What Are Individual Critics Saying About ‘Toy Story 5’?

David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter is among the top critics on RT who gives the new Toy Story a “fresh” score, writing, “Toy Story 5 comes an astonishing 31 years after the original and does the enduring franchise proud. The movie’s captivating sweetness is hard to resist.”

David Ehrlich of IndieWire also awards Toy Story 5 a “fresh” score, writing on RT, “For all of its teachable wisdom, this movie knows that life is never sweeter than it is during the moments, and years, when we simply can’t accept that love is also made out of plastic.”

Also high on Toy Story 5 is Moira MacDonald of the Seattle Times, who writes in his “fresh” RT review summary, “What makes the movie sing, as with its predecessors, is its sweetness. Five movies in, it’s still poignant to think about toys having a relationship with their children, loving them and trying to keep them safe in an ever-changing world.”

Liz Shannon Miller of Consequence also deems the film “fresh.” Miller writes on RT, “What Toy Story 5 reveals is that we may have found the limit to what a toy’s perspective on the world has to teach us.”

Also giving Toy Story 5 a fresh “score’ is Brian Truitt of USA Today, who writes on RT, “Somehow, more than 30 years later, Buzz and Woody haven’t worn out their welcome. It also doesn't hurt that Jessie lassos our feelings like never before.”

David Fear of Rolling Stone is among the top critics on RT who gives Toy Story 5 a “rotten” score. In his RT review summary, Fear writes, “Why are you doing this, Pixar? I mean, we know why. But regardless of well-deserved worries about screen-time or not, there doesn’t feel like there’s a reason for this to exist other than keeping your stockholders happy.”

Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian also gives the film a “rotten” score. Bradshaw writes on RT, “It’s almost incredible to think that the Toy Story series is more than 30 years old, a central plank of the Pixar animation golden age. But now it is played out and IP exhaustion has set in.”

In his “rotten” review summary on RT, Jake Cole of Slant Magazine notes, “Toy Story 5 leans into the sentimental beats that are familiar to the series, except those moments too often give the film the feel of a PSA aimed at convincing parents to monitor their kids’ screen time.”

Rated PG, Toy Story 5 plays in Thursday previews before opening on Friday in theaters nationwide.