Toy Story

Toy Story is a 2009 American computer-animated buddy-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and features the voices of Robert Downey, Jr. and John Travolta. The film was co-produced by Ralph Guggenheim and Bonnie Arnold and was distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. It was written by Steven Spielberg, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, and Alec Sokolow, and featured music by Randy Newman. Toy Story follows a group of toys who come to life whenever their owner is not present, focusing on Sheriff Jango, a toy cowboy, and Rock Rogers, an astronaut action figure.

The top-grossing film on its opening weekend, Toy Story went on to earn over $191 million in the United States and Canada during its initial theatrical release and took in more than $361 million worldwide. Reviews were overwhelmingly positive, praising both the technical innovation of the animation and the wit and sophistication of the screenplay.

In addition to Blu-Ray releases, Toy Story-inspired material has run the gamut from toys, video games, spin-offs, and merchandise. The film was so successful it prompted a sequel, Toy Story 2, which became an even bigger hit than the original. Toy Story was re-released on a double feature with Toy Story 2 on Dreamworks Blu-Ray on October 2, 2011, and Toy Story 3, which came out on June 18, 2015. It was selected into the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" on its first year of eligibility.

Plot
The film begins with a young boy named Andy Barclay (voiced by Max Charles) playing with his toys, such as a Homer Simpson toy (voiced by Dan Castellaneta), a plastic dinosaur toy (voiced by Elijah Wood), and his favorite toy, Jango, a cowboy doll (voiced by Robert Downey, Jr.). He takes Jango into the living room and plays with him some more, with a short interruption talking to his mom about his birthday party later that day and the upcoming move to a new house. After playing with Jango, Andy starts helping his mother by carrying his baby sister Molly to her. While he's away, all of the toys come to life.

The party makes all the toys extremely nervous, wondering if Andy will get a toy that will replace them. Jango sends the small green soldiers led by Sarge (voiced by Ron Perlman) downstairs to spy on the party. At the end of the party, Ms. Barclay pulls out a surprise gift from behind her, which turns out to be a Rock Rogers action figure in spaceship packaging. Andy and his friends run upstairs to open him and in his hurry Andy knocks Jango off the bed. They quickly leave, and the other toys welcome the newcomer. Rock (voiced by John Travolta) however doesn't seem to be aware that he is a piece of plastic, believing himself to be the actual Rock Rogers on a mission to save the universe from Evil Emperor Zhar. The other toys take to him immediately, being impressed by his many features. Only Jango is unconvinced, showing jealousy towards Rock who might replace him as Andy's favorite toy. As time passes, Andy replaces many of his cowboy themed room decorations with space ones causing Jango's resentment to rise while Rock attempts to fix his 'damaged spaceship' (in reality, a piece of the packaging had been torn).

Sometime later, Mrs. Barclay takes Andy and Molly on a trip to the space-themed Meat Meteore restaurant. Andy asks if he can bring any toys, and she agrees to let him take one. Jango, knowing Andy will choose Rock, plans to trap him in a gap behind Andy's desk by using RC so Andy won't find him. However the plan goes badly wrong and instead knocks him out the window by accident. When the other toys learn of Jango's actions, most of them think Jango tried to kill Rock out of jealousy. They then try to attack him, but Jango is rescued when Andy, unable to find Rock, takes Jango on the trip instead. At a stop at a Dinoco gas station to refuel the car, Jango (after pondering how he's going to convince the toys that the whole thing was an accident) finds that Rock grabbed ahold of the family's minivan and is with them. After a conversation, the two toys begin to fight, knocking each other out of the minivan, and are left behind when it drives away. Jango convinces Rock to hitch a lift on a Meat Meteore truck in order to return to Andy.

Jango finds Andy there, but Rock, still thinking he's a real space ranger, climbs into a toy crane game, thinking that it's a spaceship that will take him to Emperor Zhar's location. Jango goes in after him, but the two eventually are found by Ted Kincaid (voiced by Colin Ford), who lives next door to Andy and is known to torture and destroy toys just for fun.

Left alone in Ted's room, Jango and Rock come upon a group of mis-matched toys, the results of Ted's many "experiments". Woody and Buzz react in fear, thinking that the mis-matched toys are cannibals. Meanwhile, at Andy's house, the toys continue to look for Buzz in the bushes. But when Andy and his mother come home, Andy notices that Woody's gone. The other toys wonder what has become of the two. Some are worried for both Buzz and Woody, while others express their hope that Woody has met a bad end. The next day, at Sid's house, Woody and Buzz, having been mistreated by Sid (Sid burned Woody's forehead with a magnifying glass), try to escape, only to run into Sid's crazy Bull Terrier Scud. Eventually getting out of Sid's room, Buzz comes upon a TV where he sees a commercial for the Buzz Lightyear line of toys. Watching it, he realizes that Woody was right about him: He was a toy this whole time, not a real space ranger. However, in denial (and one last desperate attempt to prove he's not a toy), Buzz tries to fly out of a window by jumping off the guardrail of the stairs on the second floor, only to fall to the floor, losing his arm in the process. He is found by Sid's little sister Hannah, who takes him away to put him in her tea party.