. Adventure of the week, run it forever. I'm sure you can get the actors and actresses to sign up for it. um You know, Tom Hanks is effectively like the the second coming of of Walt Disney. He's like the Disney dad. So, um yeah, i I would play did. He actually played Walt Disney. So, yeah, um just get him to do that. That would be amazing.
Desire for Woody's Roundup Spin-off Series
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You can have little cameos. Maybe he needs Buzz to help him with something one episode or something like, but like Woody's roundup, Woody's roundup gang, whatever you want to call it, but it's them going and rescuing toys. I, I need that. My soul needs that. Um, if, if there's one thing that spins off from this movie, uh, I hope it's that, uh, and also, you know, this does leave the door open for toy story six, which I'm sure they're going make, cause I have a sinking suspicion. This is going to make ah an absolute crap ton of money. Um,
00:34:16
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Yeah. So go see Toy Story 5. That is my recommendation. With that, I hope you have enjoyed this first episode of Real Talk Adventures in Collecting Real Talk Toy Story 5.
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00:36:29
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