More thematically compelling and with better action set-pieces, Toy Story 2 is a sequel that is just as good as the original - and one that isn't afraid to go to the more emotional side of storytelling.

Deeper and darker (relatively speaking ) than Toy Story this sequel improves on an already fine film. Going places where no Disney film has gone before it is filled with a rare melancholy. The emotion never feels forced. The voice work is great, the animation crisp and the jokes even out the darker material. It wins my vote as the best of the toy story trilogy.

Possibly the best Pixar movie ever.

10/10

My headline sum up the most admirable thing about Toy Story. Pixar had enough respect towards their 1995 mega hit to put effort into making a spectacular sequel.

Woody is faced with hard choices here about himself being a collector's item and therefore immediately desired by the toy enthusiast Al who brings him to his own place with lots of merchandise. One of them is a TV-show with co-puppets a cowgirl named Jessie, a horse named Bull's Eye and a prospector named Stinky Pete.

Jessie is a really well made character with an emotional back-story which always makes me cry a little. The song "When She Loved Me" is a perfect song illustrating her emotional scars. That song easily ranks among Randy Newman's best.

Every conflict faced in this movie is perfect. When you find yourself torn between both choices, you know it is great. Woody wants to stay with his newly acquired fame and free his new friends from being left as an incomplete collection, but also to go back to Andy.

There are also a lot of great laughs. Lots of jokes about other toys and the situations they find themselves in. I could go on for ever about how much I like Toy Story 2.

Go see it if you haven't and do your kids a favor and show all Toy Story movies to them.