Toy Story 2

Toy Story 2 is a 1999 American computer-animated comedy film, produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by John Lasseter. Co-directed by Lee Unkrich and Ash Brannon. The film is the first sequel to Toy Story and the third movie made by Pixar. In the film, Woody is stolen by a toy collector named Al McWhiggin, prompting Buzz Lightyear and his friends to rescue him. However, Woody finds the idea of immortality in a museum tempting. The film returns many of the original characters from Toy Story, with their respective actors reprising their roles, and introduces several new characters, including Jessie, Barbie, and Mrs. Potato Head. It is the last Toy Story film in which Jim Varney, who provides Slinky Dog's voice, appears, as he died in 2000.

Disney initially envisioned the film as a direct-to-video sequel and Toy Story 2 began production in a building separated from Pixar and was much smaller scale, with most of the main Pixar staff working on A Bug's Life (1998). When story reels proved promising, Disney upgraded the film to theatrical release, but Pixar was unhappy with the film's quality. Lasseter and the story team re-developed the entire plot in one weekend. 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.

Despite production struggles, Toy Story 2 opened in theatres November 24, 1999 to wildly successful box office numbers, eventually grossing over $485 million, and highly positive critical reviews. Toy Story 2 has been considered by critics and audiences alike to be one of few sequels that outshine the original, and it continues to be featured frequently on lists of the greatest animated films ever. In honor of its 10th anniversary, The film saw and a 3-D re-release in 2009, along with the the original movie. The film's success led to the production of Toy Story 3 which was released in theatres and 3D June 18, 2010, which was also highly successful. Toy Story 4 is currently in production and is set to be released in theatres June 16, 2017.

Plot
The film begins with scenes of Buzz Lightyear on an adventure, which ends with him being destroyed by the Evil Emperor Zurg. It turns out to be a video game that Rex is playing. He is unhappy about losing the game. Some time after the events of the first Toy Story, Andy is preparing to leave for Cowboy Camp with Woody.

While playing with Woody and Buzz, Andy accidentally rips Woody's arm, leaving him unable to take his doll to the camp. Woody is placed on the shelf. The next morning, after having a nightmare of being thrown into the trash can because of his torn arm, Woody finds another broken toy, Wheezy the Penguin, and begins to fear he'll soon be thrown away. When Wheezy is set out for a yard sale, Woody manages to rescue him, but ends up in the yard sale himself. He is seen by Al, an obsessive toy collector and proprietor of Al's Toy Barn. He tries to buy Woody from Andy's mother, but she refuses to sell him. After failing to negotiate a sale, Al creates a distraction and steals Woody, causing Buzz to take action. He slides down the gutter into the yard sale, and sees Al getting into his car after packing Woody in the trunk. Buzz manages to get to the car as Al is driving away, but by the time he opens the trunk, Buzz loses his grip from the car and Al escapes.

However, a clue is presented to Buzz as the car speeds away: a feather from Al's trunk lands in front of him. When Buzz informs the bad news to the toys, the toys try to investigate the culprit. However, Buzz is trying to type the license plate number that he briefly saw on Al's car to track it and whoever he was, and the rest of the toys, including Etch, were having problems doing an identity portrait of Al. When Mr. Potato Head gets fed up with Buzz trying to investigate the number with Mr. Spell and irritably tells the others to "leave Buzz to play with his toy," the word "toy" causes Buzz to decipher what the license plate said: "Al's Toy Barn" and consequently order Etch to draw the man in the chicken suit. They then had to try and locate an Al's Toy Barn commercial to trace a map to the shop. Buzz then heads out to Al's Toy Barn with Rex, Potato Head, Hamm, and Slinky Dog to rescue Woody.

Meanwhile, Woody is taken to Al's apartment, where he is greeted by a yodeling cowgirl named Jessie, an affectionate steed named Bullseye, and Stinky Pete the Prospector, an unsold toy still in its original box. They reveal to Woody that he is a vintage Sheriff Woody collectible doll and the star of a forgotten children's TV show, Woody's Roundup. Now that Al has a Woody doll, he has a complete collection and intends to sell the toys to a museum in Japan. Woody refuses to go to Japan and abandon Andy. Later, Al arrives and rips off Woody's torn arm completely by accident, making Woody attempt to recover his arm and then return to Andy which he fails. Al then gets a repairman who fixes Woody's arm (and paints over the word "Andy" on his boot). After that, a suddenly depressed Jessie tearfully tells Woody of how she once had an owner that loved her, but eventually outgrew and abandoned Jessie at a charity toy drive. The Prospector warns Woody that he faces the same fate as Andy grows up. Woody agrees to go with the "Roundup Gang" to the museum, now believing that all toys eventually get discarded by their owners.

At the same moment, Buzz and his friends search for Al at Al's Toy Barn. After Buzz orders his friends to split and look for Al. He discovers an aisle full of newer Buzz Lightyears and gets in a scuffle with a new Buzz Lightyear, who, like the real Buzz in the first movie, does not realize he is a toy. The real Buzz then ends up being tied up and repackaged in a box and set on the shelf for sell by the Deluded Buzz who then sets off with the other toys for Al's apartment, genuinely believing that he is attempting to rescue a hostage from his arch-enemy, Emperor Zurg.

The original Buzz frees himself and follows them to the apartment, but while exiting the store, he accidentally frees an Emperor Zurg toy, who follows to destroy him. When the toys reach the apartment, Woody tells them he does not want to be rescued and intends to go with his new friends to Japan, since he is now a "collector's item." After the original Buzz arrives, in an ironic reversal of a scene from the first movie, he reminds Woody "You're a child's plaything. You... are... a TOY!". Woody (figuratively and literally) turns his back on Buzz, and Buzz's group leaves without him.

However, Woody soon has a change of heart and, after calling Buzz and the group back, invites the "Roundup Gang" to come home to Andy with him. Jessie and Bullseye agree, but the Prospector locks them in the room, saying that the museum trip is his first chance (since he was never sold) and won't have Woody mess it up for him. Al returns and packs the Roundup Gang, and the rest of the toys give chase, but are interrupted by the sudden appearance of the Emperor Zurg toy. The second Buzz battles him, and in a showdown mimicking a similar scene from The Empire Strikes Back, Zurg reveals himself to be Buzz's father, shortly before his defeat at Rex's hands. The other toys resume the rescue mission and find an unattended vehicle (a Pizza Planet delivery truck) and drive it to the airport, along with three Aliens. The second Buzz remains behind with Zurg, playing father and son games.

After arriving at the airport, Buzz and his group manage to free Woody and Bullseye from the suitcase. The Prospector has other plans, though, and he re-tears Woody's arm, even though it still works. However, Buzz and his group come to Woody's rescue, and stick the Prospector in a little girl's backpack so he can "learn the true meaning of playtime". The Prospector is terrified to learn that the little girl likes to draw on all of her toys. Jessie, however, finds herself in trouble and remains trapped in the suitcase. Woody and Buzz ride Bullseye in order to rescue her from being taken to the museum on her own.

Woody manages to find Jessie inside the plane, but just when they're about to escape, the door closes and the plane heads for the runway. Woody finds another way out of the plane, through a small hatch which leads down to the landing gear wheel, and as they are doing so, he slips on tar, but Jessie catches him. When the plane is at the main runway, Woody knows that time is running out. In true "Woody's Roundup" style, he uses his pull string to swing him and Jessie down to safety on Bullseye's back - just seconds before the plane takes off. Their mission accomplished, the toys now make their way home.

At home, Jessie and Bullseye are adopted into Andy's toy family. Buzz becomes a bit smitten with Jessie. Woody's ripped arm is repaired by Andy himself. The events of the airplane's cargo hold have a terrible (and hilarious) consequence for Al. After Hamm fails at the Buzz Lightyear video game, he flips through the channels and sees Al in an Al's Toy Barn commercial, crying since he lost his precious luggage and the money he was going to get for it, which is why in the commercial he is selling everything for as Al says in the chicken suit, "For a Buck, Buck, Buck". While Al is crying, Hamm says a somewhat humorous remark about Al and his scheme ("Well, I guess crying doesn't pay."). Mrs. Potato Head adopts the aliens to Mr. Potato Head's dismay when a fixed Wheezy sings a Frank Sinatra-style version of "You've Got a Friend in Me" as Buzz asks Woody if he is still worried about Andy giving him up. Woody replies that he isn't worried about Andy discarding him anymore and that when it is all over, he will have old Buzz Lightyear to keep him company, for "infinity and beyond".

CastEdit

 * Tom Hanks as Woody
 * Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear (credited) and Utility Belt Buzz Lightyear (uncredited)
 * Joan Cusack as Jessie
 * Kelsey Grammer as Stinky Pete the Prospector
 * Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head
 * Wallace Shawn as Rex
 * Jim Varney as Slinky Dog
 * John Ratzenberger as Hamm
 * Wayne Knight as Al McWhiggin
 * Annie Potts as Bo Peep
 * Estelle Harris as Mrs. Potato Head
 * Frank Welker as Bullseye and Buster (uncredited)
 * John Morris as Andy Davis
 * Joe Ranft as Wheezy (speaking voice) / Heimlich (outtakes)
 * Robert Goulet as Wheezy (singing voice)
 * Hannah Unkrich as Molly Davis
 * Jodi Benson as Barbie
 * Andrew Stanton as Emperor Zurg
 * Laurie Metcalf as Andy's Mom
 * Jonathan Harris as Geri
 * Jeff Pidgeon as Little Green Men
 * Mary Kay Bergman as Jessie (yodeling)
 * Andi Peters as Luggage Handler and Male Baggage handler 2
 * Corey Burton as Woody's Roundup Announcer
 * Lee Unkrich as Red Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot
 * John Lasseter as Blue Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot
 * Dave Foley as Flik (outtakes)
 * Mickie McGowan as Mom at yard sale
 * Phil Proctor as Airline Rep / sign-off voice / Mr. Konishi

Addtional voices

 * Mary Kay Bergman
 * Sheryl Bernstein
 * Rodger Bumpass
 * Rachel Davey
 * Debi Derryberry
 * Jessica Evans
 * Bill Farmer
 * Pat Fraley
 * Jess Harnell
 * Nicolette Little
 * Andi Peters
 * Sherry Lynn
 * Jan Rabson
 * Carly Schroeder
 * Madylin Sweeten

Goofs

 * RC's eyes are blue. However, in this movie, they're black.
 * Utility Belt Buzz is seen missing his utility belt for a brief moment (mistakenly making him regular Buzz) right before the toys find Woody in the air vents.
 * When Mrs. Potato Head put Mr. Potato Head's angry eyes in his back compartment the eyes are connected. You can tell if you look in the back while Mrs. Potato Head is holding them, the stem's are slanted than straight. This was definitely an animation mistake because Mr. Potato Head's angry eyes are later seen in the movie and aren't connected.
 * Towards the end, when the toys are in the dog crate at the airport, Mr. Potato Head's angry eyes no longer look angry after they spill out of his hatch, along with his spare feet.
 * When Buster sniffs Roly Poly Clown and the Toddle Tots fire truck, RC can be seen at the Lincoln log house but when Buster runs over there, RC is not seen.

General

 * Rex was playing Buzz Lightyear: Attack on Zurg on a Super Nintendo Entertainment System, which is probably a reference to how the first Toy Story video game was released on it.
 * In some US prints, when Buzz gives his speech, it had the US flag, with "Star-Spangled Banner" playing in the background. In some non-US prints, it had a globe with fireworks, with "Star-Spangled Banner" replaced with a generic fanfare. In the Blu-Ray version, the flag is now always replaced with the globe, but "Star-Spangled Banner" is still played in the background.
 * The toy car that Jessie rides to help Buster is the same as her previous owner Emily's as seen in her flashback, sans the wood side paneling.
 * The car that Andy's toys ride to navigate Al's Toy Barn is seen earlier as a Hotwheels-sized car being pulled out of Andy's toy box by the Green Army Men in their search for Woody's hat.
 * It turns out Zurg is Buzz's father, a parody on the relationship between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in Star Wars.
 * When Rex was left behind and start chasing the car, and Mr. Potato Head found him on the backmirror is parody of Jurassic Park.
 * Zurg's robots that appear in Buzz Lightyear: Attack on Zurg have the well known cylon scanner from Battlestar Galactica.
 * During Woody's nightmare, when he's thrown into a trash, some of the severed arms belong to Rocky Gibraltar, Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, Emperor Zurg, Mr. Potato Head, a baby doll, and a robot.
 * For some reason, like the first film, this film was shown only in widescreen for all of its home releases despite A Bug's Life introducing the reframed fullscreen viewing format.

References to Toy Story

 * The Buzz Lightyear: Attack on Zurg opening states that Buzz is in the Gamma Quadrant of Sector 4, which is where Buzz said he was stationed when Hamm asked him where he was from. Also, after Buzz lands on Zurg's planet, he looks around exactly the same way he did when he "landed" on Andy's bed (breathing included) and talked to Star Command. (This time, however, he used his wrist communicator. In the previous film, he used one of his talk buttons.)
 * Toy Story 2 intentionally reuses scenes from the original Toy Story, with many of Buzz and Woody's roles switched. The prime example of this being when Buzz is trying to convince Woody he's not a collector's item by saying "You are a TOY!" as Woody did at the Dinoco gas station.
 * When Woody is riding Buster down the stairs to rescue Wheezy from the yard sale, Buster bumps into the front door, which causes it creak open. It makes the same creaking sound Andy's bedroom door made when the toy soldiers were going downstairs to see what Andy was getting for his birthday in the first film.
 * After Woody learns that "Woody's Roundup" was cancelled and Stinky Pete tells him that soon children only wanted to play with space toys, Woody responds to this by saying, "I know how that feels". He is referring to when Andy got Buzz for his birthday and he got jealous because Buzz got more attention than him.
 * Woody losing his arm is similar to when Buzz lost his (although Buzz lost his left, and Woody lost his right).
 * Buzz encountering Utility Belt Buzz standing tall on the display stand at Al's Toy Barn is done in the same fashion when Woody encountered Buzz standing tall on Andy's bed in the first film (and almost the same background music is used).
 * After Utility Belt Buzz threatens to use his laser on Buzz, Buzz sarcastically asks, "You mean the laser that's a light bulb?" similar to when Woody called Buzz's laser out in the previous film, describing it as "a little light bulb that blinks".
 * When Zurg is battling Utility Belt Buzz in the elevator shaft and smashing the buttons on his chest, it's done in the same way Woody was fighting Buzz, skipping the line "Buzz... Buzz... Buzz Lightyear to the rescue."
 * When Jessie was fighting with Woody after he accused her of turning on TV, she had him in the same position Buzz had him when they fought at the gas station.
 * The Pizza Planet delivery truck Woody and Buzz hitched a ride on in Toy Story was used again in Toy Story 2 by Buzz and the rest of Andy's toys to get to the airport to save Woody (Pizza Planet's trademark aliens where also seen in the car).
 * When Andy's toys are leaving, Buzz gives Utility Belt Buzz the same Vulcan salute he gave Woody.
 * Buzz opens the helmet of Utility Belt Buzz, who gasps for air, similar to when Woody opened Buzz's helmet in the first film.
 * Utility Belt Buzz tackles Woody and says "Watch yourself!" after entering Al's room much like Buzz did when he first met Woody and noticed the other toys coming.
 * When Mr. Potato Head tries to open the window and falls out his arms is a nod to Toy Story when he tries to lift a "weight" his arms fall off.
 * Both films end with a final dialogue between Woody and Buzz if they are worried about something.
 * During Jessie's flashback, Jessie watches the cowgirl-themed items in Emily's room change much like when Woody watched the cowboy-themed items in Andy's room change to space ranger-themed items in the previous film.

Cameos

 * Early in the movie when everyone is looking for Woody's hat, Mr. Potato Head finds Mrs. Potato Head's ear. The scene cuts to Mrs. Potato Head reading a book version of A Bug's Life.
 * The ball from Luxo, Jr. is shown in the Al's Toy Barn TV commercial. It can also be seen when Buzz Lightyear and the toys enter the toy store, and a container of those balls can be seen to the left of the door when exiting.
 * As Hamm flips through the TV channels looking for the Al's Toy Barn commercial, frames from several Pixar projects go by including Tin Toy, Knick Knack, Red's Dream, Luxo, Jr., Pixar's Listerine commercial and their old logo from the 1980s.
 * Flik and Heimlich from A Bug's Life can be seen close-up in one of the outtakes, returning the favor, after Woody made a cameo in in one of the outtakes for A Bug's Life.
 * Heimlich can also be seen in the actual movie, when he is crawling on a branch just before Buzz Lightyear cuts through.
 * Also in the same scene, the bug bar from A Bug's Life is also visible.
 * The Cleaner who comes in to clean up Woody is also Geri from the short film Geri's Game. In one of his drawers, his chess pieces can be seen.
 * Some merchandise from A Bug's Life can be seen in Al's Toy Barn before Buzz discovers the Buzz Lightyear aisle.
 * Toy versions of characters from The Lion King are seen when Buzz escapes Al's Toy Barn.
 * A113 appears on Andy's mother's number plate on her car like Toy Story.

Recycled animation

 * The tree in Jessie's flashback is the same as that from A Bug's Life.
 * The canyon from A Bug's Life is re-used for Zurg's planet. Note: the floating rocks in the canyon were inserted by accident, but John Lasseter liked how it looked, so it was used in the final version of the film.
 * Wheezy has the same feet as the Aliens.

Miscellaneous

 * The dust in the scene where Woody meets Wheezy set a record for number of particles animated for a movie by computer.
 * This is the first sequel for both Tom Hanks and Tim Allen.
 * The controller that Rex uses when playing the video game scene is a recolored Super Nintendo controller.
 * During the bloopers reel in the end credits, a few characters mentioned the existence of Toy Story 3. It came true 11 years later after Toy Story 2.
 * Toy Story 2 is the only Toy Story movie to utilize outtakes.
 * According to Pixar's Studio Stories: The Movie Vanishes, Oren Jacob and Galyn Susman tell the story of when someone entered a "/bin/rm -rf *" command on the Unix server that Toy Story 2 was on. This command deletes everything "as fast as it can." It made all the data disappear in front of their eyes. 20 to 30 people who worked for a really LONG time had their work erased in 20 seconds. The machine was unplugged and plugged back in. This stopped the deletion, but still, most of the film was gone. Fortunately Galyn had a copy of the whole movie on her home computer. The computer was carefully driven to the Pixar office and restored to the servers.
 * When the Barbie backpack containing Stinky Pete arrives on the conveyor belt, the announcer in the background announces the arrival of a flight named LassetAir Flight A113. The LassetAir part is a reference to director John Lasseter, and A113 is the easter egg that has appeared in several Pixar films to date. However, in the DVD version, the part is misinterpreted by the subtitles as Atlantic Air Flight 810.
 * In the scene where Hamm is threatening Stinky Pete with his kung fu, Pork Chop is the only dialogue exchanged directly between actors John Ratzenberger (Hamm) and Kelsey Grammer (Pete), both of which are most well known for playing Cliff Clavin and Frasier Crane, respectively, on the 80s TV Series Cheers. Another main character of Cheers was Woody Boyd, played by Woody Harrelson. Ironically, in A Bug's Life, Ratzenberger (as P.T. Flea) exchanged much more dialogue with David Hyde Pierce (as Slim) who plays Frasier Crane's brother, Niles, in Frasier's spin-off series. In the Season 9 episode of Frasier, "Cheerful Goodbyes", several actors from Cheers reprise their roles, which results in all three of them together for the majority of the episode.
 * In the Cheers episode "One Hugs, the Other Doesn't", Frasier's first wife, Nanny G., is played by Emma Thompson, but 12 years later in the Frasier episode "Caught in the Act" she is played by Laurie Metcalf since Thompson had been cast as Nanny McPhee.
 * In the Frasier episodes "Momma Mia" and "Don Juan In Hell: Part Two", Frasier and Niles' mother and a look-a-like of their mother are played by Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks' wife.
 * When the toys fall into the luggage room on the conveyor belt, Slink pulls off a label that says LHR, which are the airport initials for London Heathrow, an airport in London, England.
 * In the scene where the toys travel through the Buzz Lightyear aisle, Tour Guide Barbie says this quote: "Back in 1995, shortsighted retailers did not order enough dolls to meet demand." This quote is actually a true fact. Back in 1995, when the original Toy Story came out, business owners underestimated the sale of Buzz Lightyear toys to keep up with demand because they also underestimated the movie's box office performance. Of all the dolls bought by toy stores in the US and Canada, they only ordered 60,000 Buzz Lightyear toys, whereas the company that made them made over 9 million toys.

Godzilla Rex
This is another way of getting Woody into the yard sale box. It shows some of the characters getting in position for Godzilla Rex (Who is played by Rex) to come. When Godzilla Rex appears the Green Army Men "shoot" with their guns but it doesn't work. Everyone runs away from him except Buzz Lightyear has a plunge and shoots it at Godzilla Rex causing Godzilla Rex to go on a Hot Wheel car and knock over some things until he holds on to a chair making it fall on the Toddle Tots Fire Truck which Woody is on and makes Woody fly off the fire truck and goes into a window and slides his way from the roof into the box. They deleted this scene because they thought it was too coincidental. It's likely that this scene was animated during the film's direct-to-video production since in the original storyline, Woody falls into the yard sale in a much similar way.

Changed Scenes

 * Originally, when the toys were crossing the road, they were in a different area. It's looked more like a suburb than the city.
 * The original animation had Al not only steal Woody but also restore and repair him on his own. However, as the story went on, it became clear that this couldn't be possible and the decision was taken to add a another character, hence the use of Geri from Geri's Game.
 * In the film's climax when Woody and Jessie escape from the plane via the wheel hatch, the first animation shot had Jessie slip and Woody catching her from falling. Joan Cusack, who provided the voice for Jessie, came up with the idea of having it being switched around and that Jessie saved Woody from falling off.