‘Lightyear’ review: Decent Pixar snatches Buzz from the toy chest
17.06.2022 - 01:27
/ nypost.com
Wall-E.” Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG (action/peril).
In theaters.Director Angus MacLane’s film focuses on a flesh-and-blood Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) who is still a stubborn, cocky hero — only he is not owned by a 6-year-old boy named Andy and no longer pals around with plastic pigs. Resembling Maverick from “Top Gun,” Lightyear is a daredevil government pilot with a disdain for authority.During a remote mission, Lightyear accidentally gets his large Enterprise-like spaceship with hundreds of humans aboard marooned on a faraway planet.
And so he makes it his life goal to achieve “hyperspeed” in a small spacecraft, which would allow the crew to return home.However, every time the astronaut makes a test run in outer space, the planet moves forward in time four years while he stays exactly the same. As he tries and tries to get the advanced tech to work, Lightyear comes back to discover that his friends are aging, having kids and dying around him. A moving scene depicting the rapid passage of time early in the movie is a dead ringer for the weepy marriage sequence in Pixar’s “Up.” When a vaguely evil dude takes over and decides to end missions to leave the planet, Lightyear goes rogue with the help of some ragtag aspiring rangers, including Izzy (Keke Palmer), with whom he has an unexpected connection. But the best character in this “Toy Story”-adjacent movie is, surprise surprise, a toy.
He’s a robot cat named Sox, who is gifted to Lightyear to help him deal with the stress of his job. Sox, who gets almost all the film’s laughs, becomes a vital tool in defeating a foe, the Zurgs, that begin attacking the human settlement.
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