Toy Story 5

"Toy Story 5 is a must-watch for fans of the series or anyone who wants just a fun animated movie. The film is hilarious, and the new angle on theme and plot feels fresh enough to be worth the trip to the cinema. Toy Story 5 cleans the stage after the fourth installment mess and makes the franchise seem relevant again."

"Toy Story 5 has all the imagination, craft and heart you'd expect from this franchise. It just spends two hours catching up to a conversation the rest of us already had. For all its insight, the film arrives feeling like a conversation we've already had."

"Toy Story 5 is a pleasant reminder that some stories, much like favourite toys, still deserve to be [told]. A nostalgic, colourful joyride with a timely screen-time message."

"The new film may not be as overwhelmingly emotional or moving, but credit must be given to the makers to ensure this one too reaches the finish line."

"Paramveer Singh Cheema and Ranvir Shorey's show about a fraud business does not breathe fun."

"The fifth iteration of this profitable Pixar franchise is way past its game and, more importantly, has lost its sense of play. Another Toy Story, with little meat on it but a Taylor Swift song and a $250 million budget — making the fifth film among the costliest animation movies ever made — is as good a story of excess as any."

"In many ways, the fifth part in the popular animated franchise brings back the charm of some of its predecessors. The film ultimately bats for embracing technology with mindfulness without forgetting the older ways of connecting with each other in real-time. Jessie's thoughtful reckoning fuels the film with a humanistic zeal, something that is drifting away quickly in a rampantly digitised world, making the film to be the only one in the franchise to have direct parallels with the dystopian reality of our times."

"Toy Story 5 delivers a timely and visually stunning narrative that gently but firmly advocates for protecting children's imagination from the pervasive influence of digital devices."

"Toy Story 5 delivers a timely and visually stunning narrative that gently but firmly advocates for protecting children's imagination from the pervasive influence of digital devices. The film is an absolute visual marvel, and makes a strong case for finding ways of letting kids be kids and not tech-absorbed zombies."

"A relevant and thoughtful sequel for the iPad generation"