{"id":644108,"date":"2026-06-17T20:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644108\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:49:09","slug":"toy-story-5-splits-critics-but-most-praise-its-cautionary-message-about-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644108\/","title":{"rendered":"Toy Story 5 splits critics, but most praise its ‘cautionary’ message about tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

However, the Telegraph’s Robbie Collin held a much higher opinion, external<\/a> of film five, pointing to a “warm and wry update of a beloved formula” in his four-star review.<\/p>\n

He praised cowgirl doll Jessie’s “promotion” to lead character, referring to the character’s emotional journey while revisiting her first owner.<\/p>\n

The film is, he said, is “another parable of parental crisis dressed up as a brightly coloured family adventure” – and a “cautionary tale about online childhoods”.<\/p>\n

Yet it “pulls fewer punches than might be expected”, he added, regarding its social commentary on technology.<\/p>\n

Kevin Maher of the Times also offered four stars, external<\/a>, commenting that “Sir Keir Starmer will love it”.<\/p>\n

He said the movie’s message is “a sign of turning tide or an audacious act of self sabotage”.<\/p>\n

“A touchy-feely third act seems to argue for a shaky compromise of the toxic tech debate (group chat = bad, non WiFi-enabled tech toys under supervision at certain times = tolerable),” he pondered.<\/p>\n

“Yet in the end, Toy Story 5 cannot shake the lingering sense that it’s not only the age of toys but childhood itself that is over.”<\/p>\n

But there was scepticism from Rolling Stone’s David Fear, who said:, external<\/a> “Why are you doing this, Pixar? <\/p>\n

“Regardless of well-deserved worries about screen-time or not, there doesn’t feel like there’s a reason for this to exist other than keeping your stockholders happy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, the Telegraph’s Robbie Collin held a much higher opinion, external of film five, pointing to a “warm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}