• Pixar’s first film- a smashing critical and box office success— set the groundwork for this as the future vs. the hand-drawn work that dates back decades
  • It was the first feature-length film to be entirely computer-animated
  • Crisp beautiful images—
  • An accomplishment of inventive world-building
  • Randy Newman does some impressive work here- sets the comic/nostalgic poignant tone—the movie moves—and there are 3 songs here in 81 minutes
  • Two strong comic lead voices— Tom Hanks and his charming wailing routine and Tim Allen doing a great William Shatner
  • Plenty of play-on-word cleverness
  • A few nice cinema homages—one of the Raiders of the Lost Ark ball rolling and there’s a bit of Tod Browning’s Freaks believe it or not with the dismembered toys
  • R/HR border