Tony Hale Wants to Return for ‘Toy Story 5’
By George Robbins
Pixar is extremely well known at this point because of all of the films that they have put out over the years. Nearly all of their films have done well and the amount of time they put into their animations shows up very well in their films. They have become a strong studio on their own over the years and because of that, they were eventually scooped up by Disney who saw how well they were doing. Pixar has made many different films over the years, but there is one series of films that has always done well. The ‘Toy Story’ series has done well ever since the first film was released back in 1995.
The first ‘Toy Story‘ movie was something that the world had never seen before because CGI was never used in such a way at that point. At the time of release, CGI was still a relatively new concept and it was only used as a supplementary technology to help make some films look better. Though those effects haven’t really held up over the years because CGI objects transplanted in a real life world was bound to cause issues. Nowadays, this isn’t much of an issue and CGI is pretty well done and it doesn’t take away from people’s experiences watching films. Back in the 90’s, it was hard for CGI to find a place, but Pixar figured out exactly what they were going to do with it.
As already stated, CGI had not really been used all that much back in the 90’s and it usually didn’t translate very well as time went on. This is where ‘Toy Story’ becomes different as it was a film that was animated entirely with nothing but CGI. With no real life components making up the film, the CGI animation had room to breath and it doesn’t stand out the way it would in a live-action film. Even today, while Pixar’s newest films look incredible by animation standards, their older films still hold up, including ‘Toy Story.’ Now that they have improved their animation tech, their newest ‘Toy Story’ films, ‘Toy Story 3’ and ‘Toy Story 4,’ both look amazing and have found themselves well adjusted by today’s standards.
The ‘Toy Story’ films are now iconic and they will never be forgotten as time goes on as we have seen with the last two films. Even if many years pass since the release of the previous films, they have been putting a lot of time and effort into the films. They also try and keep up with trends nowadays as a question was recently asked about whether the toys in the universe could die. The answer for which was yes, but only if they are completely destroyed. In the most recent film, we had to recognize that ‘Toy Story’ would not stay the same as it was story-wise, but it will always remain an incredible series. The character of Forky and the departure of Woody in the most recent film showed us that this is a new era if the films continue. Forky’s voice actor, Tony Hale, wants to continue to be a part of it and wants to reprise his role in ‘Toy Story 5.’ Hopefully it won’t be too long before we hear more about it.