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#Lightyear

Rant:

I watched this a few months back when it came out. I liked it well enough - it was 'fine'.

I really, really liked the central conceit of the whole thing which was that *this* was the movie that young Andy watched prior to the first Toy Story movie that made him excited for a Buzz Lightyear toy... That kind of connectivity is cool, to me.

Then a bunch of knuckle draggers started complaining about 'why isn't Tim Allen voicing Buzz????'

This ignores the central conceit. My youngest son got a Thanos toy for his birthday a couple of year ago. It had a handful of phrases programmed into it. Josh Brolin voiced exactly none of them.

When was the last time the star of a movie voiced the 'barks' of a toy based on their character?

Never. That's when.

Tim Allen didn't miss out on Lightyear because of 'woke' Hollywood. He wasn't considered because his voice was the cheap knock-off version of Buzz since the toy maker couldn't afford the real actor.
/rant.