I recently saw one of the newest cartoon movies out in theaters - Toy Story 4 - and I was appalled at both the subversive and the openly feminist agenda (not to mention anti-family and anti-man agenda) which permeated the movie. Normally, I'm not a movie cartoon person (I prefer explosions and adrenaline), but it was playing at the cheap-o theaters and a friend invited me, so I gave it a whirl. At least one can expect a few laughs from such cartoons, and while this one didn't disappoint in this area, I was left with a feeling of anger at the messages that Disney is presenting to the youngest generation. I explain in detail below...
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The movie Toy Story 4 is still pretty fresh in my mind, and while a 2nd review would provide a better article, there's no way I'm wasting 2 hours of my life to watch that trash again. So, take this review with a grain of salt; I think most of the details are correct. If they aren't, this review was free, so I have no motivation to care about your complaints.
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**SPOILER ALERT FROM HERE ON OUT**
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Main Characters (for those who've never seen Toy Story):
1. Woody, the Sheriff Cowboy (male)
2. Little Bo Peep, with her 3 sheep (female)
3. Buzz the Astronaut (male)
4. Forky, the plastic fork with hands and feet that were added during a school project (male)
5. Gabby, the evil 1950's doll (female)
6. Duke Caboom, motorcyle stuntman (male)
7. Andy, the former child who owned all these toys but eventually grew up (male)
8. Bonnie, the young girl who is given all of Andy's old toys (female)
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Toy Story 4, like all the previous Toy Story movies, is about how a bunch of toys view life, as they try to make their owner/child happy. When the child is not around, the toys talk about what the child likes and doesn't, and they order their activities so that the child has fun. Simple and innocent enough premise, (you'd think) and the first 3 movies did a great job with bringing to life this unique and funny perspective.
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This movie stars with a flashback to 9 years ago, when all the toys were still at Andy's house. One night, a truck pulls up to Andy's house to collect donations. The Little Bo Peep toy is surprisingly thrown into a donation box, along with other random toys. Before Little Bo Peep is carried away forever, she and Woody share a tender moment, as they say goodbye after many long years of "toy dating". All the rest of Andy's toys are shocked at the sudden loss of their friend, Bo Peep. Thus ends the flashback.
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9 years later, all the toys no longer belong to Andy, who has grown up, but were given to Bonnie, a young 5 year old girl. Woody, still the leader of all the old toys of Andy, tries to integrate his team with the new surroundings of Bonnie's bedroom and her existing toys. The existing toys also have a leader, who is a female. (Of course). Being that Woody's team is new, he is forced to take a back seat to a female and listen to her tell everyone what to do (in an overly annoying, commanding and demanding way...of course).
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The child Bonnie goes to her orientation day of school and there she meets a very nice teacher (female) and some not so nice classmates (boys..because boys are mean) and some nice classmates (girls, obviously). During class, the kindergartners make a fork person, using scraps of paper and a plastic fork. Bonnie calls her creation "forky" and he's her new best friend (the only male in the movie who isn't denigrated in some way, though the fork is shown to be partially retarded, but based on what happens to the rest of the males in the movie, that's pretty good treatment).
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When Bonnie gets home from class, her parents surprise her with the news that they are going on a trip for a few days, before school starts for good. Woody introduces forky to all the toys and tries to explain to him what a toy is, since forky isn't a toy but just a fork, and he wants to go live in a trash can, which is his destiny. (The joke of the toys trying to stop a fork from jumping into the trash is played out repeatedly, until it's only 1% as funny as it started out to be, which wasn't very at all. But I digress...) So Bonnie packs for the trip and takes Woody, Buzz, Forky and a few other toys with her in the car.
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When the family stops at their destination, which is a small-town with a summer carnival, Woody and forky take a tour of the town and see an antique store, where Woody thinks he sees Bo Peep, his old toy girlfriend, in the window. They enter the store, only to meet the evil doll, Gabby, who takes forky hostage because she wants Woody's voicebox. The evil Gabby has been in the antique store for years, and has never had a child take her home to love her, because her voicebox is broken, and no child wants a broken toy, so she has been looking for a replacement ever since (Gabby is actually a descent evil character, with much more complexity than 90% of marvel superhero movie bad guys. But I digress...). Woody escapes Gabby (he only escapes because of Bo Peep's help) and returns to the other toys, with Bo Peep too, to plan a rescue of forky. This is the movie in a nutshell. Now for the awful messages and subversive agenda.
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- When Woody meets Bo Peep, he's super excited to see her, while she is not friendly at all and acts like they were never really close. This is obviously a feminist trait...that women don't need men to be happy.
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- Bo Peep was originally clothed as a shepherdess in a dress who watched after her 3 sheep. Right when she meets Woody, she is shown taking off her skirt to reveal pants beneath. She then explains to Woody that she's been "fine" living alone, with no children "owning" her (i.e. no real family) and she has been taking care of her 3 sheep all by herself (i.e. single motherhood).
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She tells Woody that she loves her freedom and takes him up to a scenic spot to see the "beautiful world out there" (i.e. the world outside of a child's bedroom). ...The message to girls is obvious - freedom from family and children is wonderful. The world is a wonderful place that must be explored, and you must do so unmarried if you have to.
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- Woody explains to her that they must rescue forky because the child, Bonnie, loves forky and Woody would do anything to make Bonnie happy. Bo Peep makes snide remarks about the child, and about her former life and shows no caring attitude about forky or even about Woody. She's obnoxious to the core.
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- But she decides to help Woody get back to the shop and rescue forky ONLY because SHE knows the best way to rescue him. She repeatedly states that SHE has a plan, and everyone must follow it. (ugh, so annoying).
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- So Buzz the astronaut comes along to help, and the toys go back to the antique store. Buzz is supposed to get a key of some type but he screws this up and it's shown as a funny moment (even though in prior movies, Buzz usually saved the day and was a hero). Bo Peep takes Woody to meet another toy, Duke Caboom, who rides a motorcyle they can use.
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- Duke Caboom is another "broken man" who was rejected as a toy by his owner and is repeatedly emotionally overcome by this memory. Meanwhile, Bo Peep tells Duke to "get it together" and then orders everyone around while she puts her plan into action (a plan which she explains to nobody, but apparently just enjoys yelling at others when they don't do what she wants...and they legitimately don't know what she wants, as they are reacting to the bad guys who are chasing them). Anyway...
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- They all come face to face with the evil Gabby, who succeeds in defeating the plan and they all retreat to a back room to hide. Every toy is ready to give up and abandon forky, except Woody. He gives a speech and says that they can't give up, and that Bonnie needs to have forky back and it's his job to help Bonnie because loyalty is important (...this is actually a pretty good message here, but it's overshadowed and shat upon later). The toys give up, tell Woody that he's insane and they all leave him.
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- Gabby corners Woody and takes him hostage. She tells him that all she wants is his voicebox so she can be fixed and that a child will take her home. Woody, being a good toy who understands what it is to love a child, offers his voicebox to Gabby, if she will let forky free. Gabby agrees. (I don't think Gabby ever says "thank you" or anything like that. She's just happy that her dreams have come true. So selfish.)
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Woody (now a broken toy, actually and metaphorically) and forky leave the shop and journey back to the hotel where Bonnie and her parents are staying (Bonnie is an only-child, by the way). But on their way home, they learn that the family is about to drive away, which would leave them stranded. So, out of nowhere, Buzz, Bo Peep and the sheep show up to help Woody and forky make it back to the car in time. (Buzz congratulates Woody on a job well done and says he's sorry he couldn't help. Bo Peep never apologizes to Woody for leaving him, never congratulates him, never says anything to forky. Her character is consistently and obnoxiously only "goal oriented", with almost no emotions, except to show contempt for anyone (mostly males) who don't follow her plan).
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As with the earlier plan, Bo Peep steps into the leadership role, to "save the day" and help Woody/forky get home. Woody, for his part, is a wimpy male who never questions the plan, or Bo Peep, who never is mean to her, who never asserts himself, (even though in previous movies he was the de-facto leader of the toys, which included Bo Peep) and who always follows orders. It is repeatedly shown that Woody has feelings for Bo Peep (as she used to have feelings for him) but as she is now a "modern woman", she cannot show emotions or weakness in loving a man, or even the simple act of kindness to an old friend. Her character is overall very weird, very anti-feminine and feels very inhuman. Her character is written like an 80's male action hero. Not an exaggeration.
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When the toys make it back to the car, and Woody sees that the child Bonnie is so excited to see forky, he realizes that Bonnie has outgrown him and that he is no longer needed (just like feminists view males). All the other toys know how he feels for Bo Peep and they urge him to not get in the car and to say with Bo Peep forever.
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Bo Peep waits for Woody to make a decision (she never asks him to say, she never says she'll miss him if he goes with Bonnie, she doesn't say anything, not even a wave goodbye). Woody decides to stay, tells the toys goodbye and then runs over to Bo Peep, who finally acts like she has some emotions for him, even while the whole movie she treats him like he's dumber than a rented mule. So the movie ends with a "romantic happy ending" even though not even 2 minutes of movie time would lead anyone to believe that Bo Peep cares about anyone, anything or any place other than herself, her dreams and her world.
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Woody spent 3 movies being a selfless hero, the brave leader who organized all missions for the benefit of his owner, Andy, whom he loved. However, much like Disney destroyed and "de-constructed" Luke Skywalker's "toxic masculinity" in the last Star Wars movie, so Woody was turned into a weakling, feminist-loving soy boy, who took orders from a feminist woman, was treated like crap for doing so, and then ended up loving the feminist in spite of all the abuse. He spent the whole movie sacrificing himself for the good cause - Bonnie's love - but she also repeatedly rejected him, in favor of forky, a retarded piece of plastic. He sacrificed himself for the evil Gabby, to try to bring her happiness and she never thanked him. At the end of the movie, Woody was no longer a toy who deserved anything but abuse, because he repeatedly accepted the abuse as normal and as part of being a man. Toy Story 4 destroyed Woody's character arc from 3 previous movies, destroyed his dignity, and put the glories of feminism on display for all girls (and boys) to emulate. It was a sickening and evil display of feminist brutality and the hatred of males which is the emotion at feminism's core. Disney is satanic. Stay away from their unhealthy and humanity-destroying propaganda.
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That is all. Roll credits...