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Lightyear

Lightyear

2022

Angus MacLane

Animation, Voice: Chris Evans, Keke Palmer, Peter Sohn ...

5.8

11,397

Animation. Adventure. Sci-Fi. Comedy While spending years attempting to return home, marooned Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear encounters an army of ruthless robots commanded by Zurg who are attempting to steal his fuel source.

	Author	Review
United States	Patrick Gomez Entertainment Weekly	"Kids will love 'Lightyear'. Adults will enjoy it. The only reason it falls short of what we've come to expect from Pixar is that they've set their own bar so damn high."	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"This is a funny spinoff with suspense and heart, a captivatingly spirited toon take on splashy live-action retro popcorn entertainment. The title character is given splendid voice by Chris Evans"	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"It is, in essence, a light, breezy, better-than-average Disney movie (...) while barely feeling like a Pixar movie at all. (...) It doesn’t want or feel the need to go anywhere near infinity, much less beyond."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Buzz Lightyear gets his own adventure. It’s diverting enough, but doesn’t give you a buzz (...) it plays less like an origin story than like the middle episode of an ongoing Buzz Lightyear adventure franchise."	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"It’s Pixar's meta version of 'Star Wars' (...) "Lightyear' is a crowd-pleasing effort that doesn’t shoot for the moon but manages to be a nostalgic blast anyway (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Keith Watson Slant	"To mediocrity, and beyond! The film is a slick, soulless spectacle whose jokey banter and space-opera action drowns out the story’s emotional beats (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This cracking origin story for Toy Story’s spaceman hero is fun and clever and reminds us why we loved Pixar in the first place (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"Though Pixar's Toy Story series is consistently gripping and deeply emotional, this spin-off is flaccid, repetitive and emotionally dead, almost from its first moments."	NEG
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"A fairly likable action vehicle mixed with a familiar rumination on what defines a life, without rising into that top tier of Pixar fare its predecessors occupied."	POS
United States	Carlos Aguilar The Playlist	'Following Pixar’s two most refreshing releases in years, “Luca” and “Turning Red,” both of which were deemed unworthy of a full theatrical release, it’s difficult not to perceive “Lightyear” as a far less compelling and safe bet.'	NEU
United States	Odie Henderson rogerebert.com	"Director Angus MacLane and his co-writer, Jason Headley do a very good job gently mocking the type of space movie that would have existed in the 1990s (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Pixar’s lifeless return to theaters is a great excuse to stay home"	NEU
United States	Tasha Robinson Polygon	"'Lightyear' is meant to stand entirely on its own as an adult science fiction story rather than a movie primarily aimed at 6-year-olds like"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"For perhaps the first time in the studio’s canon, every idea in this ‘origin story’ of the Toy Story astronaut feels woefully half-baked (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Jacob Oller Paste Magazine	"'Lightyear' teleports this surefire poignancy into a pulpy sci-fi adventure. Its strapping hero flies full speed ahead when confronting the passage of time, accelerating to an enjoyable but decidedly finite success."	POS
United States	Tomris Laffly AV Club	"This free-standing and ambitious space adventure is packed to the gills with vibrant characters and creepy villains, most of which are sadly more interesting than Buzz himself"	NEU
United States	Hoai-Tran Bui SlashFilm	"This is a movie for 'Toy Story' adults not 'Toy Story' children. And while that's perfectly fine (good, even!) it does start the movie off on a strange foot"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"As an adventure-comedy for kids, this movie is perfectly OK — but 'perfectly OK' falls far short of what the studio (and the 'Toy Story' movies) can do"	NEU
United States	Amelia Emberwing IGN	"'Lightyear' doesn’t find its stride until about 40 minutes in, but once it hits that point, it’s relatively solid (...) Lightyear features striking visuals"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"It’s hard to imagine legions of children seeing this film back in the ‘90s and suddenly craving Buzz toys."	NEU
United States	John Serba Decider	"'Lightyear' is fine, just fine. It inspires no greater superlatives"	NEU
United States	Ross Bonaime Collider	"Buzz goes to infinity and beyond in a charming, but unnecessary addition to the Toy Story universe."	POS

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