The Buzz of Lightyear is, loosely speaking, the art. The swaggering hunk of talking plastic we know from 1995’s Toy Story and its three sequels is movie tie-in merchandise, a case of commerce imitating art. But the most staggering revelation of all, at least for those who are easily staggered, is that the original Buzz Lightyear was not a toy at all, but a movie character: Lightyear is the film-made in 1995 and Andy’s favorite, a title card tells us-in which he was introduced. His life has been saved repeatedly-more than nine times-by a robot cat named Sox. He’s a diligent problem solver, which has had the adverse consequence of giving him a hero complex. Lightyear, directed by Angus MacLane and featuring the voice of Chris Evans, comes right out with Buzz’s biggest secrets, sparing nothing. Now, whether we care or not, we get the backstory of Buzz Lightyear, the disarmingly full of himself he-man space explorer of Pixar’s Toy Story movies, one of the favorite toys of a kid named Andy. There are a million origin stories in the naked city, and in the toybox too.
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