Toy Story 2 [DVD]

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When Woody tries to retrieve it and escape, his attempt fails when Al's television unexpectedly turns on. Reviewers judged the film as a sequel that equaled or even surpassed the original in terms of quality. Lee Ermey, John Morris, and Laurie Metcalf reprise their roles from the first Toy Story film and they are joined by Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Estelle Harris, Wayne Knight, and Jodi Benson, who play the new characters introduced in this film. Animated comedy sequel following the adventures of a group of toys who come to life when their owner has left the room.

Disney became unhappy with the pace of the work on the film and demanded in June 1997 that Guggenheim be replaced as producer, and Pixar complied. The concept of Woody as a collectible set came from the draft story of A Tin Toy Christmas, an original half-hour special pitched by Pixar to Disney in 1990. Helpfully, the menus label the lengths of all the set's bonus features to a reasonable degree of accuracy.In addition to the unexpected artistic caliber, there were other reasons that made the case for a theatrical release more compelling. At the airport, Pete rips Woody's arm again, but the toys subdue Pete and place him in a little girl's backpack. Next, we hear Randy Newman's demo of "Jessie's Song" (with a few slightly different lyrics from the final version, a. The second Egg, which requires some digging, is a puzzling 20-second clip of Woody (with disturbingly protruding ears) acting as a pitcher in a baseball game.

But as the brief running time suggests, this is not an all-encompassing making-of piece or satisfying as a document of this stellar sequel's production. The last page of the set is titled "Color", and it offers an introduction, plus a pair of 2-minute montages of impressionistic color scripts and color keys that set the visual mood of the film. Between the two products, the group had created as much original animation as there was in Toy Story itself. Making Woody's Roundup" (2:00) explains how Pixar made Woody's old TV show look like an authentic old-fashioned live action puppet show via computer animation with distortion and the kinescope effect. On November 1, 2011, the first three Toy Story films were re-released, each as a DVD/Blu-ray/Blu-ray 3D/Digital Copy combo pack (four discs each for the first two films, and five for the third film).Although most Pixar features take years to develop, the established release date could not be moved and the production schedule for Toy Story 2 was compressed into nine months. Cast of Characters" (3:27) is another brief featurette, this one focused on the talented voice cast. He wrote two original songs – " When She Loved Me", performed by Sarah McLachlan, and "Woody's Roundup", performed by Riders in the Sky – besides composing the score.