Lightyear 2022 English Movie
Buzz Lightyear returns to theaters this week, but he looks and sounds a bit different. In Lightyear, Chris Evans voices the title character, as Pixar uses the character to tell a brand new sci-fi adventure story – presented as the movie Andy from Toy Story was obsessed with that made him want that Buzz toy so bad in the first place.
The story finds Buzz and a ship full of space travelers trapped on an alien planet with no way to get back home. As Buzz begins test flight after test flight to try and solve their hyperdrive issue, it’s quickly discovered that thanks to time dilation, each of his trips – while only taking a few minutes from his perspective – is taking around four years for those back on the planet. And so Buzz finds everyone growing older and changing around him, as he essentially stays the same… And then, one day, he returns from another mission to find an invading group of robots now have the humans under siege, under the command of their fearsome leader, Zurg.
I spoke to Chris Evans and his co-stars, along with filmmakers Angus MacLane and Galyn Susman to discuss how Lightyear fits into the grand tradition of Pixar movies making you cry, the evolution of the film’s sci-fi world, and why you’re gonna be obsessed with Sox, the robot cat.
THOSE PIXAR FEELS
Lightyear is a fun space adventure first and foremost and plays as such, and yet there it is… a moment in the film’s first half hour that will have many audience members getting weepy (it certainly did for me).
Asked about Pixar’s ability to hit those emotional beats so well, Chris Evans remarked, “I don’t know how they do it. It’s just that combination of story and character and music. They just nail it. I remember the first time I saw Up, I saw it with a buddy of mine. We were two 30-something guys watching the movie and I didn’t know it was gonna be the best love story of all time in the first 10 minutes. And you’re sobbing right away. I don’t know what their magic is, but they just know how to do it.”
Taika Waititi, who voiced one of Buzz’s vastly untrained makeshift allies, Mo Morrison, remarked, “It’s crazy, isn’t it? I’m the same with Up and Inside Out and Toy Story 3… I think the worlds that they create have super relatable characters and also very universal, relatable themes.”
Waitii added that he felt it was the same with Lightyear and that he loved its theme of, “Don’t let the mistakes of the past define you and hold you back. You’ve got to let go of the past and stop living in the past. Whatever the dream is, or whatever the thing is that you think is out there, it may not be as important as what’s right here around you in the now.”
James Brolin, who noted he grew up with classic characters like Mickey Mouse, said when Pixar arrived on the scene, “I just think from the beginning, they thought out who their audience was, how to do it, how to actually change the tenure of what animation was… This is very real in a lot of places, isn’t it? And because of that these characters start to become real to you and stab at the emotions.”
Lightyear director Angus MacLane has been with Pixar since 1997, and when asked what the company’s secret is to them making us cry, he replied, “I feel like Pixar does a good job of creating characters and then putting them through the wringer and I think that’s really what you want in a film.”
He then jokingly added, “As far as the tears, we have a whole wing at the studio for this kind of thing. When the film is ready, we’re able to put it into this special algorithm for crying. And they tell us if it’s sad enough.”
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