Toy Story 2

Movie
German title	Toy Story 2
Original title	Toy Story 2
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1999
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0 JMK 0
Rod
Director	John Lasseter
script	Rita Hsiao , Andrew Stanton , Doug Chamberlain , Chris Webb
production	Karen Robert Jackson , Helene Plotkin
music	Randy Newman
cut	Edie Bleiman , David Ian Salter, Lee Unkrich
synchronization
chronology
←  Predecessor Toy Story Successor  → Toy Story 3

Toy Story 2 from 1999 is the sequel to Toy Story from 1995 and, like its predecessor, a completely computer-animated cartoon . He was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Song for "When She Loved Me" in 2000.

action

The story begins with a video game sequence in which Buzz Lightyear and Emperor Zurg fight each other. Toy dinosaur Rex loses the game when Buzz defeats Zurg. Toy cowboy Woody is looking for his hat to accompany Andy to summer camp. All toys help with the search and the toy dog ​​Slinky Dog, or Slinky for short, will eventually find him. Before Woody goes to summer camp, Andy plays with all of his toys again. In doing so, he damages Woody's arm and decides not to take him with him. Woody is very sad about it. After a bad nightmare, in which Andy throws Woody away because of the torn arm, Woody finds toy penguin Wheezy hidden behind a book. Due to a squeak defect, Andy's mother scrapped it in this way some time ago. While the two are talking, they see her opening a flea market . A few minutes later she also comes to Andy's room to look for sellable items and takes Wheezy with her. A rescue operation to get Wheezy back follows, in which Woody uses Buster as a means of transportation through Andy's real dog.

The plan to save Wheezy succeeds, but when riding Buster back to the room, Woody loses his footing and falls down. A man named Al, who is at the flea market and is exactly looking for a figure like Woody, notices him. After Andy's mother refuses to sell Woody under any circumstances, the man simply steals him. Buzz's immediate rescue attempt is unsuccessful, but he finds out who the kidnapper is. Together the toys forge a rescue plan. Meanwhile, when Al is absent, Woody learns in Al's apartment that he is a rare, sought-after main collector's item from the Woody's Roundup series and that he, together with the three associated Wild West toy figures, gold digger Stinke-Piet, cowgirl Jessie and the horse Bullseye, or Bully for short, arrives Toy Museum in Tokyo to be sold. The three try to convince Woody to stay with them, but he wants to go back to Andy. On Al's return, Woody's arm accidentally tears off completely. Jessie is of the opinion that Woody will not be taken back by Andy like this. Woody is slowly starting to doubt himself. During the night Woody tries to get his torn arm back from Al and Bully helps him when suddenly the TV comes on and Al is woken up.

In the meantime, the toy figures Buzz, Rex, Slinky, Charlie Naseweis and Piggy Bank Specki have set out to help Woody. A street of these must also be crossed during rush hour. Shortly afterwards, Rex discovers a booklet in Al's toy store in order to defeat Zurg in the game. To find Woody faster, they all split up. Buzz finds an improved version of himself in the absence of the others. When he tries to upgrade one of the dolls, the doll struggles and puts the old Buzz in its place in the packaging. The others do not notice the new buzz. Woody is now completely freshened up and his arm is being repaired by a restorer called by Al. While Woody is happy about this, Jessie is not happy. The two talk to each other and based on Jessie's descriptions, Woody begins to understand that Andy might one day no longer need him. Bully and Stinke-Piet also influence Woody, so that he stays. Woody's four friends, along with the new Buzz, meet Al in their further search and slip into his pocket unnoticed in order to get to Woody faster. The old Buzz, who was able to free himself shortly before, notices this and follows Al. Without noticing, he frees Emperor Zurg from one of the fallen boxes, which Buzz follows to destroy him.

After Al leaves the bag in the car, the friends and the new Buzz go after him. Old Buzz is hot on their heels. Woody has become increasingly friends with the three colleagues from the collection series and is looking forward to traveling with them soon. While they are fooling around together, the four friends and the new Buzz finally discover him, but they mistakenly recognize an attack on Woody and storm into the room accordingly. The old Buzz also arrives shortly afterwards and Woody explains to everyone that the three of them are new friends. This also clarifies who the old and the new Buzz is. Woody tells all newcomers who he really is and that he therefore wants to travel. His old friends are not happy about it and leave sadly. Woody therefore gets a remorse, ultimately decides to live in Andy's toy room and wants to follow his old friends. But first he tries to persuade the newly made friends to come along. But Stinke-Piet now sees his peaceful museum future in danger. He tries to forcibly prevent Woody from getting to his friends when Al returns, quickly packs up all the collectibles and takes them with him. Again the old friends and the new Buzz take up the chase, but Imperator Zurg blocks their way. While the new Buzz duels with Zurg, the others continue their chase. An attempt by Slinky to free Woody fails thanks to Stinke-Piet. The new Buzz is subject to Zurg, as before in the game, and Zurg reveals to him that he is his father, which prevents Buzz from fighting him further. When Zurg tries to destroy Buzz, Rex comes back and saves him by defeating Zurg. Zurg and the new Buzz make up afterwards, both stay behind. The others just miss Al and follow Al to the airport. There, too, Stinke-Piet tries again to prevent the rescue operations. He injures Woody in the arm, but is taken by surprise shortly afterwards.

While Woody and Bully have already been freed, Woody, together with Bully and Buzz, can only save Jessie at the last moment before the plane takes off for Tokyo. With the exception of Stinke-Piet, the new Buzz and Zurg, all the toys return to Andy, who is immediately happy about the two new toys and repairs Woody's arm. Wheezy's defect has also been fixed in the meantime, to the delight of all other toys.

production

Data loss

During production in 1998, an incorrectly executed command resulted in the loss of almost all files in the project. A backup was restored, but after a week this step proved to be a failure. The backup medium was already full and newer files had overwritten older ones, which went unnoticed until then. Fortunately, thanks to the home server of Galyn Susman , who works at home, a week-old status could be restored.

After surviving the crisis, the film was deleted again in the winter of 1998. This time, on purpose, because the producers weren't happy with the film. Within nine months, Pixar developed the film from scratch.

publication

The film, distributed by Buena Vista Entertainment , was released in theaters on November 19, 1999 in the United States and the United Kingdom. The film was released in German cinemas on February 3, 2000.

Although the film was produced in 1: 1.85 format, the “Special Edition” DVD release only contains a 1: 1.78 format version. The film also ran on American and British television and was translated into French, Spanish and Italian, among others.

On October 2, 2009, the film was released again in the US in 3D. He was only shown in a double screening together with Toy Story , 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 3D double screening of Toy Story 1 and 2 brought in 30,714,027 US dollars (23,686,658 €; 28,924,419 Swiss francs; as of July 17, 2010) within the five-week period, of which 12.5 million alone US dollars (€ 9.64 million; CHF 11.89; as of July 17, 2010) on the opening weekend.

synchronization

The German dubbing was based on a dialogue book by Hartmut Neugebauer under his dialogue direction on behalf of Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Berlin and Munich .

role	Original speaker	German speaker
Woody	Tom Hanks	Peer Augustinski
Buzz	Tim Allen	Walter von Hauff
Jessie	Joan Cusack	Carin C. Tietze
Stinky Piet	Kelsey Grammer	Erik Schumann
Bullseye	Jonathan Freeman	Joachim Kemmer
Charlie Sniff	Don Rickles	Hartmut Neugebauer
Slinky Dog	Jim Varney	Gerd Potyka
Rex	Wallace Shawn	Ernst Wilhelm Lenik
Bacon	John Ratzenberger	Michael Rüth
Porcelain little ones	Annie Potts	Alexandra Ludwig
Al	Wayne Knight	Rainer Basedow
Andy	John Morris	Karim El Kammouchi
Andy's mother	Laurie Metcalf	Maria Boehme
Charlotte Naseweis	Estelle Harris	Inge Solbrig
sergeant	R. Lee Ermey	Reinhard Brock
Barbie	Jodi Benson	Alexandra Schneider
restorer	Jonathan Harris	Fred Maire
Drumn	Eddie Murphy	Otto Waalkes
Wheezy	Joe Ranft	Hans-Georg Panczak
Emperor Zurg	Andrew Stanton	Tommi Piper
Alien	Jeff Pidgeon	Bernd Simon

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews: At Rotten Tomatoes all 163 reviews for the film are positive - which gives it a rating of 100% - and at Metacritic a Metascore of 88, based on 34 reviews, was achieved.

“The computer-animated cartoon turns out to be a true masterpiece of storytelling with its breathtaking speed and its exuberant abundance of gags and ideas. It is fascinating both as entertainment at the highest level and as a multi-layered excursus about the essence of the game and how children's imagination works, including topics such as fear of loss, worries about getting older and the value of friendship and love. "

- Lexicon of international film

The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the production the title valuable.

Awards

Annie Awards 2000

• Best film - animated film
• Best Director - Animated Film
• Best music - animated film
• Best storyboarding - animated film
• Best Voice Actress: Joan Cusack
• Best voice actor: Tim Allen
• Best Screenplay - Animated Film

Academy Awards 2000

• Nomination :
• Best movie song "When She Loved Me" - Randy Newman

Golden Globe Awards 2000

• Best film - comedy or musical
  • further nomination :
  • Best movie song "When She Loved Me" - Randy Newman

Satellite Awards 2000

• Best animated film
• Best original song "When She Loved Me" (interpreted by Sarah McLachlan )

Box Office Germany Award 2000

Video games

A video game for the Playstation , Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast consoles as well as for the PC was also released for the film . In this, excerpts from the film were used to introduce the levels.

Another game appeared for the Game Boy Color .

Trivia

• Toy Story 2 contains some allusions to other feature films, such as Star Wars (relationship between Zurg and Buzz - I am your father ), Jurassic Park (Tyrannosaurus in the rearview mirror) or Das große Krabbeln (Flick and Gustl can be seen briefly on a branch , in the outtakes you can see the whole scene)
• At the end of the film, “outtakes” are shown, all of which depict funny mishaps from individual scenes in the film.

Web links

• Toy Story 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Toy Story 2 in the online movie database
• Official website for the Disney series
• Official Pixar Movie Website
• Toy Story 2 atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Age rating for Toy Story 2 . Youth Media Commission .
2. ^ Matthew Panzarino: How Pixar's Toy Story 2 was deleted twice, once by technology and again for its own good. In: The Next Web. May 21, 2012, accessed October 12, 2016 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Toy Story 2. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 22, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Toy Story 2 at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
5. ↑ Toy Story 2 at Metacritic (English)
6. ↑ Toy Story 2. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .