Well, it
didn’t take long to get to the first sequel but here we are with Toy Story 2.
The success of Toy Story really sparked something, and because it’s Disney and
around this point in their history, if a movie made any money, it got a
direct-to-DVD sequel.
The deal
with Disney was at this point revised to 5 movies in 5 original franchises, so
Toy Story 2 wouldn’t count towards it. Production for this film was not easy, with tight deadlines and a sudden rush for it to be theatre quality as it was
changed to get a theatrical release, not to mention them nearly deleting 90% of
their assets and staff members working to the point of actually getting wrist
problems did put a dampener of things.
Released in
1999, the film made a respectable $497m on it’s $90m budget and is one of those
rare films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so is it worth all that
praise?
Well, yes
and no, but I’ll get to that.
