Buzz is given a truth serum so he’ll expose whatever he knows about his father’s connection to the aliens who have taken over Proxima B. When asked about the relationship between Lightyear and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, a Toy Story spin-off series that also serves as an in-universe production starring the Buzz character, MacLane, who directed the CG opening sequence for Star Command, [14] said that he did not have it in mind while working on the film, but always pictured the series being developed in-universe after a trilogy of Lightyear films. It might only exist because Pixar want to continue the Toy Story franchise, but it delivers a big-screen spectacle that will rival any blockbuster this year.

ascribed to the blast-off at the 12-minute mark and, well, pretty much every would-be major audio cue in the film. In contrast, BBC's Nicholas Barber wrote "The story is thin, repetitive, and almost entirely dependent on the heroes being clumsy" and gave the film two stars. Korean animators Chun Sung-uk and Lee Chae-yeon worked on the animation process in their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.The animators gave the film a "cinematic" and "chunky" look, evoking the science-fiction films MacLane grew up watching. Lightyear was banned in the Muslim world (including Bahrain, Brunei, [70] Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, [71] and the United Arab Emirates) [72] [73] [74] [75] due to a scene featuring a same-sex kiss between Uzo Aduba's female character Alisha Hawthorne and her partner Kiko.

Woken from hibernation, Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear and his commanding officer and best friend Alisha Hawthorne explore with their new recruit, Featheringhamstan.Chris Evans on Disney Restoring the Same-Sex Kiss in Pixar's 'Lightyear' and Embracing Buzz's Human Side". On April 27, 2022, the first 30 minutes of the film was premiered at CinemaCon along with the second trailer, [47] [48] which released online six days earlier. IGN Southeast Asia also confirmed that the same-sex relationship remained untouched, even for the previously mentioned same-sex kiss.

The three most recent Pixar movies – Soul, Luca and Turning Red – have skipped cinemas entirely to debut exclusively on Disney+. It feels like it ought to be the beginning of something, like its narrative is a prologue stretched into a feature awaiting the much more interesting second and third and fifth installments down the road. Aaron Couch of The Hollywood Reporter had stated "The Lightyear trailer reveals that Buzz is sent on a rescue flight after he and a group of people are stranded on a planet. However, after a four-minute test flight, Buzz finds that four years have passed on T'Kani Prime, due to the effects of time dilation from having traveled at relativistic speeds. However, he skips another twenty-two years into the future during which T'Kani Prime has been invaded by Zyclops robots led by Zurg, the robots' commander.

MacLane, an avid science-fiction fan, pitched the idea of a film featuring Buzz Lightyear at Pixar, after finishing work on Finding Dory (2016). What a shame because the scene, and several more throughout the film, should be of reference quality.

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 60 out of 100, based on 57 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.Producer Galyn Susman said that the creative team did not discuss bringing back the original voice actor for Buzz Lightyear, Tim Allen, in any capacity for this film because they believed that his voice would have tied the film too closely to Toy Story when the film aims to be its own stand-alone story while also saying: "Tim really is the embodiment of the toy Buzz, and this isn't the toy world, so it really doesn't make sense. There, he finds Polly, his dad’s robot companion bird, who possesses a very revealing recorded message meant for Buzz! Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) awards: Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere, Women Talking and The Woman King top winners". The film was directed by Angus MacLane (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Galyn Susman, from a screenplay and story written by MacLane and Jason Headley, both of whom co-wrote the latter with Matthew Aldrich. Burnside arrests the group with the intention of detaining them for their reckless actions, but relents in light of Buzz's bravery against the robot armada.