Weary
Lightyear
director tries once again to explain
It's all very clear: The Tim Allen-voiced Buzz Lightyear was based on the
Real Ghostbusters
version of
Lightyear
.
Lightyear
, the new film from
Pixar
that’s set
sort of
in the studio’s venerable
Toy Story
universe, opens with a three-line text crawl that is, essentially, a Hail
Mary pass to explain the movie’s whole premise: “In 1995 Andy got a toy.
That toy is from his favorite movie. This is that movie.
It’s actually a little marvel of screenwriting ingenuity, apparently supplied by producer
Andrew Stanton in an effort to cut off the confusion stemming from a film premise
that has only ever been fitfully clear, vis a vis how “real” or “not real”
the film is supposed to be in regards to the wider
Toy Story
world.