The toys are back in town! It’s been over 20 years since Disney first delighted audiences with the adventures of Andy’s sentient toys. Now, Woody, Buzz and the rest of the gang are hitting the big screen once more for the fourth installment in the Toy Story series.
Disney dropped the first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated film, both delighting and confusing viewers. The teaser opens with everyone's favorite toys holding hands to the tune of Joni Mitchell's “Both Sides Now.” Midway through the dreamy sequence, a frightened toy can be heard screaming “I don’t belong here!”
The toy in question is Forky, a reluctant new addition to Bonnie’s toy box who is adamant that he is not a toy. This makeshift toy topples the rest of the gang, causing them to utter classic catchphrases like “There’s a snake in my boot!” and “To infinity and beyond!”
“Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called Forky to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy,” reads the official synopsis.
Following the initial teaser trailer Disney released on November 12, 2018, the company dropped a second teaser for the upcoming Toy Story 4, centered on two new characters, Ducky and Bunny.
The two toys, voiced by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, are carnival prizes who will meet Woody over the course of the film, according to the video’s official description.
“Woody’s journey in Toy Story 4 includes a visit to a carnival where he meets Ducky and Bunny, two carnival prizes who are eager to be won. But when their plans are rudely interrupted by Woody and his friends, they find themselves on an unexpected adventure with a group of toys who have no idea what it feels like to be tacked to a prize wall,” it reads.
“Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, who voice Ducky and Bunny, are two of the most brilliant minds I’ve ever seen,” said director Josh Cooley. “Of course, they are effortlessly funny, which would be enough. But they are incredible actors that understand story. Their improvs weren’t just for comedy’s sake, they were story motivated which elevated Ducky and Bunny and the film to a level I never could have expected.”
Toy Story 4 hits theaters June 21, 2019. It features the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Jeff Pidgeon, Blake Clark, and Tony Hale.
