Buzz Lightyear of Star Command feels truer to the character's over-the-top and ironically-stoic nature than the 2022 film captured. It also helps that the show was done on 35mm cel-animation too; it gives the series a gritty and traditional television look that's all-but-extinct now thanks to digital ink and paint usurping cel-animation altogether now we're in the 2020s.
When you're dealing with a metafictional character like Buzz, the 'origin story' itself should be metaphysically open to interpretation in turn. It's only fair; that's something the film lacks, which I believe is why it performed the way it did (underperforming on an impressive $50 million+, but against a MASSIVE $200 million+ budget). It wasn't because of anything else: it was creative exhaustion talking.
The show is loud and bombastic, dumb as hell and proud of everything it preaches in terms of playing on Buzz's strengths as a larger-than-life meta-character that exists outside of any firm canonical backstory; Toy Story itself works absolutely fine.
3/5 stars. Buzz Lightyear is perfect material for kids-under-10 to watch and indulge endlessly. It's ripe for 'Star Wars kids' too.
When you're dealing with a metafictional character like Buzz, the 'origin story' itself should be metaphysically open to interpretation in turn. It's only fair; that's something the film lacks, which I believe is why it performed the way it did (underperforming on an impressive $50 million+, but against a MASSIVE $200 million+ budget). It wasn't because of anything else: it was creative exhaustion talking.
The show is loud and bombastic, dumb as hell and proud of everything it preaches in terms of playing on Buzz's strengths as a larger-than-life meta-character that exists outside of any firm canonical backstory; Toy Story itself works absolutely fine.
3/5 stars. Buzz Lightyear is perfect material for kids-under-10 to watch and indulge endlessly. It's ripe for 'Star Wars kids' too.