Lightyear

Lightyear ; Directed by Angus MacLane ; Written by Angus MacLane and Jason Headley ; Featuring the voices of Chris Evans, Keke Palmer and Taika Waititi.

And even though Taika Waititi – here playing a cowardly space ranger – is threatening serious overexposure with his deadpan Kiwi shtick, he consistently finds humour in spots that the screenplay otherwise ignores. To paraphrase an infamous 2020 tweet from star Chris Evans announcing the new Pixar movie’s production, Lightyear isn’t about the Tim Allen-voiced Buzz Lightyear character from the original 1995 film Toy Story – it is instead a movie that exists in the Toy Story universe itself. Sure, it is unfortunate that the film’s final two-thirds never match the heart-squeezing power of its opening, but longtime Pixar veteran MacLane (Finding Dory) seems more focused on making sure that Lightyear never, ever pauses to catch its breath.

Walt Disney Co. has been unable to obtain permission to show its new Pixar movie Lightyear in 14 Middle Eastern and Asian countries, a source said on Monday ...

But she said filmmakers would not make changes to the movie. A Lightyear producer told Reuters that authorities in China had asked for cuts to the movie, which Disney declined to make, and she assumed the movie would not open there either. In the film, Buzz's close friend is a female space ranger who marries another woman.

You see, Andy's Mom bought a Buzz Lightyear toy back in 1995 because he was the main character in Andy's favorite film. “This is that film,” a title card tells ...

In the immortal words of Buzz Lightyear, “Not today!” I saw “ Return of the Jedi,” “ Avatar,” “ 2001: A Space Odyssey” and even “ The Last Starfighter” amongst the inspirations. Sohn is perfectly feline and Bill Hader has a good time with his small role as a rookie with a difficult to pronounce last name. The voice talent is topnotch, especially Palmer and Evans. They have big shoes to fill; Palmer has to build on the emotional bond Aduba created, and Evans has to give us a Buzz Lightyear that’s close enough to Tim Allen’s characterization to make us believe the film’s toy tie-in. Izzy offers to assist and volunteers her team of amateurs, ex-con/bomb expert Darby Steel ( Dale Soules) and Mo Morrison ( Taika Waititi). Their space ranger abilities are best described by Whitlock’s profane catchphrase on “The Wire.” Morrison is so bad, and causes so much trouble, that he manages to make the pig-headed Buzz look reasonable. As far as spin-offs go, “Lightyear” is a lot of fun. By that rationale, the makers of “Lightyear” can sue the makers of “Toy Story” for stealing it. “Lightyear” represents much of this repeated passage of time in a montage scored by Michael Giacchino; it’s reminiscent of the opening scene in “ Up.” Buzz’s unwillingness to accept failure keeps him from celebrating the marriage of Hawthorne and her girlfriend, the birth of their daughter, and far too many in-jokes and experiences for him to count. Hawthorne’s message is delivered to Buzz by her daughter, Izzy ( Keke Palmer). She’s inhabiting the latest iteration of their home planet, one that’s full of hostile robots who are under the control of the suspicious “Zurg” space ship. “Lightyear” is not the origin story of the Buzz Lightyear toy from Pixar’s “ Toy Story” series. If you recall, “ Toy Story 2” revealed that the Woody toy was originally a tie-in to a television show from the 1950s. It’s the origin story of the reason the Buzz Lightyear toy wound up in Andy’s bedroom.

'Lightyear' goes to infinity, but not beyond, in a likable offshoot of 'Toy Story'. Review by Brian Lowry, CNN. Updated 6:26 PM ET ...

It's a small element of the movie that shouldn't be an issue, which, alas, probably won't prevent bad-faith actors from seeking to make it one. They don't rival something like "Up," whose lessons come to mind, and the most consistently pleasing addition might be among the silliest: A robot cat named Sox who behaves like a household pet, yet also proves extremely useful in a pinch. to the villainous Zurg. There's also a small group of upstart, unorthodox recruits, with Keke Palmer and Taika Waititi (the latter playing a character he seems to have done about seven times before) among the vocal contributors.

Whether by coincidence or design, this big-budget outer space adventure allows Disney to center Buzz Lightyear not voiced by Tim Allen (who has become a more ...

It leans into the idea that Buzz Lightyear shouldn’t matter enough to justify a feature-film spin-off, and that the film’s existence is another example of how the current adults in the room cannot let go of our childhood pop culture. Aduba is terrific as Buzz’s teammate (yes, she’s gay and kisses her wife at a key narrative juncture and no I don’t think it’ll affect the box office to any major degree), while Whitlock Jr. lends his distinct vocals and offers slight shading to what could have been a stock “disapproving superior” part. With everyone, both the crew and the copious hibernating scientists stranded and disillusioned, Lightyear relentlessly attempts to figure out how to crack a new formula for interstellar travel. The picture races out of the gates, with Lightyear trying and failing to get his ship away from a hostile alien world. That it plays like a mega-budget variation of the kind of thing, think Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins, that would have gone straight to VHS or DVD in a bygone era makes it doubly bittersweet that it’s now the first Pixar flick in over two years to avoid such a fate. Yes, it eventually flirts with being a glorified pilot for a Disney+ show, which it may well be, but the journey getting there is solid.

Walt Disney Co has been unable to obtain permission to show its new Pixar movie "Lightyear" in 14 Middle Eastern and Asian countries, a source said on ...

China is not a "make or break" market for Pixar, one theater industry source said. China has rejected other on-screen depictions of homosexuality in the past. But she said filmmakers would not make changes to the movie. In the film, Buzz's close friend is a female space ranger who marries another woman. Chris Evans voices the lead character, Buzz Lightyear, a legendary space ranger. A "Lightyear" producer told Reuters that authorities in China had asked for cuts to the movie, which Disney declined to make, and she assumed the movie would not open there either.

The United Arab Emirates has banned Pixar's animated feature 'Lightyear' from its movie theaters over its inclusion of two lesbian characters' kiss.

The movie also may be banned in Malaysia. The Star, the country’s top English-language newspaper, cited an anonymous, nongovernment source as saying that “Lightyear” will not be shown in Malaysian cinemas. The film “is not licensed for public screening in all cinemas in the UAE, due to its violation of the country’s media content standards,” the office said in a tweet. A newspaper in the Persian Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain similarly has speculated the film wouldn’t be shown there. Recently, Disney has faced protests from activists and its own staff over what they described as CEO Bob Chapek’s slow response in publicly criticizing Florida legislation that opponents dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Movie theaters in the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, had already advertised showtimes for the film. The UAE, like many other countries in the wider Mideast, is a Muslim-led nation that criminalizes same-sex relationships.

The “Toy Story” films, once an almost perfect trilogy, were already stretching toward infinity and beyond with “Toy Story 4,” a nine-years-later-sequel that ...

What's compelling “Lightyear” is harder to say, but there is a bland, vaguely “Planes” feeling here that smacks of a straight-to-video spinoff. But “Lightyear,” helmed by “Finding Dory” co-director Angus MacLane (who made some of the “Toy Story” shorts and TV specials that have expanded the film series), arrives in theaters just as summer movies are reaching the stratosphere again. “Lightyear” isn't ambitious or existential or likely to make you cry. So begins “Lightyear,” a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to the animation studio's flagship franchise. It's honestly a gambit — taking a fictional movie-within-a-movie and making it real — that I've wanted to see attempted before. It isn't a prequel to “Toy Story," exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz Lightyear toys in the first place.

Nor will it go to theaters in Malaysia or Indonesia. Deadline understands the film has not received distribution certificates in these markets. As with other ...

Lightyear has not yet been dated in China, although censors there recently requested references to a same-sex relationship in Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore be cut. Given the history in the Gulf region, Disney may not have even submitted Lightyear to the Saudi censors. Disney/ Pixar’s Lightyear begins offshore rollout this week, but won’t be hitting cinemas in such Middle East markets as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar. Nor will it go to theaters in Malaysia or Indonesia. Deadline understands the film has not received distribution certificates in these markets.

The United Arab Emirates on Monday banned the upcoming Pixar animated feature “Lightyear” from showing in movie theaters after its inclusion of a kiss ...

A newspaper in the Persian Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain similarly has speculated the film wouldn’t be shown there. The film “is not licensed for public screening in all cinemas in the UAE, due to its violation of the country’s media content standards,” the office said in a tweet. The Star, the country’s top English-language newspaper, cited an anonymous, nongovernment source as saying that Lightyear will not be shown in Malaysian cinemas. Recently, Disney has faced protests from activists and its own staff over what they described as CEO Bob Chapek’s slow response in publicly criticizing Florida legislation that opponents dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Movie theaters in the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, had already advertised showtimes for the film. The UAE, many other countries in the wider Mideast, is a Muslim-led nation that criminalizes same-sex relationships.

Pixar's handsomely made yet inconsequential Toy Story spin-off lacks the lean accessibility of the originals.

Still, there is a worthier lesson at the heart of Lightyear, one that embraces the unexpected turns that life takes when you’re “busy making other plans.” But it sadly lands like an afterthought in a movie that suffers from an excess of plot. After what already feels like a whole film, the increasingly convoluted Lightyear introduces new characters far too late into the plot: a genuinely likable ragtag team of underdogs called the Junior Zap Patrol. Joining the reluctant Buzz in his never-ending mission, the trio consists of Alisha’s space-shy granddaughter Izzy Hawthorne (Keke Palmer), Taika Waititi’s affable slacker Mo Morrison, and Dale Soules’ grumpy Darby Steel. Along with Buzz, they stand their ground against the evil robots of Captain Zurg, a character you might vaguely recall from Toy Story 2. Soundcore offers a selection of Sound Frames—glasses with built-in speakers that deliver clear, immersive sound to the space around your ears. As revealed in an early title card, this is apparently the movie that made 6-year-old Andy fall in love with Buzz Lightyear in 1995. Why not just make a unique space film without the Toy Story connection, you might rightfully ask Pixar. The wretched marketing phrase “existing IP” is the answer you’re looking for there, and it seems to be an indispensable concept to narrow-minded studios in a theatrical release climate unfriendly to original stories not based on proven moneymakers. What is the premise going to be; an existential, animated, making-of mockumentary set on a factory floor, with aisles of Buzz Lightyear pieces waiting to be assembled and boxed?

Strong performances and attractive visuals keep Lightyear afloat, but the story isn't the quality you'd expect from Pixar.

The story challenges Buzz to separate his self worth from his duty as a Space Ranger as well as understand that he is worthy of love not once he is perfect but while he is flawed. A lot of Lightyear may be “on the nose,” but its occasional lack of subtext is a benefit rather than a detriment. You get the patented Pixar tears and the warm fuzzies you’ve come to expect from their stories – you just probably won’t remember them a week after you watch. They’re not together much; they’re just the best parts of the movie. Perhaps the biggest cause of this hit-or-miss problem is the length and pacing of the movie. At the very start of Lightyear, words flash across the screen to tell us, “In 1995 Andy got a toy.

Lightyear is the latest Disney movie to be banned for LGBT scenes.

Lightyear arrives on the big screen on June 17. This isn't the first Disney movie to be banned in recent months, either – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was banned in Saudi Arabia and Egypt because of a scene involving America Chavez's (Xochitl Gomez) mother, and Eternals was also banned in multiple countries due to Brian Tyree Henry's character Phastos being the first gay superhero in the MCU and the movie depicting his partner and their child. Lightyear is an origin story for the fictional spaceman that the action figure we know and love is based on, with Chris Evans voicing the character this time around.

Lightyear joins Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness and West Side Story on the list of Disney films barred from cinemas in the Gulf.

Soundcore offers a selection of Sound Frames—glasses with built-in speakers that deliver clear, immersive sound to the space around your ears. As The Hollywood Reporter wrote in March, amid the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill controversy of three months ago, LGBTQ+ Pixar employees and their allies sent a letter to Disney bosses, accusing them of censorship and demanding action against Florida’s prejudiced legislation. In what’s becoming an expected occurrence with the release of any new Disney film, Lightyear joins a string of Disney-produced films banned in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates over LGBTQ+ representation.

It isn't a prequel to “Toy Story,“ exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz Lightyear toys in the first place. It's a potentially clever bit ...

What’s compelling “Lightyear” is harder to say, but there is a bland, vaguely “Planes” feeling here that smacks of a straight-to-video spinoff. But “Lightyear,” helmed by “Finding Dory” co-director Angus MacLane (who made some of the “Toy Story” shorts and TV specials that have expanded the film series), arrives in theaters just as summer movies are reaching the stratosphere again. “Lightyear” isn’t ambitious or existential or likely to make you cry. It isn’t a prequel to “Toy Story,“ exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz Lightyear toys in the first place. So should “Lightyear“ have been a feature film or a Pixar short? So begins “Lightyear,” a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to the animation studio’s flagship franchise.

Disney's animated movie "Lightyear", which contains a lesbian kiss, has been banned from cinemas in the United Arab Emirates, officials said Monday without ...

The violation in question was not specified. In April, Saudi Arabia requested cuts to "LGBTQ references" in Disney's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness", which was ultimately not screened in the country. "The Media Regulatory Office announced that the animated film Lightyear, which is scheduled for release on June 16, is not licensed for public screening in all cinemas in the UAE, due to its violation of the country's media content standards," the office tweeted.

Lightyear writer-director Angus MacLane (co-director of Finding Dory) and co-writer Jason Headley (Onward) give Toy Story its own in-world movie, ...

None of this keeps Lightyear from being a satisfying experience in any given scene, as Buzz and his various teammates outfight aliens and out-think robots, all on the road to the inevitable moment where Buzz finds a way to accept his life and what he’s made of it. The Pixar craft is on full display, as MacLane and his team fill the screen with a polished, immersive world full of emotive, likable characters. So many of the best Pixar movies are about characters struggling to fulfill one dream or another, but Lightyear makes it clear early on that its hero’s dream is unworthy and misguided, making it harder for viewers to fully engage with his battle to make it happen. He’s echoing another big-chinned hero who has to learn the value of teamwork: Mr. Incredible, whose similar rejection of a rookie sidekick in the opening sequence of Pixar’s The Incredibles drives the entire plot of that movie. In the setup sequence, Buzz repeatedly refuses to accept a rookie on his mission with Alisha. He insists that he works alone and doesn’t need help or input from others. Too much of it whips by as if there are no questions to be asked and nothing worth mentioning about the ship’s original mission or the society it came from, the time that passes between Buzz’s missions, or whether anyone starts questioning their worth before the hammer finally drops on them. It’s no wonder all this would appeal to Andy and his generation, who likely see it much like 6-year-olds in our world might: as an exciting rush through a world packed with killer robots, icky monster-bugs, and cool laser swords. The planet proves dangerous, and Buzz tries to pilot the ship to safety, but he miscalculates, damaging the fuel crystal that lets the ship enter hyperspace and leaving it stranded in hostile territory. That’s a lot to take in as just the scene-setting for the actual action of the film. But Lightyear takes such a disjointed, surface-level approach to the idea that it doesn’t land as powerfully as it should. Obsessed with fixing his error, Buzz takes on a series of experimental missions to space to test new fuel crystals. But the studio’s new science fiction movie Lightyear suggests another way of looking at Pixar that’s a little less simple, but just as relevant.

Of all the films to be hit with censorship, the upcoming Pixar film Lightyear is being banned for the dumbest reason imaginable.

As reported by Variety and others, a group of employees from the the Disney-owned Pixar composed a letter which included claims that the parent company had intervened multiple times to either minimize or completely erase LGBTQ representation in Pixar’s films. In the middle of the controversy surrounding Disney’s initial lack of response to Florida’s legislation known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, it came out that the studio had allegedly not always been as dedicated to LGBTQ representation as it claimed. Sadly, it appears that it’s the usual, hateful suspect — two people of the same sex are going to kiss in the movie, and that’s just far too much for some nations to bear.

The latest entry in the Toy Story cinematic universe is "thin and repetitive", with a "sloppy screenplay", writes Nicholas Barber.

Bear in mind that this is a Pixar film, so of course the animation is hard to fault, and of course it has some ambitious philosophical concepts. Is this dreary ordeal really what anyone had in mind when they first heard the phrase "To infinity – and beyond"? Whatever escapades young Andy imagined in 1995 when he was playing with his Space Ranger toy, they were bound to be more fun than this one. They learn about the value of teamwork over and over again, and then they learn that family life is an adventure in itself, a lesson which was a lot more moving when it was taught in Pixar's Up back in 2009. (The closing credits are excruciatingly slow, a sure sign that the producers wanted the film to appear longer than it is.) And the characterisation is weirdly vague, as if the writers meant to fill in the gaps later, but never got around to it. Worst of all, its doubt-racked main character is a lot less endearing than the swaggering lunk we know and love from Toy Story. Again, the answer is a big fat no.

LOS ANGELES — Walt Disney Co has been unable to obtain permission to show its new Pixar movie “Lightyear” in 14 Middle Eastern and Asian countries, ...

A “ Lightyear” producer told Reuters that authorities in China had asked for cuts to the movie, which Disney declined to make, and she assumed the movie would not open there either. China is not a “make or break” market for Pixar, one theatre industry source said. But she said filmmakers would not make changes to the movie.

Buzz Lightyear is voiced by Chris Evans, and he's not a toy, in his own 'Toy Story' spinoff adventure.

And yes, there’s also Sox, a futuristic emotional-support animal designed to ease Buzz’s trauma, and also to bring doses of whimsy and cuteness — to strike a note of “aww” — amid all the noise and action. She’s granted an accelerated blip of a life story — over six decades she finds a wife, has a son and becomes a grandmother — that achieves some of the emotional sublimity of the “Married Life” montage from “Up.” In this case, though, the poignancy derives from the fact that Buzz misses out on almost all of it, being too absorbed with his mission to open his eyes and appreciate the living of life and the passage of time. And so, like the brave astronauts in “Interstellar” — or the unwitting young time traveler in “Flight of the Navigator” — Buzz must grapple with the painful conundrum of aging more slowly than those he loves. Though visually grander and more cosmic in scale than the “Toy Story” quadrilogy, its story feels thinner and more generic. In at least one respect, “Lightyear” can claim some distinction: It’s the first Pixar movie ever to be cited as a Pixar character’s favorite movie.

The Disney-Pixar film about Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear reportedly contains a scene including a same-sex kiss. The UAE prohibited public screening, ...

Saudi Arabia, for instance, recently banned the screening of Disney’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” due to its “LGBTQ references.” The film was banned for its “violation of the country’s media content standards,” the office said on Twitter, sharing a picture of the main character Buzz Lightyear covered by a “No” symbol. The Emirati government body did not state the specific violation of its content standards, but an Arabic hashtag “‘Lightyear’ banned in the Emirates,” in posts complaining that the film contains portrayals of LGBTQ relationships, was trending on Twitter.

The movie, which chronicles the adventures of space cadet Buzz Lightyear, is slated to be released June 16.

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Sa relation avec Buzz remonte à ses débuts chez Pixar, en 1997, au sein de l'équipe d'animateurs du film d'animation Toy Story 2. Galyn Susman, quant à elle, ...

Elle avait sa carrière, à la tête de la station spatiale, et sa vie de famille avec sa conjointe. Et j’ai hâte de retourner dans les Cantons-de-l’Est et à Montréal ! » La vitesse qu’il atteint fait en sorte que ce qu’il vit en l’espace de minutes se calcule en années pour ceux et celles laissés derrière. À l’aide de jeunes recrues et de soldats, ils joindront leurs forces pour combattre le puissant Zurg (James Brolin) et son armée, qui menacent la mission de Buzz. Rongé par le remords, il se donne la mission de ramener les membres de son équipage sur la Terre, qui se trouve à des années-lumière. Pour mettre au point le carburant nécessaire, il multiplie les essais. Galyn Susman, quant à elle, peut se vanter d’avoir travaillé sur le tout premier film d’animation de Pixar, Toy Story, et d’avoir contribué à sauver Toy Story 2 du désastre lorsque celui-ci a été accidentellement effacé. Travaillant de la maison parce qu’elle avait un bébé, elle en possédait une copie chez elle. Le valeureux capitaine Buzz Lightyear se trouve donc sur le chemin du retour vers la Terre lorsqu’il décide de faire un détour pour explorer une planète inconnue.

The new Pixar movie recounts the adventures of Star Command's most famous Space Ranger before he was a toy.

An early section — a kind of extended prologue to the main action — recalls the celebrated montage in “Up” that compresses a long marriage into a few short minutes. If “Lightyear” lacks both the sublimity and the giddy inventiveness of the best “Toy Story” movies, that may be by design. A few soft-boiled Easter eggs pop up to connect “Lightyear” with various “Toy Story” episodes. He isn’t a toy, and he doesn’t sound like Tim Allen, who did the voice work in the four chapters of Pixar’s “Toy Story” cycle. More than one hard plastic Buzz Lightyear lived in my house for a long time, just like in Andy’s. To be part of the “Toy Story” universe is to be intimately acquainted with the metaphysics of the commodity form. This is that movie.” In other words, it’s the origin story not of a hero but of a piece of merchandise, one that started out fictional but long ago crossed the boundary into real life.

The United Arab Emirates ban comes despite an announcement last year that the country would no longer censor movies.

Homosexuality, however, remains taboo in the country. In 2016, it established a Ministry of Tolerance. The UAE ban comes despite an announcement last year that the country would no longer censor movies. For years the UAE has cast itself as a modern, tolerant haven in an otherwise highly conservative region. According to entertainment news website Deadline Hollywood, " Lightyear" won't be playing in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Egypt or Indonesia — the latter being the most populous Muslim country in the world with 274 million people. The movie features a same-sex relationship and brief kiss.

Le réalisateur et acteur Xavier Dolan prête sa voix au valeureux capitaine Buzz Lightyear, dans la version française doublée au Québec du film d'animation ...

Le nouveau film Lightyear sort vendredi. Et c'est l'acteur et réalisateur québécois Xavier Dolan qui prête sa voix au célèbre astronaute découvert dans la ...

Et c’est l’acteur et réalisateur québécois Xavier Dolan qui prête sa voix au célèbre astronaute découvert dans la série de films Histoire de jouets. Dans les quatre premiers opus d’Histoire de jouets, c’est Mario Desmarais qui prêtait sa voix à Buzz Lightyear au Québec. Ce n’est pas la première fois que Xavier Dolan fait du doublage au cinéma puisque c’est sa voix qu’empruntent les personnages de Peur dans le film animé Sens Dessus Dessous (Inside Out), de Ron Weasley dans la série de films Harry Potter ou encore de Jacob Black dans Twilight.

Le réalisateur et acteur Xavier Dolan participe au doublage en français d'un grand nombre de films. Il a auditionné pour prêter sa voix au valeureux Buzz ...

C’est quelque chose d’inédit pour Pixar et pour Disney, dans une époque où aux États-Unis, la société est de plus en plus polarisée, divisée, intolérante envers les femmes, envers les Noirs, envers les homosexuels. C’est pour moi une façon très élégante d’implanter des notions aux plus jeunes générations, en ce qui concerne les personnages queers, en montrant à l’écran une relation tout à fait saine et belle, qui n’est pas à l’avant-plan [NDLR : celle de la commandante Alisha Hawthorne, qui est heureuse et fonde une famille avec sa conjointe pendant que Buzz Lightyear poursuit sans relâche sa mission]. On n’essaye pas de présenter des nouvelles notions de façon grossière ou revendicatrice. Il est un peu plus âgé que moi et il a une voix un peu plus adulte. J’adore ça. J’essaie de saisir toutes les occasions, surtout quand de beaux projets se présentent. C’est un exercice artistique très intéressant pour un acteur, qui a toujours fait partie de ma carrière, depuis l’âge de 8 ans. Cela a été un plaisir d’essayer de reproduire certaines nuances. Évidemment, la franchise Histoire de jouets a des racines dans mon enfance.

Le cinéaste, acteur et doubleur Xavier Dolan a été choisi par les studios Disney- Photo: Petros Giannakouris Associated Press Le cinéaste, acteur et doubleur ...

Je crois que pour les enfants d’aujourd’hui, de voir ce baiser, ça permet d’intégrer une notion de normalité ; c’est une normalisation de quelque chose qui ne l’est pas encore partout, loin de là. Le moment du baiser n’est pas présenté le poing en l’air, comme une revendication : c’est fait avec tendresse, comme l’amour entre personnes de même sexe devrait être montré aux jeunes enfants. Disney a fait son mea culpa et a non seulement réintégré ce passage, mais a au surplus été très critique de la politique « Don’t Say Gay » promulguée en Floride, son chef-lieu. « Ça m’apporte énormément. Ça me nourrit et me permet de grandir comme artiste. Ce qu’il y a de particulier avec Lightyear, c’est qu’on a affaire à une version différente du personnage ainsi qu’à un contexte narratif distinct. Le troisième, j’étais adulte, mais ce sont des films que j’ai découverts avec énormément d’enthousiasme et d’émerveillement. J’ai aimé voir évoluer les personnages, mais aussi l’art de Pixar. Interpréter un personnage issu de cet univers, c’est un rêve immense. Depuis plus d’une douzaine d’années, le nom de Xavier Dolan est, pour la plupart des cinéphiles, synonyme de scénariste et réalisateur brillant.

Disney's latest animation "Lightyear," which features a same-sex kiss, has been denied release in more than a dozen mainly Muslim countries, a source close ...

The company was initially silent on the measure. As a result, a total of 14 countries and territories where the company wanted to show "Lightyear" have not granted the film a release, AFP has learned. Disney is understood to have declined to make any cuts, offering the film "as is" in all markets.

Ces jours-ci, il incarne dans la version française de Lightyear le bien-aimé astronaute Buzz Lightyear, vu dans les films Toy Story (Histoire de jouets) : un ...

Je crois que, pour les enfants d’aujourd’hui, de voir ce baiser, ça permet d’intégrer une notion de normalité ; c’est une normalisation de quelque chose qui ne l’est pas encore partout, loin de là. Le moment du baiser n’est pas présenté le poing en l’air, comme une revendication : c’est fait avec tendresse, comme l’amour entre personnes de même sexe devrait être montré aux jeunes enfants. Disney a fait son mea culpa et a non seulement réintégré ce passage, mais a au surplus été très critique de la politique « Don’t Say Gay » promulguée en Floride, son chef-lieu. « Ça m’apporte énormément. Ça me nourrit et me permet de grandir comme artiste. Ce n’est pas à nous de décider de l’histoire. Le métier de doubleur se fait dans l’ombre, mais aussi dans l’humilité. » Le troisième, j’étais adulte, mais ce sont des films que j’ai découverts avec énormément d’enthousiasme et d’émerveillement. J’ai aimé voir évoluer les personnages, mais aussi l’art de Pixar. Interpréter un personnage issu de cet univers, c’est un rêve immense. Depuis plus d’une douzaine d’années, le nom de Xavier Dolan est, pour la plupart des cinéphiles, synonyme de scénariste et de réalisateur brillant.

It isn't a prequel to “Toy Story,” exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz Lightyear toys in the first place. It's a potentially clever bit ...

What’s compelling “Lightyear” is harder to say, but there is a bland, vaguely “Planes” feeling here that smacks of a straight-to-video spinoff. But “Lightyear,” helmed by “Finding Dory” co-director Angus MacLane (who made some of the “Toy Story” shorts and TV specials that have expanded the film series), arrives in theaters just as summer movies are reaching the stratosphere again. “Lightyear” isn’t ambitious or existential or likely to make you cry. So should “Lightyear” have been a feature film or a Pixar short? It isn’t a prequel to “Toy Story,” exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz Lightyear toys in the first place. So begins “Lightyear,” a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to the animation studio’s flagship franchise.

It isn't a prequel to “Toy Story,” exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz Lightyear toys in the first place. It's a potentially clever bit ...

What’s compelling “Lightyear” is harder to say, but there is a bland, vaguely “Planes” feeling here that smacks of a straight-to-video spinoff. But “Lightyear,” helmed by “Finding Dory” co-director Angus MacLane (who made some of the “Toy Story” shorts and TV specials that have expanded the film series), arrives in theaters just as summer movies are reaching the stratosphere again. “Lightyear” isn’t ambitious or existential or likely to make you cry. So should “Lightyear” have been a feature film or a Pixar short? It isn’t a prequel to “Toy Story,” exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz Lightyear toys in the first place. So begins “Lightyear,” a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to the animation studio’s flagship franchise.

Xavier Dolan avait six ans quand il est allé voir le premier volet de la saga Histoire de jouets au cinéma avec sa famille, en 1995.

Lightyear relate les exploits de jeunesse de Buzz Lightyear, le valeureux patrouilleur de l’espace qui a inspiré la figurine préférée du petit Andy dans les films de la franchise Histoire de jouets. J’étais un enfant quand les deux premiers ont pris l’affiche et un adulte lors de la sortie du troisième. J’étais évidemment surexcité à l’idée de pouvoir faire partie du nouveau film.» Xavier Dolan avait six ans quand il est allé voir le premier volet de la saga Histoire de jouets au cinéma avec sa famille, en 1995.