Toy Story 2 (1999) movie poster

Toy Story 2 (1999)

"The toys are back in town!"
ThumbScore
👍 92%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 94%
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Director
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
G
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.6/10 (14,724 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Metacritic
88

Cast

Tom Hanks as Woody (voice) · 76% avg
Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear (voice) · 76% avg
Joan Cusack as Jessie (voice) · 73% avg
Kelsey Grammer as Prospector (voice) · 69% avg
Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head (voice) · 79% avg
Jim Varney as Slinky Dog (voice) · 75% avg
Wallace Shawn as Rex (voice) · 69% avg
John Ratzenberger as Hamm (voice) · 77% avg

Is Toy Story 2 good?

Yes. 92% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 94%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#23 / 661 · Animation
Rank in its year
#2 / 103 · 1999
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 5 · John Lasseter

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Toy Story 2 is a 1999 American animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, directed by John Lasseter, and widely regarded as one of the greatest animated sequels ever made. The film follows Woody after he is stolen by an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggin, who recognizes him as an extremely valuable vintage toy from a 1950s children's television show called Woody's Roundup. In Al's apartment, Woody meets his Roundup Gang — Jessie the cowgirl, Bullseye the horse, and the Prospector — and learns he is destined for a museum in Tokyo where he will be preserved forever but never played with again.

Buzz Lightyear leads a rescue mission across the city to bring Woody home, while Woody faces a genuine philosophical dilemma: the immortality of museum display versus the mortal joy of being loved by a child. Toy Story 2 was originally planned as a direct-to-video sequel, but early work proved so promising that Disney upgraded it to a theatrical release. The upgrade nearly became a disaster when nearly the entire film was accidentally deleted from Pixar's servers and the backup system failed — the production was saved only because supervising technical director Galyn Susman had a copy on her home computer.

Joan Cusack's vocal performance as Jessie the cowgirl was the film's emotional revelation, particularly during the "When She Loved Me" sequence — a wordless montage depicting Jessie being gradually forgotten by her owner as the girl grows up — which reduced adult audiences to tears and is considered one of Pixar's most devastating sequences. Toy Story 2 earned $497 million worldwide and received universal critical acclaim.

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