Not ground breaking but it wasn't bad. Genuinely enjoyable.

While it has great animation and a few good jokes, Lightyear fails to expand on the Toy Story franchise in any meaningful way thanks to a cliched character arc for its lead and a convoluted narrative filled with mixed messages. Buzz Lightyear didn't need a spinoff story, but anyone who wants to see one would be much better off watching the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command cartoon from the 2000s.

A really beautiful looking movie that I couldn't care less about. Baffling choice to make this the Buzz Lightyear "origin story." Only it isn't an origin story for the toy in the movie but rather a tedious sci fi film that Andy went to see as a kid. Just doesn't make sense for that to be the direction Pixar decided to take. Didn't hit the emotional highs that the studio is known for.

As a movie, I don't think this film is bad. It's a solid space-faring time-travel plot with a good cast and some solid gags. Yet, my biggest gripe is how I feel that this would've done better without the Toy Story tie-in, and I genuinely feel very little would change if you took away the Lightyear branding, and all that did is create expectations that this movie could not live up to.

The animation is spectacular and the idea is intriguing since Buzz Lightyear is a character so many people love from the Toy Story franchise. However, his best moments occur in the original Toy Story movies, and this film just falls flat in a lot of ways.