Retro Spectacles continues the Toy Story franchise deep dive with the sequel nobody asked for that made a billion dollars. Toy Story 3 closed the book on the Andy trilogy with a Best Picture-nominated goodbye. Toy Story 4 survived John Lasseter's Me Too departure, Rashida Jones and Will McCormack walking off the project, and a near-complete rewrite to deliver something tonally different from every Toy Story before it. More existential than whimsical, more dramedy than adventure, and anchored by Tony Hale's Forky asking what it means to be alive while Woody makes the most controversial decision in franchise history.
Keanu Reeves steals the movie as Duke Kaboom through a blind Canadian-only casting search, Christina Hendricks' Gabby Gabby becomes the first Toy Story villain who wants the same thing the heroes want, and Annie Potts returns as a reinvented Bo Peep designed from the ground up by Pixar's all-women Team B.
Mitcz & Teddy dig into whether Woody's ending is growth or betrayal, Forky as Pixar's most unlikely mascot, Tim Allen allegedly phoning it in, Disney's $10 billion box office year, the plush rush sequence, Tarantino calling Toy Story 4 a perfect film, and why both hosts land on the same order for their franchise ranking.
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