At root, the Toy Story movies have always been about identity. The first one is about how you deal with life when you realize you’re not as important as you thought you were: Woodie is no longer Andy’s favorite toy; Buzz isn’t *really* an Astronaut Ranger. The second one is all about how you deal with life when you realize you’re *more* important than you thought you were. This one is all about becoming more than the sum of your parts, transcending your origins and your experiences, and becoming something quietly grand, and about the consequences of *not* being able to do so.

Can a cartoon be a B-Movie? Unquestionably, as anyone who’s ever seen “Fantastic Planet” can attest to.

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The first rocket to the moon will take a whopping ten hours to get there! Its crewed by four boring men - one of whom is Sonny Tufts - an a woman who has a kind of Betty Davis thing going on in the face, but isn’t really as pretty as the script says she is. But then Sonny Tufts isn’t nearly as handsome as he used to be, either. Perhaps this movie is a heartwarming-yet-sad tale of two middle-aged folks, going to seed, who find a kind of happiness by settling for someone who’ll say “Yes” before the last gasp of their good looks fade?