The all-new story follows the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits (voices of Keke Palmer, Taika Waititi and Dale Soules), and their robot companion Sox (voice of Peter Sohn). TEAMING UP – Disney and Pixar’s “Lightyear” is a sci-fi action adventure and the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans), the hero who inspired the toy. The voice acting by Chris Evans and James Brolin is exceptional.
The hyperspace scenes reminded me of “Star Trek” and “Top Gun: Maverick.” We get the sense that Lightyear has to have a certain amount of crazy to do what he does. Director Angus MacLane handles the action and the emotional scenes deftly.
Don’t think too much about the science of hyperspace or other being shot into the future problems. The other member, Mo Morrison (Taika Waititi) was going to quit.Īs you might predict, Lightyear will find redemption and have his reputation restored in battling this new threat and bringing out the best in this ragtag crew. While Izzy Hawthorne (Keke Palmer), granddaughter of Alisha, leads the group, none of them have combat experience or weapons training although one of them, a felon named Darby Steel (Dale Soules), supposedly can take any three things and make an explosive. The shields went up while a small group of space ranger wanna-bes were having their monthly meeting and those are the people that Lightyear must work with. In the two decades that his last trip took, the community of Earthlings has built a force field for protection over their city. The dark figure behind the invasion is Emperor Zurg (James Brolin). Stealing an airplane, Lightyear decides to make one more test and it works, but he returns to a world under attack by robots from a large technologically advanced spaceship that hovers over the planet. Yet Sox has been working on the crystal formula for over six decades and believes to have figured it out. His mission to find the right formula for the crystal is scraped with a new commander taking over, Commander Burnside. While other like Hawthorne are living their lives, getting married, having kids and growing old, Lightyear remains relatively the same age until Alisha Hawthorne dies. Lightyear, feeling guilty over his mistake, volunteers to test various formulations, but each test sends him into the future. The problem is getting the right formula to form a crystal that will make hyperdrive possible. The rest of the crew–space rangers and scientists–are awakened out of their suspended sleep to try and resolve the problem of fixing the spaceship and returning home. Lightyear insists that he can do it all by himself–without the help of either the rookie or IVAN (Internal Voice Activated Navigator), but the turnip fails to totally clear all of the rocky terrain resulting in the crew being marooned on the planet. Lightyear goes back to rescue the rookie, but that means the botanical tentacles have more time to wrap around the ship. Aborting their exploration, Lightyear and Hawthorne make it back to the turnip-shaped spaceship which is being held down by the sentient vine tentacles. The lifeforms are hostile–vines that spring from out of the soil and large insects that swarm and attack. Hawthorne insists they bring the rookie, Featheringhamstan (Bill Hader).
His best friend and commander Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba).
Co-written by Angus MacLane and Jason Headley and directed by MacLane, the film is about a test pilot and space ranger Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Chris Evans) who makes the decision to detour from their journey back home to explore a planet that shows signs of life. This spin-off from the “Toy Story” series, imagines the film that inspired the Buzz Lightyear toy (voiced by Tim Allen in the Toy Story films).