Movie Info Legendary space ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside ambitious recruits Izzy, Mo, Darby, and his robot companion, Sox.

The main theme of Lightyear is learning to live with mistakes and accepting that which is beyond one's own control.

The director described Lightyear as a movie about Buzz Lightyear "as the Space Ranger, not as the toy." This is why the only Toy Story character in Lightyear other than Buzz is Zurg as he is part of the toy line inspired by the Lightyear film.

The Space Ranger's adventure is the latest Pixar film to tackle the theme of failure, and how it isn't the end.

Content that may disturb children In addition to the violent scenes mentioned above, Lightyear has some scenes that could scare or disturb children under 5 years. For example, there are several sinister and creepy alien life forms.

In an attempt to put a fresh spin on their most successful franchise, Toy Story, Pixar released Lightyear, but that underperformed and disappointed many because it didn't focus on the Buzz Lightyear everyone knows and loves.

Lightyear is intended as a film that exists within the Toy Story universe – that is, it is meant to be the film that Andy watched that made him want to buy a Buzz Lightyear toy. MacLane called it "the movie that Andy saw that changed his life... Andy's Star Wars," in a Yahoo interview.

That the film features a same-sex kiss is notable for Disney, which has long shied away from portraying explicitly LGBTQ+ characters. In fact, the kiss was met with pushback inside the studio and had initially been cut from the film, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) and Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) in “Lightyear.” More recently, “Lightyear's” queer representation has attracted more attention as it has led to the film being banned or canceled from screening in countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia that disapproved of its inclusion.

“Lightyear is the first commercial children's animation to feature overt homosexual depictions," said IMDA, adding that the film contains “some depictions of a female lead character and her partner starting a family and going through different milestones of their lives”. They are also seen sharing a kiss.

This is due to the fact that the film depicted a same-sex relationship, which for a handful of countries around the world, deemed too inappropriate for a film targeted at children.

The MPAA rating has been assigned for “action/peril.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a kiss between two women, many dangerous flights in a space vessel, many encounters with alien lifeforms that do not lead to evident injuries, several encounters with giant robots that result in damage to the robots, and some ...

Pixar recently had a rare box-office flop when it released Toy Story spin-off Lightyear in 2022. Despite an all-star cast, a cute sidekick, and good reviews, the movie only made $226 million worldwide against a $200 million production budget.

Toy Story was initially based on the Oscar-winning animated short Tin Toy, which was about a toy named Tinny who reluctantly allowed a baby to play with him so he won't cry.

The term "light-year" was first coined by German scientist, astronomer, mathematician and physicist Friedrich Bessel in 1838, when he measured the distance from Earth to a star called 61 Cygni, and came up with a distance of 660,000 times Earth's orbital radius.

Soon after, it was reported that a previously cut kiss shared by queer “Lightyear” character Alisha Hawthorne and her wife was reinstated in the film. Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) and Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) in “Lightyear.”