Toy Story That Time Forgot (2014)

It's a post-Christmas play-date and the toys have to go up against the fearsome and aggressive new dino toys.

Director:

Steve Purcell

Writer:

Steve Purcell

Stars:

Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Kristen Schaal

8 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tom Hanks	...	Woody (voice)
Tim Allen	...	Buzz Lightyear (voice)
Kristen Schaal	...	Trixie (voice)
Kevin McKidd	...	Reptillus Maximus (voice)
Emily Hahn	...	Bonnie (voice)
Wallace Shawn	...	Rex (voice)
Steve Purcell	...	The Cleric (voice)
Jonathan Kydd	...	Ray-Gon (voice)
R.C. Cope	...	Mason (voice)
Don Rickles	...	Mr. Potato Head (voice)
Timothy Dalton	...	Mr. Pricklepants (voice)
Lori Alan	...	Bonnie's Mom (voice)
Joan Cusack	...	Jessie (voice)
Emma Hudak	...	Angel Kitty (voice)
Ron Bottitta	...	Mason's Dad (voice)

Storyline

The story takes place after a Christmas holiday with the regular toys finding themselves trapped in unusual territory with a group of new and delusional action figures. Together they must find their way back to their child's bedroom and to safety.

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Plot Keywords:

toy story | woody character | buzz lightyear character | toy tricerotops | toy hedgehog | 

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

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Certificate:

TV-G

Did You Know?

Trivia

The promo poster, that was unveiled at Comic-con for this short, was created by Mike Mignola, a famous comic book artist and creator of Hellboy (2004), a popular superhero comic book character.

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Goofs

The Cleric gives a thumb down signal known as "Pollice verso". Whether this is actually the correct signal to seal the fate of a gladiator after combat is the subject of much debate.

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Quotes

Trixie: You can be a dinosaur, a baby reindeer, anything your child needs you to be. It's about being there for your child. It's about...
Reptillus Maximus: ...surrender.

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Crazy Credits

During the credits, that night in Mason's room, Reptillus happily bears Mason's name on his hand and looks forward to seeing Trixie at Mason and Bonnie's next playdate, already scheduled for the following week.

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Connections

Follows Toy Story 2 (1999)

User Reviews

A fairly decent unchristmassy Toy Story Christmas special.

Sometimes I'm so impressed with how much creative geniuses like the folks down at Pixar can do with such a limited running time, in this case 22 minutes. This time, they chose to focus on different characters and I appreciate that, with so many characters in the Toy Story saga, and new additions as well. It's a nice and warm story, the pace is comfortable, it wraps up in a good manner: Trixie teaching the dino toys (especially Reptilus Maximus) the delightfulness of play; a moral of how these toys need to know their actual place in this story, and not let themselves be misguided by a third party.

In my opinion, Trixie worked as the lead, for this short special at least, and I strongly favour the message of not spoiling your fun only with videogames, there's other things out there, in this case: toys and imagination. Oh and I know this was supposed to be a Christmas special, but to me, it didn't feel Christmassy at all.

Woody, Buzz and Rex got a bit of screen time and as usual they are great themselves as well as the interactions between them. So, in all fairness, it is a decent effort, not the best of course, but very enjoyable nonetheless.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 December 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Toy Story That Time Forgot

Company Credits

Production Co:

Disney Television Animation, Pixar Animation Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.75 : 1