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BUZZ SPINS OFF INTO SPACE

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Vincent
Published date17 June 2022
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
REVIEWS BY DAMON SMITH

In 1996, a six-year-old boy named Andy supposedly received his Buzz Lightyear action figure in the first Toy Story film as an early birthday present, after a trip to the cinema with his mother to see an action-packed film about a courageous Space Ranger.

Writer-director Angus MacLane's out-of-this-world computer-animated adventure is that picture.

Co-written by Jason Headley, Lightyear unfolds in a different universe from Pixar Animation Studios' earlier work (the central character is voiced by Chris Evans rather than Tim Allen) but iconography from Andy's playtime proliferates, including the threat of Emperor Zurg.

Buzz Lightyear (Evans) and commanding officer Alisha

Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) crash-land their spaceship with a manifest of 1,200 slumbering passengers on a planet of hostile insectoids. Marooned 4.2 million light years from home, the Space Rangers reanimate passengers to construct a fortified base from which to launch test flights of an experimental jet piloted by Buzz.

Unfortunately, time dilation dictates that for every minute Buzz spends travelling at hyperspeed, the people back at base age one year. Buzz sacrifices precious years with the people he loves to complete his mission, accompanied by a robotic cat sidekick named Sox (Peter Sohn), Alisha's granddaughter Izzy (Keke Palmer) and rookies Mo (Taika Waititi) and Darby (Dale Soules).

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