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This article is to Review Lightyear. The combination of Disney and Pixar once again brings well-rounded, sharp, and funny animated movies to serve the entertainment needs of families. Besides, Lightyear: Space police also bring many highly educational messages.
Continuing to attack the global big screen with Lightyear: Cosmic Police with the combination of Disney and Pixar has immediately conquered a large audience of children and teenagers, who have many memories. childhood with the hit Toy Story series.
The story of the film is the narrative of Buzz Lightyear – a space killer and also the prototype hero for the toy robot Buzz in the Toy Story series. Due to a mistake during the survey, Buzz Lightyear and his crew were stranded on a planet 4.2 million light-years from Earth.
To return to their homeland, they were forced to temporarily settle down and build a speedboat and a series of tests.
Then came a series of failures that made Buzz doubt himself, break up with colleagues, … and go to space 62 years later.
At that time, he and his assistant cat Sox met new teammates: Izzy Hawthorne, Darby Steel, and Mo Morrison against Emperor Zurg – the leader of the robot faction that is harming the people.
Lightyear is more than just a funny movie
As soon as the movie establishes its protagonist as the self-assured action hero we know and love, it immediately defies our assumptions about the nature of this supposed space adventure.
Buzz begins a series of high-velocity flight tests that unintentionally push him into the future, one step at a time after his ego leaves the 1,000-person crew of his spaceship stranded on a dangerous alien planet.
This situation is straight out of ancient Greek mythology. Buzz experiences a form of repetitive time-travel suffering, much like Sisyphus, who was forced to push a rock up a mountain just to have it roll down it again as retribution for his arrogance.
Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba), his companion and devoted comrade, is seen aging in a heartbreaking montage sequence until she eventually passes away. Buzz has maintained a positive outlook up until this point, but now he begins to realize the harsh reality of his circumstances.
Rapidly following action scenes feature Buzz and his friends leaping enthusiastically from one catastrophe to the next. The animation team delicately treads the line between fluid realism and the snappy choreography of the original Toy Story in the conception and execution of these high-energy set pieces.
Another exceptional skill that Pixar possesses is the capacity to design characters who convey all the heightened excitement we anticipate seeing in an animated blockbuster while yet coming off as real, breathing people.
As he adjusts to his new reality, Buzz teams up with the Junior Zap Patrol, a gang of outcasts who defy his assumptions and ultimately teach him the importance of cooperation. Izzy Hawthorne, Alisha’s granddaughter, is played by Keke Palmer.
Taika Waititi plays the worried underachiever Mo Morrison, while Dale Soules plays the stern parolee Darby Steel. Peter Sohn deserves special recognition for his portrayal of SOX, the charming and resourceful robot cat who frequently saves the day.
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Review Lightyear – The script is easy to understand, funny and vibrant
Whether you have seen Toy Story or not and whether children or adults can access the whole story of the talented space cop Buzz easily through the film’s simple narrative.
Exploiting the topic of space, the universe, and flight journey, but the words and dialogue are handled delicately, not too many specialties, and always accompanied by actions, illustrations, and annotations from the characters, so it is not difficult for the small audience to follow Buzz’s journey.
In addition, the script is neatly summed up, and many humorous dialogues and rhythmic juggling make the atmosphere in the theater always keep fun. The appearance of the cat Sox has brought many nostalgic moments and countless cute funny situations to the whole movie.
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Review Lightyear – An epic, colorful space adventure
It’s been a long time since the new animation market has had another work pursuing the theme of space, which is carefully built, and elaborated in shaping the actions of each character. Many action scenes, flying and fighting are all vivid and eye-catching.
Not only that, most of the space flying scenes are enhanced with many colors to create diversity and be eye-catching to increase the excitement of young audiences. In addition, astronaut costumes and many types of spacecraft appear as a combination of toys that are close to children but reinforced with many features to serve the needs of space combat.
MacLane and his team lift Lightyear from a simple action adventure to something more cerebral and emotional through this deft use of time dilation, a phenomenon based on genuine science and used to great dramatic effect in movies like Planet of the Apes and Interstellar. I challenge anyone to remain unmoved by Buzz’s anguish as he hears Alisha’s final taped farewell message.
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Review Lightyear – Close, familiar but no less human
As always, an animated work from Pixar or even Disney brings not only entertainment, but through the many details contained in it, the filmmaker wishes to convey many messages. humane and rich in accompanying education.
With a new police team led by Buzz, Lightyear: Cosmic Police is a powerful encouragement to lost children who have not yet identified their values to keep trying every day, sincerely and decisively mind will become useful to the group.
At the same time, young talents somewhere who are complacent and like to work alone will have to learn to withdraw and blend in with everyone to shine together.
Lightyear deserves praise for the sensitive and unambiguous manner in which it introduces Alisha Hawthorne as a gay character engaged in a same-sex union.
What a joy it is to witness representation handled in such a wise way. What greater summer movie could we ask for than a nostalgic space adventure film that also embraces modern challenges, manages to combine both with the lightest of touches, and revels in the accomplishment of the task it has so ardently undertaken? That film is Lightyear.
In addition, the relationship between Captain Buzz and Commander Alisha Hawthorne reminds both adults and children to cherish the time and especially the moment spent with their loved ones. In addition, the biggest motivation to complete a difficult mission is none other than yourself, and if you have the trust and expectations from your teammates, the better.
Conclusion
In conclusion, you can see from this Review Lightyear article that “Lightyear” is a great option for young audiences and families looking to unwind and have fun together with a piece of art that is just beautiful enough, amusing enough, and warm enough.
Lightyear is a lot of fun, and it’s one of Pixar’s better films in the last ten years, but it ultimately feels unfinished.
It has the feeling that it should be the start of something; that its story is a prologue that has been stretched into a feature in anticipation of the much more compelling second, third, and fifth chapters to come (there are currently no plans to make more Lightyears).
No difficult meta-analysis is necessary for Pixar to make a corny, retro space opera from the oddball era of a sci-fi film. Instead, they should just make one.
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