(NCS) — Is the age of toys actually over?
That is the fateful query posed by the new teaser trailer for “Toy Story 5,” launched by Pixar on Tuesday, which picks up on the acquainted parenting conundrum about screentime.
The transient clip, set to the strains of INXS’ “Never Tear Us Apart,” reveals a new package deal being delivered to Bonnie Anderson, little sister to Andy, who inherited all his toys again in 2010’s emotional “Toy Story 3.”
As our favourite assortment of anthropomorphic playthings – together with Woody, Buzz, Rex, Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head, Jessie and others – look on in anticipatory horror, the package deal is opened to disclose a frog-framed pill named Lilypad, who beckons to Bonnie, “Let’s play!”
Judging from the lady’s enthusiastic response, the toys in this story could have their work lower out for them to stay related.
It’s nonetheless unclear, although, whether or not the movie will deal with the evident, meta-tinged irony that mentioned toys have been brokers of the display invasion themselves, as characters in a 30-year-old film franchise.
“Toy Story 5” will deliver again standard suspects Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack, amongst others, as a part of the voice forged.
The film welcomes franchise newcomers Ernie Hudson, Conan O’Brien and Greta Lee as the voice of Lilypad, in accordance with Pixar’s trailer description on YouTube.
The movie is about for launch in theaters in the summer time 2026.
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