DVD Notes: “Toy Story 2”
 |
| Woody, Bull's-Eye, and Jessie, like hipsters, play with a vinyl record amid 20th century paraphernalia |
The sequel to the altogether cheery and beloved Toy Story, Pixar’s first release and surprise hit
film, begins with a sequence which is the stuff of a 10-year-old’s nightmares,
fed by a nourishing diet of video games and modern television. We’re brought
out of this quickly enough into Pixar’s customary brightness, but soon taken
into a real nightmare of one of the characters. While these two sequences take
up relatively little of Toy Story 2’s brisk hour-and-a-half, they
effectively serve to set up a tone of slightly more self-consciousness towards
entertainment and play-time than we had in the first film, both directed by John Lasseter.