Toy Story

A couple of weekends ago Toy Story was rerun on one of the Disney Channels and my daughter and I came upon it. The first thing I noticed is how wonderful the movie looks on HD, when this movie was first released on VHS and then DVD the movie was great, but the sharpness of the picture on HD is amazing.

Perhaps one needs a nature show or a animated movie to see how impressive crisp HD is. The movie itself, however many times you see it, is amazing. This movie is wonderful. It is funny, it has humor for young children, but in many ways this movie has just as much to offer to adults.

Tim Allen and Tom Hanks are great actors but they are so well known that their voices alone are identifiable. As a child of the seventies toys like walkie talkies, remote cars, bo peep, and of course Mr. Potato Head and the now politically culturally relevant etch a sketch again, the toys themselves bring a comfort and familiarity that makes one embrace the movie before seeing the story.

Once the story lays out you are fully in. I watched this movie tons of times when my children were young, but the truth is last weekend when watching it I still laughed out loud. It is a rare movie that can do this the first time, much less forty two times in.

This is a fantastic movie.