Toy story

Movie
German title	Toy story
Original title	Toy story
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1995
length	Cinema: 81 minutes DVD: 78 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	John Lasseter
script	Joss Whedon Andrew Stanton Joel Cohen Alec Sokolow
production	Ralph Guggenheim Bonnie Arnold
music	Randy Newman
cut	Robert Gordon , Lee Unkrich
synchronization
chronology
Successor  → Toy Story 2

Toy Story is a computer animated film from director John Lasseter from the year 1995 . The film, produced by Pixar Animation Studios on behalf of the Walt Disney Company , is the first feature-length film made entirely on the computer for the cinema. It premiered in Hollywood on November 19, 1995 and was released in German cinemas on March 21, 1996.

action

In the children Andy has the main character, Cowboy - Sheriff Woody, the say, because he is Andy's favorite toy. But a few days before the family move, Andy receives the modern space ranger Buzz Lightyear for his birthday . The toys from Andy's room are enthusiastic about him, after all, he is equipped with the most modern refinements that a toy can have. Suddenly Woody is no longer the undisputed top toy and, out of jealousy, wants to get rid of Buzz. Woody tries again and again to make it clear to Buzz and the other toys that Buzz is just a toy because Buzz thinks he is the real Buzz Lightyear, and plays down Buzz's abilities. He eventually assassinated him, intending to push Buzz into a dark corner of the nursery. But the attempt fails, Buzz is accidentally thrown out the window and ends up in the front yard. The other toys are unable to help him and ostracize Woody because it is a death sentence for a toy to be near the neighbor boy Sid. Because he tries out the cruelest methods of torture on defenseless toys.

While the toys are still arguing, Andy takes Woody on a trip to the Pizza Planet adventure restaurant . Buzz manages to escape the frightening future in the front yard by holding onto Andy's mother's car as it leaves the driveway. When the car stops at a gas station, Andy leaves it for a moment. As soon as he is out of earshot, Woody and Buzz get into a violent argument, in the course of which they both fall out of the car and are left alone at the gas station. But they are lucky: a few minutes later the car of a Pizza Planet employee stops next to them. Woody realizes that sneaking a ride in this car is the only chance to find your way back to Andy. But he knows that he has to take Buzz with him in order to clear up the misunderstanding of his accident.

In the Pizza Planet branch, the two hide in a slot machine. Shortly afterwards, she is discovered by the boy next door, Sid, who takes her home. A large number of disfigured toys made up of various components live in his room. Sid ties Buzz to a missile to be shot into the air the next day. Buzz and Woody want to flee, but all attempts fail. From a television commercial and the inoperability of his equipment, Buzz finally realizes that he is really not the real space ranger, just a toy. Thereupon he falls into a depression and does not defend himself against the brutal Sid. Together with the toys from Sid's room, Woody can save Buzz. The toys teach Sid a lesson by showing themselves alive in front of him so that he stops torturing toys. Woody and Buzz manage to escape.

The two reach Andy's apartment, but the moving truck is already packed and the family is driving away in front of them. Andy is unhappy that he has lost his two favorite toys and that he cannot take them with him into the new apartment. After a failed attempt to track the moving truck with a remote-controlled toy car, Woody comes up with the idea of ​​detonating Sid's rocket, which Buzz still carries tied on his back. The maneuver actually works, and both toys fly through the sunroof into the car. Andy immediately finds them in the moving box and is overjoyed to have them both back. The two heroes realize that it's not just about being the best toy, but about being loved by a child. As a team, they managed to capture Andy's heart. The former competitors eventually became friends. At the end of the Christmas game, the toys notice that Andy has now got a dog for Christmas.

synchronization

The German synchronization was created by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Munich. The dialogue book was written by Pierre Peters-Arnolds , who was also responsible for the dubbing. The original score was composed by Randy Newman and sung with English texts and is sung by Klaus Lage with German texts.

role	Original speaker	German speaker
Woody	Tom Hanks	Peer Augustinski
Buzz Lightyear	Tim Allen	Walter von Hauff
Charlie Naseweis (Mr. Potato Head)	Don Rickles	Hartmut Neugebauer
Slinky (Slinky Dog)	Jim Varney	Peter Thom
Rex	Wallace Shawn	Ernst Wilhelm Lenik
Specky (Hamm)	John Ratzenberger	Michael Rüth
Porcelain Bunny (Bo Peep)	Annie Potts	Alexandra Mink
Andy	John Morris	Oliver Cresswell
Sid Phillips	Erik von Detten	Dimitri Guldner
Andy's mother (Mrs. Davis)	Laurie Metcalf	Maria Boehme
sergeant	R. Lee Ermey	Reinhard Brock
Hannah Phillips	Sarah Freeman	Natalie Loewenberg
TV announcer	Penn Jillette	Pierre Peters-Arnolds
Lenny	Joe Ranft	Jakob Riedl

background

Entrance to the Pixar Studios that produced the film.

A render farm of 117 Sun SparcStation 20 was used to render the film . The finished film took up 500 gigabytes and was cached on 1200 CDs .

Despite numerous real toys in the film, no Barbie doll appears because the manufacturer Mattel did not want to allow this. However, after the great success of the first part, permission was given to use Barbies in Toy Story 2 .

Although the film was produced in the widescreen format 1.85: 1, the German DVD release (Special Edition) only contains a 1.78: 1 ( 16: 9 ) picture .

Content-related details and allusions

• At the beginning of the film (0h08m00s) there are some books with the titles of other Pixar shorts by John Lasseter, including: "The Adventures of André and Wally B." ( The Adventures by André and Wally B. , 1984), "Red's Dream" ( Reds Traum , 1987), " Tin Toy " (1988) and " Knick Knack " (1989).
• When Buzz is seen in the film for the first time (0h15m30s) and he looks at the room from his glass hood, the noise - similar to that of a ventilator - can be heard that Darth Vader makes when breathing.
• Since Andy's family is moving (0h25m25s), a sign is set up in front of their house, following the typical American model, which advertises the sale of the house by a real estate agency. The name “virtual realty” for this agency is a play on words from “virtual reality” (“artificial reality”) and “realty” (“property”).
• During an argument between Buzz and Woody under the truck at the gas station (0h32m22s), Buzz says goodbye to Woody with the gesture of greeting from the Vulcans from Star Trek , in which the palm of the hand is raised as if one swears and then the index and middle finger Pair of ring finger / little finger pair is spread apart.
• "© Disney" is worked into Buzz's buttocks, seen when he tried to fly from the railing in Sid's house (0h46m51s).
• Buzz Lightyear has the same first name as the astronaut Buzz Aldrin , who was the second man on the moon.
• Sid's tool box bears the brand name Binford (0h57m05s), the fictional tool manufacturer from the series Listen to Who's Hammering , in which Tim Allen also plays.
• The carpet in the hallway in front of Sid's room has the same pattern as the one in the “Overlook Hotel” in Stanley Kubrick's Shining .
• The teapot in Hannah's room is the so-called Utah teapot , one of the oldest and best-known 3D models of computer graphics. The teapot has become a running gag in the computer graphics scene and can be found in various computer-animated films.
• The Wilhelmsschrei can be heard when Buzz falls out of the window because of the desk lamp, the famous running gag of the sound designer.
• In the scene with Woody and Buzz sitting in the car, Andy's sister Molly notices them in the rearview mirror. The song Hakuna Matata from The Lion King can be heard on the car radio .

3D republication

On October 2, 2009, the film was released again in the US in 3D . It was only shown in a double screening together with Toy Story 2 , which was also converted into 3D. Originally, the demonstrations were to be limited to a period of two weeks. However, due to its great success, this was extended to five weeks.

The original computer data was processed for the 3D conversion and a second virtual camera was added so that stereoscopic image material was available, which is essential for depth perception. This process alone took four months. It then took another six months to apply adequate 3D effects to the films.

The double 3D screening of Toy Story 1 and 2 brought in 30,714,027 US dollars (23,686,658 €; as of July 17, 2010) within the five-week period, of which 12.5 million US dollars (9.64 million €; as of July 17, 2010) on the opening weekend.

reception

The Linux distribution Debian GNU / Linux uses the names of the characters from Toy Story to designate the various releases of their software , "Buzz" (1.1), "Rex" (1.2), "Bo" (1.3), "Hamm" (2.0 ), "Potato" (2.2), "Woody" (3.0), "Sarge" (3.1), "Etch" (4.0), "Lenny" (5.0), "Squeeze" (6.0), "Wheezy" (7.0) , "Jessie" (8.0), "Stretch" (9.0), "Buster" (10.0), "Bullseye" (11.0, testing) and "Bookworm", unstable).

The insemination bull Toystory got its name after the film.

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews: At Rotten Tomatoes , all 98 reviews for the film are positive - giving it a rating of 100% - and at Metacritic , a Metascore of 92, based on 16 reviews, was achieved.

"The first fully computer-animated feature film tells its exciting adventure story with overwhelming ingenuity, speed and humor, without sacrificing the praise of friendship and mutual respect to technical virtuosity."

- Lexicon of international film

“The film lives not only from the longing for the symbiotic joy in animated toys, but also from the way in which the boundaries between play and reality are repeatedly crossed and immediately restored. A postmodern fairy tale full of reflections between reality and dream goods, and of an almost exuberant emotionality. "

- Georg Seesslen - The time

“'Toy Story' is a comedy for character actors. [...] Director John Lasseter didn’t do without action scenes either. Especially the big chase towards the end of the film, when Buzz and Woody chase through the traffic in a model car, shows the extravagant camera settings made possible by computer animation. But the most exciting moments take place in the head of the protagonist. For example, when Buzz, who thinks he's a real galaxy warrior, sees a commercial with lots of BuzzLightyear characters and realizes that he's nothing more than a toy. That makes him more human than some of the living Hollywood actors. "

- Rüdiger Sturm - KulturSPIEGEL

Awards

In 2005 Toy Story was included in the National Film Registry , which lists US films that are particularly worth preserving. The film has also been one of the 100 best American films of all time since 2007 according to the American Film Institute .

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the rating valuable .

price	Nominations	Awards	country	Award
Annie Award	Best animation film Best animation Best director Best music Best production Best production design Best technology Best script	Best animation film Best animation Best director Best music Best production Best production design Best technology Best script	United States	1996
Oscar	Best Score, Best Song ( You've Got a Friend in Me ), Best Original Screenplay	Special Oscar for the first computer-animated feature film	United States	1996
Golden Globe Award	Best film - comedy or musical. Best film song		United States	1996
Saturn Award	Best Fantasy Film, Best Screenplay		United States	1996
BAFTA Award	Best visual effects		Great Britain	1997

Sequels

• In the 1999 movie Toy Story 2 , Woody turns out to be a sought-after toy collector's item. Because of his worth, he is kidnapped by toy dealer Al. Buzz and a few others of Andy's toys go on a spectacular rescue mission to prevent Woody's export to Japan.
• In 2000, the cartoon series Captain Buzz Lightyear - Star Command and the cartoon for the series Captain Buzz Lightyear - Star Command - The adventure begins , which is based on Toy Story.
• In Toy Story 3 (2010), Andy, the owner of the toys, has grown up and goes to college. By mistake, Cowboy Woody and his friends are taken to a kindergarten, where they meet more toys.
• On November 7, 2014 has Robert Iger , the CEO of Disney , Toy Story 4 officially announced. Initially, John Lasseter , who also directed the first two films, was to direct . In July 2017, however, it was announced that Josh Cooley would be directing Lasseter instead . The story of the fourth part comes from the pen of John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton , Pete Docter and Lee Unkrich . The screenplay in turn by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack . The film is produced by Pixar veteran Galyn Susman . Tom Hanks (Woody) and Tim Allen (Buzz Lightyear) have already signed their contracts for the dubbing voices and will lend the dolls their voices again in the fourth part. In late November 2017, screenwriters Rashida Jones and Will McCormack announced their withdrawal from the project due to creative and philosophical differences with Pixar. In January 2019 it was announced that the fourth part will be released in Germany under the title A Toy Story: Everything hears on no command . The US theatrical release was on June 21, 2019, in Germany on August 15, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Toy Story  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Toy Story in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Official Disney website
• Official Pixar Movie Website
• Toy Story atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Toy Story. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Sun and Pixar shoot the hit movie "Toy Story"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Computerwoche on December 22, 1995  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} audio commentary on the DVD
4. ↑ Toy Story at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
5. ↑ Toy Story at Metacritic (English)
6. ^ Toy Story. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
7. ^ Rubber man, you go ahead in Die Zeit , issue 13/1996 of March 22, 1996
8. ^ Revolution in Duckburg in KulturSPIEGEL , issue 3/1996 of February 26, 1996
9. ↑ http://www.fbw-filmbeval.com/film/toy_story
10. ↑ Toy Story 4 - John Lasseter isn't directing the Pixar sequel . In: moviepilot.de . July 15, 2017 ( moviepilot.de [accessed July 18, 2017]).
11. ↑ Daniel L .: Toy Story 4 will be released in 2017! . In: Filmfutter.com . November 7, 2014. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
12. ↑ Toy Story 4 - Rashida Jones & Will McCormack step down as screenwriters . In: moviepilot.de . November 22, 2017 ( moviepilot.de [accessed November 23, 2017]).
13. ↑ Toy Story 4 - Pixar donated the first moving pictures in the trailer for the film. In: newsslash.com. March 22, 2019, accessed April 17, 2019 .