Lightyear 4K 2022 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

The story of the adventures of the legendary space ranger Buzz Lightyear.

Review 4K Movie

Before I start scolding this movie, I will praise the animators and artists. The animation is very pleasing to the eye, all the details are very detailed, with excellent work done with light and shadows. Perhaps the cartoon drifts away from its original purpose and closer to a more real world, but I don't see anything wrong with that, as it also requires talent, and the work done in that regard is tremendous. But unfortunately, it's not enough to get anything good out of it.

In front of us is the hero Buzz Lightyear, who behaves very selfishly, constantly being a hero and relying only on himself. He needs to go on a path of correction, which is what we get. At the end of the movie, he changes, erases his stigma of being selfish and trusts his new friends to save him. It's worth noting, though, that between these two points from bad Lightyear to good, something completely inaudible and utter nonsense happens.

Let me start by saying that the main character himself is essentially already reformed in the first 30 minutes of the picture. Almost at the very beginning he trusts the robot cat, Sox, and does joint work with him, although a few minutes earlier he disliked his new pet. Thus, the movie could end after this point.

Instead, the narrative continues, with several new protagonists being shoved at us. All of these characters are no longer particularly tried to be revealed, they are not given any motivation, and some cannot even find anything to do at all. If the characters find themselves in a hopeless and complicated situation, there is always someone nearby who will explain the solution or simply help. This kind of thing is called "God from the machine" in dramaturgy, when help appears not because the protagonist did something, but simply because he got lucky, it simplifies the work of the screenwriters and is a sign of mediocrity. The main villain is very unclear. Why is he doing all this, what is his motivation, why doesn't he like the current situation? We are not told anything about this.

All of the dialogue in the cartoon is essentially incapable of doing anything. We just need to add some frank dialogues here, so that we would somehow get attached to the main characters, find out what they live for and what they do it all for, we don't need dialogues about a future sandwich or a scientific article about how to use invisibility.

As for the lesbian character, I can tell you that she's not needed here at all, nor are most of the other characters. She shows up in the beginning as a partner. We don't have time to get to know her, but 10 minutes later they're already trying to force a drama involving her. It's not even clear what she's doing, what role she's playing. She is just another pacifier character to me and we can just as easily take her out as we did the much talked about LGBT kiss and we don't lose anything in the plot.

Surely Disney is just exploiting a children's cartoon. Once again they add a cute animal to further sell merch with it, here it is the cat Sox. As I said earlier, he's really needed for the first 30 minutes, but then they just use him to create some cute shots. Even the phrase "Infinity is not the limit" loses its former meaning, its value, and is used simply as a link for Lighter and the new partner, between whom, again, no chemistry is felt. And as strange as it sounds right now, you could replace Buzz with any other character and nothing would change.

At this point, the picture is really flopping at the box office and collecting a lot of negative reviews, which is nice to see. After all, this means that there is a chance that producers will think about it and not produce works where they will hammer on the plot, where all attention will be paid to how to play on the feelings of former fans, or how to promote the agenda, while forgetting about the characters. I hope that there will be more new cartoons that will prove in practice that animation is not just pointless cartoons for children, but also a good canvas with great drama and morals.