Polygon

Lightyear exemplifies one of Pixar’s recent running themes: failure

In retrospect, it doesn’t make much sense to compare Lightyear’s finances to the Toy Story series that spawned it. Lightyear positions itself as the “real” movie that made Andy, the main human ...
Polygon

Lightyear follows a familiar Pixar theme — and that’s its biggest problem

For the last seven years, one of the most popular critical analyses of Pixar Animation Studios movies has come from a Tumblr meme. Granted, it’s an insightful meme. The idea that Pixar movies all boil ...
collider

Lightyear vs. Buzz in Toy Story: We Have Some Unanswered Questions

"In 1995, Andy got a toy. That toy is from his favorite movie. This is that movie." This announcement of self-importance proceeds the beginning of Pixar's latest film Lightyear, inviting a new ...
TheWrap

Alternate Versions of Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ That We’ll Never See

“Lightyear” has landed … on VOD and Disney+. The latest Pixar adventure imagines the movie that Andy watched in 1995 that inspired his love of the Buzz Lightyear character. (The actual toy is most ...
The Verge

Lightyear’s a stiff-as-plastic deconstruction of heroic space dramas

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Lightyear tells the story of Buzz ...
GameSpot

Lightyear Review - Pixar Goes To Infinity And Beyond In Its Theatrical Return

Before Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear was flying around the galaxy, making friends, and being a great caretaker to a robot cat. Since Lightyear was announced, there's been one question on everyone's minds.